Talk:Youmuu's Ghostblade/@comment-10428734-20140819113606

I think this item should get a rework. Basically, it's a PD with an active MS boost. Therefore, PD and Youmuu cannot be balanced together. At any point, either PD is plain better than Youmuu, or inversely. You don't have to ask yourself which one you want, you just pick the one that was buffed lately. If PD were buffed tomorrow, everybody would get it again.

There is no downside to pick an item that grants everything single stat you need at once (AD, AS, crit, MS, CDR, ArmPen in a mid tier item?). With TF it's OK because it is much more expensive (imo not enough) and meant to be the most OP item in the game. Furthermore, Youmuu has only become another crit item that happens to have a MS active.

I'd change it that way: Recurve Bow instead of Avarice in the recipe. Price increased from 2700 to 2800. Passive crit chance changed to 30% AS. Active AS changed to 40 ArmPen. Active CD reduced from 45 to 30 seconds.

The removal of crit chance would remove the PD/Youmuu conflict (as you get to choose between crit and MS), also opening making the item attractive for more champions, while the added flat ArmPen gives the item a more unique niche (flat ArmPen is still pretty rare). It could become an alternative to LW against low-armor enemies (60 > 35% below 171 armor). However, this does not create a LW/Youmuu conflict because LW is still cheaper, always effective and better against big 200+ armor tanks. Also, PD would not completely replace Youmuu: marksmen like Draven/Vayne are not really crit-dependent so they can still completely bypass their crit item for Youmuu until IE later on. Basically, all items are viable, strong in the right situation, but never mandatory.