User blog comment:KaiserLos24/AP Build for Ashe?/@comment-4593717-20140109135341/@comment-5993740-20140109155938

"Never play AP Ashe unless you have no desire to win. At all."

Or if you don't want to mess around. This game is played for fun (supposedly). I went AP Yi the other day. Even with one non-damage AP scaling ability, I did pretty good. If you're comparing autoattack DPS on an AP build, excluding Teemo, it's pretty unfair. Play AP Ashe if your heart desires, and have fun. Even if it's literally the worst build in the world, and your team mates don't 'appreciate' it, try it out.

But in truth, this is one of those antimeta picks that REALLY don't work. Take Varus. He's an ADC who doesn't have extreme AP scaling like Trist or Kog, however he can be played AP much better than Ashe, considering he has an on-hit AP ratio, a % max health AP ratio, and a potentially AoE 100% AP ratio. Generally, if you're taking a champ and making them AP, you're gonna want more than one ability that scales on it, and you definitely wouldn't want their ult, because while most AP casters have to wait after they use their combo, they generally don't have to wait another minute for their damage.

The build you have is kinda single minded, because generally every champion, even ones without scaling AP, like Darius, can build a shitton of AP and get Nashor's Tooth and deal a bit extra damage per hit than their base AA, but not more than an actual AD build. This is where the abilities would make up for it, and Liandries proc is hardly reliable damage. Neither is Lich, which would you mean you're essentially worthless for 1.9 seconds after every proc. ADC's, especially ones without mobility of their own, really can't afford to keep a fight going for an extended amount of time, and need to finish as soon as possible.

I can literally build Nashor, Rab, Liandries and Lich on ANY champion, and it'll have the same effect. So you can pick any champion and do this, so it doesn't really make AP Ashe really different, or give any incentive to do this over any other AD champ.

So go ahead and try it out. You'll probably do decent, depending. Expect everyone you play with, if they're randoms, to give you shit too. But ya know, #YOLO.