Talk:Corki/@comment-24055932-20160104204626/@comment-26231232-20160308025928

There was this build by some old Poppy mains that included TriForce, Infinity Edge, Sorc Shoes, Statikk Shiv, and Void Staff. The thing about old Poppy was that her Q modified her next AA to deal magic damage, and, since it was an AA, it could crit. Add Spellblade onto it and it's also converted to magic damage, and then IE's passive amplifies that damage. Put Statikk Shiv's burst on top of that, add lots of magic pen, and you're left with a huge burst of magic damage. Since your E also deals magic damage, it's a win-win. And you follow that up with physical damage from your AAs' regular crits, which makes it really powerful, since it'll take two items for your enemies to have meaningful resistances (one armour, one MR). Fortunately, Poppy wasn't any popular and this build wasn't very well known, but it made Poppy very, very powerful (also thanks to her old passive and her R, which made her a lot more tanky than her build seemed to make her)

Moral of the story: mixeg damage is hard to balance. We've seen old Jax, Devourer Jax, Devourer Yi, Devourer Kayle, now it's Kog'Maw and Corki. Given how safe Corki is (especially with the Special Delivery), he needs a sizeable nerf in numbers, simply to account for the huge advantage that having mixed damage is.