Am I the only one who thinks armor pen runes will be really good after Cleaver change?

Visigoth··1 votes·254 views

Going for cleaver early means buying item 3044 instead of item 3134, so no early pen.

And then armor pen runes come in. Early armor pen equivalent to that of Brutalizer. For the whopping totally low price of 3690 IP.

On a serious note though I feel like armor pen runes will be pretty valuable on some champs now, especially Pantheon Garen and LeeSin who normally get an early Brutalizer (assuming top not jungle, which you still get one, just for Warrior instead of Cleaver). While having 13.55 less AD (assuming you had AD marks before armor pen marks) and 10% less cdr, this would give you 200 more HP and Phage passive.

Overall I would consider this a pretty good buff to bruisers without making them OP, and not changing much else, other than removing Brutalizer's only other path option other than item 3142 and item 3707 for junglers.

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Sire Hippington1 votes

actually, flat pen is better if you stack it, so pen runes are alot better with brutalizer and the current BC than they will be with the new BC...

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