Talk:Xin Zhao/@comment-4117463-20130904213124/@comment-9048637-20130925194751

Youmuu's is a wonderful early-mid game item on melee AA champions, with Zhao himself being a stellar example. It gives them everything they want, including the highest flat armour pen in the game (which until people have built armour is superior to %), and is very cost-efficient, particularly given that it builds out of the Avarice Blade. You just don't keep it late game. But that doesn't make it unviable in the slightest.