Talk:Youmuu's Ghostblade/@comment-74.72.20.212-20130201170026/@comment-5.83.71.124-20130215113818

"I'm sure those items do great DPS on paper but a melee ADC can't rely as much on lifesteal to keep him up."

It actually goes the other way. Youmuu's look too good on paper, but sucks ingame. Statikk shiv per example looks horrible on paper, but kicks-ass ingame. And it can even challenge PD or LW...

"but a melee ADC can't rely as much on lifesteal to keep him up."

Honestly, who's a melee ADC these days besides Trynd? Fiora is more of a bruiser (Albeit a bruiser who builds carry items after her bruiser core), Xin and Sion have never been real carries but offtanks, and AD Yi is a relic of the past. Trynd's the onlyone who still goes melee ADC, and if you know how to build him, he actually relies on lifesteal.

"Ghostblade does the work of all those items to a lesser degree, so it frees up a spot for a defensive item."

How do you even want to free a slot when you're actually investing one on this? Either I don't get you here, or you should've explained it better, because this doesn't offers any defense, and getting those stats in a lesser degree on ADC is just bad. This is not like switching a PD for a Trinity, Trinity gives a ton of alternatives and damage in order to balance what's lost, but this...

"You also don't need static movespeed, that's for kiting.  The burst and pathing from Ghostblade's active is far more useful."

What? Weren't you talking about melee ADCs? How do you kite with a melee character to begin with? How can you actually deny that static movespeed is bad on a melee character? And if you want burst on an ADC, get SotD, that's a real burst, not this.

"The CDR serves a different purpose than it does for AD casters.  It's there to improve mechanisms to keep the target in range and improve built in survivability."

What ADC -Even ranged- actually has CDR problems? Which one exactly? Because at best I can think of Kog's W, and that's all. Only characters that could fit this item, if it wasn't aimed for melee, would be Sivir and Urgot because they can work more as a mix of ADC and caster, yet they have far better options for itemizing CDR.

But hey, opinions man, build it if you want.