Ie cost more and takes more time to scale up compared to morello. IE is not even at the level of cost efficency with its passive when compared to morello without its passive. How is it fair that Morello offers so much as a first item. I Guess you could argue that its for mages so its allowed to be broken. Can you imagine how good ie would be if it offers ad crit and atk speed and lifesteal all at once?
The problem is you are comparing the wrong type of items.
A correct comparison would be a 
and a
.
These items are both not cost effective on their own. They are not designed to be cost effective by themselves as they are multipliers for other items.
The closest comparison for a 
would probably be 
for adc's or a 
for a assasins. It is also comparable to a 
/
for tanks and a 
for most bruisers.
All these items give a 1 item power spike and give a moderate about of all the stats those "roles" want. All are cost effective on their own for their stats but lack the multiplicative power of .
Mages have Morellos to give them a really powerful 1 itemspike. ADCs don't have a 1 item spike like that but their itemisation scales incredibly well with itself.
1 mage item > 1 ADC item 3 ADC items > 3 Mage items
Does that make any sense to ya?
Mmhmm.
Here's a question.
How many stats do you honestly need if you're an ADC? Atk damage, Crit, and increased crit chance. Infinity Edge gives all three. Only thing you need is lifesteal and atk speed and you're murdering folks.
A mage's damage is actually gated by something called mana, something that resourceless and undodgeble auto attacks don't have to worry about.
Piss off, ADCs are overly strong again, let's not play this "muh adc itemization" game yet.
I adore your name. Isn't it from Relife?
[zombie-brand-facepalm]
ADCs do not need to rush it as a 1st item to function, their itemization is quite flexible.
Mages on the other hand cant function at all if they dont rush it as a 1st item, it was meant to be a "lazy" fix after Riot dumpstered most Mages to prevent them from going bot lane even when it was fine for them to do so but too many bad ADC mains cried against it that time and Riot catered for them as always.
also why compare ADC that have Burst DPS on a targeted 0 CD/0 Resources autos that can life steal to Mages who have their burst heavily restricted by their CDs and Resources ? ... its obvious which one of those classes is trespassing other domains that were not meant for it in the first place and thus it must be nerfed even more instead of being buffed because someone with low game knowledge compared them to different and weaker class !!!
