User blog comment:CapnJedders/AP champion cs frustrations/@comment-13944607-20131029192828

It's all on you, all champs can farm effectively as long as you time your autoattack correctly. With just base AD on a lot of AP champions, to kill a melee minion requires 2 shots and an auto, and a caster takes 1 shot and 2 autos, but there are variations for both. Just practice, you'll get there eventually, i don't have a problem at all farming with mid champs. Though it can be frustrating if you play a lot of ADCs, since the difference between having ~50 AD at level 1 and ~75 AD at level 1 is huge when trying to CS.