Talk:Madred's Bloodrazor/@comment-84.107.8.68-20130319170450/@comment-5266525-20130413055407

Still debating if I should even bother responding to you if you can't even be bothered to scroll down the page to see a dozen other responses to your question.

Oh, screw it, fine.

An item being expensive is a major hindrance if the components you use to build it are not very good. What did Madred's Bloodrazor build out of? Madred's Razor, a Pickaxe and a Recurve Bow, with a not-insignificant combine cost of 775g. Putting aside the fact that Madred's Razor is a terrible item on any champion who isn't jungling, these three items alone in your inventory leave you severely weakened. Zephyr had its recipe changed to a Pickaxe from a Long Sword and its very steep combine cost reduced for this exact reason.

Now this in itself wouldn't be enough to see it removed, so what else? Effect composition. Lots of champions can make use of armor, everybody knows that. Attack damage too. Same with attack speed, and a magic-damage health shred. What practically nobody can use is all four of those at once. A bruiser would love the first three stats, but what use has he for a %-health shred which is best against tanky targets but is simultaneously the least effective against tanky targets? I will not be getting any magic penetration on these guys, so the existence of just one Negatron Cloak is more than enough to halve the damage from it and render it pointless. Onhit Kog'Maw and Teemo by contrast would love it, but they have no need for the armor or attack damage as that's not their main focus.

And even then, the odd stat composition alone was alienating, providing too many statistics in middling amounts as it did also stymied your ability to spec into a particular stat. If you wanted to get only one stat this item was never a viable choice as you spent too much gold on superfluous stats which don't benefit you. If you wanted AD and armor (the only item thus far to grant both in one item, mind you) it wasn't worth getting it either as the amounts it gave you were unimpressive for an item of its cost, especially in the more extreme environment of S2. 40% attack speed isn't much in that context.