Why do AD champions get 4 keystone options and AP champions get two?

Reworks Are OP··193 votes·9,613 views

Lets see here...

AD auto attackers get Fervor of Battle AD crit users get Warlords Bloodlust AD burst users get Thunderlords Decree AD spellcasters get Deathfire Touch

AP burst get Thunderlords Decree AP dot users get Deathfire Touch

Not much choice for us mages :(

359 Comments

Zero Skill Tank44 votes

Because with a decent mastery it would be too easy for mages to abuse Zed's energy problems.

Borbland11 votes

Zed has an energy mechanic ? Zed has a ressource... that... limits him !? D:

Kuroi868 votes

In low elo.

Higher elo make him look like he's totally resourceless.

Borbland7 votes

It was a joke, cause Zed's energy problems are unexistant compared to Kennen or Shen's energy problems

LF Annie29 votes

i find stormraiders is also aimed at ap because its chunking activation function works well with burst mages.

BottleCapster4 votes

and ad asssassins who get in close enough that the speed boost can be properly effective, and can use the slow resistance more effectively to clear the field after they go in :P

Dreadlocks15 votes

I feel like the concept of this keystone is cool, but i don' think its good enough to be used versus others. Before its recent buffs, i've actually saw it as a keystone that could be tweaked to being a tier 5 mastery point. Kind of resembling a Phage passive.

You make a valid point sure, but just because something can be utilized, doesn't make it worth taking =[

-randomthought- Wonder if they could make a Keystone for mages that allows magic damage spells to be used on turrets, but have a cooldown of course. This would help mid mages push their objective turret, while the assassins they are fighting are off killing your bot lane. Again -randomthought- lol

LF Annie1 votes

just think how heim would be permabanned.

Wimbledofy1 votes

how would that make heim permabanned? His turrets already do damage anyways but it is very small. This keystone won't make him suddenly op. If he takes this mastery he won't have thunderlord's and the only dmg increase he ever gets in his kit from keystones is to turrets.

LF Annie3 votes

imagine ulted heim rockets damaging towers "cringes at the thought of no towers by 20 mins"

Dedrius13 votes

I would throw in Windspeaker's Blessing as more of an AP keystone since its very effective on champs like lulu and ori. But as an AP mid player I would also like some more keystones :D

Dreadlocks10 votes

They should scrap stormraiders for an AP keystone :)

Reworks Are OP16 votes

I agree maybe make Deathfire touch more for dot mages and give us a siege aoe AP caster option keystone

Cowgirl Ed2 votes

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They should scrap stormraiders for an AP keystone :)

The fuck, stormraider's is the funniest mastery in the game! BTW to answering OP: AP users have spells, AD users focus more on autoattacks, that's it

Dreadlocks9 votes

So champions like Zed and Talon focus more on auto attacks? Hmm, the more yuh know. +1

Cowgirl Ed6 votes

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So champions like Zed and Talon focus more on auto attacks? Hmm, the more yuh know. +1

They do more than mages :)

Dreadlocks5 votes

Oh? :) TwistedFate item 3100 ,Diana item 3115

Cowgirl Ed2 votes

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Oh? :) TwistedFate item 3100 ,Diana item 3115

Lol? Diana is not a mage, other than TF who else uses autoattacks that frequently and is a mage?

Dreadlocks11 votes

Azir OriannaKennen Evelynn Fizz

Cowgirl Ed2 votes

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Azir Orianna Evelynn Fizz

Last two not mages. Orianna uses them in lane and Azir is the other mage. That's it, 2 mages out of all of them. btw this discussion is pathetic we should stop who cares

Dreadlocks8 votes

Well i mean, they are about as much mage/auto attack reliant as Zed and Talon :) I'd say my argument is as valid as yours <3

InHaruhiWeTrust1 votes

azirs soldier aren't autos they are coded as spells and proc things like item 3151 item 3285 item 3116 but not item 3057 item 3085 item 3153 or even item 3124 and item 3115 . they are spells that cast at his attack speed rather than on CD like all other abilities.

Dreadlocks3 votes

And that is why Azir doesn't benefit from attack speed.

...............

What o.O

DokiDokiTodoroki2 votes

His kit benefits from attack speed, but the actual passive on Nashors (you do know it has one, right?) is not proc'ed on sand soldiers. Also there's a reason why you don't build Nashors on Orianna. If you can't imagine Nashors as a good item on a mage, chances are that they're not auto attack reliant champions. The fact that mages use spells is why there's only 2 main keystones, because there are roughly two times of damage coming out of mages: burst and sustained/dot's. Meanwhile, we have: traditional ADC's (Tristana, Jinx, Lucian), caster ADC's (Ezreal, mid build Varus), AD fighters (Riven, Darius), and AD champs that rely on crit (Yasuo, Tryndamere). Of course Thunderlord's is so good right now that it's taken on basically every champ that isn't pure tank, so most of OP's list is irrelevant. Classifying Deathfire as both AD/AP because it has scaling for both is dumb. It's basically a "supposed to be for heavy poke/dot damage but had to be nerfed so no one actually wants it" mastery.

Ironclad Dragon6 votes

Everyone forgets poor Stormraider.

Ipressbutton21 votes

Because it is bad

KetiaX2 votes

Stormraider is good after the buff. People just overvalue damage and underrate utility.

Thryale7 votes

I mean, don't need to run away as much if they are already dead...

Rysophage5 votes

Because you have an item that takes you out of the game and gives you armor.

Reworks Are OP73 votes

Where is my cleanse ap item :(

Rysophage14 votes

The same place the AD hourglass is.

Sneakyy XD67 votes

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The same place the AD hourglass is.

Does that mean mages can get a Maw for physical damage?

Nielarken15 votes

item 3812 Oh snap we getting an ap death's dance too!

InHaruhiWeTrust12 votes

item 3091 or an AP cd item than steals armor with abilities! [slayer-pantheon-rainbows]

RyzeRework3 votes

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Where is my cleanse ap item :(

hourglass is more effective then qss weres our ad burn item? weres our great ap amplifying item? roa serphs embrace? we dont get an ad item that is a aura that reduces mr we dont have an ad item that gives armor frozen mallet isnt anything compared to rylais

Doctor Leet11 votes

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hourglass is more effective then qss weres our ad burn item? weres our great ap amplifying item? roa serphs embrace? we dont get an ad item that is a aura that reduces mr we dont have an ad item that gives armor frozen mallet isnt anything compared to rylais

Wheres our %damage increaser? Wheres our Speed boost AP item? Wheres our tank AP items? (HP doesn't count.)

RyzeRework5 votes

[{quoted}](name=Doctor Leet,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=LwvNLpJs,comment-id=0001000000030000,timestamp=2016-01-23T21:57:45.272+0000)

Wheres our %damage increaser? Wheres our Speed boost AP item? Wheres our tank AP items? (HP doesn't count.)

abyssal hourglass athenes? what do ad champions have? ill wait

Ratbert9 votes

mblade, maw, wits,

RyzeRework1 votes

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mblade, maw, wits,

Which isn't optimal on most ad champions more brusier or assassians were every ap champion can buy almost any item and be viable even n ashors is viable on most ap champions and spell vamp is as well

Ratbert10 votes

Ah yes, every ap can build nashor's abyssal or spellvamp. You need better bait.

RyzeRework1 votes

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Ah yes, every ap can build nashor's abyssal or spellvamp. You need better bait.

Every ap champion can build abyssal and spell vamp Berjgson builds spell vamp on some of his champions and I didnt sat every ap champion I said a lot can be great with n ashors 80 ap 20 percent cdr and great passive but just like not every as champion builds trinity force or shiv or phantom dancer not every adc builds botrk ap champions can build almost every ap item and be effective

Ratbert8 votes

Every ad can build the items up there too. They all give great stats and passive/active effects.

Only because there's like 4 good ap items that you need to build. Everything else is luxury or niche. As opposed to ad champs who have too many good choices so that even slightly subpar ones are left to rot. Not to mention people are so afraid of trying new things because it means you tend to lose. Every ad champ can use items that give ad, as or cdr.

InHaruhiWeTrust5 votes

item 3025 item 3046 item 3053 item 3071 item 3022 all of these offer defense and offence for ad champs.

The Bearded Bard4 votes

Lifesteal, a lot more armor pen options than we have mpen options, better cooldown options, autoattacks and spells that do damage as opposed to just spells, hexdrinker, QSS, a support to hold your damn hand through laning phase, crits, cheaper and easier to apply grievous wounds item, attack speed, more keystone mastery options, aaaand better autoattack animations.

But yeah we get zhonyas so it's fair.

RyzeRework1 votes

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Lifesteal, a lot more armor pen options than we have mpen options, better cooldown options, autoattacks and spells that do damage as opposed to just spells, hexdrinker, QSS, a support to hold your damn hand through laning phase, crits, cheaper and easier to apply grievous wounds item, attack speed, more keystone mastery options, aaaand better autoattack animations.

But yeah we get zhonyas so it's fair.

You have 2 mpen options void staff os better then last whisper lifesteal doesn't matter whrn a mage can 100/0 you and masteries scale better then ap ap literally scales better then ad utility and defensive items that ad champions dont have ect

The Bearded Bard6 votes

We have voidstaff, boots, and liandries. The boots are super not worth it right now and I personally almost always go with cdr boots nowadays. Liandries is only good on a select few mages. I'm not gonna be building Liandries on Leblanc or any other burst mage/assassin.

The rest of that was pretty unintelligible tbh. Should probably invest in some sentence structure or something. I think you said something about lifesteal not mattering (which I respond by laughing out loud) and ap scaling better than AD which is a straight up lie.

Dengeden7 votes

Technically, QSS is neither AD nor AP :]

Dar Raksada15 votes

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Technically, QSS is neither AD nor AP :]

it builds into mercurial scimitar though, which is the end tier item you should be looking at.

1Maza3 votes

Why do AP champions get an item that makes them invinsible and AD champions don't?

Romans VI XXIII15 votes

Why do AD champs get items that removes CC and AP doesn't?

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