Bone Plating?

Azadethe··5 votes·6,787 views

After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you recieve from enemy deal 15+35 (+1 of your bonus health) less damage. Duration: 5s Cooldown: 45s

What is +1 of your bonus health? 1%? 1 HP? lol?

1% Surely would have to be broken as heck, given Second Wind.....

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TheSandQrator3 votes

It's 1% of your Bonus Health. But yeah, there's been some... interesting phrasing pushed to the PBE recently, but hey, it's the test realm, it's not entirely gospel.

Doran's Shield used to block 8 damage (before resistances), and was only on autoattacks/single-target abilities.

Bone Plating would, let's say, on someone with Doran's Shield and the 65 Bonus HP from Resolve runes...

  • Have a total of 145 Bonus HP
  • Block 16.45 damage, pre-mitigation, for three hits at level 1.

So those two autoattacks and a Broken Wings from a Riven would lose 16.45 damage each, which is nuts early game. That's almost 50 damage just gone, poof.

It might not seem like much but boy it can add up bigtime over the course of a game, but it's especially impactful early game because nobody has any real base damage or damage scaling going.

... And this is assuming that it affects pre-mitigation damage instead of post-mitigation damage, because that would be a super strong rune!

I really wonder how that'd play with Kled, since Skaarl's health is treated as Bonus Health, and you get 1420 of that for just being level 18. Surprisingly tanky angry yordle man. Can't wait to mess around with it.

Azadethe2 votes

My Concern is it's going to be organized in a way where you can literally get Second Wind + Bone Health + Conditioning. That's a pretty strong arsenal, especially with Aftershock champs.

TheSandQrator1 votes

Yeah, it's a surprising amount of tank to be able to bring under your belt.

It's an awkward balance between flat values and % amplification, since the flat values don't care and the % amplifications make the abusers more abusive...

I'm gonna see how it pans out. Maybe I'll last 5.5s in a teamfight now instead of 5s!

Rexxiee2 votes

Oh look, another rune that shafts bruisers for tanks.

Guess we need 30 more hashinshin videos.

Blazehhh2 votes

It looks like it changed, it just says "20 to 50 less damage" instead of something about bonus health

Chawoora1 votes

Also note, that if you look at the tooltip on the PBE, the text "15+35" is supposed to be "15-35" (assume that means 15 level 1 and 35 at level 18). 1% of Bonus HP is not a ton compared to the base stats. Spirit Visage + Randuin's is 850 HP, so even those two items would give 8.5 damage reduction. Yeah, it adds up with a Cinderhulk + Warmogs + Randuin's + Spirit Visage tank jungler, but 30 damage reduction for a 3K bonus hp tanks is not game breaking. That early game reduction seems a bit too strong.

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