Talk:Duskblade of Draktharr/@comment-24055932-20160210041652/@comment-24055932-20160210194447

Okay, let's look at this scenario:

You're an AD melee assassin (aka Talon/Zed). Your aim is to kill your target. A good assassin often can even kill a full life target. But if you build, you suddenly don't need to do that anymore. Now you only need to deal enough damage so that (missing HP*0.25+90)*reduction(armor) > left HP.

First, let's look at a 70 armor target, e.g. an Anivia that builds 10 RoA's. First, subtract the flat pen, which is at least 10. If you aim for Youmuu's and take the precision mastery, it'll soon be >36. So let's calculate for 60 armor. Per f(x)=1-x/(x+100) ; f(60)= 0.625

(missing HP/4+90)*0.625 and ditch the 90. missing HP*(0.625*0.25) = missing HP * 0.15625 ~ 0.16

So if you burst him to 16% of his life, he'll die to the procc. For a 2000 HP target that means the procc will be 320 HP strong.

This clearly illustrates that it is strong as fuck, and if you play against an assassin, you're absolutly forced to build (which is, btw, a crappy, overexpensive item on immobile mages with its  gold cost for nothing but the active)

This puts you to 120 armor. 110 with armor pen (1), 85 with armor pen (2). f(120)= 0.455 ; f(85)= 0.54 0.25*0.455 = 0.1137 --> Burst the Zhonyas bird to 11% of its HP, and it'll drop dead. 0.25*0.54 = 0.135  --> Have Youmuus and Precision, and you'll only have to burst it to 13.5%.