User blog comment:Kygehn/Spirit Visage's Forgotten Sister/@comment-24315274-20140102220252

If I imagined items as a family, and  would be cousins because they provide tons of damage. Likewise, and  are fraternal twins while  is their goody two-shoes stepsister. I admit, while creating this item, I didn't quite know how to formulate the item I had in mind: I wanted to make EC a more viable item against high healing enemies.

Some inspiration I had for the concept was experience playing as and against in solo q becuase with an item such as  or,  heals tremendously off her autoattacks with the help of her passive (which does benefit from lifesteal) while being extremely mobile and doing lots of physical damage. I've also played as and against, , and fed ADCs and I find it extremely powerful to the point of broken when these champions out-heal the damage they take.

The EC I designed doesn't really fit what it's supposed to do as a damage item, instead, I made a mostly anti- Riven item that conveniently works against every single AD opponent who benefits from healing no matter what role, such as Renekton and Nasus in the toplane, or squishier assassins such as Zed and Talon in the midlane, or even ranged ADCs.

There are currently three ways to reduce healing:, , and Ignite. Morello's only procs on targets under 40% health otherwise it would be broken (1 AOE spell and the entire enemy team can't heal), EC is never built, and there is usually two ignites per team (one barrier, one smite, and one exhaust).

Reviewing my item design, I realize it doesn't really fit the aggressive role it is supposed to  as Morello's does, but I do believe the item deserves some attention by riot.