Talk:Evelynn/@comment-4922088-20120606111557

I think tanky-mage is really the best way to build her currently if you want to play her and be of any use in teamfights. If you can farm up the gold for a Rod of Ages (not an easy task trust me o~o ) you can actually have a surprisingly useful presence in teamfights and start snowballing from there.

Magic Pen reds, Armor Yellows, the rest Magic Resist, 9 - 14 - 7 masteries ( if you don't need the mana regen just go 9-21-0) and you can surprisingly easily go mid vs several champions. Getting the points in reduced minion damage on top of the Armor Seals and armor from masteries will actually make everything but the cannon minions do 0 damage to you, and the rest will make the enemy caster do very little to you as well.

This does need several things though to work besides just player skill and stats:

1) Allies to watch for pink wards. If the enemy has planted one in the middle of their lane and you go there you will get facestomped. However, as long as you're not vs pros, you can use it to your advantage because the average player will typically become very confident since they thing they don't have to worry about you; meaning a double gank of both you AND your jungler can actually be fairly easy to get off.

2) A strong ganking jungler, I've come to really like Jax a lot for this since he has a stun and can easily use you to dodge around green wards thanks to his ability to leap to you. Lee Sin is also an excellent choice, but when isn't he when it comes to ganking? Others work too that's just a few :p

3) A strong and agressive bot lane. I really love Leona because she initiates so well and makes a great tank throughout the game, but there are so many combinations now that work well as Kill lanes, just take your pick.


 * When it comes to solo top just try and fill in what you still need on the team. I play another mage up there (usually Swain) myself when my friend goes mid-eve. Between the MR shred on Eve's E and the damage amp from Swain's E it's not that hard for us to kill several of the more common tops even if they do build MR early.