Mages are top tier and their players still ask for buffs
It's so hard to take mage posters seriously when they don't even try to argue that their champ isn't as strong as all stats and their presence across all ranks would suggest. They come in here and post like it's already decided fact that mages are universally weak.
We'll ignore how many mages are or have been shitting on people across all 3 lanes and how mages are easily the biggest roster-killers out of any other class in the game when it comes to determining metas, and we'll ignore how by any objective metric mages are either doing perfectly fine or exceedingly well right now. We'll even ignore that AP itemization is somehow 'not good' despite catering to almost all of your needs.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt right here, mages. Give me the most detailed, convincing argument that your champion or champions is/are weak. Explain yourselves and present reasonable discourse or I will curse you with a thousand Hexdrinkers 
- the ones to bad for their main role, that's why they go supp.
- as counterpicks, and with anything but mage itemization!
- and this guy got some attention for what ever reason - not sure what to think of that.
invalidating half of your kit.
love nothing more than geting fed of immobile squishys.
when build as second or third item will most probably negate pretty much anything a mage can do until it can safely build 
(which is pretty damn late because of the mana guts mages went through early this year). Meanwhile, mages only have the option to build 
to protect them, which it can do only every 120 seconds, since only the active is effective because of how armor is useless and also because 
is a thing. Even funnier, the most meta mage picks I mentionned earlier are all mages who's primary advantage is to counter this lack of defense, further proving that this very aspect of the game is keeping most mages from being as powerfull as other classes. There's also always this argument that people use: "Almost every games have mages, therefore they are broken". The only reason why mages who arent meta are still picked and still have decent winrates is because almost every comps need waveclear and because a mage will force the enemy to build items mentionned above, who are not as efficient against other classes. Thats it. Mages are used to cost an item slot and to push lanes/poke
