Lethality on the rise again

Sand Ähläm·Jan 1, 2018·4 votes·545 views

I think the key to the laughable state of the game is lethality. Lethality has begun to rise again in the same way it did before. You build lethality on every single melee (and some ranged) AD champion and you oneshot everyone. Even tanks are vulnerable to this kind of play style. I am sick of seeing 400 Armor tanks getting killed in a blink of an eye. [zombie-nunu-bummed]

It is no coincidence that most of the AD champions build Dusk Blade first item (No matter the role or lane). This game is slowly losing its tactical side already. The game is mostly: Damage and Feed > Everything else (including the laughably weak turrets)

11 Comments

CrystalyskJan 1, 20185 votes

Did you know lethality is shit vs armor? It's only good for killing squiscy opponents.

Sand ÄhlämJan 1, 20182 votes

Then why do you think AD champions on full lethality builds go through armor in mere seconds?

CrystalyskJan 1, 20184 votes

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Then why do you think AD champions on full lethality builds go through armor in mere seconds?

You come here conplaining about Lethality but you don't even know how it works.

Zed geniusJan 1, 20184 votes

Lethality on the rise again

it just got nerfed

Even tanks are vulnerable to this kind of play style. I am sick of seeing 400 Armor tanks getting killed in a blink of an eye.

????

The game is mostly: Damage and Feed

didn't know that I was supposed to run full tank leblanc and zed tbh

Sand ÄhlämJan 1, 20182 votes

It just got nerfed and everyone is still building it Why do you think that happens?

You seemed to completely miss the point on the damage and feed over everything else. Completely.

Zed geniusJan 1, 20183 votes

everyone builds it because what are they supposed to build? I'm not really into that IE rush on zed tbh

Sand ÄhlämJan 1, 20182 votes

Everyone =/ assassins Even a monkey can figure that assassin's build lethality

Zed geniusJan 1, 20182 votes

then what champions are "everyone" that are not assassins?Two that come to mind are Jhin and MF that build one or two lethality items, but what are the others?

Sand ÄhlämJan 1, 20181 votes

Wukong Draven Garen Graves Jayce Kindred Lee Sin Lucian Miss Fortune Nocturne Pantheon Riven Xin Zhao These champions build lethality pretty often (and most of them starts with Dusk Blade First item) There are more champions which you can build full lethality (such as GangPlank and Vi) But those are rarely seen so i didn't want to include them.

Edge of DaybreakJan 1, 20182 votes

So out of over 130 champions you got 13 and only 2 of them are even seen as issues right now? Also you do need to understand that armor directly counters lethality. That's the entire point behind it. However dps is meant to get through tanks and that's where most adc's with lethality are coming through because they hit tanks way harder than anyone else building lethality is going to.

Zed geniusJan 1, 20181 votes

Nocturne IS an assassin, riven shouldn't be an assassin but she one shots ppl no matter what she builds so idk what she should be thb, kindred,xin and garen don't build lethality, they just don't, lucian,draven and lee can build it but they rarely do. Wukong, Graves, Jayce, Miss fortune and pantheon do build it most often, but that's still a small proportion of league's AD champions.(even if we include those that sometimes build it it still isn't a big enough number to say "everyone"). And what you have to think is that nerfing lethality will make ad assassins such as zed, talon, kha'zix and rengar literally unplayable (first half of season 7 flashbacks) or force them into some weird tank builds that are unhealthy for the game(I'm looking at you, Rengar ). Also armor pen was turned into lethality so that ad carries don't abuse it as hard, which partially worked to some extent(there are viable builds for every ad carry besides miss fortune that don't include lethality, unlike in season 6 where it was lethality or int )