Magic dmg Marksman - why isn't there one?

Keruze·11/20/2015, 11:24:03 PM·1 votes·668 views

Not sure if that's the proper board, I'd love to post it somewhere onto DEVs one, since I'm most interested in their opinion, about why they did not create such champion yet (there has to be a reason and i'm 99,9% sure that it's not the one that noone thought about it earlier).

So, the concept is: a Marksman that builds as normal Marksman (physical dmg items, attack speed etc.) but all his AA dmg is passively converted to Magic dmg (similar to Corki's mixed dmg). Perhaps it's kind of counterintuitive, but it allows into the game additional team-wise strategies, especially ones with bringing physical dmg champions into midlane. Currently using that strategy forces you to strongly outplay your oponent on early game/kills or you'll eventually just drown your opponent's armor resistances by mid-late game.

Any thoughts? I guess current items ingame that are countering adc are armor-focused, so that might be a big issue there (Randuin's slowing aa but not giving you any resistances vs that pesky marksman is not fun). Still, I wonder if there are more reasons than that (pretty big) one. Hah, this all is pretty fun to think about, an idea to move those kind of item passives from singluar item-specific to item-group specific (so BV passive on randuins and randuins passive on BV just as a silly example) just popped in my mind. I guess that might make this game even more complex it is currently, so a no-go anyways ;)

Cheers!

8 Comments

Sasogwa11/20/2015, 11:39:43 PM4 votes

Corki

BattleOxe11/20/2015, 11:30:20 PM2 votes

Corki already deals ~75% of his DMG as magic DMG. You don't need more

Billy VoHagen11/20/2015, 11:39:10 PM2 votes

Corki Corki Corki ???

And maybe Teemo

BeatzBoyFTW11/20/2015, 11:29:51 PM2 votes

Teemo

Jbels11/21/2015, 12:53:13 AM1 votes

Azir.

insaiyanbacca11/21/2015, 12:55:12 AM1 votes

you mean corki azir and teemo aren't?

GreenLore11/21/2015, 12:56:10 AM1 votes

Corki is this to some extent already. I guess they don't want to give us an all out magic marksman,who still builts ad,because it gets a bit confusing when it comes to counterplay. I mean if you see someone stacking loads of health,then you'll buy armor,but said armor would be useless against a champ as you describe him(I mean at least some damage of corki is still physical)