Friendly Reminder: Magic Resistance is a Thing

EkkoFroffles··2 votes·371 views

People in this game often don't bother to build any defensive stats, but what I've been finding is that people have an especially bad blind spot when it comes to magic resistance... to the point that they'll build armor against a fed AP opponent.

Last match, Annie finished 22/6/8. Here are the MR items our team had:

item 3155 : +30 MR for Vayne . item 3222 & item 1033 : +65 MR for Nami (me).

Our Brand, who fed her the most and finished 6/14/8, had the following build at the end of a 33:27 match: item 1056 item 3089 item 3020 item 3136 item 1026 .

I had another match where I was a fed Malzahar, and I ended up ulting the same guy repeatedly throughout the match, causing him to ask me to please stop in all-chat. I told him time and time again "buy a item 3140 " and he never did. I was also on the opposite end of this recently with my team ranting in all-chat about how Malzahar's ult is "OP" or "broken," and going on and on about "that damage" when I was (again) the only one building MR.

TL;DR: If an AP opponent is fed, invest in some damned MR. Heck, if any opponent is fed, particularly your lane opponent, invest in some defensive items. Don't be like that Brand and build straight glass cannon, or berate someone for building defensively when behind (I've had this happen as well).

4 Comments

EkkoFroffles2 votes

Just played a 4v5 where their entire team was AP (TwistedFate Rammus Teemo Soraka Ekko ) and Ekko got fed (12/1/1), and the only one with MR besides me was Udyr with item 3111 . I'm about to strangle someone.

Divewing1 votes

then you also have those games where they pick 4 ap champs and you think OMG FREELO, but then lock in vayne and you realise you can no longer itemise against their team.

ChaosThief1 votes

I mean, a item 3075 ... wait...

item 3143 ... uhh...

vayne sucks to play against

dangopee2 votes

That's why I started building zzrot portal on all bruisers.

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