Magic Resist need more itemization

RisenFromTheAsh·2/9/2017, 5:05:59 PM·4 votes·1,107 views

There are a lot more items to build against physical damage than magic, especially if you want a full tank item and not half-tank, like item 3001 or item 3156. If you want to build full magic resist, against a super AP-heavy team, your build would look like this: item 3065 item 3102 item 3053 item 3512 item 3001 oritem 3156 anditem 3111
Facing a full AD team, and you have way more options. You can build: item 3068 item 3742 item 3143 item 3075 item 3025 item 3047
Three of those are purely meant for armor and health, and then thorn mail, which has no MR equivalent. Theres only two items that have MR and health in the MR build, and the rest are hybrid offence/defense, or zz'rot portal. I think we need a new MR item. Something with MR and health, or a magic thornmail. Something like:

100 Magic Resist

UNIQUE active: Grants a Black shield (like Morgana ) equal to 1.5x your Magic resist. when the shield is reduced by damage, reflects 75% back to the attacker. (The percentage is up for debate)

12 Comments

AlienPrimate2/9/2017, 5:47:27 PM3 votes

I would like another mr tank item. As it stands now, spirit visage is the go to item for anyone tanky whether they have healing or not. Banshee veil passive is pretty much worthless because most tanks don't care if a single ability hits them at the start of a fight.

vOmvbrawfU2/9/2017, 5:09:16 PM3 votes

AP is not like AD. 2 MR items literally shut down AP champs. AD is constant attacks, which is why it shreds through armor. With MR, you block an AP champs combo and now they're sitting there all dumbfounded....unless you're Ryze because he gets to nuke you while also being a DPS champ.

Ralanr2/9/2017, 5:14:47 PM2 votes

The only new MR item I'd like is one to fight magic dps, but that's not all that common.

MR itemization is generally fine.

SwiftKitten882/9/2017, 6:28:11 PM1 votes

not sure if serious*[slayer-jinx-unamused]*

item 3156 item 3814 item 3139

all let you build damage and get MR

while item 3157 is our ONLY option for both offense and defense vs AD

and DON'T even BOTHER tryign to say we have "HP" items like item 3027 (takes 10 min to stack), item 3116 (straight up gutted), item 3151 (only decent if u have cc) item 3030 (not many of us AP caster ever want to get within range to use that anyways) ,item 3152 (again... i want to stay AT range.. not get CLOSER).

ALL of these items are less than gold efficient for a large amount of champs becuase they frankly CAN'T use their active or the passive effectively.

and that not even mentioning what we NEED is ARMOR.. NOT HP.

becuase hp doesn't do jack shit when lethality brings u to ZERO ARMOR and makes you take TRUE damage from everything...

i litterally dont even bother buildingitem 3157 or armor anything if they have a lethality build and only get it of i want the active... becuase but the time i complete it the armor is already 100% negated by the lethality they got.

we USED to have item 3025 AP

and we have old items like "breathstealer", "The Rose's Pride", "Wizard's Regalia"

all of which were removed because that had OBSCENELY OP actives.

but we REALLY do need another option for AP and armor

Variks the Loyal2/9/2017, 5:50:32 PM1 votes

It would be nice to have an option outside of Spirit Visage and Banshee's Veil for tanks who fight magic enemies.

ChaddyFantome2/9/2017, 5:53:05 PM1 votes

The whole intended difference between Armor and MR and AD and AP is that AP is supposed to be harder to mitigate statwise than AD. That is why champs get more armor per level then MR, why Magic reduction is more efficient than Armor reduction and why there is more AP in the game than AD, and why there is less flat magic pen than armor pen (since it isn't needed with how much AP and little MR comparatively there is)

HP already acts as a check towards AP burst more than ti does AD DPS as is anyway.

Chaos Milk Tea2/9/2017, 6:07:51 PM1 votes

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree that MR item options are super limited and pathetic right now. Spirit visage is THE MR item. The problem is that, as a tank, building item 3065 + item 3083 is as good as building two mr items due to how mage damage rotations work.