I will not miss The Brutalizer

YumaS2Astral··1 votes·512 views

item 3134 itself is a very good item. Due to its stats, it gives an enormous powerspike early game for any AD champion.

However, since they changed it so that it no longer builds into item 3071, I don't rush it for any champion, except AD junglers, and Zed and Talon (because they have item 3142 as their core items). Even though rushing it may be useful, you are wasting gold and delaying your build since you have to sell it later.

For example, on MonkeyKing and Khazix (yes, I still use lane Kha'Zix) I build item 3077 first. Then, I build item 3044 and finish it into The Black Cleaver. Then I see which items I need the most and build them. Rushing Tiamat may not give as much of a big powerspike due to lacking in armor penetration; but it rushes into way more useful items. I actually think that The Black Cleaver is way more useful now that it gives higher CDR.

Rushing The Brutalizer is like rushing item 3136 for AP champions. The magic penetration and AP is very useful and is an enormous powerspike for any AP champion. However, unless you are using a DoT champion like Rumble or Malzahar or Swain, this item will be a waste and you have to sell it later. Why? Because its only upgrade has a passive that is good only on DoT champions. This is unfortunate because Haunting Guise could theorically be a very good rush for the likes of Leblanc and Fizz.

Unless your champion is an AD jungler or uses Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Brutalizer is not worth. As such, I will not miss it.

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BlunterMonk1 votes

I gotta agree, the only reason I ever got the brutalizer outside of jungling was for some early CDR to fight against lane bullies. But the build paths were awful and never really helped the champions I chose.

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