Lethality is Back

Slythion·Jul 13, 2017·1 votes·414 views

and it's as cancer as ever

Glad to see an average Lucian do 1700 dmg in 3 seconds to me, can we maybe tone it back down again please?

edit: 1900 in 3.3 seconds this time

2 Comments

RexxieeJul 13, 20172 votes

No it isnt.

Duskblade is strong, EoN still shit, ghostblade is overall the same/lost damage.

Duskblade is strong for snowbal but it'll get nerfed, then the stat will probably go back to the dumpster as even with duskblade as it is lethality still falls off too hard late game.

The Leo CatJul 13, 20171 votes

Glad to see Khazix goomba stomp and instakill 3 people now.

Honestly, I don't know how I feel about it. In one place, I hate that certain champions can just proc dusk blade multiple times. On the other hand, it is available to all players.

Anyways, the counter to lethality is Armor. It's pretty counter intuitive, I know. But the the function for armor reduction is...

100/(100+Armor).

If you were to graph this function, it creates an asymptotic curve approaching zero. This is important because it means you have deminishing returns. But this is also advantages because loosing 60 armor to lethality might only open you up to 5-7% more damage if you stacked armor. Compare this to someone lower on the spectrum with 85 armor. They'd take 54% of of the damage till that 60 armor pen hits them. Then suddenly it's 80% of the damage.

You start seeing a steady drop in armor benefits around 180, and it starts to go flat around the 250 mark.

I think what makes this particularly interesting is that Lethality is pretty god damn cheap to stack compared to normal ADC items. If you mix it with critical builds, you can potentially out run the damage of a normal ADC.

Right now... Lethality no longer favors marksman, who were normally a few levels behind a mid laner or a top laner.

It greatly benefits mid laners, top laners, and potentially junglers if they are on the ball with ganks.

The problem here is... that to really reap the rewards for a marksman, you need someone with an ability that hits rapidly or in large burst.