Talk:Blade of the Ruined King/@comment-4900160-20140731003211/@comment-10428734-20140822131403

This item is just overpowered. It gives everything you might want: sustained lifesteal, sustained % health damage, burst % health damage, burst heal, ranged slow with self-MS buff. Everything for 3200g. Furthermore, BotRK eventually becomes better than ANY other lifesteal item for ANY AD champion. Check the numbers.

Why would Zed/Talon/Kha buy Hydra over BotRK, if they can already burst you down with BotRK? BotRK gives much higher utility, chasing potential, better splitpushing potential (better 1vs1 potential and more DPS against turrets) and they all already have enough built-in waveclear not to care about it.

New BotRK is so strong that even Riven can use it well. Not as first item of course, but late game, against big tanky splitpushers that will outduel you in the long run. Hydra is still great for teamfights, but why would you take the risk to throw a teamfight (the meta is not really assassin-friendly, for teamfights at least) when you can just splitpush?