Why are you nerfing MR items while leaving Void Staff untouched?

Because itemizing against Mages isn't already hard enough.

Let me tell you.

The answer is always Banshees Veil

If you want to itemize against Magic Damage, you go for Banshees Veil

If you don't want to itemize against Magic Damage but fear certain all in enemy champions, you still go for Banshees Veil

You always go for Banshees Veil no matter what.

Spirit Visage is just an inferior version of Banshees on everyone but Mundo, Swain, Garen and a few others.

Abyssal Scepter is Abyssal Scepter, there's not much to say about it. You only pretty much buy this item when you are a solo laner and both you and the other solo laner are Magic Damage oriented. Otherwise, you might aswell buy Void staff instead.

Quicksilver Sash is only used against Warwicks and Malzahars. That's it. There's no reason to pick this item over Banshees Veil.

So let me tell you, when you want to itemize against Magic Damage, you go for . It simply is the best item as it is your saving grace in most situations.

What I don't understand is why you don't give Negatron Cloak the same treatment you are giving to the Chain Vest.

Or even better. Give us the Thornmail of Magic Damage. Literally.

Give us an item that simply overloads us with MR. It doens't need to give Health. Just 80+ MR and a useful passive. RIP FoN btw.

Any mage with a Void Staff will ignore any MR you can currently get. Itemizing against Magic Damage is useless unless you can negate and entire part of the combo, aka, have a Banshees Veil.

Now, you may say Void Staff is literally the Last Whisper of Mages. And while I understand where you are getting this idea from, it simply is not true. Why is that? Because while Last Whisper, despite allowing AD Champions to hit hard, can be countered by stacking Armor. Yes, as weird as it may sound, Armor counters Armor Pen and not the other way around. Having a Thornmail against a Last Whisper will give you 70 Armor instead of 100. You may think 30 Armor is a huge deal but after the 150 Armor mark and thornmail will leave you with 200+ Armor just for being Thornmail so yeah, 30 Armor is not a huge deal.

And while it is extremely easy to itemize against Physical Damage, Sunfire, Thornmail, Frozen Heart, Iceborn, Randuins, all great items that each fit their niche and can be bought on nearly every champion without wasting stats. Having a Thornmail against the likes of Fiora is just as good as having a Sunfire against a Riven while having a Sunfire against a Fiora and a Thornmail against a Riven may not be the best of the options. Oh, and obviously the most broken item in the game.

It becomes hard to itemize against Magic Damage. Banshees Veil far outshines all other items for the most part. Having a Banshees against Mage is way more effective than having any other item against he same Mage.

Since you will never be able to make the other existing items surpass Banshees Veil when looking at the passive, either

A) Make these items compete with Banshees Veil through Stats as opposed to the Passives

B) Give us actual meaningful choices. Item choices that will negate the Magic Pen itself. 20 MR is not enough, 30 is not enough either, nor is 40. We need something that gives us like, 80 MR to be able to fight Mages back.

C) Bring back FoN

TL:DR Giving us an easier build path does not compensate for the base stats loss on most MR items Mages are already kinda crazy when you think about it. Give us some meaningful MR choices, not 20 or 30 MR but 80 or 100 MR.