Talk:Blade of the Ruined King/@comment-4743916-20130305130209/@comment-69.141.8.150-20130317193451

Original S3 BotRK was a bruiser item. It allowed you to purchase a single damage item then go tanky, your damage was still relevant against your enemy because BotRK's onhit scaled with your enemy's build, your penetration masteries and runes, and any attack speed item you happened to pick up. This fit solo top like a glove.

BotRK was changed because Riot felt ADC's needed a new tank killer item (funny, considering Madred's Blood Razors, a similar item, was removed because percent hp on-hit wasn't battling the optimum tanky build of super resistance stacking builds at that time).

BotRK was then nerfed in a hotfix because the attack speed changes allowed it to be a super beefed up version of what S3 BotRK was supposed to be, a good bruiser item.