Talk:Warlord (Season 2014 Mastery)/@comment-26231232-20150527035736

Protip: never, ever, EVER take this mastery. On any champ. In any match. EVER.

On a typical ADC build with, say, BT, IE, LW, Scimitar, Greaves and PD, AD Marks and Quints and 21 points in the Offense Mastery tree (including Warlord), you get 440.2 total AD. If you take out the 3 points in Warlord you get 424.8 total AD, which means you're wasting 3 mastery points on a measly 15.4 AD, and this is AT FULL BUILD. In the early game, with only a Doran's blade and a pot, those 3 points net you 1.8 AD. It's ridiculous, and this happens because this mastery only scales with BONUS AD, which is the AD you get from items, runes, masteries, and ingame buffs. With those 3 points you could be getting much more valuable masteries like Butcher, Feast, Expose Weakness, Blade Weaving, or Spell Weaving. Heck, even Sorcery is a better mastery than this for ADCs.

I first heard of this on imaqtpie's stream, and, after thinking about it, he's completely right. This mastery is a waste of points and a real bait for those that don't think it through.