Why is Veteran's Scars 45 HP and not 50?

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Eh, as someone that played during season 4 this is not an assassin meta yet. We still have champs that are hard to kill, you need to invalidate defensive builds before we get back to that monstrosity.

This meta seems more like an AD meta than an assassin meta.

I say AD meta because we have lots of AD bruisers, AD assassins, AD junglers, and of course ADCs, running there and dominating.

Season 3, now THAT was an assassin meta.

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I still get Veteran's Scars on champions without natural sustain. As low as 45 health is, it is better than 8% extra healing potential on champions that do not have healing potential to begin with

Even with no built-in sustain, Runic Armor also increases the healing from potions, plus base health regen and regen from items like Doran's Shield. And it also increases the effectiveness of shields (including spell shields like Hexdrinker). It just seems better overall compared to a bit of flat health IMO.

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I still get Veteran's Scars on champions without natural sustain. As low as 45 health is, it is better than 8% extra healing potential on champions that do not have healing potential to begin with

These items give 8% extra healing/regen/life steal effect from:

8% extra shielding from these items:

Lastly 8% extra healing/shielding form these characters that may be in your game:

Honorable mentions:

So compare all the synergy it has with all the champs that directly benifit from it, with all the items that benifit from it, on top of all the champs that could heal or shield you with 45 HP.

So even if you somehow play a champ that builds none of the listed items, NOT EVEN POTIONS, and none of those champs are in your game.... You still get 8% extra healing at the spawn when you back, so it saves a few seconds in the early part pre-homeguard effect.

Runic armor would have to be up against.... probably as much as 100 HP for me to consider it (20 HP per rank). Even then 100 HP is dwarfed by the late game stacking benefits of runic armor on many champs.

Im not sure what champions you play that you cant benefit from Runic Armor, but I cant think of one. Just the 162 HP from is potentialy worth more than the 45 HP if you buy several, but if you go then all 3 charges give 12 extra HP per charge or 36 for all 3, and even more than that with Secret Stash for 10% potion duration. In fact Runic + Stash with comes to a total of 534.6 healing vs 450 with neither. Thats another 84 HP worth of sustain, and why I personaly would need V. Scars to be around 100 HP to lure me away.

I know youre not saying V. Scars is superior or anything, I just cant see where it even rivals it or is better in any situation. Im just saying I very strongly disagree that it is somehow more use-able on any champion regardless of their potential for self healing, 45 HP is just basically half an auto attack... an early game auto attack.