Can someone explain to me how MF is balanced?

Blood Thirstier solves her mana problems?

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She has fairly large windows of inactivity, and being a caster ADC, her mana management is a problem early game, until she gets a Bloothirster.

no idea how would fix her mana problems when it doesn't provide mana in any way, shape or form

Depends on the builds or if she's support or adc.

I can toe to toe tanks on Support MF:

no boots build as support.

= About 350 Base AD, 100 AP, and an additional about 55.2 AD from Transcendence = over 400 AD, + Eyeball Collector, Gathering Storm,

It's not the build I've got the most stats out of, but it's easily almost 500+ AD 100 AP.

I've had a game where I had MF up to some 520 AD 272 AP, and I think that might have involved a Her Ult was something like 7800 damage and just melted tanks.

Another nutty thing: I've done it as ADC too. I've started MF on ADC and then built into an Essence Reaver and was 8/0 by about 10 minutes vs a tank bot.

Something that's pretty fun in a game you predict will go really long with MF as a support, is actually to go dual items.... aka and , which I know sounds nuts, because of Tear's charge, but the rework on how charges work make it viable in a long game, and their mana feeds each other. I've had at 213 AP on her, and having 98 AD. The on hit Proc on Muramana works on her auto attacks, and the sheer AD boost just makes her ult scary. The Seraph gives a shield which helps vs assassins like Rengar. Even before you get crit items, you'll see a noticeable difference in your ults, and the damage output actually surpasses ADC builds overall.