Breaking it Down with Breaking Point! by Lemonb0y

Okay so, let's be real here. I don't want to spend my time, neither do you. So I'm going to summarize everything and enlighten you with my discoveries.

I play LOL, like excessively, and over the years there have been many metas. A big meta was which tanks built full tank and a Black Cleaver. This allowed tanks to have ridiculous survivability whilst also holding lots of damage due to prolonged fights allowing the build up of the items passive. Now, I'm not going to pretend to start this idea, but I've not seen it before;

Queue Breaking Point

VGFire BP explanation

"+40% Attack Speed

Passive: Gain 9 weapon power (15 if you are melee) and 5% critical chance & critical damage per second whenever you are attacking enemy heroes. If not, you lose a stack each second. 20 stacks max.

(Very weak at first, but becomes extremely powerful over the course of long battles.)"

OK, so, now we all know what the item is, we can see how it fits into the tank build. Due to the only problem with BP being that getting to high stacks is that you're wiped out before even ~5, you need defensive stats. In my experience, this has worked with EVERY SINGLE SUPPORT IN THE GAME. Adagio, Ardan, Catherine, Fortress and Glaive - Not tried any others, yet. Honestly, I don't know what else is to say other than to pull out some maths...

Yey, the fun part...

Passive: Gain 9 weapon power (15 if you are melee) and 5% critical chance & critical damage per second whenever you are attacking enemy heroes. If not, you lose a stack each second. 20 stacks max.

Simplified:

9 Weapon per stack
5% Crit per stack
5% Crit damage per stack
(20 max stacks)

First and foremost, I'm not going to claim I'm good at maths, so please someone check this...

9*20=180 damage

5%*20=100% crit
5%*20=100% crit damage

100% crit damage is equivalent to (180 damage)*2=360 damage

360 damage for 2400 gold on Breaking Point - 1 damage for 6.66 gold
150 damage for 3100 gold on Sorrow Blade - 1 damage for 20.66 gold

20.66/6.66 = 3.102102...

And that is for ranged... Now melee!

15 Weapon per stack
5% Crit per stack
5% Crit damage per stack
(20 max stacks)

15*20=300 damage
5%*20=100% crit
5%*20=100% crit damage

100% crit damage is equivalent to (300 damage)*2=600 damage

600 damage for 2400 gold on Breaking Point - 1 damage for 4 gold
150 damage for 3100 gold on Sorrow Blade - 1 damage for 20.66 gold

20.66/4 = 5.1666...


Well damn, this IS insane! Looking at the gold efficiency of a sorrow blade and comparing it to a breaking point shows us that on ranged champions, a BP is 3.102 times more effective and on melee champions, a BP is 5.166 times more effective. Is this enough to justify a BP? HELL YES.