Should True Damage exist? Or should it be removed?

Reworked Fiora·9/2/2016, 12:30:14 AM·3 votes·766 views

Ye I'm a Fiora main but really. True damage ain't fair. Impossible to itemize against, makes building tank ineffecent. It be different if most champions had access to something that give them true damage. Yeah we got the red jg item and red buff but compared to built in true damage on people like Vayne, Irelia and Fiora, its nothing. The select few who have it built in are always gonna show up on the list of top meta champions.

Its an unfair mechanic to any champion that doesn't have built in true damage and it should really just be removed.

10 Comments

MissingKayo9/2/2016, 12:35:47 AM5 votes

True damage is fair because it in itself is not impossible to itemize against unless it's % max health true damage. Build health. Also most true damage champions don't have it super consistently, it only happens on some specific criteria. Most of their damage will still be their normal type (physical/magic/whatever). Build resistances.

Second of all, the champions that do have true damage are balanced around said fact and are thus balanced overall.

Arcus Diabolus9/2/2016, 12:45:27 AM2 votes

True damage can be itemized against by building health. It only ignores resistances.

True damage probably shouldn't be removed for the sake of having something to fall back on if a tank meta develops. Removing it until then and implementing it later when things are unbalanced would be a waste of time as well, since you might as well nerf the tanks rather than give their opponents true damage. Then it would turn into true damage = viability and it would just be a mess for everyone else.

Far simpler to just keep true damage under control now.

GULAG 4 U9/2/2016, 12:36:56 AM1 votes

Well it depends on the champion really.

And A Real Hiero9/2/2016, 12:35:19 AM1 votes

Vel Koz is the only champ, I don't find it unfair on. Though that was on release. Its on the stronger side now.

Weiner the Pooh9/2/2016, 1:34:26 AM1 votes

Except Fiora and Vayne are both not meta, and both only do true damage to a single target. Zero AOE, on either.

Sylvant9/2/2016, 4:22:25 PM1 votes

Twitch Garen but are not amongs the top champions. Its nice addition to the game and helps for diversity. You can just stack hp and be fine vs true damage.

Ralanr9/2/2016, 4:28:49 PM1 votes

True damage has its place. Even %heath true damage has a right to exist.