I dont know if people just havent seen this item much yet or what, but Im honestly suprised that people arent qq'ing about it more. Last game was the first time I'd seen it in action, and there was a vayne on the other team (granted it was late game vayne) that popped sword of divine and LITERALLY instakilled the orianna on our team.

For those of you who dont know, it gives you +100% AS and +100% crits for 3 seconds or 3 crits. Soooo yeah, this item on vayne = divinity status in league.

For the price and slot it takes, you might as well just get a second PD.

basically 100% crit and comparable all the time attack speed.

It feels like a mid-game AD assassin item.

EDIT - AT A GLANCE.

Just at a glance.

Well basically what this item does is it gives burst to an adc. And, on Vayne, those 3 crits plus the W proc means that you are probably going to die if we are talking late game. The reset off of 2 kills isnt bad either

it's a weird item because it actually negatively scales with crit. the more crit you have, the less good it does you.
you also want some good AD before you get big AS items. so the list of people it works with is really short.

i think it was actually designed for melee carries. the crit mastery works better on melee, they all get free AD, and a lot of them have on-kill effects. so SoD would be the spike they need to secure that initial kill.

Was watching Wingsofdeathx stream.

Rengar

+

SotD.

Is so lolzy.

I'm thinking AD Malphite just got ridonkulus.

That could be scary, though Vayne has killed me by condemning me into a wall and just tumbling before, so it's not like she can't 2-shot champs without SotD.

Also, like others have mentioned picking it up when you have crit chance puts some of that to waste (unless you fail at killing things and getting the re-set). So it's not going to be optimal unless you don't have critical strikes to begin with. So Rengar probably likes this way more than say, Vayne (who synergizes so well with phantom dancers already). I could see Riven easily picking it up as well, considering she mostly just stacks attack damage. 3 guaranteed double-bloodthirster crits has got to hurt.

This just gave me a really neat ideal...

Garen's judgement doesn't actually crit, but its damage scales with crit chance and crit damage...

So does popping this item then decisive striking (auto crit) then spinning murder everybody?

I have to try this...

i tried this item in a bot game and i am less than impressed. For the 3 sec of increased speed, u get nerfed back to not having this item at all during the cooldown period.

If ur in a 1 v 1 shootout, and the other champ doesn't die, ur in deep doo doo as u effectively lose the use of this item.

For the cost and using up a slot, i would get virtually any other item.