Riot: Please Explain Something About Certain Champions

FarRockBF·11/5/2015, 6:26:52 PM·1 votes·456 views

Why do some champions have AP or AD scaling on only 1 ability when it is obvious that they will NEVER be built that way?

The most obvious example is with AP scaling on his W. Did you just forget to remove it when you decided to remove AP Yi from the game? The ONLY thing this does right now is give a TINY boost in heal for the Yis out there building .

And why does have AP scaling on his W? I have built on him in the past but mainly as a troll build; he is hard enough as it is to play competitively.

So I'm genuinely curious WHY you give certain champs scaling when you know if they use builds to make use of them they will be nearly useless for the team?

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alasarcher11/5/2015, 6:38:31 PM1 votes

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Why do some champions have AP or AD scaling on only 1 ability when it is obvious that they will NEVER be built that way?

The most obvious example is with AP scaling on his W. Did you just forget to remove it when you decided to remove AP Yi from the game? The ONLY thing this does right now is give a TINY boost in heal for the Yis out there building .

And why does have AP scaling on his W? I have built on him in the past but mainly as a troll build; he is hard enough as it is to play competitively.

So I'm genuinely curious WHY you give certain champs scaling when you know if they use builds to make use of them they will be nearly useless for the team?

Its not only Triforce for Yi. He can get small boost in AP from various sources- Baron buff, Tarics Radiance. For example if u have master Yi with Baron buff, 1 or 5 stacks of drake buff, Tarics Radiance and Zekes proc, he can get small boost in ability power which boosts his healing a little. They simply dont remove it, because there is no need to remove it.

TurquoiseYoshi11/5/2015, 9:09:26 PM1 votes

Because they don't need to be removed, and the spells they are mapped to don't need to be given any other scaling. Let me put it this way: Do you want Yi's heal to scale off of AD? No, no you don't. Mundo is a tank, and doesn't really need good damage scalings.