Talk:VPBE/@comment-4270771-20150812125656/@comment-4270771-20150813013819

90% slow.......for one second. I'm sure cleaver will still be an extremely popular item on him, but remember his Q no longer gives passive stacks if you hit with the handle, and his AS is going way down. That 1 second slow will only get you maybe one AA or make it easy to land your Q. It will not let you get to full stacks by itself. Dead Man's Plate will likely be great item on him, but that gives you catching power and almost no sticking power. Mallet gives you stats you scale off of and makes you much harder to escape. You grab someone, hit them once and they flash away from you, the 2.5 second 40% slow from mallet will give you a much better window to catch them again than a 90% 1 second slow. (remember the way slows are calcualated, a 90% slow isn't ACTUALLY 90%, it's more like 50-60%, since movement reductions get heavy curbing after a certain point.