Warwick's E may spell doom

The Ecdysiast··5 votes·524 views

Not too long ago, Annie's E was converted to % Damage Reduction instead of flat defenses. The same goes for Warwick's new E.

I'm afraid what this may mean in terms of the upcoming tank update. Maokai and Alistar already have % Damage Reduction, so it's not unreasonable to see it on more tanks. Perhaps Riot has no plans to balance penetration items at all, in preparation for most if not all tanks having %Damage Reduction to counter it. They may even include this on new tank items, as Phantom Dancer shows it can be put on items.

We've seen in the past that rather than remove new items or revert items to old stats, they'll add new ones.

Hopefully I'm wrong. Hopefully assassin items will see the same fate as Runeglaive. But if not, the tank update is going to be terrible for everyone involved.

Side note: The silver lining is maybe they'll finally decide whether to delete Ohmwrecker or make it a viable item.

7 Comments

God Raijin3 votes

Some % damage reduction might be alright considering how inflated damage is right now. What with Keystones, and these other % damage increasing masteries, also all this stacking lethality on top of lethality and combining it with items likeitem 3071 oritem 3033 item 3036 damage is honestly insane right now, like fucking insane. I'd honestly prefer more of a tank meta than a 1 shot meta

The Ecdysiast2 votes

That's exactly why I'm worried that they haven't fixed penetration/lethality items yet. If they don't, then %DR is the only way to actually play a tank. And if that's the way we're shifting then it'll be impossible for even the champions who are supposed to be able to kill tanks later in the game. So not just lethality, but even crit builds won't work as intended. Vayne and Fiora may be the only possible options to beat the tanks, and that's scary.

God Raijin1 votes

Idk, it's like, if it happens it happens, and if tanks become 2 gud or if other stuff is too weak, riot will fix their shit. It might be an unfun patch to play on for a couple weeks, but that is no different than this patch.

The Ecdysiast1 votes

It'll be unfun after unfun after unfun while they "fix" things that could be reverted, which is the issue.

Crett1 votes

Katarina used to get damage reduction on her E, too

Which was absurd lmao

The Ecdysiast4 votes

Kassadin tried to silence his mother once.

She deleted him from the game.

Tomosima1 votes

You may be on to something sadly...

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