There was no reason to remove it, bring it back, as an aatrox one trick, i enjoy spicing it up and going AP every now and then.
Stop gutting him further before your rework
P.S. change his abilities to give his passive 25% instead of 20%, THANKS
deadlychuck6 votesYeah, i never understand why riot removes scaling like this on abilities which normally don't get used.
No one cares that Jayce has 25% AP scaling on his hammer W. Does it need to exist? No. Does it need to be removed? No. If there was a variant of the play style which slightly utilized the scaling. What value does removing it give to AD jayce in order to nerf AP jayce?
Now obviously this is an extreme example, but unless they design the skill in a way which offers the same damage potential as the "primary" build, then it will never be a problem, and simply exist to offer variety in the game when it gets dull. The reason i say this is because AP Yi existed, but it was only because the Q reset on kills. They could've nerfed the ratio or removed the refresh, instead they outright removed the AP scaling.
Ultra Rapid Fyre1 votesYeah, i never understand why riot removes scaling like this on abilities which normally don't get used.
No one cares that Jayce has 25% AP scaling on his hammer W. Does it need to exist? No. Does it need to be removed? No. If there was a variant of the play style which slightly utilized the scaling. What value does removing it give to AD jayce in order to nerf AP jayce?
Now obviously this is an extreme example, but unless they design the skill in a way which offers the same damage potential as the "primary" build, then it will never be a problem, and simply exist to offer variety in the game when it gets dull. The reason i say this is because AP Yi existed, but it was only because the Q reset on kills. They could've nerfed the ratio or removed the refresh, instead they outright removed the AP scaling.
i agree with everything except why AP yi use to work :-P it was actually because his alpha had amazing scaling, but the real reason it was so viable is that his meditate ( his W ) had an insane scaling. I remember having something like a 3.5k heal on his W when full AP while still having the damage reduction which allowed you to dive in, hit hard as hell, then meditate till alpha was off CD then alpha again lol. Oh how i miss AP yi
GULAG 4 U1 votesWhy not give him Ap scaling on W too lol. Make hybrid/ap trox a thing.
DonnieDarkin1 votesNot only that, the magic damage was great poke in lane even if you weren't going AP. Also, things like 
were very strong on Aatrox if he was going for a mixed damage build...that option is now gone.