Talk:VPBE/@comment-24090792-20150619042603/@comment-1920550-20150620051352

in terms of total math, assuming you'll still get a Rabadon, at full items you'll get around 15-20 less AP than before, which is nothing at that stage...on the other hand you get 5 items that build off of the Needlessly Large Rod, the Rod itself is cheaper and other items such as Liandries and Nashor's are buffed to kingdom-come. ROA is now better in terms of pure mana and AP. With 5 choices from the Large Rod, you can customize you builds much more effeciently for damage, defence, utility or ultra-late game. It's actually quite a incredible move from Riot. It breaks the 120 AP 3-way deadlock.

The only thing this is missing is a more deep rework/tweaking to the CDR items, or atleast introducing a third CDR item.