Dominion: Armor vs Scaling Health runes

Lovelle·Sep 3, 2015·2 votes·594 views

Between armor and scaling health yellows, which are better for Dominion?

5 Comments

SKOBODOSep 3, 20153 votes

Depends on your build. If you build a lot of health, get scaling armor. If you build a lot of armor, get scaling health. Both are good.

Get MR/level glyphs (and perhaps some CDR/level glyphs) and CDR/level quints (no better quints on Dominion). Get armor pen, magic pen, hybrid pen, or AD/level marks, depending on your champion.

Kholdstare13Sep 3, 20152 votes

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Depends on your build. If you build a lot of health, get scaling armor. If you build a lot of armor, get scaling health. Both are good.

Get MR/level glyphs (and perhaps some CDR/level glyphs) and CDR/level quints (no better quints on Dominion). Get armor pen, magic pen, hybrid pen, or AD/level marks, depending on your champion.

I don't know about the quints. If you have a solid build with 40 CDR already you can easily go penetration, movespeed, or spellvamp quints and be golden.

SKOBODOSep 3, 20152 votes

That is true. When Frozen Heart + Locket of the Iron Solari were core items on most tanks I didn't run 15% scaling CDR quints. Most of the time running scaling CDR quints is the best idea right now, due to the Frozen Heart nerf.

It's better to run scaling CDR quints than scaling CDR glyphs, due to CDR/level quints actually being just as strong as CDR/level glyphs. Most relevant glyphs are stronger than the equivalent quints, but when it comes to CDR, they tie.

AP/level glyphs are viable as well, although I'm reluctant to give up the MR, since MR is hard to come by as a mage.

Kholdstare13Sep 3, 20152 votes

You mean scaling armor vs scaling health, right?

With the ubiquity of armor pen and a lot of mages, go scaling health. Save resistances as a reactive buy if at all, not a thing to stock in runes.

LovelleSep 3, 20151 votes

Thanks for the replies.

Scaling health it is then.