Where did counter-building go?
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Seasons ago, if you used to get beat by something, or something was strong, and you complained on the forums about it, people would just tell you that you needed to counter-build. You were playing an AP mid vs 
, you had to buy a 
. And against a strong AP, an AD champ would buy a
. Tanks buy a 
corresponding with who they are fighting. If your against a soraka, your ADC grabs a
.
But currently no one counter-builds anymore. People hardly run armor/MR in their runes. They dont buy items to mitigate their opponents damage. I've seen games where the mid laner is rocking 0 bonus armor all game, and has the audacity to complain when the enemy AD champ deals a fuckload of damage against him. When every ADC ever has 30 MR, maybe 39 because of runes, and then bitches about how the fed mid laner deleted them in one spell rotation. When that mid laner has 
and another 15 MPen from runes and masteries.
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If you run scaling armor/mr runes, and buy 1 large armor item (-->
for AP, to sit on for AD, later GA) or MR item ( 
) than you can bring your resists closer to the magic number of 100, the breaking point for gold efficiency of armor/MR. Every point of armor/mr is more gold efficent than the last if you have 100 or less armor/mr, but less efficient above 100. The way lethality works is that it takes your armor (say 55 for a mid game squishy with no armor) and reduces it before damage is calculated. if the lethality is enough to reduce that number to 0, you take true damage. Because against that attack you have 0 resists, making it so that you take 100% damage. Same goes for MR and magic pen. Which actually happens far more frequently and has been occurring for seasons.
So we have the current lethality meta. Where everyone tries to play a champ that builds lethality, builds 0 armor, and everyone ends up dealing true damage to each other, crying about how OP everything is.
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Do yourselves a favor people. buy some armor. You can start helping yourself for just one small payment of 300g. "but i dont have room in my build for survivability" ok. Have fun dealing all that damage you can do when your dead because you got hit by one stray skillshot. You'll really be healping your team then. Seriously buy resists. It will really help in the long run.
