Talk:Master Yi/@comment-5686533-20130602154924/@comment-5955640-20130609002228

Look at a lot of season one and release champs. A lot of them have quite a lot of odd. Abritrary stat functions. I mean. AD carry with only AP ratios in her abilities (tristana) it's madness. If a champion was made like that today the fandom would literally kill the designer of the champ.

I think I know what the logic was. That Alpha Strike and Mediate would not scale from his AD. Being a Melee Carry and all he would get a lot of it. And the availbility of the moves through cool down resets would make him pretty powerful. Yes. Full AP is bad news but as someone pointed out. You waste his attack strength and the rest of his kit isn't as powerful.

That's the point of it I believe. Risk and reward. Although by that same token what are you really losing? the overall damage in basic auto attacks? Well it's not like people are playing Yi as an ADC on bottom lane now is it? None of his actual moves scale off AD. It's the same situation with Sion and Tristana. All the abilities that do damage scale off AP but one or two abilities actually encourage attack speed. Which would be a benefit for AD champs.

You have to look at it and wonder. Is the answer really in expecting these kits to force you down a certain path in building the champ? Or does it allow some sort of versaility to where you can build it in certain ways for extremes and get different results for different situations. Or even build hybrid to aim at some sort of perfection?