What build to get against a true damage champ

OpenL1nk·2/11/2020, 6:18:24 AM·3 votes·1,824 views

I play a tank champ like or . I have hard time to deal a champ that does true damage like , , or . I face a fed using . I got , , , ,. She was able to kill me within 5-7 second I wasn't able to do anything to her when she reach me. Like how the heck a champ those kill a tank so easy with the build I have. I knew I will lose but get killed in 5 second isn't right. I bought all these armor and grievous wounds against her its worth like crap to her

26 Comments

Caitlyn FTW2/11/2020, 7:11:45 AM3 votes

Yasuo has armor penetration

Jamaree2/11/2020, 6:46:13 AM2 votes

Health and armor, no champion has 100% true damage conversion so you mitigate as much damage around it, in cases like Fiora and Yi, Frozen Heart and Randuin's is good to mitigate a lot of their damage.

Yasou also have no true damage.

Sucction2/11/2020, 7:06:28 AM2 votes

Generally their entire job is killing you, so most often there's not a lot you can do.

Against Fiora, Tabi and Frozen Heart work well, but she has %max health true damage so she's going to be ignoring a fair portion of the tanky stats you buy. Yi generally won't be a problem unless you're trying to duel him, in which case you're simply playing wrong.

Yasuo has no true damage at all. Not one bit. Dunno what you're talking about there.

ProphetOfDraven2/11/2020, 6:29:29 AM2 votes

Tabi alone massively reduces Fiora's damage. Almost all of her damage is from autoattacks.

BONUS DMG 2NOOBS2/11/2020, 6:23:18 AM2 votes

frozen heart

Pierce The Veal2/11/2020, 8:30:42 AM1 votes

item 3193 item 3143

And on a side note, the best defense against magic damage: item 3194

Then item 3190 and item 3053 and item 3157 and item 3040 and item 3026

The idea is you want to negate as much damage in a uncounterplayable wag as possible. Health can be shred with % health damage. Armor and mr can be penetrated, but % damage reduction passives like those on randuin’s, ninja tabi, and adaptive helm can only be dealt with via true damage, which can be countered by shields and invulnerabilities which do not increase damage taken from % health damage and do not get penetrated by penetration items. I put gargoyles stoneplat roughly into this category because while doubling max hp does increase % health damage, it also boosts the shields on two of the prior items, boosts nautilus’s w shield, and synergizes with alistar to make him effectively take no damage for an item that is fairly cheap. It effectively halves the damage take by anything that isn’t % health damage too, so regardless of anything that true damage hit will only be dealing half as much as normal. For champs that build sufficient ad or have significant amounts of single target with some ad scalings, item 3812 effectively funtions as a % damage reduction item.

myamia2/13/2020, 10:23:28 AM1 votes

hp. you counter true dmg by buying hp.

Trist mid opop2/11/2020, 7:12:51 AM1 votes

Frozen heart makes all but yi unable to auto at lightning speed

FSRER2/11/2020, 7:14:02 AM1 votes

Generally, the intended counter of true damage was meant to be health and since most champions with true damage are ad, you can build armor and health. But then you have Vayne , that one champions with %max hp true damage meaning that you either have to go pure armor (a build path that is extremely limited and works of very few champions) or perma ban the shit out of this champion

MLDzXnRRR2/11/2020, 7:55:59 AM1 votes

Buy only one or two defensive items - maybe Randuins+Thornmail (so you can cut the healing) and buy AP damage (most tanks have at least passable AP ratios). If you can at least half-health them, your team can probably finish them. Fiora and Yi are terrible in teamfights - Yi can in general be good, if his team has good team comp and he waits for the main spells to be used, but you can also lose this way, if your team gets wiped out fast.

River Singed2/11/2020, 8:13:41 AM1 votes

You pick a champ that does more true damage.