Before we nerf Kalista and Vayne, maybe we should look at Blade of the Ruined King first.

Marthian·9/3/2015, 7:41:45 AM·4 votes·1,122 views

Something that I've noticed on both Kalista and Vayne (two top tier ADCs) is that they both rush the same item: Blade of the Ruined King. The reason being is that it provides everything both could ever want: Decent AD, Attack speed, Lifesteal, and in addition to those stats, they get a current% HP on-hit and a solid active ability. While other carries generally have to build Infinity Edge for their power spike, Kalista and Vayne get as good a power spike from BoRK than ADCs get from IE, only faster and with more immediate benefits from it. This is actually pretty problematic in that:

  • Infinity Edge offers no sustain, just damage, and is extremely expensive to build (3800g), understandably because again, it's generally the biggest DPS boost to an ADC, especially early game.
  • Blade of the Ruined King offers sustain as part of it's build path, just as good damage, and is cheaper (3200g). It gives Vayne and Kalista the biggest boost in DPS due to it's varying stats (And also lets them duel other carries very well, who didn't reach their power spike as fast and couldn't get lifesteal without further delaying their power spike.)

This isn't just true of Kalista and Vayne, plenty of other champions that benefit from building BoRK early on get a very good power spike from it. Despite what sounded like a late game item for dealing with high HP tanks, it's better used early game for when no one has good armor.

One thing that could be done (for starters) is make the current HP% scale with level (so it's only 5%/6%/7%/8% at levels 1/6/11/16 instead of 8% at all levels) Would help reduce the early power spike that rushing this item tends to give.

15 Comments

Cowgirl Ed9/3/2015, 7:45:27 AM2 votes

Yes, nerf Botrk and Vayne and Kalista

One Bind Morgana9/3/2015, 7:57:45 AM1 votes

problem is silver bolts as well as final hour are too big of an incentive to stack daggers/recurve bows all game

silver bolts basically gives you 50-150 on-hit true damage per attack depending on enemy health. final hour gives you 30-70 attack damage depending on skill rank, which can obviously crit

if vayne had to go ie first like other carries, then we wouldn't have this problem until extremely late game where she's got her 4th offensive item (blade of the ruined king.) an ie start vayne isn't as strong as a blade start vayne.

force vayne to build ie first and you'll solve all her problems without directly nerfing her.

disregardable9/3/2015, 8:02:16 AM1 votes

Yeah it's doing so much for Twitch

The ADs that rush Bork do so for the attack speed, which their kits do not have enough of. Remove/nerf the attack speed on Blade and it'll almost never be picked up.

K549/3/2015, 8:06:19 AM1 votes

I always rush item 3153 with Vayne Jax followed

I've gotten 3 pentakills with Vayne this season using relatively weak build 1st rushing item 3153 followed by item 3006 into item 3085 item 3031 item 3071
My last item varied between the 3 matches being either item 3072 item 3035 item 3022