Why Do People Double Up on Lethality?

fatyboomboom·Oct 4, 2017·1 votes·838 views

I've never understood why ppl buy more then one lethality item. The key feature to these items that assassins love is a unique passive, meaning they dont stack but I constantly see assassins doubling down on these items instead of building into another kind of item that can take full advantage of it's stats

5 Comments

ExHentaiOct 4, 20171 votes

It stacks if its coming from different items.

d4rkshockOct 4, 20171 votes

It stacks. It always has. Unique passives stack as item x has a different name form item y. Let's say you bought yomuus. If you buy a serrated dirk, it stacks. Of you bought 2 Dirk's, then the 2 Dirk's don't stack.

The Last BalladOct 4, 20171 votes

Like the 20% cooldown from item 3115 and item 3165

or the hsp % increase on item 3504 item 3222 and item 3107

The lethality passives do stack due to how_**UNIQUE **_ passives work. Unique passives do not stack from multiple of the same item. You cannot buy 3 duskblades to get 3x the leathality. You can buy the 3 leathality items to do the same thing though.

Compare this to the Unique Named passives. For instance: spell blade from item 3057 and the items it builds into, do not stack no matter what item you buy. If you get a item 3047 and a item 3111 you only get 45 ms as the "enhannced movement" passives do not stack.

If it reads: Unique passive then two of the same item will not stack.

If it reads : Unique passive - (a name here, ie "spell blade" or "enhanced movement") then you can only gain the effect from one item.

KhristophorosOct 4, 20171 votes

If the unique passive is from the same item it does not stack ( item 3147 + does not stack)

If the unique passive is not named, then it stacks from different items ( item 3147 + item 3142 stacks)

If the unique passive is named, it does not stack with any other unique passive of the same name ( item 3076 + item 3075 "Thorns" does not stack)

fatyboomboomOct 12, 20171 votes

Ok then, thanks for clearing that up guys, that shit just pisses me off then. I mean if they're just trying to differentiate between how certain passives can't stack it would make a lot more sense for riot to simply disable players from having multiples of the exact same finished item. It would of also cleared up my confusion on their wacky concept of "unique" and "unique with a name" and i don't think anyone stacks the same exact items anymore.