Black Cleaver is only 3000, not over 5000. The recent rework has made resistances generally less valuable then health so even that small amount is pretty decent, especially as most bruisers start with a decent bit of tankiness. Building from brutalizer gives you something to grab early, and Vamp Scepter has been improved making it nice early life steal. The real steal here though is good stacking Cooldown Reduction which most Bruisers lack a good source of while giving you all stats you want for a good price. Aside from that, wards are pretty cheap, base MS has gotten a boost and MS from elsewhere a downgrade making it less necessary, and you win trades with better damage/pots. You'll out damage most champs sustain pretty easy. Something you might not have noticed in Season 3 is that the Shred and %Armor Pen are applied at the same time meaning their %stacks, so you gain 65% Armor Pen at full BC stacks with LW and then you apply your flat Ar Pen to whatevers left. It's disgusting.SecretNegative said:
As for the build, in general, start whatver, and build Brutalizer, Scepter, finish BC, Second BC or LW to gain true damage or close to it, then finish out the build with the rest of your tank/sustain items. Works on most AD bruisers.
*edit* Figured I'd put this in, since assuming others expect this from a LOL player discussing an item build is pretty silly. If you absolutely need health or armor or something, obviously grab that where you can, and if your kit lacks a good initiate/slow ghost/exhaust works wonders or you can take an early phage.
