Athene's won't be good for AP mages anymore since it's being support-mage adjusted (bad AP for a full item now), and Morello's is losing its mana regen entirely. Also, the new CDR adjusted items don't do anything for mana regen.
Is the stat just toxic to begin with unless you're support?
Ralanr2 votesI'd imagine letting anyone constantly cast spells with nothing to gait them would be a problem.
darkdill1 votesThere's the fact that you need 2 item slots presently for that infinite mana, something a lot of people are reluctant to build. They usually go either Grail or Morello, not both.
Illiad1 votesthey are taking away most mana regen
darkdill1 votesWhich leads me to accuse them of calling the stat toxic.
HamerDrunk1 votesthey want suportive mages to have loads of mana regen and they give offencive ussualy mid lane mage items raw mana instead of mana regen
darkdill1 votesWhich doesn't work for Vel'koz, Ziggs, etc.
HamerDrunk1 votesthey are considerd supportive mages not burst mages i believe and many mages will be reworked and others will get there numbers tweaked so just wait and see
Big Lincoln2 votesWhy not?
Vel'Koz has fairly low mana costs and if you're using your spells smartly it'll be a long time before you run OOM. At worst, you can just build the support items since 
still has Morello's regen for cheaper, and he isn't wholly reliant on large amounts of AP.
The entire point of the update is to give these sorts of artillery monsters a limit. They have a bigger mana pool to draw from, but at some point they're gonna run dry. Because when they were just endlessly waveclearing in season 4 and games stalled for eons, nobody was happy. Now they can stall for a long time, but it's finite and forces both teams to play around it.
I don't see how this isn't anything but a good thing. Now Riot can set to actually making 
and friends not dog-shit once the update comes.
Sariat11 votes
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Indirect Ryze buffs incoming. Too bad he's being reworked.