Remove Deathcap, add more ap items

f00G3MxfPP·2/7/2015, 8:00:36 AM·1 votes·941 views

I went through the list of every ap carry in the game. Every one of them builds a deathcap. What could be more boring than a big ball of one stat on an item you need on all apcs every game? Whenever I play mid, I build the exact same 5 items over and over again (morello, sorc, void, dcap, zhonya) on every champion, occasionally switching something out for roa/tear/lich bane for short range/spammy/autoattack modifier mages. Meanwhile every game as a tank I look at opponent builds. Playing as adc, I can build apen and flat ad and sheen upgrades on caster adcs, and full crit on auto-reliant adcs. Or go for on-hit effects.

6 Comments

Leaf of the lake2/7/2015, 8:07:34 AM3 votes

I'd say ADC builds are pretty static. You've got IE, shiv/pd, bork/bt, lw, and greaves. Only the caster ADCs build a little differently, which usually just means adding a triforce.

Deathcap exists so that mages have a way to hyperscale. AD items hyperscale with AD, AS, crit, and Arpen all making the others more effective. Mages have AP and Mpen, and that's it.

Zyras Banana2/7/2015, 8:17:24 AM1 votes

no why would u remove rabadons

Jamaree2/7/2015, 8:18:00 AM1 votes

As opposed to every jungler building their machete, or every ADC building IE, or every bruiser being Randiun's?

BluePolarizer2/7/2015, 9:45:01 AM1 votes

Vel'Koz doesn't build deathcap.

Rylai/Liandry's/Boots/Void Staff/Morello/Zhonya's.