So, I was walking through Big Lots (the only place in the world I know of that would put handles on automatic doors), when I came up with an idea for a new champion. The basic idea, would be an AP style elemental mage with a very high skill cap whose abilities have effects between themselves and the enemy to give bonus effects. The skill from this champion would be combining these effects in such a way that you either maximize damage, CC, or pester. By the way, the names are probably really dumb, so I apologize in advance for that (for this particular post, I shall call him Eli).
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Ahhh, a new item for mages, Athene's Unholy Grail. This upgrade solves a legitimate problem for mages in that most have to either have constant blue buff, thereby robbing an important creep for gold income and a decent amount of experience from your jungler not to mention the benefits that the buff itself gives.
With this item, Chalice of Harmony has the potential of becoming a core item for the early game, which really never happens except for a very few select exceptions (new Anivia players). Which is great, because not only does it free up that all important blue buff... Read More

I find Ryze to be a particularly interesting character in the league in that you only really see him played at the extremely low ELO's where he's the first champion that a player buys, or at the very high ELO's where extremely good players have figured out how to actually make his damage output dangerous. In the mid tier ELO's, most discard the Rogue Mage in order to play mages with a larger range, like Morgana, or some other high burst champion like Annie or Anivia.
Relatively recently, Ryze has gotten a nerf that attacked the thing that made Ryze Ryze, his ability to... Read More