By Sylph.Shinobu 2012-03-30 09:29:51
Wriggles is not going to be more powerful than a BT ever in a flat scenario. If you can run back and buy an IE first buy, do it. The thing is that in high elo play, you end up getting 2-3 doran blades before you start getting anywhere. If you bother farming up an IE first and trying to force it, you are likely to fall way behind when your opponent buys wriggles.
One big thing people don't realize is the survivability factor in the game. Which is why ROA is such a standard item on 90% of ap carries. Rushing a rabadons almost never works out unless you manage a lvl 1 penta kill.
The most broken thing is: swain+ROA+hourglass and a negatron cloak (boots also, but that's just standard)+blue (maybe not so broken anymore :'( ). The damage put out by swain is already pretty decent due to his E but surviving and having the mana to keep going will make him do a lot more than if you rock a deathcap and hope they cant burst you down, because they will. Hourglass lets you keep ulti'ing so you get life back during it. The longer you survive and keep throwing out dmg, the more dmg you do. If you're annie and you blow your load once and die after but you have a deathcap, you will do less dmg (until very late game) then if you got off two rounds of spells (annie isn't the best examples due to her ulti and CD's).
Anyway, just watch like 90% of 2k+ elo players and they get wriggles 90% of the time.