Remember the random increase in AP-item prices?

When preseason started, and ADCs got a lot of cool stuff, all mage-items had their price increased by about 200 gold. I remember most of community were baffled with the change, even though Riot said it was "because of higher gold income". However, it HAS showed that mages in general were pretty shafted by the change. Let me explain:

Champions with or as CDR/mana sustain and as damage core are - generally - doing pretty bad right now. I am talking about the following champions: . Viktor and Ori are still in competitive play, but the others are barely or never seen. In soloqueue,the same is true with the champions rarely seen (only mains playing them), and still does below average. The champs who does really well with the listed core items are Lux and Ahri, and honestly, both champions were overbuffed in the past.

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So if you want to succeed as AP-based, you pretty much need to use the buffed items or . This is for example what Twisted Fate does, and Annie/Malz/Morg/Liss/Anivia has used ROA in - well, ages.

It's time to revert the changes. The price increase caused the madness, but now that was toned down. Don't wait 4 months to make useful again, make their items cheaper and nerf Lux and Ahri accordingly.