Talk:Wriggle's Lantern/@comment-22964237-20131214063226/@comment-5489694-20131215084233

What I don't understand is why it isn't at least gold efficient like "Spirit of the" items are. Wriggle's should be priced at 1200 gold or have it's stats equal 1600+ gold in an attempt to match the other jungling items slot efficiency. Wriggle's stats are sort of terrible when you aren't attacking monsters, the only good thing the item provides is a "free" 3 minute ward which isn't all that amazing considering players can get a 2 min ward at lvl 9 that is actually free (and can upgrade it to 3 min for 475).

There's no reason for laners to buy Wriggle's anymore, which was the only reason Wriggle's was nerfed in the 1st place, so Riot can actually stop hating it. If it gave 20 or more AD to actually aid carry junglers in ganks and skirmishes (25% AS isn't great tbh but I understand why it's there) the item would be so much better. It gives 100 bonus gold when you clear 4 basic camps (4 camps = ~250g) which isn't terrible, the stats the item gives are just pretty terrible.

Wriggle's is supposed to be (well used to be I guess) a jungle invade and skirmish item, the AS the item provides doesn't mesh with that at all. Currently the item path that makes the most sense when purchasing Wriggle's is Wriggle's then Tiamat/Hydra because you need AD to go with your AS and need an item to clear camps faster. If the item gave 20 or more AD you'd have the option of building Tiamat/Hydra or Statikk Shiv (an aoe item just makes sense to me) because Wriggle's provided you with some [useful] combat stats.

The least they could do is have it give 30 armor and 30% AS so it's stats match up with it's price or something, 400g difference is a lot and makes Wriggle's the least efficient "gold item" in the game because it isn't stat efficient and doesn't have passive gp/10 gain.