What happened to spellvamp?
Why was it removed but lifesteal for AD is still in the game? Theres even a form of ad spellvamp with 
. Seems a bit iconsistent if you ask me.
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One word: Vladimir.
Spell Vamp was removed because only Vlad really utilised it. Riot couldn't really adjust it without breaking Vladimir himself.
Spell Vamp was removed because different champions that used it were drastically different in power level. It had to stay weak for champs like Vlad to remain balanced, but because it was weak, other champs who needed it were very weak. It was removed due to difficulty with balance. Where as lifesteal is really only used on draintanks and ADCs.
I remember rushing Will of the Ancient (people remember this item?) for Morde for that sweet infinite sustain and lane-bullying.
Ah the good old days...
of like Season 2.
Good old days.
It's BS that ADCs get loads of sustain in runes AND items and all AP champs get is ravenous Hunter.
You can still obtain spellvamp through Bounty: Ravenous Hunter which will grant your champ the ability to heal for up to 15% of the damage dealt by abilities.
Although it functions similarly to spellvamp, it is not spellvamp.
I want to say a good reason for them widdling away the stat is because it interacted with basic attack modifiers such as Lich Bane and Jax's W - Empower.
It's still a strong sustain stat with just 
and Ravenous Hunter since abilities will usually return a good chunk of HP whether it is AoE or single target.
I used to play old Morde with WoA. RIP WoA
only vlad used spellvamp and was gamebreaking with it
Guess what ? AD champs stole it too :v) D E A T H D A N C E
I talked in another post how building magic resist is bad and that its a bad stat that has the highest concentrations of magic resist in the game one an offensive mage item 
and an item that cuts your own damage and makes you able to be easily ignored.
Riot tends to go back on design ideas quite often
The only item that has traditional Spell Vamp now is But it's for all damage, not just AP.
Just remembered Rhaast has an entire passive of scaling spell vamp
it made balancing ap assassins and vladmir too hard for the balance team because ap assassins are always strong due to people not willing to build more than 1 magic resist item (2 if its also an armor item) because not building at least 3 armor items is suicide for a melee with no gameplay input into the fight to any ad assassin or adc