Stop Doom and Gloom over Mana

Look, I know we all love mana pots. I have been doom and gloom over them all week - I use more mana pots than most people if you check my game builds.

However, I don't find it as big a deal anymore. Which is to say:

I actually looked through the new masteries

Shocking, I know.

Here's the breakdown:

You can put 18 points in offense and 12 in utility (something many mages already do with 21 0 9) and get all the benefits of an offense tree AND 1.5% missing mana restored.

In season 5 you had to go full utility tree to access meditation

In season 6 you can have the passive from Athene's completely free. On top of that, you either have mana regen buffs or mana pool buffs. That's a big deal.

Let's use Morgana as an example, since I really only care about her anyways.

Base mana: 340 +60/lvl Regen: 1.2/s (1.7/s next season)

Value of potion: 100mana/15s=6.667mana/s

We can estimate where the new mastery and buffs will benefit Morgana more than potions fairly easily - just see where the buff and mana restore fits.

Starting at level 3 because if you're running out of mana before then you're just going to need to stop spamming spells:

Mana regen from masteries and buff if morgana has no mana: 7.4 + base, more than 6.66 already.

Wow! We can already beat mana pot regen at level 3 if we have no mana!

That was easy.

If Morgana is missing 406 or more mana, the new mastery tree will provide comparable regen to a potion. Now, unfortunately that will be a diminishing return, but at level 10 Morgana can have more than half of her mana pool available while regening faster than if she was spamming potions.

Caveat: Precoffee math may be wrong.

So don't worry about mana. Use 18/12/0 and mana will be fine.