Talk:Talon/@comment-25364408-20161123085652/@comment-28977071-20161126052704

Sometimes the additional "item-item, champ-item, .." synergies can make up for the partial loss from duplicated passives, wasted stats, etc., so in the end of the day the buy might prove to be overall efficient (the plus just has to overcome the minus). E.g. old crittable was a fine buy on the old  even if  stat was wasted because of things like  applying the on-hit effects, and so on.

Also, the passives of and  do partially stack, because the Spellblade passives are slightly different- you'll "only" lose  on the primary target. Plus, losing one Rage passive doesn't sound that harmful (not that it wouldn't be valuable). Even though losing on unique passives is generally a strong argument, the strange thing is that people that insist on holding to it, usually don't care about the same issue when it comes to team itemization (e.g. multiple, , in the team), as if the laning phase lasted forever. Then suddenly noone has issues with partially lost value of uniques..

Oh, and to the topic.. well, my opinion won't probably be that helpful, both options sound quite fine to me even with losing a bit on passive. I'd opt for the first one in situations when the burst'd be of higher priority, the other one sounds much better for longer duels. The first option more resembles my general itemization for bruisers. I tend to build'em with tanky defenses to survive 1vsN, but with bursty 1vs1 offensive potential (so usually either or  and the rest tanky). But that might be just a wordplay with my personal terms, your other item path with sounds fine as well, I just don't call it a bruiser build then (maybe a diver, huh).