Talk:Viktor/@comment-10103305-20130527182232/@comment-5490997-20130602113423

The thing with Lich and Zhonya's is just that Zhonya's also offers defences. You can't say Lich is better while completely ignoring the defences Zhonya's gives. I mean if Zhonya's active and armor allows you to fire an additional Q and E in a fight you'll easily make up the damage Lich Bane would've done. Just because defences don't deal damage directly that doesn't mean they won't help you offensively at all.

Also if you have a Rabadon's its passive will grant you more AP from Zhonya's than you'll get from Lich (120*30%=36, 80*30%=24, extending the AP advantage for Zhonya's by 36-24=12 AP).

Despite all this Lich is probably still better offensively (and it should be, because it offers 0 defences), but I'm pretty sure the gap isn't as big as some people are trying to make it here. In the end I think it's a situational choice though, against some champs you just need defences to make your offensive powers effective. While against other champs you can go full offensive and get away with it easily.