This has no counter

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

You can always squash the ADC before they get all 3.

Also - Kingblade and Ghostblade get pooped on by armor incredibly hard. Flat pen is very different from % pen in what Ghostblade offers. 20 flat pen against 20 armor means 100% armor penetration and true damage. 20 flat pen against 200 armor...doesn't. Having 10% life steal off of 200 damage auto-attacks means you restore 20 HP with each attack against 0 armor. Against 100 armor, it means only 10 HP per attack. 8% current HP means 4% current HP when 100 armor comes into the picture as well.

As long as your armor is proportionally larger than a squishie's armor at the same degree your health is, Kingblade largely does the same flat value per hit. Granted - it doesn't do less flat damage like flat damage vs. armor compared to no armor, but you still survive longer as a tank than a squishy against it.

It's not particularly hard to deal with such characters before they get all 3 items.

Also - none of those AD items provide defensive stats at all. Any cc at all fallowed by a solid booping over the head or some pew pew will counter such a champion pretty easily. CC, focus, teamwork, all things that can easily deal with a damage threat that can't be completely shut down with itemization alone.

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The only way to counter it would be lots of hp items, and lots of armor, so the last whisper does not remove enough armor for the bork to shred hp.

The ap counterpart is not the same, as most ability power champs are more burst than sustained damage, where the bork/lw excels.

easy counter is

you cant tank vs this item combo because those items exist to counter tanks on the other hand if its too good onn you you can just but trollmail and simply forget that adc exists

items are rly fked up atm

I feel like isn't the counterpart to , but instead the one to ...

It's subjective on the champions using each of these items. A champ with a naturally high health pool doesn't need the beef that Rylai's provides, etc. (Also I think Nashor's Tooth is a more fair comparison to the Ghost Blade in terms of AP items)

Another thing to note, is that just about everyone who uses the AP combo tends to also need mana to get use out of the items. So while they do give survivability through health, which the AD ones lack, that doesn't make them equal, it makes them worse at doing their job. This is why AP champions need to dedicate to AP items, but AD bruisers can build a purely tank item 85% of the time. The thing which keeps ADCs from doing the same is the need for crit strike, so in that case they are more balanced.

Riot seems to have a design philosophy which means AP champions lack natural tankiness, so almost no AP items are prefectly optimized for Damage. Marksmen being the main DPS are very item dependent, with weak kits, meaning that they have to invest money into the ability to double the damage of the auto attacks. Bruisers/Fighters have insanely powerful kits, meaning they can build fewer items to reach the same levels as Mages or Marksmen, and then the ability to build extra specific counter items. Which is fine, until the power of their kits compared to the power of the kits of Mages and Marksmen is such a large gap, that they don't even need the extra itemization, but they still have it anyway.

Is it so hard for Riot to understand?

Funny thing that AP counterpart doesn't even stand close

How are those three items the ap counter part?

= ap version of ' only simularity with is penetration is one of the stats and is the only one that translates from one to the other?

and further, why would an ap character build the ap version of ad anyway? the point is to play different champions with different play styles, not replace each item with the "counter part"