Talk:Mercurial Scimitar/@comment-84.63.71.29-20121217230816/@comment-83.105.91.114-20121219192745

You might notice that Riot has repeatedly nerfed the stats on QSS to make it less efficient - it doesn't seem likely that they'll reduce the cost. Essentially QSS gives you a powerful get out of jail free card for CC, but Riot want to make sure that it's enough of an investment that a champion who's ahead that gets it will let their opponent catch up damage-wise. So say an AD carry is ahead and buys QSS. Assuming that the enemy AD carry can farm about the same, they get a BF sword in that time. This and GA are designed to be inefficient items that you have to sacrifice stats for.

And a QSS for tanks? Son, if you're a tank and the enemy is CCing you in a fight that's a win for your team.