Rito Rito, I have idea

So with the advent of the this thing, it's pretty clear what type of champion is gonna be pretty powerful in the next few weeks. I think it's great that assassins are coming back into the meta (being an assassin main myself), but I think our friendly neighborhood mercenaries of the AP variety could use a little help.

As it stands, AD assassins have a lot more toys to play with as far as itemization goes, such as for tanky bastards, these things depending on what you're trying to kill, this for AR pen and chase potential, and now the this thing.

Meanwhile, AP assassins kinda have to scrap together the most powerful AP items in some odd hodgepodge just to reach their potential. And most time the items with the most utility may not give the most damage, which makes them nearly useless on assassins ( ). Even stronger items like seem a little lackluster when you compare them to what AP assassins usually are up against.

Typically, if an AP assassin is in the game, the carry(s) have multiple ways of mitigating a lot of the damage, most of the time leaving the assassin in question high and dry and the target lives happily ever after. Items like perfectly counter AP assassins and are all completely viable on just the carry alone. Add this into the mix on a support or other tank and suddenly the carry has 170 bonus MR. That's an awful lot of defense for someone who's still rolling out the red carpet of pain on the rest of your team. AD assassins, on the other hand, don't have to deal with all those defenses. They have every AR pen item under the sun, there are exactly 0 AD/Armor items, and the other defensive items with the most utility (see: ) only give MR. There are also no Armor auras either (unless the support picks something truly outrageous)

So Rito, here is my idea: WE NEED TO BRING BACK DFG!!!!....kinda. See, the biggest problem with DFG was that certain champs could abuse it and do (Get it? Tons of damage? I'll stop now...) and be tanky as hell; looking at you . In this day and age, we have a cool item that looks at your stats and gives you a strong passive if you meet certain criteria. I'm talking about this. It prevents the use of its passive unless you are actually building tanky. See where I'm going with this yet?

This is my prototype of the rebirth of everyone's favorite item DFG: 100 AP 10% CDR Builds from + . Total Cost is same as and the two items are INTERCHANGEABLE (similar to how these or these work). UNIQUE ACTIVE: Fires a big scary ball or whatever at the enemy, dealing no damage but amplifying all magic damage from the source by (2.5% per 100 AP) for 4 seconds. Champion must have at least 200 AP to use active.

With this new setup, not just anyone can use DFG. Only those who are deemed worthy. Also, it's worth noting that since it is interchangeable with this, there is now an actual choice between playstyles in each game: Do I want extra waveclear and good poke, or do I want the ability to delete someone from the face of the planet?

Hopefully this gets some good feedback and I'll see you guys (especially you ADC mains...hehehe) on the rift! -Stove