These 2 champions with such builds should not feel nearly equally durable. Why? While hp might be relatively close... say about 600 more for darius, darius has resistances. Sure jax can get a bit when he ults, but not nearly the same effect as darius should be getting in raw numbers nor special effects (crit reduction, healing reduction to enemies, attack speed slow). Yet even if jax doesn't pop R he probably feels about as tanky because resistances - which tank items were converted to EMPHASIZE during tank rework btw rather than emphasize their hp values - are largely meaningless. Really beyond one armor item to not feel like you are paper, the armor itself feels like it does nothing even though that's a huge chunk of many items' apparent value. Triforce sterak gp can feel as tanky as darius with triforce and randuin why? Why does renekton even at master and challenger elo not build armor items to enable their team since being tanky is so op, but instead go full damage or ad+hp bruiser items? Because ad+hp is stronger on him than converting one of those ad+hp items into resistance+hp due to the low value such resistance items give from the resistances portion.
Sorry but adc's with 3 crit items and no armor pen shouldn't be ~~damaging ~~ making a dent in opponents with multiple armor items like randuin, thornmail, frozen heart, etc. Same for ad assassins with only say ghostblade and duskblade for armor pen because that armor reduction is pathetic compared to the amount of armor you have from 2 armor items or more. You know adc's used to mostly go pd, bt, and then something like ga if snowballing or last whisper to deal with tanks' midgame armor. The ones who didn't had built in armor shred or %hp damage as true or magic damage to kind of make up for not getting early last whisper (kog, vayne specifically). But rather than reward logic and force builds that make sense if you want to deal with specific opponents the game in recent years has rewarded full greed - and not just from adc's... toplane bruisers, fighters, tanks, midlaners etc. too. And that's how you end up with full squishy triple crit adc's wondering why assassins are allowed to 1-shot them and nuking tanks despite having no armor pen when armor is specifically supposed to punish people with no armor pen who deal physical damage. That's how you end up with master yi funnel comps and Chinese boosting strats. That's how you end up with riven's and fiora's last year rushing death's dance instead of a cleaver or sometimes triforce (in fiora's case) for a bit of durability vs a renekton and crying until game designers reward them for their stupidity in thinking they should be able to deal with the burst of an early game lane bully without having to build any durability. Which is as logical as a renekton going... it's not fair jax and fiora have more dps than me mid/late game... give me buffs so I can duel them and go even at full build w/o any outplay involved... and then Riot for some reason actually doing that. That is literally how dumb some of the stuff is the way it has changed over the years... and people wonder why the game has felt so out of whack and unbalanced. Hmm... maybe because we're giving some stuff way too much power past the point it should be useful or when it's supposed to be at it's weakest and easily abused. Maybe because we're rewarding stupid builds and letting them be good against everything even if it's not a build that should be effective against an opponent's build because... we don't want them to feel bad going this new build in this certain order - even though it should be largely useless at certain points of the game vs specific opponents with certain other builds. Yeah, that might explain things.
But then again... what does a lowly gold know? Not like I predicted on-hit jg method a month before genius Koreans discovered it and NA "stole" it from them. Not like I knew when reworked galio would and would not be busted or that camille would be an off-meta support pick for awhile when she was new BEFORE she was played in Korea or NA. Not like I innovated morgana support a full year before NA pro's found her a new home when she'd been largely considered an unplayable or bot tier champ. And then went on to innovate naut support when people were still on the morg support hype train and beat the pro's to naut support by months. Or any of dozens of other correct predictions and innovations not based off luck but based off logic and critical thinking/theorizing. So yeah... just a lowly gold here talking - give my words weight accordingly lol.
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