User blog comment:TheTobarMethod/My Personal Patch 3.XX/@comment-15244341-20131030094302/@comment-5556439-20131030113642

The dagger itself is strictly for lanes such as that. If you didnt want the grievous wounds intially, then you would use the other items. The dagger is to just give a edge vs heavy healing or sustain based opponents like Vlad. You dont even have to really upgrade, you could sell it if you wanted after the laning phase.