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If I use a champion who is mana dependent, get a first blood double kill or at least the first 2 or 3 kills within 5 min of the game, and use at least one of those summoner spells, then I will buy it.

I am dead serious if I say I've been searching for more than 2 hours now and I have only found Two new proper AP item(One not available on SR), all the other are Utility with AP, Tanky with a bit of AP straight out support items that build from Kage's lucky pick. Lets try to build a mage out of the new(AP) items for SR shall we:

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*Note: I don't know the exact values, I am just looking at what information is available to me and riot might change everything anyway.*

Banner of Command

+50 ability power
+30 armor

Unique Aura - Valor: Nearby allies gain 10 health regen and nearby allied minions deal 15% increased damage.

Unique Active - Promote: Transforms a nearby siege minion to a more powerful unit. You gain all the gold this unit earns. 180 second cooldown.

2400 (890g)

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Kage's Last Breath

+45 ability power

Unique Aura: Mana Warp - Nearby allied champions gain 6 mana regen per 5 seconds.

Unique Passive: Lucky Shadow - Gain an additional 4 gold every 10 seconds.

Unique Active: Surrounds an ally with a blizzard for 4 seconds that slows nearby enemy movement speed by 30%. 60 second cooldown.

1700g (535g)

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Wraith Collar

+50 ability power
+30 magic resistance
+5% movement speed

Unique Active: Hunt - Summons 2 invulnerable ghosts for 6 seconds to seek the two nearest enemy champions. If they touch an enemy champion, they slow his movement speed by 40% and reveal him for 2.5 seconds. 120 second cooldown.

1900g (735g)

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Liandry's Torment

+70 ability power
+200 health

Unique Passive - Eyes of Pain: +15 magic penetration

Unique Passive: Dealing spell damage burns enemies for 5% of their current health as magic damage over 3 seconds. If their movement is impaired, they take double damage from this effect. Half duration for multi-target or periodic effects. 300 max damage vs monsters.

2900g (980g)

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Then we add something like Sorcerer's Shoes and Rabadon's= 13 600

*Note: I know you would normally not buy more than one kage's lucky pic but lets just say you do for the sake of looking at a build like this. Also lets calculate Rabadons on the old value, I've seen some posts saying it might change.*

(+215  +140) x 1.3 = 461.5 AP

30 Armor, 30 Magic resist, 5% MS, 35 MPen, 200 HP

Unique Passive: Dealing spell damage burns enemies for 5% of their current health as magic damage over 3 seconds. If their movement is impaired, they take double damage from this effect. Half duration for multi-target or periodic effects. 300 max damage vs monsters.

And then a shit load of other actives and aura's that any champ in the team might as well have had.

A normal AP build:

Rabadon's, Zhonya's, RoA, Rylai's, Abyssal, Sorc Shoes = 16 590

+611 AP

+20 MPen, +20 MR reduction, +1130 HP, +50 Armor, +57 MR

 And then you get Unique effects that will benefit you as Mage a lot.

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To me it feels like there is no comparison what so ever, the only item I would buy is the Liandry's Torment, the other items don't even make sence. If you buy a lucky pick as a mage you generally want to go for a late game, or you need a specific high cost item, or you are far ahead and want to secure late game. The two lucky pick upgrades give none of that, they are cheap so late game is not what you are looking for, and they are not really something you want to be saving up for anyway, just buy a DFG instead.

Though there are some other AP items that are being changed there are also 6  new AD, 3 tank and lots of support items there is basically only 1 new AP item and other AP item changes.

I do feel however that something like IE should have its bonus crit damage reduced as this opens up the build a bit and something like Maw's cost reduced and so on then I feel AD carries will be fine, Mage's have to be able to build more flexable anyway, vlad is not going to benifit from DFG/RoA build that much, and try building Ryze pure AP, AP Kog with no Mana/Mana regen. It would be a total failure If AP was not flexable, AD carries on the other hand can afford going only one build.

"Were the play-testers 7 mages, 2 ADs, and a guy who hates bruisers?"- Hashinshin

Supports are getting the love they deserve and AP's are fine where they are, next time do your research properly!

Besides, if you dont like it stop playing lol, it will fix the problem entirely and you never have to care about it again, we like what riot is doing atm.

This is my very first post on ELO hell as far as i can remember, I believe there is a thing such as ELO hell due to the fact that you can in many different ways fall in low ELO. When you are playing with allies that are not on the same level than you, you still(In your logic) expect them to react the same and then you act according to what you predict/expect them to do. This can cause you to do things that fail as you thought your allies will react a certain way. I've never been in ELO hell but I have been in the situation. If you do however play lane stompers, I think you should rather play weaker laners that are strong late game because if you are really that good you should win your lane anyway.

But even if i do believe in ELO hell I still think it should not be used as an excuse:

1. People who aren't in it can lie while they actually belong there.

2. I think there are many ways to get out of it, try to play "1 Man army" champs and don't rely on your team so that you can carry your team to victory, you can duo q as well and I think with time it will even out anyway if you just play normally.

I sort of agreed even though my main is vlad, but after I saw this "http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=737035" - PodziemnySamolot. I wasnt bothered anymore, i think that R of shen is a bit to strong at lvl 2 and 3 though but shen also has energy problems with his E

I would change his E energy cost to 120/115/110/105/100

His ultimate shield to 250/450/650

This fixes his energy problem, does not affect his laning much but reduces his global dominance, increasing the cooldown will only make him use it the next similar split push/team fight anyway.

Another thing, just think of how weak vlad would be with mana, he would basically only use his Q and R cos why the hell would you use your life and mana to use an ability its just suicidal giving him mana means his Q needs CD decrease his W would not cost health and also need a slight CD decrease, his E would not have life cost meaning you gotta get a hight mana/mana regen item and spam that thing all day, Its just not vlad. I mean when i started playing vlad i could not handle his life cost at all i failed every single time, sometimes almost causing my own death with E and W this is something you have to master unless you have a natural feel for it or if your high ELO this should come naturally. Just like you have to master mana problems.

One thing to think about, AD carries scale off of ad and become extremely powerful due to AS, Crit and AD scaling so well. If bruiser items scaled on each other and had bonus effects would it not be OP if you had your AD/Crit/AD scaling and your Items scaling, just think of the monster some bruisers will become, they will become unstoppable monsters late game. Take olaf as an example, his ulti makes him un"Stoppable" in a sense. With mallet and undertow if he gets you you what are you going to do? I'm a vlad played and i agree AP items are OP and i love my vlad but bruiser scaling items can probably become very powerful.

Well i like her voice and i think its cute and i would like to see a lot more video's where she is commentating, it nice to hear a female voice once in a while, I've watched video's with horrible commentating and this was definitely not one of them. To me everything in this video is better that usual. Plz make more vids where she is commentating ignore the people who have bad attitudes towards it, it nice to have two commentators... I basically made an account just to post this:)

Just wondering... where can i find a like/dislike button on people's comments.