re: Official League of Legends Thread

5.6 drops this week with all the nerfs/buffs ive previously discussed.

there is a big item change though that will affect midlane mages. And no its not that POS Ludens Echo(ill discuss this later).

Athenes Unholy grail is receiving a big buff.
100% mana regen up from 50%
30% mana restored from kill/assist up from 15%

chalice price reduced to 900g from 1000g.

this will return Ori, Ziggs, Xerath, Gragas, Lux, syndra and many other farm heavy mages to the midlane. (which i like to play)

regarding ludens echo, there is some solid discussion on reddit and youtube on why this item is bad. To summarize:
1) No CDR
2) not a viable replacement to take away the core of Athenes/Morellelos, RabaDC, Zhonyas, VS. These 4 items synergize so well together
3) 5th mage item could provide utility like liandries/rylais, or a rushed item to stack up like Seraphs/RoA
4) Maybe could get away with replacing your boots with ludens as a 6th item
5) only theoretically maybe decent on Katarina and Cassio, but then every cassio main says its garbage on her and i agree with them. Cassio needs other items a lot more
6) Build path is shite. NLR is the most expensive component item in the game at 1600g. Aether Wisp blows.
7) A lot of the large amount of AP granted is 'lost', due to how ap ratio on spells work

a few other reasons. Bottom line is you can maybe make it work and win some games with LE , but, there are better items and buildpaths available no matter what.