Tear of goddess lagging behind all other items
Lost chapter = literally more mana and waveclear than tear of goddess will ever give you.
I'm pretty sure Archangel's staff doesn't even scale well compared to how useful Luden's Echo is.
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I imagine this champion bars arch angles from being any better then it is.
you are comparing an 850 stacking mana item to and 1300 ap mana item. you dont buy tear to waveclear, you buy tear so you can stack it up early and get a archangels or manamune.
Tear itself is lacking compared to other options for mana components, but other components are also much pricier. Lost Chapter is 450 gold more, and it only gives 40 AP, 50 mana, and 10% CDR over Tear, not counting tear's passive. With Tear's mana saving passive, even if you have 250 base mana, the difference in mana is already more than made up for, especially when tear starts to stack. The reason you pick up tear instead of lost chapter is if you can't afford lost chapter yet, want to build archangels, and want to get it stacking as fast as possible.
Archangel's compared to Luden's is two different things. Luden's gives you more early power and more ability to clear waves than Archangel's, and it also gives you a bit more damage in a burst combo. On the other hand, Archangel's gives you WAY more mana, and more AP after fully stacking it (even without counting any base mana). Champions who are extremely mana hungry, or who have AP scalings they want to access outside of damage are likely to benefit from Archangel's. Seraph's also has a powerful active which can give you a HUGE shield every 2 minutes.