Bring back old armor penetration item

One Ashe On·Jul 18, 2017·1 votes·357 views

Old armor penetration item doesn't caused issue in the meta and were not overpowered on ADC as they are on assassin. Remove duskblade or rework the item to something melee only . Every iteration of duskblade caused problems since it's release and still will if Riot keep try to add something who deal to much damage. We don't had armor penetration meta back the days, it was used by it's intended users and it was fair.

EDIT : Removal would be more of a fair choice , because as people stated armor penetration always cause problems. If people want it fair, let's remove both penetration, magic and physical and adjust champion that go on the weak side. I think it would make the game way more neutral in terms of balance. We keep % penetration for tanky foe but remove flat penetration.

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ZielmannJul 18, 20171 votes

Even before lethality, ghostblade + cleaver as a combo certainly did see themselves rise up to where they were heavily abused by many things. Lucian and MF in particular were serial abuses of these items when they became strong.

I don't think the problem is lethality in and of itself. The approach they took with it makes sense. I think the bigger issue is everything else the lethality items come with. A full lethality build provides both far too much damage and utility right now.

C9 Squeeky Jul 18, 20171 votes

Old armor pen was far stronger than lethality. With lethality you only start with 60% of your total and you have to level up to get the rest.

One Ashe OnJul 18, 20171 votes

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Old armor pen was far stronger than lethality. With lethality you only start with 60% of your total and you have to level up to get the rest.

Ok so what then ? We should delete armor penetration in that case, mage have magic penetration but they ain't overpowered with it but AD are , so we should remove it and buff it's % penetration? If you statement is true, flat armor penetration will always brind problem as long it exist, so removing it would be a solution.

C9 Squeeky Jul 18, 20171 votes

armor pen work with any physical damage, including abilities, which are assassin's primary source of damage. Assassins would be forced to build either like a bruiser or ADC if they removed lethality/armor pen.

One Ashe OnJul 18, 20171 votes

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armor pen work with any physical damage, including abilities, which are assassin's primary source of damage. Assassins would be forced to build either like a bruiser or ADC if they removed lethality/armor pen.

As i said, the weak could be buffed , it would stop the abuse case for ADC, and champion who shouldn't be building lethality. It's easy to balance and tune champion than tune items as it cause problems like what we have right now.