Atma's Impaler; What is it?

[quote=AMcJV12]Hey all, I feel like I've been starting too many new threads about stupid questions I have, but d'oh well. My question this time is about the item Atma's Impaler. I think it looks totally cool as a sixth item for a tank! It gives armor and late-game a decent chunk of AD. However, I never see anybody use it except me, and when that happens it's usually because I'm being dumb and it's bad. I wanna know how you guys use it and what you think of it! Thoughts?[/quote]

[quote=lifebaka]If you have enough HP to get a lot of AD out of Atma's, you probably don't scale well enough with AD to actually care about the AD it gives. If you need armor, there are far more slot efficient ways to get it. See [[Randuin's Omen]] and [[Frozen Heart]]. No champions itemize all three of AD, crit, and armor. Especially not with enough HP itemization to make the AD actually significant. Which champions do you tend to build this item on? We can probably suggest better sixth items for you.[/quote]

[quote=BluAnimal][[atma's impaler]] fell off with the changes to it at the end of Season 2 and during Season 2. It was a pretty top tier item for bruisers and tanks alike, but they nerfed the percentage of AD you would gain from your health. Right now it's a pretty trash item. Armor and Critical Strike chance are both pretty random stats to couple together, and while tanks will benefit from the armor, most can do without the critical chance. In the end the passive from Atma's just isn't worth purchasing it.[/quote]

[quote=Zouchouten][quote=BluAnimal] [[atma's impaler]] fell off with the changes to it at the end of Season 2 and during Season 2. It was a pretty top tier item for bruisers and tanks alike, but they nerfed the percentage of AD you would gain from your health. Right now it's a pretty trash item. Armor and Critical Strike chance are both pretty random stats to couple together, and while tanks will benefit from the armor, most can do without the critical chance. In the end the passive from Atma's just isn't worth purchasing it. [/quote] Yeah, when s3 happened Atmas was a lot less useful. As it stands, the most practical builds can't make the most out of the stats given, and a wasted stat is a wasted item slot in most cases.[/quote]

[quote=samgoeslol]atmas is really efficient if you can use all 3 stats. If not, there is hardly any point in buying it. like its already worth its gold at less than 2k hp afaik. now add in extra hp and tadaaaa good item on a few champs i think its good but underrated.[/quote]

[quote=AMcJV12]Honestly, I just build this on Garen after I stack 2 Warmogs on him or Shen because he scales with HP anyway XD so I take it that it isn't that fantastic?[/quote]

[quote=Thatdudeinthecotton]Only character I can think of which utilizes all three stats is [[gangplank]]. So yeah, great for him, but not for most.[/quote]

[quote=Lord Kesharq]That item might work on Garen...after all he benefits from all of those tho i would recommend getting at least 1 Warmog Armour first..[/quote]

[quote=Thalia Kael]Atma's is basicly an item that was super good in S1/S2 but died in S3[/quote]

[quote=Quite Nomible]I used to play [[Sion]] as tank for a while, and that worked out really well, because with my build it sometimes gave me more AD than a [[bloodthirster]] XD (wasn't stacking warmogs btw!). But yeah, I don't see many other champions that have any use with this item. Only if you have a ton of hp with 5 items, then this item would be good as 6th. But in most cases I'd prefer a [[sunfire cape]] instead of atma's.[/quote]