Talk:VPBE/@comment-25493113-20150127214604/@comment-3974211-20150203164007

How are they completely wrong when I said that was the base amount his passive gives, and it only gets stronger when he buys mama regen? ...At which point it's useless because you have mana regen from items.

You say it allows him to forego buying mana regeneration, but it doesn't. He still has to buy mana regeneration to make his passive do anything. If his passive regenerated a percentage of his maximum mana every second - that'd be a better passive. It achieves the same thing but it scales with mana instead of mana regen. What is the point in mana regen that scales with mana regen? If it scaled with mana he could just get an Archangel's Staff.

Nasus' life steal, Morgana's spell vamp, Cassiopeia's cooldown reduction and pseudo-spell vamp... These passives all function to allow you to change your build. Veigar's doesn't. It grants him nothing and doesn't allow him to vary his build. Even Annie, with similar costs and play style, can afford to change her build because of the mana refund on her Q. I rarely get mana or mana regeneration on her. Veigar's passive is shit.