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5.22 puts Mages in a verry bad spot

Telenus·11/12/2015, 3:11:53 PM·5 votes·1,170 views

1st the removal of mana-Potion: We are in earlygame and u have no mana? well fuk u we wont give u mana Best scenario: being vs an energy or resourceless champ that loughs his ass of while you try to cast a spell. Also mana potions we're pretty balanced if u took them early u did trade mana for health idk why they were removed

2nd lifesteal buffs, so you cant oneshot me? Well ill just heal myself to 100% within 3 seconds on that creepwave. Honestly I understand why alot of people considered the lifesteal on cutglass as too small or wanted lifesteal on Mercurial because in teamfights it seems like your lifesteal is almost none helping but this is suposed to be ofc u shouldnt survive a 5 v 1 as adc because of ur lifesteal and u still don't but because of those buffs and the new masteries poking champs - poking mages because every mage needs to poke unless he can oneshot you become super useless now.

3rd You are a lategame champ that wants to towerfarm or you are low and want to hide under a tower? Great news for you zed or any assasin can now be healed by all dmg they do and get 12% of the dmg u get as a bleed effect which they can easily nullify on a minon they also have the movementspeed of hell so they dont even need to blink to you they can just walk to you even if ure under ur 2nd tower well u wont get a shield anymore...

and on top of this all ure items are more expensive now.....

Edit : Also: MR buffed every fukin thing has crit now even passives making IE godlike gravious wound buffed for AD mr buffed lifesteal buffed AP items cost increased crit buffed damage reduction buffed for AD

14 Comments

EndlessSorcerer11/12/2015, 3:30:33 PM2 votes

1st the removal of mana-Potion

The mana regen on Doran's Ring was buffed significantly (it now scales with your base mana regen). Two Doran's Rings give 100% mana regen (the same as Morellonomicon) for 800G. A lot of mages can just skip a dediciated mana(-sustain) item and build other items after 2/3 Doran's Rings.

2nd lifesteal buffs

Most ADCs could do that anyways. While lifesteal is more prevalent now (and in a couple odd places), it isn't exactly a major change to their healing. I'd be more concerned with the damage reduction on Phantom Dancer and Death's Dance turning a portion of the damage they take into a bleed (to give them time to heal through it).

and on top of this all ure items are more expensive now.....

The prices of items were increased because minions, passive gold generation, and shutdowns providing global gold means that champions gather gold more quickly.

Craft Zeppelin11/12/2015, 3:44:59 PM2 votes

I think we are on odds. I think they are in a great place now as I wrote in my thread. Like you won't see a five-squishy comp these days in ranked. You can bust them all as a mage. Also if im not mistaken, the game speed has shifted greatly and because mages exceed in midgame its damn paradise for us.

Gigahappytown11/12/2015, 4:29:43 PM1 votes

DEAL WITH IT mages have been relevant for 5 seasons straight other classes have been shit for almost forever