User blog comment:Deshiba/Mana Items./@comment-8919271-20140922143046/@comment-8919271-20140923192704

What? The fact that Athene's gives no flat mana and Wit's End gives no AP or mana. Mana scales, unlike mana regen. Mana translates into AP from archangel's and, sometimes, into direct damage - like Kassa's R and Ryze's QWE. It's not the stats alone - it's the combination of stats on one item. You'd have to nerf MR on this version of lichbane so much it would be pretty pointless to even have MR there in the end of the day. Athene's was tackled multiple times, even though it does not have any kind of synergy with mana-scaling/Archangel's champions.