Talk:Rod of Ages/@comment-24055932-20150709111231/@comment-24055932-20150714225513

Tell me, have you seen a single RoA in any of your games lately? I'm completly avoiding it now, and so does almost every one else I see. You want HP? You go for Rylais. You want Mana? You go for Seraph. You want HP and Mana? You go for Tear + Rylais. If you build Mana (unless you're Ryze), you build it as mana fix, and that one is only needed in the early. Level 18 you for usual don't need any mana any more. So improved scaling mana is worth a shit. And if you want a defensive item, you want as many HP as possible as early as possible. 300 HP after investing 2700 gold simply sucks. That certainly won't bring you through the burst of whatever's bursting you. Rylais on the other hand gives me the option to invest 1000 Gold whenver I want for 380 HP.

You may not believe it, but utility proves more usefull than AP in pretty much any case. And 10% MS is a huge bunch of utilty. If you're intercepting an enemy or trying to catch up to one, movement speed is key. If you're trying to dodge skillshots or want to have a more dynamical gameplay, you want movmeent speed. It's a key ressource, which is obvious when you're looking at all the champions without mobility, and what they'll have to deliver in return till you just consider picking them over somebody with dash or speed up.

Every low range burster just loves the new Ludens. Their playstyle for usual means: If I can catch up to you, you're gone for good. And 10% MS is enough to catch up with pretty much anything, and by that, making anything that is deadly once it catches up, a real threat. For that additional lane dominance I gladly sacrifice a few AP. You've seen the Annie spam already? They suddenly popped up because the new Ludens simply synergizes so well with her.

Ludens also is a great defensive choice for immobile mages. Yes, defensive choice. Staying on safe range takes mobility, and there's no other item providing mobility like Ludens at this point.

And if anything is bronze logic it's that: AP = Good, anything else = useless