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Looks Like Riot is Looking into AP Fighters and Hopefully this Means New AP Fighter Items

Frosted Tips··5 votes·1,675 views

So there has been a lot of discussion previously that AP Fighter are lacking in the game and it is due to many things including, lack of items and lack of champions designed as fighter that scale with AP. Riot seems to have started to push AP fighters with Sylas, the Volibear buff, and possibly more soon to come, but one huge issue still remains and that is the severe lack of itemization for AP fighters. AP health items don't really give CDR (excluding Protobelt) which is important for most AP fighters or almtleast the idea of AP fighters.

I very much hope that Riot keeps pushing for AP Fighters and we see some old champions pushed into that role and some new ones made for it. I also hope we get some better items for AP Fighters. Some other champions that are either supposed to be AP fighters or could be are: Mordekaiser, Shyvana and Diana. Cant wait to see what Riot will do.

9 Comments

Moody P4 votes

the voli buff isn't pushing AP builds, it's compensation for removing 30% scaling off of E

Warlord Rhinark2 votes

item 3170 this.

Before anyone says it will be abused by Mages, just make it melee only.

MrHaZeYo1 votes

The problem with AP fighter items is that nothing really stops Mages and AP Assassins from using the items. For it to work they would have to be low AP items with more utility, but then we could run into the idea that Sylas, like DIana, will just build out of class into the AP assassin rolle.

Frosted Tips2 votes

Make them melee. Also don't give them high AP and assassins won't want them. Diana builds out of class because there are no viable AP fighter builds and she only has flat AP scalings.

MrHaZeYo1 votes

Melee only still would maybe make monsters out of Ekko, Kass, and Fizz. Like I said they would have to be low AP high utility items and Mages/Assassins could/would still find ways to abuse them.

I'd love nothing more to play Diana how she was meant to play, but we've had this discussion with Riot for years and everytime the answer is the same.

Syalis may be meant to be played like a bruiser, but my money is on he'll be a AP burst Assassin.

Infernape1 votes

Then you make it work off of base stats. Assassins don't have high base stats like a champion like Morde or Gragas.

Neko Siren1 votes

What even constitutes a Fighter? How do you make that concept AP based? How do you do so in a way that doesn't make mages out of control?

Frosted Tips2 votes

Fighters are durable and damage-focused melee champions that look to be in the thick of combat.

Juggernauts are melee titans who relentlessly march down the opposition and devastate those foolish enough to get within their grasp. They are the only subclass who excel at both dealing and taking significant amounts of damage, but in turn they have a tough time closing in on targets due to their low range and extremely limited mobility.

Divers are the more mobile portion of the Fighter class. Divers excel at singling out high-priority targets to blitz toward, immediately forcing those targets (and their teammates) to deal with the diver’s presence. Divers are not as durable as the tanks or juggernauts of the world, but Divers can take their fair share of punishment while bringing enough damage to be a real kill threat if left unchecked.

https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/gameplay/dev-blog-classes-subclasses

The Highest Noon1 votes

AP Fighters are lacking in the game

Diana

Who lied to you? There's an AP health item item 3027 , ap attack speed item 3115 , AP fight over time item 3151 , ap ad item 3146 item 3124 , ap armor item 3157 ap mr item 3102 among others

AP Fighters are in a fine spot. The problem is that there aren't enough AP Fighters to justify any long-lasting changes to the system.

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