Riot is so biased toward AD its ridiculous (lethality really?)

fuffychan··2 votes·333 views

Lets look at armor pen/lethality

Theres so many items that all give awesome bonuses item 3147 item 3814 item 3142 item 3036 item 3033 item 3071

AP has to sacrifice defensive boots to get magic pen item 3020 , and then theres only 2 items with either no passive item 3135 or is overpriced and has a terrible build path item 3151

And then not only that theres item 3026 and item 3812 item 3046 item 3074 item 3022 making assassins and bruisers unkillable like wtf?

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TheHappyReaperz2 votes

item 3135

Unique Passive: +35% magic penetration

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YokoNomi1 votes

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item 3135

Unique Passive: +35% magic penetration

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Too tired to look into this, but isn't there is a difference between penetration and lethality? No point in having both if it's the same thing.

Marshbouy2 votes

Not really. Lethality is just armor pen but different. It's flat armor pen. % armor pen is better against tanks while flat is better against squishies.

ModWulf Helhammer1 votes

Lethality is flat armor pen, but most of it scales with your champion level. %apen (last whisper items) is better against tanky targets, also because it only affects bonus armor

AP only has two stats: flat pen, and %total pen. In combo with the lower amounts of MR in general, AP has the better end of the deal, as their stuff works universally

Dark Nephthys1 votes

Magic pen still only applies to abilities which have CDs as opposed to armor pen which works on both abilities and auto attacks. (Well technically magic pen works with auto attacks on Corki but he is a special case lol). Also item 3151 isn't really an item that can be utilized by every mages which basically leaves only item 3020 item 3135 as the only real options for some mages.

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