Talk:Spirit of the Elder Lizard/@comment-3013755-20130426234440/@comment-8439853-20130520064019

In terms of single target dps IE+PD+LW outscales anything on pretty much any champ, BUT lets look at the timing.

The first spike is IE at 3.8k gold, the second is PD at 6.6k and the last is LW at 8.9k. And that's not counting boots and vamp scepter which delays by another 1.7k in addition to possible dorians. If you go BT first it's becomes 3k, 5.8k and 8.1k and you actually use the vamp scepter. But the meantime blue build gets power jumps at 2k, 4.1k and 7.4k (and it doesn't need vamp scepter).

So what happens if the lane is somewhat even is that you have like BF sword and a vamp scepter while the Ez has a SotEL complete. You can't trade so you fall behind in cs and/or towers, and from that point on you'll be one item or more behind unless you can make it into really lategame.