** This is also zig-zagged with a couple cases. Veigar isn't very strong early and mid-game...but once he gets his AP up and gets a lot of good items, he's unstoppable to compensate for a weak early game dependent on farming. [=LeBlanc=] meanwhile can take people out before they can even blink in the early-mid game; but once people get more health, she starts to lag behind a bit. Basically; if you have Veigar, you're going to want the match to last longer and if you have [=LeBlanc=], you want push them so hard they surrender. Another example of a late-game mage is Malzahar, who goes from being a good lane pusher to being someone capable of killing any other character in a 1 v 1 fight in an incredibly short period of time. If Malzahar wins the middle lane team fights can rapidly become extremely lopsided thanks to his power curve and the area of effect, damage over time nature of his spells. Perhaps the most extreme example is Ryze, a mage whose early game is among the weakest of any champion (even ad carries can beat him) and whose mid game is quite mediocre. However, because his damage scales with mana instead of ability power, he gets a combination of what are (effectively for him) the most absurdly undercosted/power-concentrated items in the game,this combined with an inherently spam-based spell repertoire and an ultimate ability that makes all of it AOE makes late-game ryze the scariest AP carry in the game.
** Some bruisers are considered to be the "hardest scaling" champions in the game: Jax, who does moderately well early-mid game and utterly dominates the lategame due to gap-close, aoe stun, and most of all his absurd damage output and tankiness due to a combination of items and natural passives from his ultimate ability.
** It should also be noted that how hard a characters "scales" isn't necessarily reliant on their damage output. Feared characters like Amumu and Sona, for example, are considered to "scale hard" in games simply because of their disruptive abilities (AOE stuns, binds, slows, buffs), which are extremely valuable in the lategame.

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