User blog comment:Emptylord/Class Reworks - Itemization Follow-up/@comment-5035765-20160512211319/@comment-5035765-20160516221529

@will ya know, this arguement would be enough to convince me... if there wasn't a history of non-supports becoming the meta supports and warping the picks around themselves. Around 2 years ago, Support Annie was the best support, to the point where you had three choices: A) Pick Annie, B) Pick something that counters Annie, or C) lay down and accept your fate because you did not choose A or B. So forgive me if I'm wary of things that'd make it easier for champs with no direct supporting ability to be supports.

WotA and Gunblade share two stats and have different niches. Gunblade is for HYBRID sustain, WotA was for AP sustain. The differences in stats is what made WotA less bought than Gunblade. I mean, think about it... on paper, WotA was the better item: it gave higher stats for the sustain type it gave, it gave CDR so you could use the sustain more often, and it didn't give any stats that'd be useless on any champ who would even think of buying it. And yet, you'd only see it bought on like... Vlad, with a MAYBE for something like Kat or Rumble. Meanwhile, Gunblade is pretty much core on one champ (Akali), while being a great pickup on champs like Eve, Kayle, and sometimes Skarner or Jax (hell, i've had it be a why-does-this-work lategame pickup on URGOT). The important differences for Gunblade that make it so much more picked than WotA was are the active and Omnivore. Hell, Omnivore is so good that I've seen many times where people forget to use the active and still consider Gunblade better, LOL. But seriously, Omnivore is better than just Spellvamp because it makes it so that you aren't locked out of your sustain after blowing all your CDs (which you're likely to do at the BEGINNING of a fight, BEFORE YOU HAVE ANY DAMAGE TO HEAL). Hell, that's probably the problem with Spellvamp in general... It was mostly used to heal off of minions between fights than actually doing anything for mid-fight sustain.

Also, Empty, i just noticed the edit that calls Gunblade a glass-cannon item... u wot m8? A mostly sustain item is glass-cannon now?