I feel that half the problem with casters being weak and Tanky bruisers being too strong is that the creeps scale differently in Dominon compared to Rift and favour AD damage too much. AD Malz, Yorrick, Urgot, Jax, Riven, among others.

In dominion the starting melee minion has 6 armour, the caster minions 1 armour. This means that ad are doing true damage to the minions and getting full lifesteal from attacking them as there is no armour to reduce it.

By contrast the starting Melee minion has 23 magic resist and the ranged 17 magic resist. Casters do a reduced damage, cannot sustain off them like their ad counterparts and are limited by their cooldowns. They are forced to invest in flat spellpen in order to "keep up" with the minion true damage ad's put out and they need runes or items to do it.


I don't see why the armour on minions is so low. Why only increased MR?

AP casters probably wouldn't bust their cooldowns to kill minions anyways. The only champs that use abilities to kill minions are the ones with AOE damage, and they don't need help.

A good example that you already mentioned is AD Malz. While building no SpellPen or AP, his Q,W, and E melt minions insanely fast. Sure, his minions help, but the majority of the damage on minions is from his spells.

The real problem is that Dominion promotes pushing. In SR, if you push too hard, the creep line moves towards your opponents tower. He can last hit easily while you can be susceptible to ganks. In Dominion, ganks are easier to avoid. Also, in SR, a creep wave alone can't take out a tower. In Dominion, two waves can easily neutralize a tower. Of course, auto attackers can push creeps better than nuke casters. AA has no cooldown and uses no resources. Changing the resists on creeps wouldn't really change anything.

Possible they wanted the AP casters auto attacks to be able to damage the creeps? Given that they will not be building AD if the creeps did have equal armor they would almost have to use abilities to clear even the small groups so there would not be a pile up.

SR and TT turrets currently use an interesting mechanic to help AP-dominant champs stay relevant. To quote the LoL Wikia:

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That sounds really interesting. Considering last hitting isn't really as important in dom so much as simply clearing waves. This would be something I'd like to see.

RiotNome, make it so, please :P

Do it nome!