Am I the only one confused as to why people buy all three Lethality items?

abdul569·Feb 15, 2017·2 votes·698 views

all have lethality but they're all on a unique passive so they shouldn't stack.

Do they stack? if so why is it a unique pas then. If not, won't it be too gold ineffecient or are the actives too powerful that it bypasses the redundancies of the unused lethality? Or is it the runes and masteries giving most of a person's lethality that's the problem? Or is it the clickbait youtube vids saying '100+ lethality broken' that makes people think that it stacks, even when mathematically that shouldn't be possible?

13 Comments

EndlessSorcererFeb 15, 20174 votes

Unique unnamed passives don't stack between with multiples of the same item but they do stack between different items.

item 3134 + = 10 Lethality item 3142 + = 20 Lethality + = 30 Lethality

This is the same of CDR (i.e. Kindlegem, Glacial Shroud, Fiendish Codex).

abdul569Feb 15, 20171 votes

Oh thank you for the clarification. This makes a lot of sense. Maybe riot should make lethality a named unique so that you actually have to make a choice in the 3 items.

Starcraft243verFeb 15, 20171 votes

Then it would suxx x)

abdul569Feb 15, 20171 votes

could buff the lethality numbers then.

Starcraft243verFeb 15, 20171 votes

Or just remove from night's edge, it's supposed to be a defensive item after all a bit like MAW

ZielmannFeb 15, 20171 votes

Having a one-stop-shop for all your lethality would be dangerous. You'd have to bump the value up on that one item significantly. Finishing that one item would be a huge bump in power, where today you have to buy 3 items to maximize your lethality stat.

On top of that, you'd be able to then buy other items that aren't just for lethality. It would open up AD casters to pick up super high AD items like bloodthirster and death's dance, so not only would they have even higher AD than now, they would also have tons of sustain through their lifesteal. Then ranged champs could grab their one lethality item and put attack speed and crit/IE on top of it. Yikes.

Starcraft243verFeb 15, 20172 votes

There are already some threads explaining this :

UNIQUE PASSIVE WITH A NAME (exemple : item 3100 item 3025 Unique passive Spellblade : description) Do not stacks.

UNIQUE PASSIVE WITH NO NAME : exemple : item 3158 item 3108 (unique passive : 10% CDR)) Do stacks IF AND ONLY IF the names of the items are differents.

So : item 3814 do not stack. but : item 3147 stack

LostFr0stFeb 15, 20171 votes

Masteries were giving a big chunk of lethality early, I'm interested to see how things end up after they nerfed that.

ShadòwFeb 15, 20171 votes

Unique Passives without name only apply to the same item.

So it would only not stack if you buy the same item twice, like item 3147 .

They do however stack when you buy different items.

Only Unique Passives that have a Name won't stack if you buy another item that has the same Unique Passive with the same name. (like Unique Passive - Enhanched Movement that is on all Boots item 1001 )