Why do certain champions have 100% AD/AP scaling on abilities

Aamano··1 votes·2,147 views

the most obvious example would be Nunu I guess

It has a huge slow, is a single target and deals +100% of his AP

thats stupidly too powerful

80% of other 1.0 scalings are stacked up over multiple instances like Rumble's ultimate or have special conditions like Anivia's Frostbite

but there are a handful who just have it right from the start

3 Comments

Lneacx2 votes

My guesses:

  1. Nunu is an older champion, from an era where many skills had 1.0 AP ratios (hello AP Yi).
  2. Only full AP builds can really benefit from this scaling, and AP Nunu isn't exactly being played - so it's not yet a problem.

Other champions with arbitrary 1.0 AP scalings probably have similar reasons.

12tales1 votes

For the same reason certain champs have 80% AD/AP scalings, I imagine.

Duke Anax1 votes

It is there to balance champions across Items.

What would be the point of a 120 AP item if champs had no more than a 50% ratio? Why the high number, just to look good? You could rather have the same effect with a 60 AP item and 100% scaling. But then you'd have 100% champs again.

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