Talk:Lord Van Damm's Pillager/@comment-203.97.105.67-20130329064000/@comment-10558607-20130607152354

AD auto attackers benefit most from lifesteal. AD auto attackers only survive if they're either carries or tanky. So yi who crits for 600 twice every second can use lifesteal well.

Udyr/xin/irelia who have 3k+ HP also benefit from lifesteal.

AD (burst) casters (don't mainly auto attack....) don't benefit that much from lifesteal much.

Pantheon/Talon/Zed, assuming your skills do like 1000 damage (+100AD) bursting once equals 5+ auto attacks.

Also I don't know in what universe the above poster lives, but usually I don't see any talon/zed rush gunblade. Pantheon would be the most viable one with gunblade, but by the time you got it, you've already lost laning phase (unless you got fb+ 2x double kill due to an idiot enemy jungler). I mean +10 AD at 400 gold, +25 at 1400 and +45 at 3400....

AD casters now have no sustain at all during laning phase unless they get lifesteal.

Zed gets like 7 hp/hit with 10% lifesteal, nasus (+10 farmed, lvl 3Q) gets like 15 every Q in addition to his regular every 7/hit.

Anyway most AD casters don't really scale well and/or build AS and AP, so getting gunblade just for SV is kinda stupid. AD casters can mostly use AD/SV/armor pen/red/CDR. There are no real AD caster items, BC isn't really a caster item, I'm not saying HP is a bad stat and I would avoid it, I'm just saying it's not needed. When you're Lux or Zyra or whatever you also don't always build RoA, because you don't always need HP. Sometimes more AP is just better and AD casters don't have that option atm.