User blog comment:Hamengeri/Hamengeri's small item overhaul/@comment-24420226-20140915224954

Making EC build from a pickaxe rather than a long sword was something I was considering suggesting in a blog here, so I like that part. What I don't like is how everyone wants to change the passive so it only activates on critical strikes. That would make this passive work consistantly only for ADC's, Master Yi, or Yasuo; the only champs who really invest in large amounts of crit chance. Even with the AD boost, ADC's wouldn't  (and shouldn't) ever buy this item. An ADC needs to be able to maximize their damage output all targets, especially tanky ones, and this item forces somone to give up a lot of potential power for the sake of healing reduction (which can be implemented more effectively with a morello's anyways). If you want EC to be picked up more in the meta, you should make it more enticing to bruisers, not ADC's, and bruisers will rarely invest in more than one crit item. To that end, I would consider working penetration or cooldown reduction into the item.