Mages Need More Itemization Options Against AD

Leo1024·Feb 18, 2017·9 votes·933 views

When I'm facing someone like Zed Talon or Yasuo the only armor ap item I can buy is a but the Zed gets to build which has the passive, which is stupid strong, and even to a if they choose to

Meanwhile I'll have to first item to have any armor and suffer using mana too fast, sacrifice my boots for a , mages just don't have many options in terms of itemization against AD champs who can build magic resistance while getting a good amount of damage for doing so

13 Comments

Perma CCFeb 19, 20172 votes

Honestly I fully agree. AD based champions have multiple items to completely shut down a Mage. Where as Mages have practically no defensive items that have passive active effects like Maw... or spellshields. They have Zhonyas with a 120 second cooldown and horrible gold efficiency and then for their shield item they have Arcangel but it has to be stacked and isn't usually done until around 15-20 minutes and barely anyone builds it. IDK I think its just favoritism for AD champions.

DreadlocksFeb 18, 20171 votes

Yah and lets give AD champions a Zhonyas too, and also give AP Spell vamp back too, because #equality.

Leo1024Feb 18, 20171 votes

Edge of night is way better than zhonyas, that was supposed to be the zhonyas type item for ad champs, and spell vamp was fine but vladimir ruined the fun for everyone

PennsFeb 18, 20172 votes

Ill trade AD Zhonyas for AP Maw. Cause if it was "fair", the AD Zhonyas would have to give exactly 43.5 AD while the AP Maw would have to give 112.6 AP in total when the shield activates because #balanceditem kappa

DreadlocksFeb 18, 20171 votes

oh god yes please... I'd take an AD zhonyas anyday. Can't wait to jump in with talon and 1 shot the carry and then go invunerable while my CD's come back up and i 1 shot the next carry. lul.

PennsFeb 18, 20171 votes

Fine with me, u cant oneshot me with my 1100 effective hp from my defensive item that also gives cdr, spell vamp and 110 AP hehe xd

Also I dont think Talons cooldowns are only 2.5s oo

DreadlocksFeb 18, 20171 votes

3.6s on Q with 40% cdr and yah i hope riot does make this happen :)

SerevasFeb 18, 20171 votes

Spell vamp was a bit of a leap, but the main comparison comes down to AD has 3 magic resistance items that also give damage, while AP has only one. That's 70 more resistance against magic than is an option for physical. 45 total armor available to AP users, then you see that Ghostblade, Edge of night, and Duskblade completely eradicate that bit of armor that you got anyway.

ScissorsNstuffFeb 18, 20171 votes

correction, mages need more options against AS, they shouldn't be counter beefy AD champs

Sahn UzalFeb 18, 20171 votes

People seriously need to stop comparing AD itemisation to AP itemisation Riot made sure there are a lot of differences between the 2. Stop asking for an AP version of AD Item or an AD version of AP Item It's not gonna happen, for a good reason.