Can we please do something about Armor and Magic pen?

Rew711·Jan 31, 2016·3 votes·383 views

As someone who tries to go Tank and build armor or magic resist, its hard to stay alive after the "changes" back in season 5. Its not that it shouldn't be in here, but its gotten really hard to do much when an enemy mage (or AP assassin) can get 3 items and penetrate 65% of my MR with every spell.

Example:

I just went Galio, and since you guys at Riot pretty much got rid of all mana pots and the mana regen spell, I knew that after you guys at Riot (not nerfed) slaughtered the MR items, that Galio would at least need something to help with these issues.

And it bewilders me that there isn't a way to gain a ability like Kassadin's passive gives, but for Tanks on some Tank item that doesn't benefit AD or AP champs. A way to block 10% of the enemies AD or AP or something. With all the armor pen and magic pen, can't there be one item for damage reduction?

4 Comments

RalanrJan 31, 20163 votes

Honestly I'd like tank items to be a bit cheaper. Tank jungling is hard to itemize for after you get the jungle item.

Well not so much hard as it is costly. Tanks don't feel like tanks until you get a few items (in my experience).

Tonyob20Jan 31, 20161 votes

Ninja Tabi. item 3047 Idk mate, mundo and malphite seem hard enough to kill as is. Scroll through the items, bro. I rarely use the complete recommended set, it's just not flexible enough to be used in every game.

Rew711Feb 1, 20161 votes

Forgot it got changed, when I thought about that item, I remembered that it use to only block 10 damage or something. But there still isn't a way to block a % of magic damage.

Magic Resist items don't give as much as Armor items do (in basically MR amount vs Armor amount). There is a Armor item that gives 100 Armor. Can there not be a MR item that gives 80-100 (to even possibly 120) MR?

FrikgeekFeb 1, 20161 votes

MR is more valuable than armor, that's why you get less of it. The whole game is balanced around it, skills that do magic damage usually deal less raw damage than skills that deal physical damage because of this.

And really, how the fuck can a mage ignore 65% of your MR, void staff is 35% while the rest are flat pen only.