The new Morello will be THE only option and will kill mele champs who rely on sustain

Morellonomicon Price increased to 2900 from 2400 New recipe: Fiendish Codex + Amplifying Tome + Lost Chapter + 665 gold AP increased to 100 from 80 20% cooldown reduction now a unique passive. Removed +100% Base Mana Regen Now gives +400 Mana UNIQUE Passive changed to "Dealing magic damage to champions below 35% health inflicts Grievous Wounds for 8 seconds." from "below 40% for 4 seconds." New UNIQUE Passive: Kills and Assists restore 20% of your maximum Mana.

Morello is about to become the new absolute standard for ap mid lane mages for go to cdr and mana, Because of its good cost and everything you could want with mana refund ( the reason why some people like or other high mana use mages like would ever buy it in the first place besides the cdr. Along with this means that pretty much EVERY mage will be applying Grievous wounds because this is going to be the new "always get it" item. champions like are about to become practically useless because a good chunk of their stats are invested into healing, but since Grievous wounds is going to be on EVERY mage if you pick any of these champs you're pretty much dead. Any champion that heals you will think twice about using because morello is going to be the gold standard more than it even is now.

Athene's Unholy Grail Price lowered to 2250 from 2700. New Recipe: Fiendish Codex + Chalice of Harmony + 650 gold AP reduced to 40 from 60 Base Mana Regen lowered to +75% from +100% Removed UNIQUE Passive - Mana Font Removed UNIQUE Passive - Restores 30% of maximum Mana on kill or assist." New UNIQUE Passive to "Gain 20% of the premitigation damage dealt to champions ad Blood Charges, up to 100 - 250 max. Healing or shielding another ally consumes charges to heal them, up to the original effect amount" New UNIQUE Passive: Increases Base Health regeneration by 100% if current Health % is lower than current Mana %. Increases Base Mana Regeneration by 100% if current Mana % is lower than current Health %.

Athene's is getting reworked into pretty much a support item because it gives almost no ap, and a large chunk of its gold cost is for the healing buff, no only that but it doesn't restore mana on kills or assist anymore.

Zhonya's Hourglass Price reduced to 2900 from 3500 New Recipe: Seeker's Armguard + Fiendish Codex + 900 gold AP reduced to 70 from 100 Added +10% Cooldown Reduction UNIQUE Active - Stasis cooldown increased to 120 seconds from 90 seconds

Given 10% cdr along with abyssal below, so getting both with give you 40 but both these items are getting chunks of ap taken out of their items so getting them wont be as impactful with damage anymore

Abyssal Scepter Price increased to 2750 from 2350 New Recipe: Fiendish Codex + Negatron Cloak + Amplifying Tome + 695 Gold AP reduced to 60 from 70 MR increased to 60 from 50 Now gives 10% CDR UNIQUE Aura changed to reduce MR of nearby enemy champions by 10-25 based on level

buffed for late game mr reduction and mr stats but taken down early game and less ap, also given 10% cdr

Rod of Ages Price lowered to 2500 from 3000 Mana lowered to 300 from 400 AP Lowered to 60 from 80 Mana gained per stack lowered to 10 from 40 Mana at max stacks lowered to 100 from 400. Removed UNIQUE Passive - Valor's Reward **New UNIQUE Passive - Eternity: 15% of damage taken from champions is gained as Mana. Spending Mana restores 25% of the cost as Health, up to 25 per spell cast. **

This was an option for some mages to get to fix mana problems such as or and even to some people, now getting it gives as much mana as as well as 20 less ap, the only reason you would want this is if you're going to be fighting constantly like to restore stats all the time or you really really need the health, in which case you would just get instead

Seraph's Embrace Removed +50% base Mana Regen UNIQUE Passive - Insight renamed to "UNIQUE Passive - Awe" and now refunds 25% of Mana spent

Slightly changed for those who actually bought it like maybe good ole' ap which got nerfed to crap when the adc changes rolled around anyway, a lot of mana and good ap but still no cdr so you cannot compare it to for those who need the cdr.

SUMMARY all these changes make the obvious almost every game choice for mid lane mages that want cdr and along with the huge buff of mana restore on kills and assist there is almost no reason to buy anything else that gives mana. These upcomming changes will literally kill so many champions who rely on sustain as part of their kit because Grievous wounds is going to kill their healing R.I.P.