[Comp] "Company of Mages" a.k.a. All-mages -= Work in Progress, come give your ideas! =-

This article is about another fairly sophisticated team comp, based on, you guessed it, mages. The idea is very meta-based: people have been calling the game the "League of Black Cleaver" or "League of Warmogs" recently, a way to describe the popularity of AD casters and tanky bruisers.

Mages seem to have completely fallen out of fashion, but are apparently about to get a few buffs on PBE. Nonetheless, here at Metabreak we don't need to wait for buffs to make stuff work, so let's try to make the strongest possible groups exclusively made of AP-scaling champions with magical damage a.k.a. mages.


There are some advantages to this:
-The enemy will have armor (all champions have more natural scaling armor than MR - add flat armor seals to that) and it will be useless.
-Abyssal scepter exists, and it will help the whole team passively, unlike BC which requires applying 4 stacks (5 stacks if the PBE nerf hits live).
-The enemy is forced to rush a Bulwark, but it won't help.
-They don't expect that, and will generally have runes/masteries and a planned build that doesn't help as much against magical damage.


Mages:

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The complete list of AP-scaling champions would be unnecessary as this includes all champions except 8.
Instead we will focus on mages with high AP ratios, magical damage, and most importantly some kind of synergy with other mages, or extra AP boost/scaling, or with some kind of unique usefulness:

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Armor & MR steroid. Can AoE stun combo.
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AP-scaling double shield that also deals AoE damage in 3 ticks.
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Permanent invisibility.
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Epic burst since early in the game. Mobility. Global ulti.
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Aura reduces the MR of all types of enemies by 10. Brutal base damages & AP scalings.
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Free AP from MR passive. Long range. Team speed boost.
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AP-scaling Pets. Zone control.
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Movement speed global passive. Huge AoE healing.
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Can fight while dead. Great AoE sustained damage. Can reduce enemy MR. Global ulti.
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Reduces MR on-hit.
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Energy-based. Can stun entire teams.
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Manaless. Resets her cooldowns on every kill.
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Passive gives free AP.
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%Max HP autoattack steroid. Can harass from 2200 range. Superior range.
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Burst. Mobility.
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Targeted AP boost. CC.
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Insane damage CC'ing superior range low cooldown AoE burst. Double AoE shield. Overpowered.
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Pets. Great waveclearing and DPS. Instant ranged suppression.
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Innate spellvamp. Long range.
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HP-based. Shields himself by dealing spell damage. Ulti increases his AP.
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Deadly spear poke. Extremely durable sight from trap proc. Mobility.
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Can perform terrorist attacks. Ulti reveals stealthed enemies.
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AP aura. AoE stun ulti.
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Has a +16 MR aura. Can hugely stack a MR debuff on enemies. Can refill ally mana. Global heal.
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Mana for kills. Very strong DoTs. Innate spellvamp on ulti.
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Armor aura. Can stuncombo. Ulti gives AoE AP steroid.
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Can blind ADCs. Great burst & DoT. Map awareness. Can slow & kill while dead.
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Infinite AP & armor stacking. Ap-scaling autoattack steroid.
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Infinite AP stacking. Anti-AP-stacker Ulti.
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Scaling AP in exchange for an item slot.
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Free HP from AP and vice-versa. Ulti amplifies damage for allies too.
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Free armor from AP. %Mpen steroid. Superior range.
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Non-damage-dependant AP-scaling on-hit sustain. What would he do?
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Autoattacks have an AP-scaling proc. Zone control. Superior range.
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AP-scaling Pets. CC. Zone control. Long range.

(1) (2) (3) (4) : the higher the number, the better suited for a Company of Mages. No number = 0.

Items:

TEAM:
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-[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]: if you happen to have many mages with AD ratios and who could use the sustain, like Koggy, Morde or Ez.


SELF:
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-[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]: When you have AP, you want more AP.


Specific synergies:

-Galio's passive gives him 50% of his MR as extra AP. This makes Soraka's passive +16 MR aura provide him 8 free AP.
-Galio gets AP from Aegis/Bulwark's MR.
-Lulu can give a solid AP & MS boost to an ally instantly.

-Abyssal Scepter stacks with Fiddlesticks' passive
-Lich Bane stacks with Ziggs' passive.
-Void staff stacks multiplicatively with Xerath's W's passive.
-Malady stacks with Kayle's passive.