Armor is the most worthless stat in the game.
A level 18 Ezreal with ibg and ga ( a very defensive core for an adc) has around 158 armor. This gets nuked down to 7 by a late game assassin. Let me rephrase this. 149 worth of stats. That’s almost 3000 gold worth of stats being ignored before adding in the damage and Passive effects of those items.
Baron Barian1 votesAll that AD and lethality means such little armor you had as an ADC is not going to help you. If you were an actual tank or bruiser, that armor would've allowed you to murder his face.
But, you were also probably alone and not with your team or support and got singled out anyway.
The thigh guy2 votesnot the point that is being made. No other stat is just removed from the game. No other stat is reduced by 24% by default. And that armor on an Ezreal is to give him enough time to shift out and start kiting, but he can’t because armor is being removed.
Imagine if there was an item that just, removes 24% of the ad you built. People would lose their god damn minds. “Oh it’s so broken, why is the stat I spend gold on so easily removed!?”
And no, armor and mr don’t remove your ad, they reduce your damage, so you can continue dealing damage to other targets, and your ability scalings aren’t effected by it.
As for all that lethality making you squishy, not really no. Lethality gives so many tank stats and defensive utility that assassins may as well be stupidly mobile bruisers. Duskblade removes vision, youmuus give movespeed to dodge, edge of night gives health and a spell shield, black cleaver gives tank stats. The only item that assassins build that doesn’t have defensive utility is lord domik’s.
Imagine if adc had that kind of defensive utility? Oh wait. They did! And riot gutted it. Relic shield, phantom dancer, deaths dance, steriks, fleet footwork, healing runes, bloodthirster, ga. All gutted because it was letting adcs have some tank.