Countering True Damage

RocketRelm··1 votes·403 views

A lot of issues recently have revolved around "% Max HP True Damage" and that there's little if any counter play regarding this kind of thing. What if there was an item you could build that made you gain some kind of stat, aura, or active after taking XXX or X% of your HP as true damage? Would this be a good potential avenue to explore?

Thoughts?

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Pupel2 votes

i think once we start putting in ways of reducing true damage we lost the integrity of true damage i just think they need to do a better job of balancing it

ZephyrDrake1 votes

you want to know the counter to true damage? Health and shields! use them!

7ha7guy7771 votes

To add on to this, here's a list of existing items that heal and/or shield item 3190 item 3222 item 3040 item 3401 item 3053 item 3153

And some items that can reduce application speed or in Vayne's case remove stacks item 3110 item 3140

Kharn Skyshatter1 votes

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you want to know the counter to true damage? Health and shields! use them!

Unless its Fiora or Vayne then Health gets melted off just as fast due to %health true damage.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

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Unless its Fiora or Vayne then Health gets melted off just as fast due to %health true damage.

you have shields, you have slows, you have cc in general use them!

Pupel2 votes

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you have shields, you have slows, you have cc in general use them!

you say that like is it is easy

ZephyrDrake1 votes

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you say that like is it is easy

she needs to be in your face and after she uses her riposte then it's pretty easy to land any type of cc and at any given moment you can get shields from other allies or an item you own. Whether she kills you too fast or not it's another thing entirely but it's easy to land any form of cc on her if you manage to survive long enough

Eedat1 votes

Health doesn't counter % max HP true damage lol. It actually just gives them more damage

ZephyrDrake1 votes

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Health doesn't counter % max HP true damage lol. It actually just gives them more damage

the damage will be exactly the same. If you are taking 10% of your max HP as true damage you will die in about 10 applications of said true damage regardless of whether you have 1000 max HP or 5000 max HP so the only thing that matters after the true damage is the rest of the damage that can be applied and the more HP you have will help you against those other types of damages

Wînter Fox1 votes

The point of true damage is that its not counterable- you're supposed to avoid being hit by it:

  • Ahri's orb returning? Dodge it
  • Kog'Maw just died? Avoid it
  • Cho'Gath coming to nom you? Run from it
  • Vayne just ulted? You're screwed
Pupel1 votes

Fiora this bitch has the most annoying true dammage

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