Thread:Double Slap/@comment-3017217-20150501142244/@comment-4091261-20150505200239

I do agree with your statement of the benefit being massive for the recieving end, i.e. the tank. It's just that it makes many other aspects weaker in comparison to a penetration meta. The reason why this is such a concern is that armor and mr does not only reduce, let's say, burst damage; It affects all forms of the physical and magic damage respectively. The only way to counter it is with penetration. Even as you said yourself, the change would benefit tanks even moreso, regardless of the penetration builds other enemies may get. So tanks will remain tanky and are unable to be countered at all.

WardTheTriBush assumes that this issue will occur and there will be inevitable buffs to champion damage or nerfs to armor/mr. This is where he creates the claim that this will end up worse for tanks, as the potential buffs to damage offset the buffs to armor/mr would possibly become monstrous and make the penetration meta a monster. This is a legitamite concern as at all levels of armor/mr, the damage resistance with a 100% exponential armor/mr ratio is greater than the damage resistance in our current standard.