User blog comment:Just loves to play/Bloodthirster/@comment-5254342-20130617074911/@comment-1985493-20130618192423

I would not reccomend Hydra on Wu. I remember this one game I had a long time ago on Rammus where our team was losing badly and I had thought the game to be over at several point in it. We had a top lane Nid who was going with some funky half-tank half-bruiser build that you'd only really see on like, Darius. Anyway, they were trading lots of kills and both had full builds. Wu had Hyrdra among other damagey items. We were always on base defense and there didn't seem to be too much that we could do except turtle. Suddenly, we were in a teamfight and we were not losing. Then, Wu ulted in, but due to his squishy build, once I taunted him, he got torn apart by my team. 2-3 more teamfights that went the same way later, we pushed to win after a 50 minute game. Both of our teams had lots of issues, but despite that, had Wu had tankines, he'd have gotten to our back line and knocked them up, and we likely would have lost. I know Hydra's just one item, but that could be replaced with sunfire or something.

Anyway, my point is, Hydra's only really good on good splitpushers who can use it well. Lee Sin, for example, is alright with it because he's super slippery and can escape in just about any situation. Same for Trynd, though that seems like it would interfere with his ability to reach his full 6 items and spinning slash seems to be good enough. Wu not so much. I know he has his clone, but what do you do once that's used up?