I'm slowly feeling less inclined to play because I genuinely feel AD champs get better items/runes.

xxxMadLionxxx··6 votes·1,124 views

If you look at all the latest item updates, AP champs got 1 new item...item 3907

AD champs got 3 new itemsitem 3095 , spear of shojin and Atma's reckoning. Even essence Reaver can be considered new because it has been completely reworked.

When you look at item 3907 , the item is extremely gated with long charge times and 4 seconds of active use. The new essence reaver is up every 30-60 seconds, actives within 10 seconds of autoattack, and thereafter last 8 seconds. That not even taking into account how broken 20% off none ult spells per attack are. With spell binder, the active is nothing new, just an unreliable stat boost.

The point I'm making here, is Essence reaver passive is broken, and has more up time than spell binder.

Spear of shojin, damage blocker per incoming damage tick. Atma, insane AD over time.

Mages never get anything like this. If anything is ever good it gets the shit nerfed out of it. item 3003

If you look at runes, sorcery doesn't even feel like its meant for mages anymore. Its filled with a bunch of conditional stats boost and no utility besides formula 1 move speed for fighters while other trees are more specialised for their classes such as precision is for ADCs

Then when they add something good, like Nimbus cloak, they take away ultimate hunter and give it to domination while at the same time adding a completely new keystone, Hail of blades.

The thing is, there are over 50 AP champ in the game, I don't get why AP champs are constantly getting the short end of the stick.

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Ari chąn4 votes

item 3508 needs to get gutted or reworked again imo.

TitanAnteus3 votes

Yep, you don't see ap junglers anymore.

Azadethe2 votes

Zyra can reliably jungle but your team freaks out if you do it. She never takes any jungle damage and has pretty good clear. Hard to invade too.

Evelynn actually feels a tiny bit better after CDR was added to Echo, but yeah.... she's not really doing super.

My issue is:

-Mages all around got clear speed knocked off their kit when 7.22 or so hit the Rift.

Since then.... AD's can come into your lane, and absolutely control your CS. If Morgana and Caitlyn are competing for cs for example, Caitlyn will get 5 out 6 of them, simply because Cait can actually do enough per AOE damage to clear the entire wave in one burst, and her auto's 1 shot as a well.

Most mages have to use more than one skill, and mages like Morg generally don't kill immediately....

The result is adcs..... AD's...... etc..... They get 300 CS games while mages might get 200 cs.

The 200 CS mage might burst more than the adc/AD, depending on kit... vs champions.... but... the kits don't defend bases that quickly anymore.

AD's used to have about 272-350 AD. Now they have 490-500 AD.

At the same time, most AP's are building 500-670 AP now, when they used to build 900+, because they need Void staff to compete and several AP items got AP nerfs, and forgo item 3089

Sun Wu Ryuumoku1 votes

Taliyah

TitanAnteus1 votes

Again... you don't see AP junglers anymore. Check her playrate.

Automated Riven2 votes

This is because riot refuses to balance tanks with percent HP scaling and instead give all of them ap scalings. So Good ap items get abused on tanks.

Saianna1 votes

If anything ER's passive almost SCREAMS that it was designed for mages, rather than ADs. Why did THEY get it though? I have not a single idea.

Also on the thread. The very first obvious bias towards.. Or rather against certain (mage) class I noticed with mana regen rework. Then with each major update this was only getting more obvious and it peaked around ADC update (where they got ALOT of new/reworked strong items) and MAGE update, that could also be called SUPPORT update, or Mage gutting, if anything.

Since that time, I stoped bothering to play LOL in general, cause I knew this is no longer the game I'd have fun with. Instead I tried HOTS and only sighed that I'll never play Teemo again.

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