Why don't more adc's build BOTRK

bakenhunter·8/29/2015, 1:23:53 PM·1 votes·1,280 views

So everyone knows that 's go to item is BOTRK and the item itself is amazing and cheaper than an IE. Now I get that the powerspike on IE is stronger but the strength of BOTRK is that you can get it faster and it is a good item to give you advantage against 1v1s or to chase down kills. Not to mention you never get the awkward moment of not having enough for a BF when cutlass and its other component have much smaller pieces one can buy. So I'd like to know from the community, why don't more ADCs build BOTRK? if anything else it would be a good item to build into if behind to get the active to have another ability to help you get kills.

8 Comments

S H A Y C 08/29/2015, 1:27:49 PM3 votes

the biggist reason is that vayne has the option of not building damage and scales hard off attack speed. the true damage on the silver bolts is tremendous. That is pretty much the only reason she builds that first. everybody else needs regular damage because they dont get free true damage every third attack so all three have to hurt.

vayne is also an auto attack champion, so the percentage health based damage from the botrk passive is really strong.

Angelofchaos16x8/29/2015, 1:30:18 PM3 votes

Because not all adc's use their auto as much. Sure, all adc do auto, but who autos more, Vayne or Corki ? Twitch or Varus ? Caitlyn or Graves ? You see the point, some adc are caster based, so they use spell for most of the damage, and then auto for extra damage. Then we have carries that are almost 100% AA reliant. So sure, most do pick up a BORK at some point, but rushing it in most cases is not efficient.

OperationDEEZ18/29/2015, 1:59:01 PM2 votes

Ratio based carries like Varus, Ezreal, and Tristana need the extra bonus ad to keep their abilities relevant.

ZephyrDrake8/29/2015, 1:26:56 PM1 votes

because more ADCs prefer to build IE first? most ADCs already build BotRK anyways, just not as their first item

Phainon8/29/2015, 1:43:32 PM1 votes

The guys above said pretty much everything , I will just add that Quinn cause of her passive and her E that resets her passive (2xAA - E - 2xAA) builds BOTRK and it works very well on her. On tristana works good as well cause of her Q speed up.....still not as 1st item as you can do with vayne and maybe with Quinn.

On the other hand it sucks on Cait, especially as 1st item, cait has low attack speed and no ability to take advantage of BOTRK passive.

Critmaster Garen8/29/2015, 2:42:16 PM1 votes

because for the first half of the game, adc are fighting adc. meaning they want crit cheese.

they keep poking at each other with auto attacks and the first guy who randomly crits and takes 1/3 of his opponents hp bar goes all in. bork doesnt deal as much damage to other squishies as i.e. does.