Talk:Vel'Koz/@comment-15430797-20140303024415

The Ulti's AP Scaling is too low. The spell must be channelled and wastes time. As a result, the total damage is designed at a high amount to ensure the average damage taken by enemies is at an appropriate amount, since the enemies will not take full damage in most situations. In general, the higher the basic damage is, the higher the bonus damage should be. However, they set the AP scaling of Vel'koz's ulti at a poor amount (60%). For example, you get doubbled spell damage when your AP is at around 400. the Q with 0.6 scaling has 240 bonus damage, which is equal to the full-level basic damage. But Velkoz's ulti only has 120 bonus, far less than the basic damage at any level. It may lead to useless of the ulti in later games. In comparison,  Nunu's ultimate has 2.5 AP scaling, when it deal fully damage at  625 / 875 / 1125.