User blog comment:Emptylord/Champion reworks/My Mid Year Mage Update/@comment-3974211-20160307004329/@comment-24385282-20160307023121

I don't think it's that they like his passive, it's that they like him building both health and AP. His passive is a boring chunk of free stats as it is now; imo he should get a completely new passive but something else to still encourage players to build health-AP items, like HP scaling in his kit somewhere.