
Ideally you want to build either something that scales well or makes you hit buildings better, and medallion isn't an item that fits this description. Getting solo kill potential on the enemy carry for 1200 gold is actually amazing and works particularly well against low armor heroes.īut this isn't something you want to do, it's something you might be forced into.
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If you're very close to being able to kill someone on your own, but not quite there, getting an early medallion can be great, since most heroes will have shit armor, and it's the highest DPS upgrade you can get for 1200 gold in most cases. Both items are good to make it more likely for you to win duels. Whether you get 65 dmg and 25 attack speed from armlet to kill people in duels or get 21 dmg from blademail + return, if your target dies in the duel, it might not even matter in the end. ^still though there's the effect of "good enough". In that case, blademail is better than armlet most of the time, since being disabled with an armlet is kind of a problem for a hero that rightclicks its way to sustain.Īn ideal game is the one where you get your phase/treads blink and bm/armlet and just kill everyone and push high ground with aegis on you or your carry/mid depending on who the best carrier is. Oh and one more thing, armlet is kinda shit when the enemy has a lot of disables and you are in no position to get a bkb quickly but have to teamfight and initiate (this is really not an ideal scenario and you want to avoid this, think about it in the picking phase).

Most people get both in a game where they do a lot of ganking, but if you had to choose, blink is vastly superior against high ground and it lets you more easily connect to your team's CC, rather than having to walk towards an already initiated on target. In general, you want blink even if you have a sb, so you can use the sb to get around observer wards, and then blink onto the target from fog. You get SB as first item either in low MMR, or in games when you would want a blink but you still want at least some dmg/attack speed for 550 more gold.
