Tried Warden a few dozen times and still can't get it to work

Trash MammaI·11/29/2019, 6:23:11 AM·6 votes·2,661 views

Is there even a point to going 6 warden or even caring about that tag in general? I just had a tier 3 Braum with the mr item (That reduces magic damage by 50% forgot name) and 2 thornmails on him and he still was being melted by basically everything.

880 armor and units still being killed in a couple of seconds by units that don't even do true damage.

Even had armor items on my other units such as Thresh with frozen heart or my tier 3 ornn with the armor + brawlers glove item (slow field when he dodges) and yet again they still got melted.

I get magic damage would do a lot but most of the comps in that game were physical damage based

12 Comments

Saezio11/29/2019, 11:54:01 AM3 votes

Wardens is mostly relevant in the mountain map. You need to stack hp on the braum. And you kinda need ionics or something to do damage. Also, you want to have a warmogs on the braum. You need to be kinda lucky with items to pull it off

MagicFlyingLlama11/29/2019, 6:49:08 AM1 votes

Warden+Mage+Ocean is scary. Outside that, not a lot.

Wake9011/29/2019, 8:56:19 AM1 votes

It's the state of the meta if you don't high roll predators or go ocean, mage, summoner or inferno then you are heavily disadvantaged, and be happy with a top 4 placement.

I can't wait until they buff the rest of the comps. Especially early game, this patch has a very narrow focus.

Idgaf I am iron11/29/2019, 3:28:03 PM1 votes

Wardens suck, because ADs sucks. They do most of their damage with spells, rather than autos (with a couple of exceptions), and spells do magic dmg, not physical.

Kindred Varus Ezreal Vayne . all magic champs, so thornmail doesnt rly work on them.

forget about previous patches Lucian and such using mostly autos, this game is 100% about magic dmg nowadays.

rabirinsu11/29/2019, 8:30:59 PM1 votes

wardens only good when you have dragon claw thornmail and ionia spark, with item stacked voli and zed. Or mountain map with stacked qiyana

Smyrage12/1/2019, 10:52:32 AM1 votes

Today I saw a full warden build which finished 3rd place. It was pretty scary, some fights seemed really hopeless. The goal is to ramp your wardens up to lv3 as quickly as possible. Braum is the best candidate. You don't need every warden, the warden 4 buff is potent enough. You can go for Mystic for extra tankiness or buy Olaf and activate the Glacial buff.

Best items for the carry wardens:

Braum: Thornmail, Ionic Spark, Warmog
Nasus: Morello, Ionic Spark, Thornmail
Thresh: Deathblade, Giant Killer, Rapid Firecannon

DuskDaUmbreon11/29/2019, 6:25:38 AM1 votes

I'm pretty sure you need to add HP, too...

Sire Hippington12/1/2019, 3:46:03 PM1 votes

well, there is alot magic damage in most comps, and those that do mostly physical damage usually have easy acces to desert, which is 50% armorpen with only two units Armor alone just isn't a very usefull stat