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Armor in 2019
You mean you don’t love the assassins ignore tank stats while getting so much defensive utility that they practically are tanks themselves?
Jesus he was basically full tank mode there even, and gets melted
So he had 35% pen on 443 armor at the start with 57 flat pen from items so he had about 230 armor to the zed when he first went in. After zed landed enough damage on him for black cleaver he had about 336 and with the 35% and 57 pen in the end he only had about 162 armor. So yeah, armor is a fucking joke.
=330 armor just from items.
Wow rito, such balance.
Guys, guys, calm down, Zed's weak, I mean, look at that Darius, full tank, didn't insta pop after Zed ult, Zed actually needed to hit 1 more E to kill Darius and you guys call that strong?
i said this a long time ago.
give 
and 
lethality same name passives.
if anyone has all 3 items, their effects dont stack. this allows these items to exist individually in the game, while a single person cant stack them all to invalidate high amounts of armor by himself.
overrides the other two items. means if you have all 3 items, you can apply cleaver stacks, but lethality, and passives are disabled.
if you have and then duskblades passive is disabled.
the same logic as with general resistance pen applies.
flat shred > % shred > % pen > flat pen
like on top of basically being full tank, the darius didnt even misplay here. he hit his q on the zed, and gained the heal before zeds mark popped. this should have reduced the amount of damage that death mark dealt significantly.
? zed a 1v1 lategame champ full build sold boots for an ie with 5 armor pen items, sums advantage on you, and a better positioning than you killed you hitting everything while you were standing still WOW such a broken champ (with lethality and armor pen being scaling and lategame stats btw darius is not a 1v1er hes just a lanebully)
Looking at both builds, I am actually wondering if this was staged somehow, especially since Pyke built Statik Shiv and Infinity Edge on Darius's team, and that Jhin literally gets a massive amount of AD with his own passive for Zed to steal with Ult.
Not to mention ... wtf is that Darius build? Thornmail and Randuin's Omen I can get because grievous wounds would be good against Tryndamere and Caitlyn, and the Omen active allows him to stick to opponents easier. But Frozen Heart doesnt do much for him, and Sunfire Cape doesn't either. If anything, Spirit Visage might have been better in this matchup because of the irrelevance of armor as well as the superior healing from Q and a little extra CDR to use abilities more often.
And looking at the map; holy hell why is there a teamfight in midlane while minions are at base?
EDIT: My apologies; I do not play Zed, so I was unaware his ult no longer granted bonus AD on a kill. However, if this was to prove a point on how little armor matters, at least build Deadman's Plate instead of Sunfire Cape.
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.