Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-98.65.173.174-20121230181722/@comment-5386529-20130306175144

Your first big item should be Athene's, not tear. Maybe she bave 20% CDR from W but you should achieve CDR cap. Not to mention, Athene brings MRes (nice for mid champ) huge mana regen and 20% CDR. Athene allows you to be threat in all game stages while tear just disable your early entirely. And for boots you should go for Sorcerers.

In case of further itemization... buy rylai and don't even think about RoA when comes to hp necessity. Rabadon and Liandry's are your "must have". No need for descrption "Why you need Rabadon" but Liandry becomes your core because saplings applies passives entirely (when it's E sapling is apply even more). Last item is purely situational but I suggest Zhonya as last item. Why? Launch your whole spells. When they charge on you just launch Zhonya and wait till saplings make their job.