User blog comment:Rapacious/Rapacious's sexy guide to understanding ranged AD builds/@comment-199.104.213.130-20120202200709/@comment-3238314-20120202203036

Tiamat in theory would be a good item, when you consider it's inspired from dota's battlefury, but in this game, it's simply bad. The splash range is too small, the damage it offers is too little for an item that won't build into something better, and to make things worse, it deals only 33% splash when taken on ranged heroes.

Don't get this item. It will only screw over your match.