Talk:VPBE/@comment-5593561-20131109030312/@comment-5266525-20131111031542

^^ Two reasons. For as long as the main intention of building AP on someone is to increase their damage output, then supports are going to have to compete with (and be inferior to) mages. These changes make it so that you actively get to choose between damage or utility when it comes to picking which one.

And if they made them scale off items that supports build now then you'd end up with a game full of super-tanky champions that still boast truckloads of utility. Their ratios would have to be gutted if they were to stay like that. This is exactly the reason why old Olaf was a problem.