PSA ADC players: if the enemy has two tanks, don't build lethality

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Firstly, only one ADC builds all of those (Lucian. MF sucks against tanks anyways). Secondly, you can't rush ARPEN because that way you will lack waveclear and overall damage. Without AS you won't deal damage to tanks anyways. Thirdly, even if you have it you spend so much gold on fighting tanks that it's pretty shitty against 1/2 tanks. But nowadays people still are able to pick 3 tanks (or more, as has been evidenced by LCS) which shows that tanks are strong enough to be stacked despite people counterbuilding them.

Of course you can't rush LW on an ADC. No one fucking does that, it's more of a late game purchase. And to address your third point, see below.

Lethality + ARPEN takes too many itemslots and is still not as effective as crit/as + arpen. Lethality is only good against squieshies, period.

Of course Lethality+Armorpen isn't as effective in damage as crit and pen. It will never be damage wise. That's not the problem, the problem is when it is decent enough so that the ADC can build Lethality+Armor Pen and be decent at killing tanks while being a squishy burster. Normally crit does this as well, but Crit takes much longer to stack up (the only reason why tanks are early to mid is because the items that counter them are bought late after all that damage is bought).

Just straight lethality is not killing tanks. The only way lethality starts to hurt tanks is when you combine it with LW, BC, and/or Bork. So anyone complaining that lethality alone is one shotting tanks better show video proof because I call bullshit on tanks being the ones complaining about lethality.

And for the three tanks thing, I've seen at max two tanks picked. What are the tanks being played in the LCS?

Because marksmen are perfectly fine.

The problem is there are several players here on boards who happen to main immobile fighters like Darius, Morde and Garen, and can't deal with the fact they are not the main carry on their team, so they start like 6 hate threads a day.

Someone saying something logical? Holy fuck get out.

I always thought it was the items, that are a bit... you know strong? Never blamed the adc, and never will. I just find the items a bit overwhelming.

The reason you lived was no crit I take it right? No crit, just armor pen stuff and raw phyiscal damage with what 1.20 to 1.5 attack speed? Being generous on the attack speed too.

Never mind looked at the game. I found it. That was a pretty interesting game. Though that zed was hella fed, geez. Looking at his build, wouldn't be surprised if he one shots the varus, quinn or graves.

But man look at all that squishiness, im not surprised they lost.

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Having a couple of tanks being strong/viable does not automatically make it a tank meta.

These are all meta tanks right now, in top/jg/support and mid in Galios case. Hardly only "a couple."

Loads of AD from his passive and the fourth shot executes?

It could end the game quickly before when items gave flat pen (since you could invest early for virtual true damage until late game), but the way they have reworked it into lethality, and now again with the personal level scaling, it is actually gated from being a strong early game stat since you don't get close to full armor pen per lethality values until late game, now it is just a strong anti-squishy stat.

Basically, if you are snowballing hard enough for lethality to make a difference in how quickly you end a match, the enemy team is already so far behind that it's inevitable, and you're simply saving 2 minutes off a 25 minute stomp.