Those things are stupid. % health damage is never bad and never falls off. Flat damage is often times item reliant while % health damage doesn't scale much. % health damage should be better against tanks but deletes squishy champions just as quickly. % damage reduction is also bad. If I'm playing a champion that only does flat damage against someone that has % damage reduction killing them is almost impossible.
Teridax683 votesI personally dislike both, but for different reasons. I actually like the fact that percent health damage never falls off, because it can allow champions to scale smoothly and deal impactful damage no matter how far behind they are, but I dislike the fact that it ignores health purchases. This devalues tankiness the more of it exists, and I feel its overuse has been responsible for forcing an inflation in survivability on tanks, which has in turn caused them to feel too difficult to kill for champions who lack innate percent health damage or some replacement. I don't think the counter to tanky champions should be to kill them as fast as squishies, but unfortunately that's what percent health damage pushes for.
Regarding percent damage reduction, I personally dislike it simply because it's poorly visible, and thus not conducive to clarity. This also applies to resistances as well: when a game spotlight showcases the difference made by some resistance steroid or percent damage reduction effect, it usually shows a side-by-side comparison of a champion in the same situation, one with and the other without the effect. We don't have this side-by-side when we play, and are instead left to guess how much damage we're mitigating with these defenses. If percent damage reduction is too strong, it can be nerfed, but I'm personally more concerned with the clarity behind the effect, since at the end of the day it just makes our health bar tick down slower by some amount that can only be visually estimated by the player.
Venompaw1 votesNo champion only deals flat damage.
