Why true damage will become OP after the Tank update

Birdie Sànders·Apr 20, 2017·1 votes·724 views

Tank items after the update, according to Riot, will have lowered HP and higher resistances, making it so Armor/Mr will be playing a bigger role than Health. This will make it harder for champs building mostly offensive items to be tanky, so if you can 2 shot a squishy, chances are you're squishy too. That's all well and good.. except for one problem: True Damage. Since having a lot of HP countered true damage, it wasn't a problem. But since Health is dropping, true damage will really start to shine. All those resistances you bought wont matter when a or treats you like a squishy And what about ? Resistances barely matter to her in the first place, especially once she gets her items. Hopefully Riot will change the champs with enough true damage to really matter in their kits, maybe shift power to other parts of their kits

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JefftiffyApr 20, 20172 votes

I mean tanks weakness is supposed to be true damage if they choose to go resistances. So if there is a lot of true damage HP builds should be the solution. The problem is that a lot of hp builds are pretty much garbage on the average tank in most games. There has to be a lot of true damage to make them good and be flat damage. % hp and % true damage is meant to be the absolute counter to tanks and shows the late game of a champ. The problem is right now that most true damage is either really high amounts of base damage or accessible too early.

True damage is a necessity in the game for long term health the problem is that Riot seems to think that it makes consistent damage when all it does it punish tanks. The point of it is to shred tanks not make damage consistent. And saying that how you counter large amounts of true damage with hp is false. You can't justify a 1k true damage ult with the fact that a squishy has 1.8k hp because they literally have no armor either way. Meaning that they would have probably taken 800 normal damage.