Talk:Hextech Gunblade/@comment-2250198-20140306002023/@comment-11588733-20140417063436

However, the difference here is that AD casters do a signficant enough amount of damage to heal off of spells - hence the spell vamp. The lifesteal is also an added bonus that scales off of the AD caster's AD. AP casters hardly do any damage with their auto attacks and so life steal is wasted on them. Your analogy is flawed because Rabadon's gives Vayne absolutely NO stats that scales with her. On the other hand, all of Hextech gunblade's stats will scale with Urgot, and most of it will scale on AD casters. This is neglecting the passive and active.

Gold efficiency, in my opinion, is often overshadowed by how much of the stat you can actually get. Spell vamp is a pretty rare stat, which can only be found on WOTA, the Hextechs, and Guinsoo's rageblade. On the other hand, if we're looking at the usefulness of spell vamp, then it's a different story because spell vamp is pretty situational. I find the meta is probably more centered on bursting the enemy, in which case spell vamp is useless - you can't heal yourself if all your spells are on cooldowns, and you'd rather get more AP or AD anyway to burst your target faster. You're squishy, so you're also likely to get bursted down - where's the usefulness in spell vamp if you can't do enough damage to heal godly amounts of hp to mitigate the burst?

Also, I'm here to remind everyone of AP Master Yi, AP Xin Zhao, and AP Tryndamere.