Talk:Ninja Tabi/@comment-174.71.127.142-20120117164721/@comment-76.122.46.112-20120117170927

For the most part I'd agree. When I first saw it, I was pretty excited. Ninja Tabi were VERY underrated before, 12% AA reduction is huge for the price. At 100 armor, it was the equivalent of 63 armor for the price of 200g (Plus another 7 armor) (50% reduction - 12% = 38% reduction). What made it great was that it was 12% AA reduction no matter how much armor you stacked. The problem with -damage% is that they aren't as impressive the more you stack.

For instance, using 100 armor again with the -10 reduction, that's only worth 22 armor (50% * 0.9 = 45% reduction). Sure, for 200g that's still a good buy. But not much in comparison to a cloth armor (300g for 18 armor), and cloth armor reduces abilities too.

I really don't like the change. Ninja Tabi was a great counter to hard AD carries, these not so much. This is a pretty significant nerf. I mean, yes it is more consistent. But as you can see by my example, they're also about 1/3rd what they used to be.

And that was without really building armor. Now talk about a tank who's up to 250 armor, and tabi was worth another 250 armor! Now? Just 40 armor. For a tank, these are a massive nerf. It saddens me because Tabi used to be really OP (And nobody seemed to know it for some reason, it blew my mind that only Jax players seemed to build them) and now they're really, really, really meh. -10% AA reduction is nothing.

You want to make them as effective, make them be additive and not multiplicative.