Talk:Lissandra/@comment-5494818-20130509213700/@comment-5955640-20130512075605

The idea on why it's wrong is that there isn't any AD scaling on pure mage champs so you are making their kit mostly utility making it harder on yourself to deliver damage consistently. Also Crowd Control and AOE tends to be very effective when it also does more than 300 damage in late game.

The idea of it working despite that is that when you CC someone you make it easier to lay into them with Auto attacks. It's some sort of perversion of what a support does for the carry and what the carry delivers for the support. Them being fused together like weapon and meister gone awry.

Against a competant enemy it's about as effective as a glass cannon tank.

It can be fun if you are way into playing ADC and don't like that you can't stunlock your own prey but as a team effort it means what could have been a great way to blast them with both magic and attack damage is now just full attack damage to which a plethora of items are available to counter.

In short. ADC builds on pure mages. You can do it BUT I WOULD PREFER YOU NOT TO.