Just played a game where 3/5 enemy team was utilizing true damage

DiamondSeed·Sep 2, 2018·1 votes·1,054 views

Zoe in one instance did over 700 true damage from ignite + her sleepy bubble passive (Ignite did 405 true damage)

Yi was doing 350+ true damage with Wuju style + Conqueror

Jhin was doing true damage with IE nearly every auto

I'm just TIRED OF THIS. I do not have room in my items to build more health items.

8 Comments

KhristophorosSep 2, 20184 votes

Zoe's true damage doesn't count because it depends on the damage which triggered it after resists. So if you hit for 10 damage because the enemy has like 500 MR then you'll only get 10 true damage. It's the same as just having a % increase to the damage with a cap on the total amount it can be increased.

DiamondSeedSep 2, 20181 votes

True damage is still true damage. Additionally, I don't think its possible to obtain 500 MR. Typically if I build MR on Ryze I get about 150MR. Landing a skillshot on an immobile target isn't that hard and shouldn't be rewarded so much.

KhristophorosSep 2, 20183 votes

You need to repeat algebra

DiamondSeedSep 2, 20181 votes

Algebra? I'm in college and I've already taken both Calc courses + Statistics courses that I've needed to take. I really don't know what you're trying to say.

KhristophorosSep 2, 20181 votes

Then you need to think critically about how that ability works. You have the knowledge to understand it. You just have to stop blindly complaining about anything that is true damage and evaluate what the mechanics are actually doing.

edit: To be more direct I'll make an example to show why it's not like other true damage. Let's say Zoe has 500 AP so the cap of Sleepy Trouble Bubble is 420. Let's say an equally damaging ability hits you for 420 but you have 100 MR so you take 210. That means the true damage will be 210 so you take a total of 420. If you look at it another way, what if it was implemented without true damage and instead it doubles the damage, still with the cap. Then you will take 840 halved by MR to 420. Either way it's 420.

The only reason they made it true damage was so that it would display the bonus damage separately. It is functionally identical to "double damage, with a cap" lol