"Armor needs to be higher than MR because mages dont have sustained damage"

kolpy99·Aug 8, 2015·2 votes·520 views

Let's play "Name their cooldown"

But seriously though, every mage in the game EITHER HAS:

Sustained damage

Sustained Burst or Burst with low C/D

7 Comments

GroundRuleDoubleAug 8, 20156 votes

Auto-attacks are always going to be more sustained than any mage. Not even an argument.

67chromeAug 8, 20154 votes

Annie doing 9k sustained damage with Tibbers over 45 seconds is a little different than Caitlyn doing 9k damage over 9 seconds.

Half of the champions you listed simply don't do sustained damage for fitting any of the advantages sustained damage brings, running into a pattern where they front-load the equivalent of ~10 seconds of AA damage into 1 second, fallowed by a dry spell of dealing substantially less damage than what an AA sustained-damage champion can bring.

Also - Leblanc is the polar opposite of sustained damage. She's 100% burst 100% of the time. There's nothing sustained DPS about her.

Only a few champions really do sustained magical damage, and those champions should probably be looked at rather than dragging everyone down with them.

xJLx MCHammerAug 8, 20153 votes

Only cass and Azir are really sustained dmg. The rest despite low cd ARE NOT sustained dmg

Sakura MirageAug 8, 20151 votes

Karthus ziggs not sustained damage lol please enlighten me.

JustMyBassCannonAug 8, 20152 votes

Ziggs doesn't have a minimum cooldown below 2 seconds.

Karthus, sure, his damage is sustained. If you can land Q once every two casts, or if you can stand next to someone while your E is draining mana faster than a keg at a frat party.