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Today we will be looking at these three gold income items:
So which one of these gives the most gold? By the way, no super minions are factored in.
Ancient Coin gives 2 gold per minion death. Minions spawn 6 at a time every 30 seconds, and on every 3rd minion wave a siege minion spawns. This would give an average of (6+6+7)/3=19/3=6.33 minions every 30 seconds. However, after 35 minutes into the game, siege minions spawn every 2nd minion wave, giving an average of (6+7)/2=13/2=6.5 minions every 30 seconds. Now, in the optimal case, you would be getting gold from every minion from every lane, but let's be more realistic. We're going to say that you got every minion from one lane and leave it at that giving you a whopping (2*6.33)=12.66 gold every 30 seconds before 35 minutes into the game, and (2*6.5)=13 gold every 30 seconds after 35 minutes.
TLDR: Ancient Coin gives 12.66 gold every 30 seconds before 35 minutes, and 13 gold every 30 seconds after 35 minutes (if you never get out of your lane and watched every single one of your minions die).
Relic Shield gives your ally kill gold, along with you yourself originally obtaining the kill gold. However, your ally getting kill gold does not matter, since if your ally hadn't gotten out of the way for you to use your Relic Shield effect, chances are your ally would've gotten the kill gold for himself. With that said, this is how much money the minions give: melee 19(+0.5 gold every 3 minutes), caster 14(+0.5 gold every 3 minutes), siege 40(+1 gold every 3 minutes). In an optimal case, you would be getting only siege minions, however, since you get a charge every 60 seconds and a siege minion spawning every 90 seconds for the first 35 minutes, it's impossible.
Let's see in a more realistic setting. Initially, you would have to begin by getting the first two melee minions giving you 19+19=38 gold for the first 60 seconds. Now, next time it's up you can save a charge for a siege minion and a melee minion giving you 40+19=59 gold. Of course, these numbers will slowly get higher as time in game goes on.
TLDR: Relic Shield gives 14 to 19 gold every 30 seconds for the first minute (19 if two melee minions are killed), then afterwards around 14(+0.0833 gold every 30 seconds) to 29.5(+0.125 gold every 30 seconds) every 30 seconds (optimal case if a siege minion and melee minion are killed on cooldown until 35 minutes). Of course these numbers should be toned down, since it's almost impossible to be getting Relic Shield off every cooldown on the right minions.
Spellthief's Edge grants 5 gold per spell or basic attack on a champion or structure. This can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds. So that's easy (5*3)=15 gold every 30 seconds, plus the 2 gold per 10 seconds, so an extra (2*3)=6 gold. We end up getting (15+6)=21 gold every 30 seconds.
As we can see, in the best case scenario, Relic Shield would give the most gold. However, anyone who has bought these items can easily say that Ancient Coin is the easiest one to use on cooldown, since the effect is passive. Spellthief's Edge now grants the buyer more damage on hit (10 additional damage either with basic attacks or spells) which is a significant amount earlier on in the game.
We are also not considering what these items build into later on, which is for another day. However, these calculations tell me that Relic Shield grants the most gold.
TLDR: Relic Shield grants the most gold out of the three items in an optimal situation. However, in a more realistic setting, Spellthief's Edge would give Relic Shield a run for its money.
However, we were just looking at the gold each item gives and nothing else. Here is a list of what I prefer on the supports that I play:
Alistar: Relic Shield
Amumu: Relic Shield
Annie: Spellthief's Edge
Blitzcrank: Relic Shield
Fiddlesticks: Spellthief's Edge
Janna: Spellthief's Edge
Karma: Toss up between Spellthief's Edge and Ancient Coin
Leona: Relic Shield
Lulu: Spellthief's Edge
Lux: Spellthief's Edge
Morgana: Spellthief's Edge
Nami: Ancient Coin
Nunu: Relic Shield
Sona: Toss up between Spellthief's Edge and Ancient Coin
Soraka: Toss up between Spellthief's Edge and Ancient Coin
Taric: Relic Shield
Thresh: Ancient Coin
Zilean: Toss up between Spellthief's Edge and Ancient Coin
Zyra: Toss up between Spellthief's Edge and Ancient Coin
Alistar: Relic Shield
Amumu: Relic Shield
Annie: Spellthief's Edge
Blitzcrank: Relic Shield
Fiddlesticks: Spellthief's Edge
Janna: Spellthief's Edge
Karma: Toss up between Spellthief's Edge and Ancient Coin
Leona: Relic Shield
Lulu: Spellthief's Edge
Lux: Spellthief's Edge
Morgana: Spellthief's Edge
Nami: Ancient Coin
Nunu: Relic Shield
Sona: Toss up between Spellthief's Edge and Ancient Coin
Soraka: Toss up between Spellthief's Edge and Ancient Coin
Taric: Relic Shield
Thresh: Ancient Coin
Zilean: Toss up between Spellthief's Edge and Ancient Coin
Zyra: Toss up between Spellthief's Edge and Ancient Coin
Play style:
Ancient Coin: Passive play style in comparison to the other 2 starts, I hate starting with Ancient Coin, but the Talisman of Ascension active is so good. Of course, you can sell your initial income item and get a Talisman later.
Relic Shield: More sustain, build up gold between the two of you for those late game comps.
Spellthief's Edge: Aggressive play style, so fun! I'm more of an aggressive player so this is my favorite pick as of the latest patch (patch 4.3).
Add me in game if you have any questions, or feel free to ask here.
IGN: Knows Gogeta SS4
Add me in game if you have any questions, or feel free to ask here.
IGN: Knows Gogeta SS4
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