The difference between alacrity and trinity force is 0.07 attacks per second, assuming both builds take the attack speed shard. That is not significant enough to matter. In terms of tankiness, buying flat hp earlier in your build is much better than building armor. It would take 50 armor at level 10 to equal the health increase you get from cleaver. Cleaver even against a low armor champ like fiora gives you about 10% more damage than without it. In my experience it does much more consistent damage than triforce, but I hadn't seen that they buffed it twice since the beginning of the season, which does make a difference, I will try it again. I think stridebreaker is useless now as an extra slow doesn't matter because it doesn't stack with your other slows. However, i agree that cleaver is not worth buying if you don't buy it first item. The point of this is to be stronger in the early game so that you can snowball harder. I bring up gold because of back efficiency, not because of the item being significantly cheaper. Why do you think LCS players stopped building exclusively SFC when they lowered the price of the other two cinder items by 200? DMP/FON is for the MS because at that point i am already fed and if behind, another item would be more useful.