@Morello: Whatever happened to changing up Void Staff and Last Whisper?

darkdill·Oct 21, 2014·3 votes·215 views

Back in S3, I had a discussion going on about how VS and LW were too good for what they cost. Not only are they pretty good sources of damage, but they also negate building resistances against you and make your attacks go through natural resists with ease.

The big problem, however, is how they are not real decisions. It is never a question of "Should I get Last Whisper this game?", but always a question of "When do I get Last Whisper?" In essence, they are too generalized and not niche picks.

I seem to recall that Riot was looking at changing them to only grant penetration against bonus AR/MR and not total AR/MR, but it seems nothing happened from that. What's up with that?

4 Comments

MarthianOct 21, 20141 votes

How are they niche picks? You are practically required to build them to even damage tanks.

darkdillOct 21, 20141 votes

You misread what I wrote.

I said they AREN'T niche picks when they should be.

MarthianOct 21, 20141 votes

Not sure how you make those two niche picks when almost every team has a tank or two, and either you run LW/VS or you don't do any damage to said tanks.

Unless they destroy tank items, they are always going to be a core item.

I did read you said they should be niche picks, but considering the meta, it's impossible for them to be niche picks when tanks are so common.

chumblerOct 21, 20141 votes

What happened is Riot is either a band of idiots or actively don't give a shit about fixing their game and are going to milk their players as long as they can.