User blog comment:UberTri125/Champion Recommended Items/@comment-3213322-20110214202138

For the most part, Riot's recommended items are a helpful place to start for anyone just picking up a champion. For people who like to crunch numbers like me it's useful for determining what kind of general damage output/defenses you can expect from the champion. I don't see the probability of criticism to outweigh the usefulness. Out of the various brayings and critical sputterings which people are prone to make in comments, arguments about item use are at least somewhat constructive for those subjected to them.

I wouldn't particularly care if we added in admin recommended item builds, but I feel like those would do better service to expand the rather paltry guides section.