User blog comment:Mineko Charat Lucky/Stop Telling Me What to Build, Thanks/@comment-5877442-20131016201142

True story. Not much point listening to them though, especially if they have 0 idea what they're talking about. Do consider their opinion though is they have a point, especially if the item in question has an aura/can benefit the team a lot.

However, I'd like to say a core, generic build will be fine in 90% of games. Your champ will always benefit from the items you chose over others, hence why you chose those items. There's only so much you can do to counter the enemy with items as there is no item that can disable to an extent higher than a slow. The online "guides" do also mention that there will always be a need for situational items. No, I'm not trying to defend Mobafire, Faker or whatever pro-player builds these days, just offering my opinion.

OBVIOUSLY, you wil still sometimes need to build accordingly and try to counter your opponent's resistances etc, but this only happens relatively rarely. Support will always have more or less the same build (order matters though), excluding sometimes Zeke's or a little damage. Top lane, if tank, will just build their 6 items in a different order as even against a Vayne, Zac, ww and idk, brand, you will still need health. It's an itegral part of being a tank, even if they counter health so much.

Arpen is scarce on items, so if there's a Malphite and and a Rammus, I will still build black cleaver along with lw as it's still arpen. If they have no tanks, I will still build lw (if it's in my core build) as it still penetrates armour, they will have a locket and armour matters more the lower you go. There isn't any point of working out when it's better to build bc and when to buy lw, as that only calculates how much armour is removed and not how much that armour means to the enemy. If I reduce 35% of 80 armour ashe versus the 35% of 250 armour rammus, sure lw will reduce more armour on rammus but the armour ashe loses will mean more to her.

Most people will disagree with this but it's my opinion and you can't deny some of it's true. Flame is expected so I don't mind if you do.