New mechanic for armor

Spoofghoul·Jul 6, 2016·3 votes·529 views

Was jus thinking about why doesnt anyone play champions like malphite or other armorstackers anymore even into full ad teams

I mean why does that happen?

I guess its the overall abundance of armorpen, whilst armor can then still be decent vs burst it becomes very weak vs dps thornmail just gets shit on by blakccleaver for example as it shreds the armor and then its useless

Why isnt there a refresh mechanic or a restore armor thing where you use it and your armor is fully restored and all shredding gets undone and for a short wile after you can't be shredded and armorpen doesnt apply to you for that same duration.

2 Comments

MoarCowbell98Jul 6, 20162 votes

why not? because then tanks could push this button and then become unkillable. tanks are meant to be shredded by adcs and high dps mages. (by high dps i mean SUSTAINED dps)

tanks are never ever going to be bursted unless focused by like 5 people.

adcs have the highest dps in the game by nature of their risk reward playstyle. they do insane damage if left unchecked but pretty much everything kills them if they get on top of them.

adcs need a way of dealing with tanks. imagine if adcs couldn't kill tanks. they would literally just kill everything. we had a meta like that. the tank meta of cinderhulk where sejuani would have 5k health and no matter what you built as an adc it would take 25 autos or more to kill her by at which point you lost the fight because you wasted all your time dealing with a fat pig rider in your face.

thornmail is fine in its current state. it basically makes it to where if you dont build lifesteal you will kill yourself attacking the tank and if you build lifesteal it is negated unless you have a shit ton of lifesteal. thornmail was never intended to be a "I bought this item, now you cant kill me you filthy adc" item. Its intended to give tanks a way of dealing with auto attack champions with lifesteal so the damage they do to them isn't just healed up instantly.

SpoofghoulJul 6, 20161 votes

i think you are overreacting

adc's will still be able to deal with tanks its just a mechanic to deal with armorshredding

think of it this way, could be an active on an item with a cooldown, which restores shredded armor and makes you immune to shredding and armorpen for 2 seconds after

just a short window to undo all the shredding and restore your tankiness.

Reading your post makes me think you never played a tank before they die incredibly fast right now and resistances arent helping anymore.

Its mainly the armorpen right now thats a problem because all these AD champs can dps you down, its ok vs burst as its reduced a bit and you got health to prevent dying.

Killing tanks in 5 auto attacks is not ok if you have a range advantage more mobility and a dedicated protector The whole every ad champ buys black cleaver doesnt help either, And since black cleaver is core on so many champions like the juggernauts as are other armorpen items like youmous on AD assassins and the lastwhispers on ADC I figured id propose this isntead of just gutting armorpen across the board. Because that wouldn't be good either.