Anti-tank mage items suck ass

RedCyclone··2 votes·1,800 views

If a team has 2 or more fatfucks on their team, then playing a mage against that team is literally hell

Lets have a look at all the anti tank mage items in the game

Sorc shoes - 15 flat MPen liandry's - 15 flat Mpen, 2% dot of current health, double if movement impaired Void staff - 35% Mpen

So one is pretty much mandatory on most midlaners, one is very situational and only works on certain champs AND has to be doubled up with Ryalis, and the last one is only good if the enemy tanks are actually stacking MR, but they never are, all tanks have to do is get a SV and they are usually golden vs mages, since most armor items also give health that is also an easy counter to magic damage too

Can we please have real options for anti tank items for mages, look at AD items it's a joke to compare them at this point, so much flat penetration where AD assassins are essentially running 70APen with there penetration items that give them even more damage to squishy targets anyway, why the hell is the only other buildable flat Mpen item a Haunting Guise and you have to spend a assload on the combine cost and the ruby you probably don't want, where pretty much every AD pen item builds from AD!

/endrant

5 Comments

ModWulf Helhammer5 votes

You, as a mage, are not supposed to be focusing on hitting the tanks.

That's the ADCs job. Your job is to make sure the enemy's ADC can't do his because they're dead, from you

WalkingInACircle3 votes

item 3116

You don't beat tanks by building even more damage against them, you beat them by dragging out a fight so you have time to DPS them.

Critmaster Garen3 votes

youre not supposed to be able to burst tanks.

you kite/deal with tanks though your utility. you blow up squishies from a distance with your burst.

Sasogwa2 votes

flat pen is not a tool to deal with tanks, on the contrary ! It is best against squishy champions. Liandry's passive is quite anti-tank with poking in its design though.

Stellafreyja1 votes

If Mages could burst tanks, we would have a problem. Not to mention, Magic Penetration goes much further than Armor pen. Everyone get's armor per level and usually takes armor runes. Only melee ranged champions get MR per level.

All ranged champions have 30 base MR, not including runes and masteries. Mages usually take Magic Pen runes which gives about 8 flat penetration. You can get an additional 30 from Sorcerer's Shoes and Liandry's. The precision mastery gives you an additional 8.4 Magic Pen.

So, you can get about 46 flat magic penetration from items, meaning you're doing true damage to squishes that don't build any MR.

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