Talk:Blade of the Ruined King/@comment-2003328-20140415221936

Overrated. This should be only bought on tanky bruisers like Trundle, and on Yi, but only if you want to solo baron at around 17 min with this and flare. I never buy it on any adc, because crits. I have done the math atleast two times for this on Vayne, taking 4k hp 100 armor as a target and comparing 2 builds. 1: botrk berserkers pd infinity lw, 2: bt berserkers infinity pd triforce, and the second build dealt still slightly more dmg, stole more health, and besides, provided more constant movement speed that first one, and also a bit of health and mana from triforce. It is easier to farm and poke if you rush scepter berserkers pd instead of botrk aswell.

And one dares to mention this is worth buying on assassins? Please...

Zed, Pantheon, Talon, are ad casters. They have good ad scalings, so why would one buy an autoattack item on them? I could buy feral flare or wit's end the same way on them and tell everyone "THIS WORKS". Hell, i have once seen a Jayce with botrk. And even Riven. Now i am waiting for someone to buy botrk on Garen or Darius...

There are only few specific champions that this item is good for, but if i had to describe how to buy it, i would say that this is good as a standalone damage item. Or maybe along with last whisper. Like you buy botrk (and maybe lw) and then only tanky stuff on a bruiser. This does not scale well with anything that scales with ad, because this gives no ad (25 is not enough).

And besides that, it's about preference aswell. Personaly i prefer to hit a lot harder but a bit slower.