Talk:Brand/@comment-2112140-20141230181359/@comment-8468980-20150124060019

" don't get why people say his AP scalings are "mediocre", when every single one of them is above 50% which is rare on a pure AP mage."

Compare him to other burst mages like Annie, Ahri, Veigar or Velkoz. They've all got better scaling AP ratios or better utility, or both.

He's a good lane bully, but if he can't stuff his lane he will get out scaled hard and his teamfight presence will be dwarfed by any of these other champs. This wouldn't be such a glaring flaw if his CC wasn't signifciantly less reliable than most other mids, he had some sort of mobility, had better range, or had mitigation abilities or stat boosts.