How Does Lethality Work?

ScyPhan790·5/5/2018, 4:07:18 AM·1 votes·6,008 views

Seriously, I build 2 lethality items first and no one has any armor and I do hardly any damage. But then I play against people who build the same and they do massive amounts of damage. I know people have brought up the masteries before, but masteries don't really effect anything in the span of 2 ability uses.

Someone explain this to me because League's mechanics are starting to make less and less sense everyday I play this game. And don't even get me back on how tanks to massive amounts of damage with building next to none.

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Eclairius5/5/2018, 1:36:50 PM3 votes

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Seriously, I build 2 lethality items first and no one has any armor and I do hardly any damage. But then I play against people who build the same and they do massive amounts of damage.

The most recent game I found where you build 2 lethality items on an assassin was a Zed game today, and by looking at your build I kind of get why you didn't do as much damage as you would expect: you didn't built a Draktharr. Of the three lethality item, Draktharr is the one with the most damage output due to its ~~cancerous~~ passive. It's so powerful that most AD assassin are reliant on it and built first. If you built lethality but didn't do lots of damage to squishies it's probably because you didn't built Draktharr.

I know people have brought up the masteries before, but masteries don't really effect anything in the span of 2 ability uses.

There is a rune in domination that allow you to gain lethality/magic pen after a dash, so runes can affect something in the span of 2 abilities.

Someone explain this to me because League's mechanics are starting to make less and less sense everyday I play this game. And don't even get me back on how tanks to massive amounts of damage with building next to none.

There is also the fact that the flat armor value ignored is dependant on the level.

On the part about tanks, it's because their damage are reliant on spell level rather than stats. Whenever that's a good thing or not, I would say that depend on the champion. Also, (will kind of sound stupid but) quick reminder that item 3068 item 3025 item 3001 are offensive tank items, so "building damage" on tanks is not always buying an offensive item usually used by another class.

Mysticman895/5/2018, 4:15:16 AM2 votes

Lethality is armour pen that scales with level essentially, so at low levels it doesn't actually pen much, but at high levels it'll cut through people not building armour.

You might already have known that and just needed to vent though.