how good is it? let's say ur playing to kill squishiez and u build a bunch of lethality but in a few fights u find yourself hitting the tank. how do you fair compared to the old armor pen ? better worse or the same?
venomous frost1 votesworse early game since the flat armor pen is less vs lower levels
later on it's pretty much the same as flat armor pen is pretty irrelevant vs tanks.
Dreadlocks1 votesthanks, so if I had say 14 lethality in my runes, then youmuus edge of night and duskblade in hopes to blow up squishiez but got face to face with a tank, I wouldnt be any stronger vs tanks than the old armor pen items? assuming everyone is between levels 14-18 since I probably wouldn't have all those items early anyways..
edit: the reason I ask is because you can get more lethality now than u could armor pen, so in theory wouldn't it be better late game than armor pen was ?
venomous frost2 voteslethality gives 1 armor pen vs targets level 18, so its ALWAYS worse vs targets lower than 18, given the same amount.
it is equal vs targets that are level 18. So best case scenario it is equal, levels 1-17 it is worse.
BUT incredibly inefficient vs tanks, and realistically even useless vs very high armored targets. 250 armor gives 71% reduction, and 200 gives 67% so even if you had 50 armor pen, you would only do 4% more damage. the difference between 150 and 100 is 12%, and the difference between 50 and 0 is 33%.
thus, the higher their armor, the more useless flat penetration becomes.
Dreadlocks1 votesgood point, thanks
dominusx1 votesvs tanks just go cleaver or a lw item. lethality is garbage.
Dreadlocks1 votesu didn't even read the post.
DarkPh0enix1 votesWorse untill the tank gets level 18. Then it's the same as before. However, if you have the maximum ammount of lethality possible, you might deal more, but I am getting into technicalities.