%damage is nothing special anymore

Shadewolf·Jun 28, 2017·2 votes·440 views

Hi guys,

So you know % damage is on nearly all new champs, mostly melees. Riot want %damage, so your champ deals allways a relevant amount of damage with this spell, but i see problems with this idea:

Nearly all items with armor or magicres got a good amount of hp aswell, so its basically like buying resists dont counter %-damage in any way.
% damage is original a special kind of damage to deal more damage against champs with high hp and worse vs champs with less hp, while wirh flat damage its reversed. Why we got truedamage, % do nearly the same?
When my enemies got champs like fiora,vayne,brand or mostly other% damage, i know their is nearly no reason to pick a tank and if iam firstpick i have a disadvantage.
Do guys like poppy, maokai, sion and so on really all need %damage? I dont think so, they got many other abilities and roles to focus on than %damage.

6 Comments

EschetonJun 29, 20173 votes

4: Yes. Because without it they would get bullied. And have no damage threat at all in teamfights. Higher bases would shit on squishies too hard and ap or ad scaling is bad because they are TANKS.

%dmg on tanks makes sense.

On champs that also have normal damage like mages and bruisers/divers it's weird. Even as a unique identity.

RalanrJun 28, 20171 votes

On point 4: it allows them to actually trade in lane with some relevant damage against other top laners early.

So yes because it makes them interactive in lane (don't like how Mao does it though).

ShadewolfJun 29, 20171 votes

yes, but it makes it easier to kill tanks --> riot buffed tanks so they survive a little bit longer --> ADC2k17 lul --> Protect the ADC combo => other champs suck in lategame

my idea:

why not make other champs top viable as counter/opponents for tanks? like lucian top allready

--> this way they can trade in lane --> dont need % damage on every champ

if a tank cant kill a tank in lane alone --> so be it.

ZephyrDrakeJun 29, 20173 votes

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yes, but it makes it easier to kill tanks --> riot buffed tanks so they survive a little bit longer --> ADC2k17 lul --> Protect the ADC combo => other champs suck in lategame

my idea:

why not make other champs top viable as counter/opponents for tanks? like lucian top allready

--> this way they can trade in lane --> dont need % damage on every champ

if a tank cant kill a tank in lane alone --> so be it.

sorry but what? so get rid of damage from tanks so that they become complete waste of space unless they have stupid amounts of CC... ok thanks for killing 90% of the tank roster since they have zero impact on the game after using their CDs

RalanrJun 29, 20172 votes

If you remove the kill potential from early game tanks, you remove their ability to interact in lane.

They'd only go top to CS under tower.

Need Gold 4 TentJun 29, 20171 votes

Indeed, it's nothing special coz you build flat damage and nuke the motherfuckers. Who cares about your 5% of 3000 hp (60) when I can crit your ass for 1k without caring whether you got 1000 hp or 5000.