Talk:VPBE/@comment-25493113-20150127214604/@comment-4270771-20150203091349

Except veigars mana regen isn't only off base regen. It's off total, so those numbers are completely wrong. The point of his passive is so that he can get much more for purchasing mp5 items than other characters, allowing him lots of lane staying power (aka Q farming) for very little investment, allowing him to focus his build on as many pure damage high AP items as possible (DFG, Deathcap, Void Staff, Hourglass) thus bringing his late game power spike sooner. Imagine if Nasus had no lifesteal from his passive and had to spend that much more on lane sustain? How much worse would his laning be? Now imagine his Q costs around twice as much mana. RIP nasus. The conundrum with mana items is you usually don't buy a ton of them, because the more you have of them, the less you need them, unless your hero is extremely mana hungry. Veigar is extremely mana hungry, but only early on. His passive may not be the best in the game, but it still suits the needs of his kit relatively well. There may be other, better mana passives around, but Veigar is also a very outdated character who has been completely untouched in literally years.