Talk:Youmuu's Ghostblade/@comment-94.126.240.2-20130222114347

I've found this actually quite useful right now in top trading hits in some scenarios, and with specific champions.

The basic idea behind youmu's active is boosting autoattack stats, and this item gives it all there is in one single pack: aspd, armor pen, ad, crit, and move speed to hit the most blows during the active.

But here comes the cdr part: some AD champions rely on one of their skills or passive to deal dmg in fights. Tryndamere needs to get the most out of his ult, Irelia needing to get the most of her W, jax needing to stack his passive (and ult) fast... Even yi or fiora can benefit, since they have yet another steroid up when they cant rely on their main one. The cdr synergizes in having such skill recharge faster.

It's meant to give you and advantage by giving such a powerful skill time to be up again and again, forcing your lead on enemies.

It also allows for some AD melees to have some steroid boost that otherwise wouldn't have.

60 seconds on CD of the active also means they are almost always going to have it active in important teamfighting, and 6 seconds is quite a good punch for their duration.

It is cheap for all that it gives, and you can start building survivability straight away without losing too much dps before you start building DPS again.