That time Ninja Tabi were broken before lethality

thats over 4 years ago now.

I mean... Technically you're not wrong.

Remember Ninja Tabi + Dodge Runes + Jax days? So f**king happy they removed dodge stat from this game.

Because Jayce didn't want to die to Ez's Q nor Poppy, you'll notice he also bought a MoM to protect against Ahri

you'll also notice that Jayce's team has a lot of AA, (Viktor's Q, Rengar's Ult Crit, Jayce's cannon's W and Renekton's W)

Poppy has her passive, Ez has his Auto's and his Q, and lulu has Pix.

One team has three physical dealers and only one proper magic dealer. Of course If one prefers sacrificing Penetration (or doesn't need to sacrifice it at all) over AP to have simple defense item it'll be boot enhancement. What was Ahri supposed to build? Zhonyas would be main option so either the player considered the Active to be underwhelming, not fitting the playstyle, or the AP be insufficient so instead he chose to build sooner something else and decided the boots as the defensive option.

I am pretty sure you know Ahri had to build something Armor defensive. Alongside the Zhonyas where I've written above why he might not like it as a choice, what else should he build? In case he actually didn't build Zhonyas because he prefered Void Staff's penetration (and +5 Ability Power) or 100 AP, then there might not be alternative (except for the boots) he might find worthy over Zhonyas unless I am missing something.

As for Jayce, maybe he thought only Ahri and Ezreal will deal significant damages and so he went for one MR and one ARMOR. MR choice is clear, as for Armor, yet again, maybe he found more logical getting Armor from boots he'd have anyway instead of building tank item.

Not telling Ninja Tabis are weak, I find them average, but I find their usage here totally logical.

Alright, I'll bite. A: only a single lethality item, youmuu's on jayce. The rest are not lethality but % armor pen. B: 7 ninja tabis were built. For C9, it made sense due to ezreal being the only source of physical damage, for CLG both renekton and jayce were the physical damage sources, and renekton has an auto attack modifier in the form of W, but not entirely sure here. C: Jayce had no armor past his base armor and runes, so he needed something to survive ezreal is my guess D: Renekton and jayce could probably both maul Ahri if they got close, especially since jayce has a maw and renekton has a lot of health, possibly stopping him from being bursted.

i honestly think that in this specific game it was a mistake

Renek/Rengar should have picked up , because if you watch the game they were killed because, while Stixxay's Ezreal was strong, them being locked down in teamfights because of CC allowed him to get off a ton of damage.

ANd Jayce should have gone .

Personally, I think that when something becomes meta, like tabis vs teams who run a lot of AD/lethality, that carries over into games where such things arent even present.

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Oh enemy has irelia? haHAA first buy tabi watch her be useless unless she perfectly uses her W duration.

Huh... I don't think I've ever seen an irelia build AD auto-attack items, and I'm pretty sure Tabi doesn't block on hit effects.

The problem is that when all this armor pen BS is ignoring 90% of your armor, the only way to stop it is Tabi so now everyone defaults to it when there's AD in the game. Whereas in the past, Actual Armor would be just as benefitial as ninja tabi's passive.

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because you dont actually play auto relient champs. lul. Tabi is obnoxious. NOT BROKEN obnoxious i can just rush tabi and a warden and make ANY autoattack relient champ irelevant for the next 20minutes. Oh enemy has irelia? haHAA first buy tabi watch her be useless unless she perfectly uses her W duration.

TFW Tabi is obnoxious but an 800 gold item that borderline deletes a champ from the match isint.

Shoes, including "Tabi" are plural. This was... They were...