User blog comment:Sifter66/What makes a late-game champion?/@comment-3578129-20150602055720

Many writers here place clear examples of late game champions, but we all know them anyway. I think the OP wanted to know how to distnguish late game champions from others.

Okay, I'll try to do it.

How can ADC be classified as LATE GAME?

Well, ALL late game adcs are autoattack based. AD, AS, ArPen, LS and range are all stacked with each other up to the point of game, where a carry can lifesteal all damage back when facing a tank 1v1 (need armor pen and lifesteal item) and not explode if attacked by assasin. This can be archieved by having a defensive item (banshees veil or GA), but this one is almost every time the LAST one. This point is where late game carry starts to be late game carry. 4-5 items.

What is late game APC?

Pretty much the same. Late game mage must be able to duel tanks, regenerate damage, survive an assasin. That means he must have high DPS, some form of healing (spell vamp or heal from abilities), usually MgPen and defense - minimum 4 items.

Late game fighter - what is it?

Late game fighter must have high scaling abilities instead of high base damages. Also defense. It is when you not only kill carries 1v1, but can survive 1v5 at least for some seconds. Also a late game fighter MUST HAVE a dash on a SHORT CD. If you build only offense, you of course can kill enemy carry, BUT in the teamfight you can do nothing. If you build only defense, you jump to enemy carry and cant kill him because of lack of dps. This all together means that a late game fighter must have at least 4 items (one general defensive item *ex. Warmog*, one specialized defensive item *ex. frozen heart*, one offensive item and one trinity force) and a maxed short CD dash.

Late game tank is a champion who has high damaging spells scaling with some defensive stat, or a champion who can reduce enemy dps.

That means you start to shine with your late game brilliance when you've met some conditions: you have high OMNI-defence (3 items) and some offensive item to boost your base damages: it can be abyssal scepter or iceborn gauntlet or liandry torment.