Stormrazor is an ADC item
And by this I mean that is a item designed for the crit marksman and most used for crit marksman, so I'll try to explain the reason behind:
Turns out that the crit adcs 3 item power spike with
was too strong (and cheap), or at least is what the Boards were saying for months and Rito thought the same so they change that by a huge nerf to these items in terms of gold but letting adcs reach 100% crit with these 3 items (it used to be with 4).
They added
to be the first item choice for the crit adcs (notice that StormR has a perfect build path for early game) that are beyond useless with the stat nerfs (and FleetF nerf) if they choose to buy the old build that is now more expensive which means that games ends before they can have any agency, that's why buying
means that you are not useless at 1 and 2 items so you can actually play the game but it costs to delay the pure crit build by 1 item. Sure if you trust that your team will carry you can choose to not buy StormR but for soloQ doesn't look like a good choice.
What about Assasins? Well, is true that there are some assasins that are abusing this item, the ones that are worth mentioning are:
:
(9.7% buyrate),
(23.3% buyrate),
(12.7% buyrate),
(7.11% buyrate),
(7.2% buyrate). (
is not an assasin but is neither a marksman, anyway he has 43.58% buyrate so is worth to say it)
Now lets take a look at the buyrates that have adcs with it:
:
(79.13% buyrate),
(78.7% buyrate),
(90.27 buyrate),
(77.4% buyrate),
(74.19% buyrate),
(66.35% buyrate). And adcs that have StormR as an optional item:
(14.58% buyrate),
(25.59 buyrate),
(17.8% buyrate),
(22.35% buyrate),
(7.6% buyrate)
- (All based on the stats from the last 7 days on Plat and + https://lolalytics.com/ranked/worldwide/platinum/plus/home/ )
The conclusion is for me that
is obviously an adc item in the first place, that is needed for some adcs and is optional for others, and similar to the adcs that have StormR as an option there are some assasins that have StormR aswell as an optional item that they can buy but never as a core item.
Everyone is free to correct me if I'm wrong on something and we can maybe have a civil talk about this topic.