Talk:Kitae's Bloodrazor/@comment-176.255.26.126-20120817010350

When I compae kitaes to wits end i find that wits end often falls short.

Wits gives 30 (+20) MR, with 40% AS and 42 magic damage.

Kitaes gives 30 AD, with 40% AD and 2.5% max health damage.

I generally see the wits as a flat 30MR, as MR is mostly useful as protection against burst. By the time you have stacked the MR, they are probably dead already, and if they arent, the extra 20 MR wont save you from the second burst.

They both have the same AS, and to compare the onhit damage, the kitaes will do more damage granted that 0.025H>42 which gives a value for H (health) of 42/0.025, or 1680 hp. Once you have full boots, malady and prospectors, and the gold for the kitaes, most champions should have at or above that health.

However the kitaes is a more expensive item, at 2725g, compared to 2150g for wits. if we scale up the health required for the enemy to have by the same ratio of the costs (and so the damage from the passive) you get the value for kitaes to be both more cost effective and more damaging in terms of the passive. that is: 2725/2150 x 1680, which is 2129.3 (2130 rounding up). With a prospectors and maybe some other health item, this is still a reasonable amount of health for someone to have in dominion.

This of course, is ignoring the 30AD. to some this is bad itemisation, however the way i see it is that you are still attacking to apply the on hit effects. That 30AD will still affect your damage in a meaningful way. Not only that but it helps to diversify your damage slightly, so that you still have some physical damage if they build MR. If you factor in the AD, damage wise the kitaes will almost ALWAYS be a better choice than a wits end, unless you are facing a highly imbalanced team where they have all magic damage, and so you can get more use out of that MR, but if that is the case, you should probably be building hard MR to counter thier team, not tacking on 30 MR to your build. The only downside i can really give is that the items you build it from dont synergise well with your previous items (malady), but the same argument goes for wits too.

TL:DR summary:

-at greater than 1680 hp on enemy kitaes passive deals greater raw damage than wits passive.

-adjusting for cost, greater than 2130 hp on enemy deals both greater damage and is more cost effective.

-in most cases, 30 AD will have a greater impact than 30 MR, especially factoring in that any good on hit build stacks attack speed, which gives the AD more synergy.

ps: if any editor wants to use these numbers im totally k with that.