Talk:Hexdrinker/@comment-27364198-20160309211533/@comment-26808509-20180409135135

Thing is that Hexdrinker is incredibly cheap and a lot more efficient than its counterpart. 1300 Gold and you get AD, Mr and the shield. The alternative that AP champs have is seekers armguard and the stats it gives are just horrible. Plus it doesn't have the same effect as Zonyahs, while Hexdrinker allready has a shield, although its weaker than Maw's.

Hexdrinker counters mages way better than Seekers armguard does (AD) Assassins. And because it's allready this efficient with its shield, you can simply leave it and buy more important core items while a mage has to complete the Zonyahs to gain anything out of it.