Ask Riot : Vi damage cap on Baron and Dragons

Revive Aatrox·12/19/2019, 2:48:42 PM·7 votes·6,438 views

Hello, I was wondering is it intended that Vi W passive doesn't even do the 300 cap to baron. Since baron is one of the few jungle creep with a decent amount of armor I was able to notice that W passive actually does only 150 to baron, which is pretty underwhelming considering she should be able to do wayyyyy more damage but you decided to cap it a 300 ( BTW brand doesn't have that kind of cap on jungle creep making brand support efficiently better at taking baron then jungle vi, which makes no sense for my ASD brain)

So its 300 max damage pre mitigation, so only around 150 to Nashor.

I don't know, Vi doesn't seem it that much of a great spot right now, she's rated tier3 on op gg.

Maybe a little quality of life change by letting her do 300 max damage after mitigation.

Here's some math for other jungle creeps

Rank 1 W = 4% max health Rank 5 W = 10% max heallth Red buff/Blue buff health 2100-3675. 4% = 84 - 147 10% = 210-367.5

Dragon : 4090-6970 4% = 163-278.8 10% = 409-697

Baron : 9000+180per minute = 12 600 at 20min and 14 400 at 30 4% = 504 - 576 10% = 1260-1440

If you take into consideration baron armor divide numbers by two 4% = 252-288 10% = 630-720

So basically Vi could have a good objective taking in theory but the 300 cap premitigation makes her less effective then a Brand support at taking neutral objective.

So plz WHY RITO :)

7 Comments

Kazekiba12/19/2019, 4:45:06 PM4 votes

damage caps are affected by armor? wut

Mundo Q does more damage then....

Bârd12/20/2019, 12:45:49 AM1 votes

Baron's attacks place a debuff that cause the victim to deal half damage to Baron.

If the max damage is 300, and you're tanking baron, each proc should cap out at 150.