For those who complain about lethality

Ventace·10/17/2019, 12:39:19 AM·3 votes·1,031 views

Did you know that all 3 lethality items gives 57 Armor Pen at max level?

For fighters/bruisers/tanks, ONE armor/health item (Sunfire, Thornmail, Randuins) more than cancels out THREE ITEMS worth of armor pen.

If you're a mage or ADC, tough luck, Zhonya's and GA don't 'quite' cancel out all 3 items worth of armor pen. But they do cancel out more than 2. Throw in the fact that they have the biggest survivability buffers in the game, there isn't 'much' to complain about.

If you're still getting bursted, really consider Tabi boots over Berserkers. Low damage is more damage than no damage.

Also, if an enemy AD assassin is tearing up your game and you think they'll oneshot you, then even as an ADC you SHOULD consider a full-tank item like Thornmail.

14 Comments

MrFawknSunshine10/17/2019, 12:43:34 AM4 votes

why tornmail? that is situational item vs auto attackers

assassins arent autoing you to death

MrFawknSunshine10/17/2019, 12:46:06 AM2 votes

to me it makes sense if you are facing an ad assassin maybe take the armor flex rune and then GA of course and if needed ninja tabs

that should be enough

WalkingInACircle10/17/2019, 1:36:48 AM1 votes

...and a big pile of AD. They're double dipping damage items that also get utility and average price.

Duskblade also gets a big damage proc and needs a Nerf.

Zero Shingetsu10/17/2019, 4:02:55 AM1 votes

I've done the math on this in another post.

Taking full Lethality build gives you roughly three times the damage you'd get from the same amount of AD without Lethality. The number looks small, but when you observe percentile effect, relevancy factor, peripheral actuation, prevalence delta, quantitative amalgamation... When you dig into the mathematics of it as deep as I have (which I don't expect average users to do, but I do expect Riot to do), you realize just how insanely impactful Lethality truly is.