Building armor should outscale all AD teams damage

Niaphim·4/28/2017, 10:38:13 PM·6 votes·878 views

Either armor penetration needs nerfs or armor items need buffs. In previous seasons if you picked an all AD team you got some early game powerspikes in exchange of a 25-30 minute timer when everybody got a couple of armor items and became too hard to kill; so either you had to finish early or get punished. Right now you are only punished for picking all magic damage: spirit visage, banshees, maw, abyssal - a couple of mr items and you do laughable damage. But when you picked all ad? No problem, still going to burn everything so fast that armor doesn't matter. Offense should outscale defense, to prevent wet noodle fights and 70 minute games, but that only in cases of mixed damage sources, when tanks invest in both mr an armor.

6 Comments

oSEXYPLATYPUSo4/28/2017, 10:49:24 PM4 votes

hmm do you not pay attention to the upcoming midseason update?

they are lowering the 45% bonus armor pen of last whisper to 35%

lethality is egh already

and they are lowering the stacks on BC from 5% per stack to 4% per stack

they are also increasing armor on all the armor items and decreasing the HP

but lets make a post complaining about it like it hasnt been mentioned

Salron4/28/2017, 11:19:14 PM3 votes

Why should it? A tanks full build is much cheaper than an ad champ's full build Why should the cheaper build beat out the one with more gold sunk into it?

PPPPPPPPPPPP2704/28/2017, 11:27:12 PM3 votes

Offensive items need to outscale defensive items.

The game wouldn't end if that isn't true.

AirKingNeo4/28/2017, 11:11:17 PM1 votes

Remember when ADCs were garbage except Caitlyn and Ziggs took over? That short amount of time where ADCs could only build crit? Where Cleaver Ashe and Lucian didn't exist?

Remember where every ADC only built item 3031 item 3086 and dealt 0 fucking damage towards tanks? This has happened twice, before ArmorPen Lucian and when Ziggs became an ADC.

FooDang4/29/2017, 1:51:12 AM1 votes

Can you link the game that had the all AD team you lost to because Im failing to find it.

Unless its the game with an enemy support Zed....

But there was a Teemo top so that couldnt have been it...