User blog comment:Tinhboe/Elder Lizard vs Feral Flare/@comment-24309189-20140814094836/@comment-24795478-20140814110838

Yeah, you made a poitn. But isn't Feral Flare stat is too low for a late game item? Why not just build Lizard, make use of its early gold gen and sell it later for a better item than buying an item gives only 12 AD, 30 AS, 10 onhit heal and deal less magic damage than Wit's end.

More over, you cannot just sleep all day in the jungle and farm with FF. In theory if you jungle farm all the time maybe FF can give 1k gold at 30-min mark, but it's impossible in reality (or as least when i try it). In order to do that you must get 3300 gold from jungle, and let's assume a camp gives you 80-90 g (average) you must clear 35-40 camps in 30 minutes but also gank, teamfight, camp the dragon/baron pit,ward and deward, die a few time, counter jung and get countered,your midlaner take your wolf and wraith camps, your botlaner take your golem camp,or in worst case : you are zoned bc the jungle is full of enemy's ward. IDK if this happend to you but in my case, with a spirit item i usually have 500-600 passive gold, but not that much with FF unless i concentrate on farming.

To conclude, my point is that spirit item is better for early game, generate more gold (unless you camp the jungle with FF until 30-mins-ish mark) and cant be sold combine with the passive gold to get an item better than FF ( ie BotRK or Zephyr). Why would you build FF when it only better at late game and give you a ward when most of the time a match doesn't last that long.Is FF late game power that great?