Talk:Essence Reaver/@comment-5224716-20140731154514/@comment-5224716-20140801081240

I'm not saying it's a shit item. It's a very good item, actually, with a passive that could make Ez, Sivir, etc. top tier, but as I said, the thing is that in late game this item is not that good on any ADC - cause you're not supposed to cast spells, that have cast times and need to be timed to hit a target, you're supposed to autoattack to deal as much damage as possible in a short amounts of time. Even if you're an ADC that uses a lot of mana in a teamfight, teamfights aren't long enough to actually make this passive worth its price. And if you don't use spells, why would you need mana?

This item is still cost effcient, even without its passive, so at least you can build it and don't feel like you're throwing the gold away only for a passive (like with Liandry's).