Can we have some non-assassin lethality items?

The Soulforged·11/10/2016, 2:35:33 AM·1 votes·962 views

Flat penetration has always been a huge asset to the builds of champs that aren't necessarily assassins.

Almost all ad casters love the use of flat pen. Right now, ghostblade has been converted solely for assassins, and this is giving ad casters a rough time. Pick someone like Renekton or MonkeyKing. These champs benefitted heavily from buying ghostblade as an offensive item, and now there isn't really a good replacement to it that will help vs squishies. You could try going item 3071, but that's more useful in different scenarios. If I want to build some ad on these champs to increase squishy damage, there really just aren't nearly as many options as there were before the assassin update. Now we have ad items split into different categories, and there's almost no mixing and sharing. There are heavy bruiser items, item 3748 item 3156 item 3071 , adc items item 3072 item 3031 , and assassin items now item 3142 item 3814 .

While these roles of champs have their items, it's almost impossible to try building a melee ad caster without delving really deep into the bruiser category, and ending up with a tankier build than you initially wanted. The only item that really caters to this group of champs now is item 3074 , and I guess there's item 3812 , but it's much more situational. Now melee ad champs are getting really split since the lines weren't nearly as clear then, and the clear divide of items seems to be hurting those that don't fit the basic roles that well.

If we had some more lethality items that didn't need to be catered toward assassins directly, it would feel a lot better for champs that want lethality to fight squishies, but also don't want to play the assassin playstyle per say.

9 Comments

Terminus Edge11/10/2016, 2:39:55 AM2 votes

If you made a "beefier" Lethality item, wouldn't assassins just buy that to get some bulk with their damage?

How would you deter assassins from buying it, while still making it attractive to the champions you listed?

I think the issue is that you want a stat that's tailored for a certain class on items that are not tailored for that class, like asking for critical strike chance on an item that isn't designed for carries. (Isn't that one of the reasons Riot removed Atma's?)

Paroe11/10/2016, 2:37:37 AM1 votes

I dont really see a problem with the existing lethality items. Edge of night is FANTASTIC for everyone.

Aurelius Maximus11/10/2016, 2:44:10 AM1 votes

this really doesn't seem like an issue to me, why do you want that?

EcchiOtakuTM11/10/2016, 3:47:23 AM1 votes

Hell no, lethality is an assassin stat you introduce one more and squishies will die far too fast.

And they can't really have more than 3 lethality items because anymore and duskblade+armorpene in general will get out of hand.

I'm 200% for reworking youmuu's though all it really is just a stat-stick with a MS boost. Doesn't even interact with unseen for a bit more fun, it's pretty boring.