Does armor pen work on abilities?

BreeBreeBRAN·5/23/2015, 3:50:30 PM·1 votes·1,419 views

I had hybrids reds on my sona support page, but someone laughed at me and said why do I have armor pen on an ability champion. But every guide I look at says to use hybrids reds. So is my friend stupid for laughing? I also googled it and one discussion on lol said "Armor pen works on skills too that do PHYSICAL DAMAGE. So Talon and Riven will benefit with armor pen in their skills and their auto-attack."

But my page is for sona. Are hybrid reds pointless? I ended up changing them to just mpen.

3 Comments

ZACKandATTACK5/23/2015, 4:02:48 PM1 votes

i like running armor reds for my AP supports

Duke Anax5/23/2015, 4:13:31 PM1 votes

As you said Armor pen is for AA and physical abbilities, but Sona has low AD and her enhanced auto attack deals Magic damage.

So unless you have some unusual hybrid build Mpen is better on her then Hybrid pen.

I think before rework she benefitted from her own AD aura, that may be why some guids recomend hybrid runes.

Skia Asteri5/23/2015, 4:44:29 PM1 votes

Hybrid is for very very early game, when autos are a thing even for AP champions.