Essential Cloth Armor Start NOT listed under "Laning Starter Items"

be my angel·11/23/2014, 4:13:04 AM·8 votes·1,355 views

Not sure if this has been mentioned before or yet but this has bothered me a bit:

For the recommended items as a "laner" there is no option to start with the cloth armor, yet somehow there is the option to start with the longsword under the recomendations.

Wouldn't the cloth armor (accompanied by health potions ) be the equivalent of a longsword start with health potions ?

Just my two cents on the new feature, thanks :)

Edit: Also Flask is missing as noted by Anonagon ty

9 Comments

Anonagon11/23/2014, 4:13:58 AM4 votes

flask is also missing from the lane starting items tab

JadeKnightblazer11/23/2014, 4:15:11 AM3 votes

flask can't be used till Lvl 9 now.

Lynne11/23/2014, 4:21:08 AM1 votes

isn't the recommended start usually dorans' items? I don't really understand what you mean. Perhaps cloth armor isn't the best start. How are they equivalent? one is defensive, one is offensive. some champions do start with cloth armor, but overall long sword and cloth armor recommended starts are only to help the user build into a core item easily (don't look at me aa)

RiotRiot Onion11/23/2014, 7:44:54 AM1 votes

As other people in the thread have mentioned, starting item choices are dependent on your lane opponent. Though Cloth-5 is certainly the best item choice vs. Zed or Riven, it may be entirely useless in other matchups. Unfortunately, the recommended starting items are static and don't take into account your lane opponent. We would rather recommend an item that works decently in all matchups than an item that is great in a few matchups and terrible in others.

kDrakari11/23/2014, 8:28:35 AM1 votes

Flask is a more glaring omission imo, but I don't think Cloth is any less common to start than Longsword. Don't really know the statistics for sure.

Junkο11/23/2014, 8:56:10 AM1 votes

Same for flask