Talk:Nomad's Medallion/@comment-3081633-20101224032049

This is one of the most underrated items in the game. Health regen is a very powerful stat, it lets you be very pushy in lane phase versus people who bought health crystals, mana crystals, long swords or whatever, early game this will refill your health very quickly, and the mana regen is a very nice touch. And it even pays for itself, you can't lose. A good example of how I use this is on Pantheon, to use his stun he needs to jump someone, probably eating a hit or three from that unfortunate guys lane partner. Both the mana and health regen lets me push the enemy a whole lot since I can afford to take those hits, and use that mana. While you can also solve his mana issues by say building manamune, if you rush it you've probably spent 900 gold on nothing that will boost your damage (the tear), and it won't be healing you. By buying health reg first and then backing I can get a philosophers and anywhere between 1-3 longswords and do fine(manamune + brutalizer + last whisper, they all use long swords, can't buy too many). Health regen will also help when you are getting pushed away from the creeps, where lifesteal can't.