User blog comment:Braumissomanly/some items a bit to strong?/@comment-5930958-20140729093254/@comment-24896347-20140729112802

ravenous hydra is not really that op in all honesty, it gives immense amounts of aoe and damage plsu sustain sure however it has a pretty high cost and is not easy to get. The item is easy to build into seeing as though it builds from vamp scepter aka most used item on top lane. The item is strong but nearly every top laner needs that item, without it many top laners will have a ruff time in lane eg. darius. Although darius does build can build some other stuff ravenous is his perfect item, goes amazing with q, gives large amounts of attack damage for ult and other abilities and sustain for him. One more thing, the op items are items which are low cost yet gives lots of stats eg. : 2700 gold for lots of stats which is not a nice thing to see you know.

Tl;dr ravenous is sustained damage which is why it is balanced and not to strong