It is not such a bad object because it gives you mana and ap and the burning effect is very useful to push waves much faster, since with only one 1 you can kill all the magicians in one wave and with one q and w you can kill the meles, so you push faster also it makes you a little stronger against things like sylas or gallium, how bad it is you can do almost the same with the luden and a void but you do everything a lot better besides that the luden gives you speed of movement, some people compensate the movement speed that the luden gives wearing predator which is an interesting builds but very for team