I'm fine with the Frozen Mallet changes but there's one thing that bothers me
And to save you time, I'll post their reasoning behind the change:
"Frozen Mallet’s the kind of item that often seems less effective than it is, thanks to an odd mix of stats only a select few champions really want. That said, seeing some of those performers come to light (Gnar and Tank Yasuo being at the forefront) has shown how powerful the item can be in the hands of our stickier fighters. As a result, we're shifting its statline to favor more defense than offense to align better with the item’s identity. Mallet should be a strong (if occasional) pickup for when you want to opt-in to more of a disruptive role, rather than when you want to kill your opponents faster."
Literally everything being said about Frozen Mallet also applies to Rylais with mages (aside from gnar and yasuo obviously). Except there's no misconception, you know it's effective as fuck. Swap out mages and fighters and you get the same thing here. And it's not as if mages have relied on rylais forever, it's only this season that many mages started building it.
Can rylais get the same treatment? Two champions are building FM, almost every Mage is building rylais, even when it's not really needed. Can we make it more of a pure defensive item and less of a burst item? That way, there aren't a million and one random slows in the game.
(prepares for Mage circle jerk to lose their shit)
prepared

and
at the moment, both which have either %hp damage, or armor pen with on hit effects on spells making the passive of FM too strong to kite.


are broken due to rylais on the same scale as people are concerned about
but even then, I still find their performance without rylais to be significant enough, especially since when I do play these champions (except taliyah) I tend to dominant without finishing rylais before 20 minutes.
because of their ability to slow from long range and then follow up with burst. These are champions who never really relied on rylais before (well maybe azir did it could be argued) and yet they still build it and perma slow with Viktor/Annie ult/tibbers and Syndra landing one slow from long range and then proceeding to burst. To be clear, I'm not saying this makes any of these champions easy or not but I find these to be really abusive cases and I doubt they'd go for rylais if it didn't give 100 AP.
a burst item or
a burst item.
