How the hell does this make sense?

Glîtchy·Mar 22, 2017·1 votes·284 views

The opposing Malphite in my match just now had his only armor item as IBG, yet he shook off my damage as Renekton with full Lethality runes, how does that make sense?

5 Comments

Miku Hime samaMar 22, 20171 votes

First off, flat pen does poorly against tank stats. Always has. Secondly, Malphite has a passive that further increases the bonus armor he gets. So that "just an IBG" is like he also got another cloth armor for free on top of it.

Personally, I don't understand why people are trying to go full dmg on Renekton. Every time I see this, they feed endlessly, then blame their teammates for the team's lack of a frontline. Last time I played Rene myself, I went full tank. Not even a Cleaver. Enemy team literally could not even touch me as I was diving inhib turrets and tanking 50 shots without getting fazed.

GlîtchyMar 22, 20171 votes

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First off, flat pen does poorly against tank stats. Always has. Secondly, Malphite has a passive that further increases the bonus armor he gets. So that "just an IBG" is like he also got another cloth armor for free on top of it.

Personally, I don't understand why people are trying to go full dmg on Renekton. Every time I see this, they feed endlessly, then blame their teammates for the team's lack of a frontline. Last time I played Rene myself, I went full tank. Not even a Cleaver. Enemy team literally could not even touch me as I was dived inhib turrets and tanking 50 shots without getting fazed.

I was going semi-tank.

Miku Hime samaMar 22, 20171 votes

Well, that is a large improvement over the Ghostblade into Duskblade Renes I'm seeing constantly that literally get blown up before they can even reach the ADC.

GlîtchyMar 22, 20171 votes

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Well, that is a large improvement over the Ghostblade into Duskblade Renes I'm seeing constantly that literally get blown up before they can even reach the ADC.

Okay so if flat Lethality doesn't work, please explain how Lethality works, I have no idea how exactly it works.

GankedByWindowsMar 22, 20172 votes

http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Lethality#Lethality

The short of it is that lethality is like old armor penetration, but instead of getting the full value instantly it scales with opponent level.

Ex: You have 45 lethality. At level 18, you ignore 45 of their armor. Before 18, you ignore (0.6 + 0.022 per target's level)[1] to 1 flat armor penetration per 1 lethality from target levels 1 to 18.

All this means that lethality is great against squishies who don't have armor, because it gets them close to 0 armor. But it means it is terrible against high armor targets because knocking off 45 from 250 isnt doing much. That is where Last Whisper and its % Armor Penetration is better.