Talk:Zed/@comment-5557556-20150423095708/@comment-6281696-20150423204020

It's still a bad idea to add passives of this kind to make up for "low" base/scaling values. The bulk of your stats is already generated by items, making them even more potent makes a snowballing zed even more oppresive, and a zed that falls behind becomes even less relevant. Unless you're magicly at exactly the point where you're supposed to be with your build at this stage in the game it'l just skew the balance one way or another....

As for the combination high AD and high armor penetration, it's quite silly, but a bigger problem is the fact that you can quite easily reach over 40% penetration regardless of AD/AP, and a 100% is more than viable against squishy targets especially with certain champions, which just kind of ruins the whole point of defense.. it's just rather a large part of the defense that gets ignored.

And before some genius starts complaining about "how it's needed to deal with tanks/bruisers" 1) It still affects the squishies, removing what little defense they have left and 2) if you genuinly need to ignore that large a part of an opponents defense, on a regular basis (seriously everyone buys penetration these days) something is terribly wrong in your balancing, either the offensive champions are too weak, the defensive too powerfull, or you just have some very odd ideas and priorities with respect to balancing.