2011-01-22, 09:07 PM
KajitiSouls Wrote:Attack speed bonuses scales off of your champion's base attack speed. Beserker Greaves are terribad on champions like Caitlyn because they have low base attack speed, but are viable on other champions whose attack speeds reach 1 or thereabouts at level 18.
Barring that crap, the real reason why attack speed isn't so great is because most of the time if you're engaging someone, you believe you'll win and kill/chase the person out of lane or whatever that person is doing. What ends up happening is that the person you're trying to chase ends up running, and your effective attack speed and thus your effective DPS drops considerably, scaling much more on the difference of movement speed between you and your target. A move speed difference of 5 pretty much means you'll be doing one hit per every 15 seconds, while a move speed difference of 70 will let you have 5 hits per 6 seconds.
Put in a different perspective, it pays to realize that there's no such thing as strafing or moving while attacking with default champion attacks. Hell, there's not very many spells and abilities that let you do that (and the ones that do are instantaneous). You spend about .5 seconds attacking, 3 seconds catching up, and another .5 seconds attacking, etc. All that attack speed you're investing in doesn't work, because you can't possibly attack that person during the time you're trying to catch up to him.
Building attack damage instead of attack speed doesn't solve the problem of needing to catch up to the person, but your effective DPS is higher because you hit harder with your attacks instead of attacking more often. Same thing can be said of critical strike chance (but I'm finding it to be difficult to justify why it's so expensive since this patch, damage point per damage point).
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In short, AD wins over attack speed most of the time.
It's best to have lots and lots of ad items then get one attack speed item.
Better yet, just get black cleaver and you're pretty much set.