Riot hates AD champions

Kama Mama··2 votes·634 views

Okay so lets begin, I main top and jungle i play a mix of MOSTLY AD and a few melee AP champs so that is my bias. I'm at a loss as to what magic resist items to buy on a PURE weighted scale of stats lets take the armor items firstitem 3068 item 3075 item 3143 item 3025 item 3110 item 3157 These items stats are PHENOMENAL and i build even a item 3143 or item 3068 into heavy AP comps for the aoe stats alone. now my complaints MR items are in my opinion HEAVILY lacking there are item 3065 and item 3102 which are ALWAYS bought in game because they are the seemingly only magic resistance items worth their gold price obviously there are some niche MR items like full tanks get item 3190 which does have a very nice passive but hard to run on a top lane or jungle champion that needs to do damage but has to deal with a strong mid champion. my only other options are item 3156 3200 gold but it least I can get item 3155 for earlier stats or item 3139 at 3700 gold that's such a time consuming item that for the payoff i'm either having to farm the rest of 2015 or try to gank lanes to try and get the gold to deal with their AP threats. THIS ALL BEING SAID I really think there's a HEAVILY preferred item set up for AP casters in this game even WITHOUT DFG (rip) against ad champions and even tanks item 3151 anyone? so that's my little rant TL;DR I feel ad champions and tanks are missing ALOT of magic Resist items to counterplay the casters right now i'd like an item that if hit with a spell it increases the caster's CD

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Mandang03 votes

Autoattacks can't be ignored, nor can crit, nor can lifesteal (which is MUCH better than spell vamp). Bork is a far better source of %HP damage than Liandry's (RIP DFG). Magic damage is usually much more limited by cooldowns/mana costs than physical damage.

All of these are reasons MR items have smaller defense values than armor items. It's not because Riot's skewed this game in favor of APs (if they did, AD champs wouldn't be seeing play). If anything, it's ADC's fault (which I'm reluctant to note) for scaling harder than the other roles. Just consider how many of your top-tier armor items specifically counter autoattackers: half of them!

Leti the Yeti2 votes

Well, Riot doesnt hate AD champs.... but they do hate tanks more than anyone else so, despite there being more and better options against AD, it's still kinda shitty cuz AD champs commonly invalidate tank anyway

apparently AP champs dont have such luxury if tanks actually had decent mr items on par with ar items and instead, it would be the ap champs that would be invalidated oh heavens no, good thing tanks are still bottom tier on riots favor list :D

Zazusha2 votes

riot doesnt hate ad champs, cus Zed and LeeSin are ad champs. and you can ignore ~66% of armor with masteries, item 3035 and item 3071

Yash Gautam2 votes

item 3035.

Erockandroll1 votes

In all honesty I feel like Magic damage is Just a bit overrated. Partially because it comes in burst. You don't actually need large amounts of MR to survive burst. A little bit of MR and Health stacking goes a long way for that. And the Health Regen from specter's cowl, or it's upgrades will help you sustain against Magic damage opponents.

The Only outliers are the few DPS mages. But their not even that impressive compared to the DPS of an AD.

The only way MR could suck that bad is if near entirely AP comps were viable. Though I kinda doubt that would ever arise.

Ch0c0lateJesus1 votes

This is a joke right? Have you actually tried playing a mage with the constant mana sustain nerfs and even the removal of a core item?

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