Why is AD more in favor than AP?

The Swift Yordle·Dec 5, 2018·3 votes·921 views

Why is an AD item have armor pen and grevious wounds on one item?

AD also has a full on armor pen item 1350 gold w/ Dmg and 10% armor pen when building

AD also has a full on grevious wounds item 800 gold w/ 40% grevious wounds and lasts 3 seconds

But AP users must choose between two items

3000 gold has no benefits for building partials of it. Meaning its too damn expensive and doesn't help you in lane along the way …

2850 gold and has no partials to benefit either …

What makes me confused is AD users have a combined version and AP users don't.

6 Comments

disregardableDec 5, 20183 votes

Apen is literally garbage.

AioniusDec 5, 20182 votes

Not to mention AP scalings with champions and items are more potent than their AD counter parts. I never have problems doing damage with Diana as opposed to Riven when it comes to someone grabbing a defensive item. Most bruisers nowadays go Conqueror anyway.

JeaneGreeneDec 5, 20182 votes

I see you have never played Leblanc.

The main build goes like: item 3802 item 3020 item 3916 item 3285 . From this you get 100 AP and deal true damage to squishy targets. I think that’s pretty good.

AioniusDec 5, 20181 votes

Armor Pen is useless as tanks can stack armor heavily and cut down any physical dmg you do. I know this from plenty of Volibear , Garen , and Malphite games where I can stack armor and make any AD champs dmg irrelevant if I get ahead. AP champs also have stronger ratios and AP also comes in higher amounts. There's a reason why you have bruisers that have mixed dmg like Fiora Irelia Camille Jax etc. Plus you have bruisers running Conqueror now that negate the usefulness of armor pen from the get go.

JaxusalemDec 5, 20181 votes

MonkeyKing item 3036 item 3071 item 3142 item 3147 item 3814 Once i killed a malphite with 400 armor almost oneshoted him also i want to say wukong's q reduces enemy armor by 30% (when maxed)