Does Armor as a Stat even exist?

GigglesO·Feb 8, 2017·3 votes·703 views

Like what is the point of even building armor when these are CORE items, on literally everyone that is physical damage.

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EndlessSorcererFeb 8, 20175 votes

If you dare stack health, they will just swap one of the Lethality items for Blade of the Ruined King.

MissingKayoFeb 8, 20171 votes

Giant Slayer passive on Lord Dominik's too.

EndlessSorcererFeb 8, 20173 votes

I wouldn't say that really affects health-stackers.

It will generally be capped after a single health item, so anything beyond that is unaffected.

HyperiönFeb 8, 20171 votes

It adds quite a lot of bonus damage to all health stackers.

EndlessSorcererFeb 8, 20172 votes

It provides a lot of damage against any champion who builds health.

Considering ADCs generally don't build health items, 500 Bonus HP is all it takes to cap out the bonus damage.

It provides the same amount of bonus damage against a tank stacking Warmog's Armor and a mage with Scaling Health Seals plus a single Health/AP item.

Hell, Ashe gets the maximum bonus damage against Alistar when neither of them have built health items when both are level 18.

GigglesOFeb 8, 20172 votes

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If you dare stack health, they will just swap one of the Lethality items for Blade of the Ruined King.

Or have a vayne, or kog, or varus, or or or or.... the list goes on and on and on for %hp... Also, this isn't no season 1 hp stack where I could get 8K hp...

PermabannedGarenFeb 8, 20172 votes

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Like what is the point of even building armor when these are CORE items, on literally everyone that is physical damage.

Because if you don't build it they will be dealing true damage.

Also, very few champions build all of those items, and an ADC that does will actually do less damage to tanks than a crit build would (with the sole exception being MF with her ultimate).

QuephaFeb 8, 20172 votes

Lethality makes armor more effective, not less. Three of those items are focused on providing Lethality.

WoonStruckFeb 8, 20173 votes

Lethality does not make armor more effective. It makes armor more necessary.

#Fucked if you buy armor, fucked if you don't.

RalanrFeb 8, 20171 votes

Because warmogs doesn't stack last I checked.

MissingKayoFeb 8, 20171 votes

Basically not.

Proxy345Feb 8, 20171 votes

item 3065 item 3083 item 3748 item 3068

Heath regen is the most OP defensive stat available and should never be underestimated and it should keep you alive long enough to kill them.

EndlessSorcererFeb 8, 20177 votes

item 3153 item 3033

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dominusxFeb 8, 20171 votes

who is that character she is cute :D

MissingKayoFeb 8, 20171 votes

Renge from Non Non Biyori.

EndlessSorcererFeb 8, 20171 votes

Renge from Non Non Biyori.

It is a rather cute slice-of-life show which I would happily recommend watching.

dominusxFeb 8, 20171 votes

thanks boys much love

RandomoniumFeb 8, 20171 votes

I love it when I play against full lethality teams. Thornmail is great since none of them build life steal.

WoonStruckFeb 8, 20171 votes

Implying they auto attack much at all, excepting ADCs.

RandomoniumFeb 8, 20171 votes

It's still ridiculously gold efficient even if they don't auto attack. If they're not an auto attacker then they rely on burst to kill people. Lethality builds rely on being able to deal near true damage burst. If you have more armor than they have Lethality their burst is no longer effective.

WoonStruckFeb 8, 20171 votes

I mean, when all of its gold efficiency is its armor and the large majority of that armor is being removed... item 3147 item 3814 item 3036 item 3071 item 3142 +32.5 Leth from runes/masteries

WoonStruckFeb 8, 20171 votes

It exists too much before them, doesn't exist at all after them.

Nerf armor, remove LW/BC interactions.

Same with magic damage/pen.

Same with healing/GW.

GigglesOFeb 8, 20171 votes

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It exists too much before them, doesn't exist at all after them.

Nerf armor, remove LW/BC interactions.

Same with magic damage/pen.

Same with healing/GW.

And then we could add in combat healing back into the game! Not necessarily days of old 300hp/second... but we could have more than 5 per second on tanks...

WoonStruckFeb 8, 20171 votes

RIP FoN

Kat In The HatFeb 9, 20171 votes

Poppy LOL

El Sexo GoatoFeb 9, 20171 votes

For some reason, when I read these kinds of post, I find myself thinking, especially when I consider how strong tanks are as a role, that tanks have gotten into this mindset where armor shouldn't just make them more resistant to damage, it should make them IMMUNE to it.

GigglesOFeb 9, 20171 votes

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For some reason, when I read these kinds of post, I find myself thinking, especially when I consider how strong tanks are as a role, that tanks have gotten into this mindset where armor shouldn't just make them more resistant to damage, it should make them IMMUNE to it.

Well, when you buy enough armor to reduce damage down to 30%... and they still hit you for 500-600 a hit, with 2 attack per second....