What happens when you build armor? You die FASTER to physical attacks.

darkdill·Feb 5, 2015·15 votes·2,135 views

I know that's not true, but it sure as hell feels like it when you have 300 armor and a Caitlyn without a Last Whisper gives absolutely no f#cks about it.

30 Comments

redniwediSFeb 5, 20157 votes

Honestly armor just takes the edge off the damage, you need health to actually absorb a bunch. However the best thing to remember is that the best defense is a good offense, they can't kill you if they're dead.

DrukyulFeb 5, 20151 votes

The best defense is a good offense with lifesteal. Because no amount of LW or BotRK can counter the OPness that is lifesteal.

darkdillFeb 5, 20153 votes

Oh, so I'm supposed to build crits as a Rammus or Leona?

DarkwindFeb 5, 20151 votes

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Oh, so I'm supposed to build offense as a Rammus or Leona?

As rammus? item 3075 item 3143 item 3068 item 3047 item 3031 item 3709

^Crap tons of AD, crap tons of damage. If they have magic damage, don't pick rammus. Was much better when SoTD existed, sadly...

VesarixxFeb 6, 20151 votes

I miss SotD on Jayce too, get IE and SotD, pop W and SotD active, anything you hit melts.

aaronconlinFeb 5, 20151 votes

I played against a full AP Leona a few days ago and she wrecked shit. But I have noticed that a little bit of damage on tanks goes a long way, mostly item 3001 on AP Tanks though.

darkdillFeb 6, 20151 votes

I feel CDR on Leona is more important than damage. You need to spam those stuns and Sunlight procs.

VesarixxFeb 6, 20151 votes

item 3070 I sometimes get this item as an early purchase on mana using tanks, it's cheap, stacks up all game and once I've got my defensive stats I can upgrade it to add some presence in fights and give people a reason to try to focus me. Plus it has great synergy with item 3110 and item 3025

Leti the YetiFeb 5, 20151 votes

http://youtu.be/U938p5FxU2M?t=4s

rammus is abit special

redniwediSFeb 5, 20159 votes

Rammus gets free offensive stats by building armor, which I'm sure you know. Leona, when used as a support, builds defense while her allies cover the offense. Leona, when not used as a support, does build offense.

True tanks do not require offense because their positioning on the team does not take them far from a team member who does damage. If a tank finds themselves in a position where they need to do damage they are out of position and should retreat instead of fighting. The only reason a tank should fight when out of position is to buy time.

shadecrapperFeb 6, 20152 votes

Nautilus

GloriousKaiserFeb 5, 20157 votes

Maybe because building armor is useless now and it's better to just build Hea- item 3153

I'm done.

SEKAIFeb 5, 20154 votes

Because it's about time Riot stops releasing more ways to make tanks not able to do their job in fear of the bad squishy mains' qq.

Major SparklesFeb 6, 20152 votes

They're just scared of another season two.

Poldy ScarecrowFeb 6, 20152 votes

Being behind when you're a tank is horrible :/ ...

The5lackerFeb 6, 20152 votes

Because offense outscales defense. Otherwise its Turtlefest 2015.

You'd die faster without armor, fyi. Spend a game buying nothing and see how fast you die.

DevilishMetalFeb 5, 20151 votes

If you see their ADC build LW, don't build armor as much- LW is only effective once it hits a certain point of armor.

darkdillFeb 5, 20153 votes

So you build armor... never? Because all ADCs will get LW.

DarkwindFeb 5, 20151 votes

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If you see their ADC build LW, don't build armor as much- LW is only effective once it hits a certain point of armor.

completely useless advice. that point of armor is REALLY low.

BresnFeb 5, 20151 votes

Nasus huh?

Gank Top 4 SuccFeb 6, 20151 votes

The problem with stacking armor is cancerous LW, which becomes more and more gold efficient the more the opponent stacks armor.

darkdillFeb 6, 20151 votes

And sadly, the item is not removeable like DFG was.

Gank Top 4 SuccFeb 6, 20152 votes

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And sadly, the item is not removeable like DFG was.

"We removed DFG because it allowed bursty mages to completely delete tanks, but we'll allow Last Whisper delete multiple enemies within seconds with a right click." - Rito

darkdillFeb 6, 20151 votes

[{quoted}](name=Daily Asian,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=ycPkEdBQ,comment-id=000500000000,timestamp=2015-02-06T00:24:13.444+0000)

"We removed DFG because it allowed bursty mages to completely delete tanks, but we'll allow Last Whisper delete multiple enemies within seconds with a right click, as well as negate attempts at counterplay." - Rito

Added onto that.

qetzelFeb 6, 20151 votes

Well, ignoring the fact that that is a blatant lie... Match history? How much health did you buy?

NinjaToad99Feb 6, 20151 votes

I know how that feels. One day I was playing an ARAM with Garen, and despite having item 3075 , item 3143 , item 3065 , and item 3047 a KogMaw with nothing but a item 3153 and a item 3087 killed me really fast. Sure he has his W and Q (But I can't remember if he hit me with it or not) but still, I died far to fast for that amount of tankyness.

YOU BEEN WARNEDFeb 6, 20151 votes

Technically true because even if you're Alistar it would've been better to build item 3078 than that useless item 3143 since that Caitlyn isn't going to kill herself. (I know you're thinking item 3075 but this thing item 1053 makes it so you won't do more than 20% of her health.)

You could have had more survivability if you had built damage, which is a funny thing considering tanks have to act like assassins due to this logic lol.

The TrentFeb 6, 20151 votes

Well if you build a lot of armor and no damage it will feel like she kills you super quick because u will not be scratching her while she doing 10-20% of ur health with each hit

CerbearusFeb 6, 20151 votes

They got LW? Buy health. They got BotRK? Buy armor. They got both? Good luck mate.

macromiteFeb 6, 20151 votes

ok bro, let me tell you a secret, tanks are never supposed to beat marksmen, marksmen are always supposed to beat tanks. the problem with tanking at the moment has nothing to do with marksmen, it has to do with assassins, and that problem seems to be getting solved.