Reducing Veigar IP price to 450?
I am not going to be a beggar here, but i am wondering if such a thing would be a good idea for the game overall. He was my first buy choice and teached me a lot of things about this game.
Veigar is not a farmfest like Nasus ( even if many people think so ) but empathizes the importance of farming, harrassing and sustaining the mana over the lane. After the Q passive change now he has more reasons to roam on the map and help other lanes, developing a less "lane lockdown" mentality and more strategical map awareness ( compared to twitch map awareness, like Shen for example). He is immobile and can teach about the importance of positioning, since he gets Ap by Q passive he can also afford to get some defensive items without falling back too much so it somehow safeguards the player in case of bad games. I think this case is very important because it can show players how you can be effective in mid and late game even if you had a bad lane, making them feel less powerless and enticing the players to not surrender immediately and to struggle on.
450 IP means that a champion is the first buy choice of a new player, and veigar can create a very interesting place in any rooster for that price; the only other choices are ryze ( which probably is not even anymore as good as pure mage and is very hard to use ), kayle ( which is anything but a traditional mage, if she can be barely considered one on full AP builds ) and Annie which can be effective and can teach a lot about the game, but in a different way and context compared to Veigar.
Morgana, Zilean and Twisted Fate are other champions on 1350 IP, the same tier as Veigar, and i think do not offer the same educational value as him.
Also, Veigar is cute as fuck.