Talk:Zed/@comment-5557556-20150423095708/@comment-24447033-20150425030317

@gutsytick, true, it does not scale linearly but you forget that the cost does. Tanks invest more of their gold into building armor, therefore by reducing more armor, you are effectively reducing their effective gold spent hence affecting tanks more.

@ Zilverdael, that 100% armor pen is unrealistic, and comes with reduced damage. Most players do not build Ghostblade, Black Cleaver and Last whisper on zed at one time, usually only 2 of the 3. Furthermore, standard rune page for zed is usually 0 armor pen or 12 armor pen only in rare cases are there 19. Additionally, by having this rune page, you are suffering from early game damage, and by having that build you are suffering greatly from damage, even more so because his W passive grants less of a benefit. None of those 3 items grant a substantial amount of AD, and black cleaver won't have the flat pen soon anyway. And your point about ruining the notion of defense is not true,

1. I don't know what you mean by ruining notion of defense your statement makes no sense - people are still building tank, furthermore if you haven't noticed, it's the tank meta. And even furthermore, armor isn't everything - there's also HP.

2. The drawback of having that much armor pen is a decrease in AD.

3. Darius has many flaws, his armor pen cannot benefit much if he's too squishy and dies before he can even get close - therefore he needs to build tanky - and with the case of zed, because he builds tanky he needs something to help his damage - in this case the amor pen.