Talk:Vladimir/@comment-26487776-20150614192819/@comment-25447003-20150623131725

Not very appealing. Almost every advanced item is "gold efficient" if they don't have some passive/active. Because basic item is "unit" to measure cost efficiency, an advance item is usually cheaper than its sub-items - in term of golds - otherwise people would just buy 2 or 3 basic items then upgrade later.

So whilst RoA is still gold-efficient, it wastes the mana value (and actually the benefit of Catalyst in laning phase). There are alternative which is even more cost efficent: Rylai is directly superior; Abyssal is more effective vs Mages; Seeker+LargeRodge is more efficient vs Bruisers.

Therefore, I would pick Rylai over RoA anyday for Vlad.