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Very nice guide thanks for doing the math for me :P. I was wondering what is the highest amount of armor pen possible with items?
Thank you, but after investigating a little bit in forums I found out some info that proved some of my calculations wrong. I corrected the guide so now it is a 100% perfect. If you read it again you will realize that getting too much penetration is not the best thing yo do.
I don't agree with this item build
It is not my fault that you dont know how to read simple english. The reason why I wrote the section "Before you read" at the beginning is because I know people like you exist.
Smokey you made his point, if percent MP comes last then multiplying a negative amount by a decimal would lesson it, also I don't think you did your math correctly 100/(100+(-50))=100/50=2 that's double damage, I am curious to test this, I personally play Annie with MP marks and an amplifying tome to start, and my friend goes straight ap runes period with dorans, and I do more damage with level 1 disintgrate than him, he starts with 50 or so ap with no MP I start with 34AP and 10+15% MP, I do 6 points mire than him. I really want to test this now, could very easily have over 4k damage to non tanks with full nuke, that's would be truely scary!
The only things that can lower someone's magic resistance below 0, are Soraka's Q, Malady, and Other similar effects that specifically "lower" someone's magic resistance.
Magic Penetration caps of when they have 0 MR.
It's the same with armor.
Also, the formula for damage reduction with negative magic resistance is (100/100+MR), that means that with negative 100, you would do infinite damage.
One of the main reasons that Magic pen can't go below 0.
I’m not sure where you are getting your information from, but from the sources that I have read say differently. Magic/Armor penetration CANNOT reduce a target’s resistance below zero. Magic/Armor reduction can, but it is applied BEFORE penetration. The order of application:
1. Percentage Magic Resistance Reduction
2. Flat Magic Resistance Reduction
3. Flat Magic Penetration
4. Percentage Magic Penetration
This means that against someone with 30 MR and you are a fiddlesticks with an abyssal scepter (for a total of 30 Flat magic resist reduction), it DOESN'T matter how much magic penetration you have when attacking that person. Obviously you have to consider the whole team, but I'm just pointing that out for everyone.
Another thing you have incorrect, you have to have a fiddlesticks around (10) w/ abyssal scepter(20), be hit by amumu(35), full stack of malady(24), and standing on a tormented soil for the full 5 seconds(40) for a total of 130 Magic Reduction, more or less enough to do 50% more damage to champs with the base 30 resist.
Also, it is impossible to do double damage. Extra damage is calculated the same as damage reduction. Damage Multiplier = 100 / (100 + MR). Thus, even 1000 magic reduction would only give you your fabled 90.9% extra spell damage.
Plenty of resources covering this on the web, please look into this and make appropriate changes so not to confuse newbies. Start here and work your way around the internets :-)
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Penetration
Thank you very much man!! Guess you can always learn something new. I'll be correcting it as soon as I have time for it. :)
1. Percentage Magic Resistance Reduction
2. Flat Magic Resistance Reduction
3. Flat Magic Penetration
4. Percentage Magic Penetration
This means that against someone with 30 MR and you are a fiddlesticks with an abyssal scepter (for a total of 30 Flat magic resist reduction), it DOESN'T matter how much magic penetration you have when attacking that person. Obviously you have to consider the whole team, but I'm just pointing that out for everyone.
Another thing you have incorrect, you have to have a fiddlesticks around (10) w/ abyssal scepter(20), be hit by amumu(35), full stack of malady(24), and standing on a tormented soil for the full 5 seconds(40) for a total of 130 Magic Reduction, more or less enough to do 50% more damage to champs with the base 30 resist.
Also, it is impossible to do double damage. Extra damage is calculated the same as damage reduction. Damage Multiplier = 100 / (100 + MR). Thus, even 1000 magic reduction would only give you your fabled 90.9% extra spell damage.
Plenty of resources covering this on the web, please look into this and make appropriate changes so not to confuse newbies. Start here and work your way around the internets :-)
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Penetration
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