Lethality is a armour penetration nerf? Or am I missing something.

Chakakx·Nov 9, 2016·2 votes·2,787 views

Lets take for example

20 Armor penetration would give guaranteed 20 armor penetration (easy right?) 20 Lethality gives guaranteed 8 armor penetration + 0,33-12 armor penetration (which depends on enemy target lvl), which means you get guaranteed 20 armor penetration only when enemy opponent is 18 level

I don't know why people are so hyped for this lethality right know, since it is huge nerf. It is for sure removing early game impact however it doesn't scale that good in lategame which was supposed goal. It would be different story if items like would have 25/30 lethality.

4 Comments

GastonBarnaclesNov 10, 20161 votes

Yeah. It's a nerf... fucking riot. -_-

l MinimumWage lNov 10, 20161 votes

Read patch notes carefully guys. Lethality is a huge buff to late game armor pen because that's when assassins fell off. They nerfed it at level 1-7 because that's when they would snowball hard. 40% of lethality is given as armor pen. 10 lethality = 4 armor pen up front 60% of lethality is scaling vs the enemy level

IMPORTANT ** Lethality breaks even @ lvl 8. That means at champion level 8, your lethality = armor pen 1:1 Higher than lvl 8 = you get MORE armor pen from the same lethality stat.

My panth with runes, masteries, and youmu's gohstblade = 47 lethality. At level 8, that's an insane amount of armor pen, I'm already doing true damage to anyone not building full out armor.

Add in the other 2 assassin lethality items and that number jumps from 47 to (+15, +20) 82. Add in last whisper vs armor stackers or a black cleaver, and assassins end up being tank killers.

NarsicusNov 10, 20161 votes

40% of lethality is given as armor pen. 10 lethality = 4 armor pen up front 60% of lethality is scaling vs the enemy level

While this part is true, the rest of your post does not reflect understanding the formula for lethality.

Lethality does NOT break even at level 8, it breaks even with equivalent levels of flat armor penetration at level 18. If you get 40% now, and 60% scales up to level 18, then at level 18 you have 100%.

So your panth with runes, masteries, and ghostblade with 47 lethality at level 8 will be ignoring about 32 armor. I diddnt bother to really math it out but it is somewhere around there.

l MinimumWage lNov 24, 20161 votes

That's not what was meant. Lvl 8 lethality breaks even in armor pen relative to your # of lethality. At level 8, your lethality = armor pen 1:1. @lvl 18, it scales higher. Looking at updates guides and all are coming to this conclusion (look at rune explanation section).

http://www.lolking.net/guides/311150