User blog comment:NicknameMy/My Garen buff, what and why?/@comment-4080931-20120331231200/@comment-4080931-20120401080258

You don't understand. Your version of Judgement has 420 base damage over 3 seconds with a 5.4 total bonus AD ratio. If you get 80 AD from one item, you get 432 bonus damage on Judgement. Having one item completely overtake the base damage of an ability as bonus damage is poor design, and isn't seen on many other abilities for obvious reasons. For instance, if you get a Deathcap first on Annie, then you'll get 182 AP = 136.5 bonus damage on Disintegrate, which has 245 base damage. So, the bonus damage gained from Deathcap isn't more than Disintegrate's base damage. Pantheon's Heartseeker Strike's base damage can be overtaken by a single Bloodthirster (53 base damage per strike, 60 bonus damage from Bloodthirster per strike), but only when Bloodthirster is fully stacked, and Pantheon is meant to be an assassin, so you're supposed to build plenty of damage on him anyway. And Heartseeker Strike doesn't scale with Critical Strike either, while Judgement's bonus damage does.