Talk:Kayle/@comment-86.68.125.170-20130122165742/@comment-81.190.218.39-20130131152155

^Liandry's isn't about playing defensively, it's about the raw DPS and giving magic users the option of doing something about health tanks (an option which isn't the bursty-initiate-single-use-single-target DFG). And since we're currently in League of Warmog's time, Liandry's is obviously a rather popular pick.

Also, that extra MPen is pretty sweet. Together with sorc's it gets rid of base MR completely on pretty much everyone, so it's just itemisation, runes and per-level growth that are reducing your magic damage, for the most part - and you can get that component early before itemisation comes into play heavily (and levels are not that high) thanks to the haunting guise basically doing silly amounts of dangerously close to true damage. Flat mpen synergises great with Kayle's passive, too - it gets applied after the debuffs after all.