Talk:Ashe/@comment-5605969-20150516125532/@comment-14081808-20150517205150

@Tinhboe They want to reward her more for playing well, and punish her more for playing poorly. By giving it an AD ratio, they believe that using it will feel more rewarding for building AD.

@Johnnyboy38 Ashe only has two damaging skills: W and R. Just by statistics, one of those is going to be AP. Check it out. These are all the champions normally played as ADC:

Ashe Caitlyn Corki Draven X Ezreal Graves Jinx Kalista X Kayle Kog'maw Lucian Miss Fortune Quinn Sivir Tristana Twisted Fate Twitch Urgot Varus Vayne X

Of the 20 above champions, only 3 (the ones with X by them), only have AD ratios. Of those 3, only Kalista comes even close to having as much team-oriented utility and CC as Ashe, and her ult deals no damage.

Adding an AP ratio to W would result in a lower AD ratio, and over the course of a game you will do easily 4x as many Ws than Rs meaning that giving it that AP ratio would hurt her damage all over. The same could be said for her Q.

Switching the AP ratio to any other ability will only make Ashe worse and taking it away entirely would be trying to make her more of a damage ADC, which is what the three AD-only ADCs are, and less of a utility ADC, which is what they said with the rework Ashe is to be the premier exemplar of, much like Soraka and her heals.