Why are skillshot mages so heavily gated by cooldowns, mana, and delayed spell animations?

xxxMadLionxxx··1 votes·218 views

While assassins have instant dashes and ADCs just have to right click you to death. I mean sure they have AOE... well so does AD. They can even buy item 3085. Then you gonna argue they have CC... well most CC skills are heavily delayed by slow cast animations, and or are skill shots with slow projectile speed. Kinda hard to land unless you buy item 3116

Why are skillshot mages so heavily gated by cooldowns, mana, and delayed spell animations when skill shots are more and more likely to miss in late game?

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Asayake 5150glow1 votes

Because they do a shit ton of damage, have a shit ton of range, have not incredibly long coldowns, and that heavily delayed CC is really much more reliable in the middle of a teamfight. Also their animations aren't usually that long.

And their mana + CDR itemization is fucking amazing.

Cocho1 votes

If you want to play against a point and click mage, then go watch some pre-rework veigar where his ult wasn't an execution, scaled on your AP, and he had a deathfire grasp that instantly dealt 15% of you max heath and amplified that R by 20% lol.

SithesisLord1 votes

so heavily gated by cooldowns, mana

item 3165

Mages: [Laughs in non-existent CDs and mana issues]

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