Talk:Blade of the Ruined King/@comment-27915839-20190723112719/@comment-4091261-20190723190253

One thing to make abundantly clear is that is a self synergizing dueling item, more commonly known as an early powerspike. The reason why was also good is because at a time it was like this too.

However, the nerfs means that it relies on on-hit much more which lowers its first item powerspike potential. Inevitably, needs to duel the enemy in order to make the most use of his high DPS since it is the ramping kind. It is impossible to avoid the fact that the enemy will strike back, so lifesteal has immense significance and the fact that the on-hit damage generates additional sustain from lifesteal is huge. This enables him to actually start fights on his own rather than wait on his support to do something for him which increases his opportunities, something that has enormous significance for any ADC.

At a time, I suspected the same thing, that is technically suboptimal. However, in practice, it is unreasonable to rely on support opportunities since too much focus goes into obliterating that the idea of safely attacking from a distance is quite rare.