I want to talk about the new GA.

I get why the masses think it will be busted, but I just don't see it.

30 AD 30 Armor Passive Stasis. 2400 Gold.

Without the passive GA seems like just meh. Don't get me wrong, it is a good item for Divers and assassins but they could of built the old GA, to actually get some resistances. To gain the 30 AD you lose 45 MR, and 20 Armor. Mages won't be able to viably buy it anymore, but now ADC's will be overall weaker to burst of mages, even if the Passive is up.

Old GA provided the squishy carries both Armor and MR, now a ADC is pigeon holed into GA or Maw, so what resistance do they want more?

Example. Cait.

or then She's left to decide; more optimal damage , burst counter , cc counter , or GA.

We all know how strong the GA passive can be, it's often annoying as hell, but if Syndra can burst out Cait and put her in stasis it is now a 5v4 for 4 seconds and if the team does survive for the 4 seconds without dying or retreating, then Cait is 50% HP and just will get dropped again. A lot of GA's passive power was a lot stronger on tanks because they are the frontline and are tanky, so when they come back up at 30-50% HP you have to deal around 150%+ of the damage to them to rekill them as you would the squishy Cait.

Now I know Someone like Vi, will love the new GA, but will she? In theory, yes of course, but in logic, maybe not so much. The extra durability of the old GA kept her alive longer against both Magical and Physical damage, at the expensive of two long swords worth of AD. Yasuo is a champ I see the boards saying will get GA gutted and that actually may be so, as I see him and the other few AD assassins being able to abuse this item the best, but diving into the back line, going into stasis a mile in front of their front line isn't going to save him or Zed for long. They would be so far in that chances are having a more optimal damage item to maybe get the target killed off would of been better, or having the old durability may of saved them that extra second longer to get back out.

Again I get why the new GA seems, exciting, but I just don't think it will be as strong as it used to be.

Now, as a mid lane mage, I am excited and sad to see the Banshee's veil and Abyssal Sceptre swap, giving Mages a spell shield is both awesome and shitty lol. Letting any tank build Abyssal though will be awesome so then AP damage can be amp'd for the tanks AP teammates. Giving Mages spell shields will help for teamfights and make them exponentially harder to kill added to the fact you probably would get a Zhonyas.

Also, can we now have a QSS upgrade for AP, I don't get why AP champs can't have a break free from CC ability lol. Specially now that we gave AD's a Zhonya's like item (GA) that they have been asking for, for a long time.

You can disagree with me on this, I very well could be massively wrong, I guess we'll see.