You have to start considering what value you get out of an item for the price.

You have a finite amount of gold every game and delay/expedite powerspikes based off what you buy and when you buy it.

With Zhonyas, you are spending a lot of money just to turn gold for a few seconds. For a champ like Lucian, you have to ask yourself if it's worth it by asking "what stats do I get?" and "what am I NOT buying by purchasing this?"

For APs, the decision is a little easier. For an AD champion (and a ranged one at that), delaying a Triforce/IE/GhostBlade/BT/whatever in favor of hourglass will be inefficient the majority of the time.

Building inefficiently is one of the easiest, yet most subtle, ways to throw a game.

ADC #1 got early kills in lane and is up 1k on their opponent, ADC#2.

ADC #1 built a chainvest with their extra gold to help dominate their lane and decided to buy tear of the goddess and tier 2 boots.

ADC #2 bought BF sword with what money they have.

At Dragon, ADC #1 gets blown up by LeBlanc who doesn't give a single frick about their tear, chainvest, or berzerkers boots. ADC #2 does consistent DPS with BF sword and makes an impact on the fight.

This post was edited on 4/14/15 at 12:34 pm

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Posted by BaddestAndvari

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Posted on 4/14/15 at 1:35 pm to Tiguar

I've streamlined my > "First 30 minutes" build - for the most part with Support and ADC I know what I'll have by the 30 minute mark (if the game makes it there)

Past the 30 minute mark however, things change a little depending on the situation, in this case the gnar was asking me to build the hourglass and he kept telling all of us "I'm a smurf" - so I trust him and went with it, no biggie, we still won.