Can we have some non-assassin lethality items?
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
or
. 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
, 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,
, adc items
, and assassin items now
.
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
, and I guess there's
, 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.