I think Rabadon's Deathcap should be removed, but for a good reason
Deathcap has always been a staple in most AP builds, bringing in a lot of burst for several champions when they feel necessary.
However, the extreme cost, insane raw stat, and "all-or-nothing" snowball sort of feel you get from buying this item makes it feel a little bit boring almost.
When you are behind, you need to buy items like
or
, which start you out with very little damage to being with. This can make it very hard to do your job of killing the enemy ADC, and then requires you to farm out the game in order to get enough for a
.
3800 gold is ridiculous, and the amount of AP you get is insane as well, but it provides no useful utility at all. Yet it is still required, because all your other items are sh*t with damage stats.
Even then, if the enemy is building MR, you have to sacrifice a TON of damage you could be doing by buying a
. Afterwards, you would still have to buy a Deathcap to be able to kill the ADC effectively since you don't have enough burst, which pretty much means you lose TWO items slots just for raw damage.
I would rather see most interesting builds for APs, rather than
on every game in a mid main's match history. Once Rabadon's is removed, it would be easy to buff the other AP items, like giving back Zhonyas the beautiful 100 AP it had. Void Staff wouldn't have to be so reliant on having a Rabadon's for effective burst. Mages and AP Assassins will have a better time when buying a Zhonya's or Banshee's first.