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2 Rune questions

OhOkYeah·2/27/2015, 5:40:11 AM·1 votes·235 views

Went into a custom game with no masteries as ryze to see something about runes. I was just running some tier 1 runes and had these rune totals: 3.7 AD, 4.4 MR, 8.7 Armor. What I wanted to know was if the tenths of each stat was wasted or not. In game, it showed me having 4 bonus ad, 4 bonus MR, and 8 bonus armor.

So it rounded up the AD runes, but rounded down the MR and Armor despite the armor being closer to 9 than 8. Anyone know the details behind this? Or some stats rounded up and some down? Going to do more testing in a minute but I don't own any other runes so I'm quite limited.

The second question is for my jungle rune page. Getting ready to buy a set of tier 3 runes for this and want to know why most people take MR glyphs over more armor. I see a lot of people taking AD marks, MR glyphs, Armor seals and either AD or AS quints. But since MR is quite easy to build for (item 3156 item 3155 item 3139 on AD champs, doesn't it make more sense to grab armor runes instead? The armor will make it easier to tank the jungle monsters for the first few levels, which means you'll have more health for the first gank or if the enemy jungler LeeSin invades before you expected. Thoughts?

edit: One last question

I see many ADC rune pages taking AS quints, while a lot of jungle rune pages taking AD quints. Shouldn't this be the other way around? The AS quints would be better in jungle since that provides a higher AA dps against monsters who you will be attacking constantly. Where as ADC, you're not constantly auto attacking so the AD quints would help more with trading and last hitting, right?

5 Comments

TheKingDodo2/27/2015, 6:32:18 AM1 votes

Q1: Riot obvious hates defensive stats... jk, every stats in the game is written as a floating point value (Non-integer values) say champino X's armor is 29.53 which rounds down to 30 in game with 8.7 armor from runes it seems like it should be 38.7 which rounds up to 39 but 29.53 + 8.7 = 38.25 which rounds down to 38. It's just a coincedence.

Q2: Armor blues are terrible. If you really don't want MR get cdr or AP instead. it's a matter of value. you get more MR than armor from blues. Also you don't wanna get blown up in ganks/skirmishes and be forced to rush an normally useless MR item (gold is precious for a jungler). Invades are easy to deal with... ward. Armor ≠ more health. destroying the camps faster actually gives you more health than tanking for a good duration. also you get counter jungled less often... so get cdr/ap instead.