Tbh , as a mages main ,I would agree if they removed Zhonia completely from the game but to give us easier ways for mages to scale , like more items to counter Hexdrinker and more Mana and more AP , and of course we want mages to be pushed a bit to early game , if so , most of mages mains will agree for that at the cost of Zhonia being completely removed from the game , since assassins mains will keep making the excuse that Zhonia is broken , while mages need Zhonia to generally counter their kit , but we sacrifice our AP for that , while they only get to buy more AD , or how strong Hexdrinker is , they can just pay this 1300 Gold and no mage can kill them , so for that we gotta get magic pen , but what about Mana and AP ? so Generally assassins can get their power spike by buying
only and
just to make them more " Brain dead " , while mages need 4 complete items + Boots to actually be useful , not to mention that the power spike of
is level 6 only lol , actually even earlier , buying
only makes it hell for any mage