Best runes for early AD damage?

MorderX·Sep 8, 2016·1 votes·408 views

I always run flat armor pen red and quints and I will switch up to flat AD quint when I play Ezreal but I never really did the calculation on what's better for some early damage burst.

I don't mind too much having a lower last hit margin, what I'm looking for is for some heavy damage on champions early game with both my abilities and AA.

I always believed armor pen was better since you bypass most of the early armor to deal "true" damage but I never really took the time to minmax what is better. I was told AD runes are better to remove bigger chunks of health but wouldn't the default armor values defeat the increase in AD? Maybe a mix of both is actually better?

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Elros ThranduilSep 8, 20161 votes

in previous seasons I would say Flat AD is waaaaay more better than armorpen unless you are garen.

Now its okay I guess. Generally people build armor pen and more armor pen is better then. Back then, people had only LW to penetrate armor so they indeed needed ad to scale better for damaging.

Well, on ezreal armor pen. wont make huge difference. Jhin,sivir,varus,draven can abuse armorpen to increase their dmg but ezreal needs AD to increase his Q damage since it has nice ad ratio.

Other than that pro adc players usually give the tip, " if you dont have any problem by last hitting on early game, dont get armorpen to deal more dmg, get attack speed."

but ezreal doesn't need attack speed.

so....

kinda up to you.

16 armor pen is 2859285285928528x better than 15 ad in mid-late game. But, you wont deal dmg on early game. Math says flat AD is better than armorpen in early game except few champs who have high base dmg and have low bonus ad ratio's.( Garen for example, try to get armor pen runes and see the massive dmg)