Another Post About Tanks

Stephenizgod··2 votes·527 views

So before anyone says anything about me being salty this isnt a QQ post. Im not really complaining and im not bashing on any champions or those that play them.

Played a game as Volibear support (was playing with some of my friends), it was Volibear (me) and Jinx (my friend) against a Kalista and a Zed support who didnt come to lane all that often.

Kalista built item 1053 and a item 1042, at first i thought we would be fine because she didnt have much AD, but i was wrong. She hit me 2 times with AA's and then a Q, this brought me down to below 30% from around 95% of my life. I went back and bought a item 1031 and item 1011, she came back with a item 1043 ... So again im thinking well she for sure has no AD and i have both HP and Armor items, well she almost 4 shot me. If she hadn't have missed her Q i would have died from 4 AA's and a Q from 100% life. With only 113 AD... If she wasn't solo laning for most of the game she would have won lane, we couldn't out damage or catch her even though she only had a item 1053 and a item 3085 and she was acting like my item 3068 was nothing, seriously my passive was always gone because 3-4 AA would almost kill me (no she didnt have any armor pen in her runes) the only downfall to this is she would miss out on a lot of kills because she couldnt stack up her E enough to kill me with it.

So what i want to know is why a item 1053 and item 1043 is better then a item 1031 and item 1011. Vamp Scepter is 800 gold and Recurve is 900, so 1700 gold spent. Chain is 750 and giants is 1000, so 1750 gold spent. My tank items and her ...damage?... items should have been equal in effectiveness yet hers were clearly dominating mine. She didnt even build AD or Crit and she was chewing through my items.

Idk if this is a problem with Kalista or Tank/ADC Itemization, but i do see this as a problem. I invested just as much gold as her into tank and her investment was making mine look like nothing. Even when i had Sunfire, Randuins, and Thornmail i couldnt 1v1 her because she would chew through me and she only had Shiv for Crit and LW for armor pen (which is enough in most cases...).

So what are your thoughts on the matter? And yes i know Kalista > Volibear because he cant catch her but im talking about her being able to kill me in less then 5 AA's with no AD, Crit, or Armor Pen items. Im not calling Kalista OP either (although she annoys the f*ck out of me sooooooo much omg her passive was driving us all insane...) and im not condemning those her play her, in fact i would like your opinion on this as well.

Proof its not a QQ post: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1687689306/206176227?tab=builds&participant=5. Support Volibear carry ;D (more like his ult is best for ksing lol)

3 Comments

VertexRose1 votes

I think you are under estimating how many times you were hit. The only thing that would make even close to that is if she was with Zed and they proc'd the passive (which does a % damage).

This is partly numbers but. If Kalista had 113 AD. If you have chainmail I'd assume your armor to be about 80100. Which translates into ~40%-50% PHy damage reduction. Her autos should only be doing ~60-70 damage per auto attack with basic armor pen mastery.

Stephenizgod1 votes

See thats what i thought until i started counting how many times she would hit me. She brought me down low enough for my passive to proc with 3 basic attacks, with 4 basic attacks she would leave me so close to dead that one more AA+E or a Q would kill me. It was amazing how fast she could kill us, without Zed too idk what he was doing but he was rarely in lane (he was mostly top but i dont know why he was there).

Believe me if i thought i was wrong i wouldn't have made a post about it, but i counted several times and the most she would need is 5 basic attack to kill me.

Kuroi861 votes

What were your runes/masteries and was she running a crit chance rune?

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