Youmuu's Ghostblade: STOP BUILDING IT

Ulfgar Torunn·11/11/2014, 1:39:40 AM·2 votes·1,144 views

I have seen players building item 3142 Youmuu's Ghostblade on ADCs that traditionally would have used item 3046 Phantom Dancer. I can't stress enough that this is BAD.

Champions like Graves Graves, Draven Draven, Vayne Vayne, and Tristana Tristana do not benefit from 20 armor pen and 10% CDR more than 15% more crit and permanent attack speed.

ADCs do not participate in teamfights for just 6 seconds: they are the consistent source of high DPS that every team relies on to carry through the mid and late game. If they are not attacking continually, or if they are forced out of the fight, the team's DPS drops considerably, and the fight is probably lost.

Just because Lucian Lucian makes full use of all the stats (as a kiting, caster ADC with high burst who benefits HUGELY from CDR and the active) doesn't mean it should be built on other ADCs.

It was never a thing before. Nothing has changed but the duration. There is no reason for its excessive use now (other than the sheep mentality of so many players).

If someone wants me to do the mathematical comparison betweenitem 3142 Youmuu's and item 3046 Phantom Dancer I can, but only if enough people request it.

7 Comments

ThePurpleKnight11/11/2014, 4:47:29 AM2 votes

yea and stop buying last whisper 3rd on every occasion! It's worth 1400ish gold in AD, so unless you're penetrating a lot of armor, it's not gold efficient and it sucks. BLOODTHISTER IS STILL VIABLE.

SouL1ess11/11/2014, 2:07:56 AM1 votes

It isn't strictly bad. It's more like an item that pushes an advantage over the enemy (except for when you have avarice blade).

What I think people don't understand is that Ghostblade is conditional purchase, not a core...

Rebonack11/11/2014, 3:52:45 AM1 votes

Folks mathed this up ages ago.

In terms of raw DPS boost, Yomama's Ghostblade is the strongest auto-attack enhancer next to Infinity Edge. Do remember, the armor pen is amplified by Whisper. People seriously underestimate just how potent armor pen is.

IwfiKe3qjM11/11/2014, 3:11:13 PM1 votes

Phantom Dancer is good for some DPS...

+50% AS +30% Crit Chance (Most on SR after Sword of the Divine active) +5% Movespeed

usually that was my 2nd or 3rd items when playing dps adc... after BT or BotRK and Boots...

Sailor Mint11/11/2014, 9:30:04 PM1 votes

Why is PD even in the argument.

Shiv is better in every realistic scenarios.