why do developers even respond to the "AP mids are so useless now!" whackjobs. Legitimately 0 proof exists that AP mids are useless now, and in fact AP mids still hold "most nerfed class in season 3." Now either AP mids were all secretly allowed to be OP for years or the Season 3 changes actually benefit them far more than anyone is willing to admit.

Oh also there's the fact that every high ELO/tournament team still has 1-2 AP champions, and tanks/bruisers get to fight over whats left, with the odd AD caster picking up for an AP caster.

Hell it seems to me that the problem really exists in people not wanting to learn new champions in AD casters and just want to keep playing Karthus Anivia and Orianna all day. Which won't really be a problem considering AD casters aren't even mandatory to learn anymore. Hell, biggest winner of Season 3 is probably Kassadin.

On a related note, since you're on the side of preferring health as a defense, do you see the inherent problems with Trundle's ult being in the current state of being more resistance oriented? His potential power went up initially when people generally had only one dedicated tank/initiator at the beginning of Season 3, but now that 2-3 champions feasibly build high health (and in this current iteration, practically everyone), Trundle's ult might feel pretty limp with the mere flat health + % resist steal.

still saying, Xypherous, what do you think abou Void staff dealing the same amount of damage than rabbadons past 80 mr, rabbadons should be the item who granted the biggest amount of AP damage, almost for the vast majority of the AP carry champs, but there is an option with a cost 800g lower than hat, then, why to build hat, the other options granted better survivability and other cool efects like cdr and all of them are cheaper.

The best AP item is now too useless to be the Tier 1 AP item

Xyph, the thing that really troubles me is that I see no acknowledgement of the strength of HP's double dipping power. You are pretty much stating that Health is about equal or only slightly subpar with armor in terms of protection against AD's, and in your list of pro's and cons of HP you casually omit that it also protects you from AP's.

How is this huge benefit not taken into account when discussing Armor vs Health? You are compared the specialized stat (armor) to the generalized stat (HP), and making HP on par.

You more than anyone should know what happens when a generalist is on par with the Specialist's on their distinctive niche.

Your awesome Xyph, thanks so much for the replies.

Its great that someone from Riot takes the time to reply to GD's concerns. Big thumbs up!