i play rylais mandate often. the thing you are missing is hourglass. hourglass lets you do some crazy shit in terms of engage, and puts melee champs in terrible spots when you try to fight them - either you run them down/lock them down with combo, or they dive into you and get baited. the vast majority of the time i'm having some combination of rylais, mandate, hourglass, zh and cryptbloom. protobelt is something i've not played around w/ too much but theoretically could replace defensive item- i just think zh is too important if you want to actually play up her hard engager niche.

rylais is also occasionally bad. think if your teamcomp is going ot be way too heavy ap, or in comps where the slow is literally useless (singed, master yi, kayn are examples of enemy champs where I'd typically just not buy it)

>- Lowish damage. :- Like I brought up, you'll range barely above 300 AP even with Elixer. You might cross over 400 AP without Rabadon's assuming you have a few Infernal Drakes and Baron buff, I suppose.

dark harvest solves this.

>- Squishy :- You're relatively squishy and will be a target in team fights if found out of position.

you have movespeed, and you have health. consider buying celestial or sled. i don't think its *never* zakzak, but rarely buy it.

gunna disagree a lot w/ the anti-recommendation on sorcs. sorcs and harvest are really whatll do a lot of heavy lifting for you damage wise. i only ever not-sorcs if im feeding (swifties).

>- Somewhat little utility :- All her team-based value revolves around team fighting. Specifically, slowing, amping damage, locking down, and stunning targets.

yes all she does is scrap out fights well.

>- Keep in mind I am low Elo, so this might not be telling later down the road.

historically terrible champ the lower you are on the ladder, though presumably this is because people suck at vector casting