So for next patch they are buffing rageblade to give it and extra 5% attack speed. Imo this won't solve its problems as the reason why the traditional rageblade users have skipped it do to its lack of hybrid scaling, negative interaction with onhit and crit items, as well as low damage overall compared to crit.

Current Rageblade gives atk speed and crit chance and converts every crit percent to 2 bonus physical damage as well as giving phantom hit for every tgird attack. Old rageblade gave less atk speed, ad, ap, 15% armor and magic pen, up to 48% bonus atk speed, and every 3rd attack proced phantom hit.

The stated change to why rageblade was changed to make it so that there wouldnt be wasted crit chance so you could still get items like hurricane and pd without needing ie to maximize damage. However the crit to onhit damage is small for the exchange of crit damage and if you build full onhit its ridiculously small. Additionally it no longer gives dual pen or hybrid stats so its worth to all the hybrid champs that used to like it has dropped and contributes to why all the traditional users just build crit (kaisa kog vayne) or skip it entirely (kayle).

This post is just to highlight that the current direction wont solve the problems with it imo and will only raise its pr for a weak before people realize it still sucks and i hope they can change the buff to something meaningful. I propose returning the hybrid stats and giving back the pen while removing the on hit from crit but allowing you to build ie again essentially a revert. Through this season the champs that have been using it the best are those with unique interactions with crit like ashe, yasuo, yone and senna as they either could get extra on hit damage due to their passives (yasuo/yone, senna) or could crit along side keeping the on hit (ashe) . Even now after the yone/yas/ashe interactions have been removed senna is the only consistent user of it due to her passive giving excess crit. Unless riot is happy with its current state then i guess this post is useless but I just wanted to highlight why its not being built and why the usual champs skip it, even yi's best build right now is lethality into crit skipping the item entirely.

Tldr: please bring back old rageblade I miss the hybrid potential for kayle and kaisa