Why does thunderlords (Stormlord's Mandate) do magic damage ?!

maliohammad·Sep 22, 2017·2 votes·364 views

Hello , I am mostly thinking about the new runes system (Stormlord's Mandate ) so the question is , why does tld do magic damage ? it is used by ap and ad champs , but for ap users it will match their damage type , while for ad users it will be the opposite of their damage (which can be good or bad depending on the team comps ) so can't we make the damage type in the new system adaptive , so if you have ad more than ap , it deals physical damage , and if you have more ap it deals magic damage . which make it much more fair for both ap and ad users . Edit ; or we may as well make it always the opposite , so if you build ad , you get magic damage , and if you build ap you get physical damage .

"Stormlord's Mandate" Hitting a champion with 3 unique attacks or abilities within 2 seconds deals bonus magic damage. Damage: 40-220(+25% Bonus AD)(+20% Ability Power) Cooldown: 50 seconds

13 Comments

DeathBurstSep 22, 20173 votes

Historically, because Burst damage was magical versus DPS that was physical.

Today? I'm not so sure. We now have plenty of AD Assassins with Physical Burst and even a few Mages with decent DPS like Ryze and Cassio.

Note that it's not just Stormlord. Statik's procs are also Magic, Grasp of the undying too, and pretty much all the other procs.

maliohammadSep 22, 20171 votes

I guess so , it seems an old part of lol that is still living today

HenzoAFSep 22, 20171 votes

do you really think item 3087 should do physical damage?

maliohammadSep 22, 20171 votes

probably yes

HenzoAFSep 22, 20171 votes

How can a Headbutt be magical? Alistar How can a shield be made of AD? Riven How can wind be both physical and magical? Yasuo Galio How can stabs be magical? Katarina How can this exist? MasterYi

That said I don't see why not make a lightning do physical damage. [zombie-brand-facepalm]

maliohammadSep 22, 20171 votes

I am not trying to find the logic behind things (actually , when I started playing lol I would build armour against kata thinking "I will block her daggers " xd )

Magi MayvinSep 22, 20171 votes

Because it doesn't matter, as long as it scales with ad it's the same except that penetration doesn't count which is a good thing, the ad champions that use it usually instakill people anyway.

maliohammadSep 22, 20171 votes

then why not make it do reverse damage , so mages have the same treatment ?

Magi MayvinSep 22, 20171 votes