Talk:Zeke's Herald/@comment-4802258-20120223205347

What are you getting with Zerks?


 * 250 health
 * 15% CDR
 * 20% attack speed and life leech for your team

What's unique about this item is 20% attack speed and life leech.

The point of life leech is sustain, which if you are a support, you already do for your team (Soraka has heal, Cow has heal, Sona has heal, Karma has heal, Jana does not have sustained heal but can reset teamfights so you can go back and heal). In other words, it's irrelevant.

The 20% attack speed is meant to buff your physical DPS. Usually, a physical DPS carry has a Zeal and a Zerkers by the time you can build a complete item. That's already 45% attack speed. By adding your aura, you add 20/145 = 13% more damage at best! Not even counting in ability increases to attack speed. If it was Tristiana for example, you would be adding in 20/235 = 8.5% more damage. That's 8.5% more damage before armor or anything! With armor the additional damage you're dealing to their effective health will be more like 6.5/4.25%. Sad isn't it?

Compare this to old Starks or Abyssal which adds -20 resistance. That's a straight up 20% decrease in effective health.

Essentially you're paying 2145g for
 * 250 health
 * 15% CDR
 * 5% increased DPS for your AD carry.

This for 2145 gold. A kindle gem and a ruby crystal is pretty much equivalent to this piece of garbage. Oh, and it's 825 gold cheaper.