One of the Reasons why Lethality and Flat Magic Pen is so shitty ATM.

Recently played a game with GP after watching some of Tobias Fate's stream and he looked fun to play. Well turns out I suck massive balls on him but that's not the only thing I discovered.

On Tobias' stream he always goes for crit after triforce but I thought to myself that I want to try my own full lethality build because in theory, it deals more reliable damage than the crit build, if you hit squishies with it at least.

So not only did the early game feel siginficantly weaker to me, there also is the fact that I couldn't even oneshot waves in the late game with my full build where Tobias' build could. And then I realized the big problem behind it all.

Minions, towers and a lot of monsters don't have armor and MR, none at all. Which means that the 82 lethality I had was completely wasted on all of them.

This is important. Ever wondered why no one runs lethality rune pages or why people stopped running flat armor pen rune pages before, even before lethality was a thing? That's right, it would just make last-hitting much, much more difficult so you were basically forced to go for a flat AD or some attack speed in Quints instead. And it's not just the early game, tower armor also got removed so the lethality is also wasted gold against them too now aswell as minion waves in the late game.

Same thing with flat Magic Pen, people rarely ever run Haunting Guise or Liandry's anymore because it wont let them deal extra damage against minions, monsters and towers whereas raw AP and CDR will. The only reason everyone takes flat pen marks is because that is literally the only kind of mark AP champions can pick from.

So what needs to be changed? It's rather simple, really. Let minions and towers have 100 armor ( which will reduce incoming damage by 50% ) and halve their HP. For everyone who does not run lethality or flat magic pen nothing will change, they will still deal the same damage to them, but for everyone who does run it they finally won't have to feel bad about taking it anymore, especially in runes.

And I think this is something that we need. If you look at pro builds for example, champions like Rengar and Kha'Zix who would absolutely love lethality in theory skip it entirely, same with magic pen, you will never actually see any other magic pen item than Sorc Boots and even those often get outclassed by Ionian Boots.