Wednesday 23 March 2011

Why I think AP is under powered.

 When dealing with an AP hero's balance you have to look at each hero individually. A blanket statement like "ALL AP IS UNDER POWERED" May not be true for every hero, and figuring out which hero's are AP hero's and not hybrids can be a little tricky as well. So I'm just going to talking about something that all AP hero's will have to get around.

We all know the meta game right now is very tanky. Hero's like renekton, amumu, shen and rammus are shinning. The ability to soak tons of damage while doing medium damage allows them to beat you by enduring. So this means that AP hero's have to counter specific situations. For example, if I'm playing a traditional caster like ryze and i see a team full of hp stacker's. I will probably reach for a death chill. But the death chill is not as good of an item as its AD brother mandread razor. How about stacking straight AP? Well i guess that helps the damage but now your getting rofl stomped because your a glass cannon. That's just one situation, another issue i have to raise is the strength of magic resist items opposed to armour items. Lets ignore for now the token MR items like chalice and focus exclusively on B veil and force of nature. Now your a caster and you see a B veil. How do you counter it? Magic pen. Well that works for the static magic resist but not the passive spell block. And force of nature provides alot of HP regen and MR and even movement speed for the tank its a no brainer to take it. So this forced the caster to stack tons of magic pen just to compete against the enemy. Its annoying and hard to get around when playing AP and i hope it gets resolved considering there are not as many fun AD character then AP characters.

20 comments:

  1. I never really got into this game, dunno why. Always was more into HoN/DotA. But I don't even play those anymore haha.

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  2. Awesome review but I have to agree with the guy above me, HON FTW.

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  3. Not to mention madreds completely blows Deathfire away because it doesn't have a cooldown :( Seriously need to reduce it, IMO.


    And Codex/Dagon from HoN/DotA totally blow Deathfire out of the water! So unfair for AP in the health stacking case. *Followed*

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  4. Tanky only really works in lower ELO. High ELO is still at AD carry, AP carry, support, tank, jungler composition. Tanky dps is basically worthless. Sure, some AP carries are a bit weak, but its not enough to say AP in general is weak. Annie still rips kids, Kassadin can be a force to be reckoned with, support AP like Lux and Morgana still hit like trucks and thats just to name a few. If tanky teams are your issue, either your tank sucks, your position is bad or you're doing it wrong. Amumu, Shen and Rammus are true tanks, not tanky dps type characters. Granted they do some damage, but far less than, say, Renekton and even less compared to carries.

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  5. i played this for a time. nice idea

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  6. Interesting, I've never played LoL.

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  7. I use to play this, interesting idea.

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  8. I don't know man, lots of times when people yell XXX overpowered it's nothing more than bitchin'

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  9. I have to try this game finally +followed

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  10. Never got into the game, and the more I read, the more and more complex and technical it seems :(

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  11. haha agrees with what jamierod.rodriguez said.

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  12. Yea AP heroes do have noticeable balance issues when compared to the AD counterparts. but that doesn't change the utility they bring to fights. Annie bring a AOE stun and the ability to blow up a carry. anivia brings absolutely ludicrous damage into team fights combined with a wall and a stun.

    Kassadin brings heavy mobility and high burst damage and a silence into fights.

    Ap carries made a trade off for balance. They almost always have more utility and they always make up for their shortcommings. Unless the hero has STRICTLY damage. which I dont think any ap hero actually has.

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