Talk:Rod of Ages/@comment-74.128.167.10-20120315005351/@comment-82.47.159.170-20120418184114

@DemonicTrilogy

There are few things you don't understand and/or don't take into account. Not everyone can get RoA within 15 minutes. Most people do not have such good farming skills and people below 1500 ELO rarely get that item within that time bracket. Not only for these people, but especially for them, building Catalyst is a bad option. It gives you sustain and... nothing else. This means your damage potential is severely hurt unless you can change it to RoA quickly. Three dorans give you nearly never ending mana. You can spam you abilities even more so than with Catalyst, because the regen is very high yet not dependent on leveling up. What's even better is that spamming with 3 dorans actually deals some nice damage, because you also get 45AP.

I agree that in late game people stacking dorans fall off unless the doran stacking resulted in few nice kills. However, getting three dorans we can easily buy Deathcap and other item of choice before thinking about replacing them with something else. This means you replace those dorans at the time, when most games are already about to finish. If your team is winning then you have nothing to worry about - you have money to replace those rings. If your team is losing... well you just lost the part of the game, where the dorans were stronger option. If they didin't help then RoA would neither.

I also saw more high elo streamers stacking dorans recently. I think this sort of proves that in many situation triple dorans rings are a superior choice compared to RoA. Thanks God Riot realised what was going on and the blade and ring get nerfed next patch.

BTW: I don't say that RoA is inferior to dorans. I mean that there are specific situations, where 3 dorans are clearly better and it really comes down to the style of your play. I hate to hear that people in LoL build depending on the preference, because in 95% it comes down to NUMBERS not preference. However, in this specific case it depends on how dominating you want to be in the early-to-mid game phase and how you rely on spamming abilities. 3 dorans allow you to spam more, because their mana regen is totally independent on the level.