League of Legends (LoL) Question: Flat HP and attack spped marks on Ashe?

Well I assume he means it statistically gives you the most DPS, but calling them statistically the best runes on her is just wrong. AS marks over AD marks gives you poor af trading in lane, AS glyphs over MR glyphs is ok but you'll get raped by magic damage all game (it's better to use a mix than full AS, or just stick to the traditional 9 MR), and HP seals aren't better than armor seals unless you're just fighting to the death at lvl 1 as soon as you get into lane, since armor seals increase the effectiveness of lifesteal, HP regen and potions.

Edit: I just watched the video and I recommend completely disregarding it, he's basing his arguments on win rates when the win rates have such tiny sample sizes that they're just not accurate. The best runes are the most used ones so tend to have the most accurate win rates (which trends to as close to 50% as possible), while worse runes are least popular so tend to have more extreme win rates, so they commonly have win rates like 55+%, even higher than 60% sometimes, so he argues that makes them "statistically better" than the meta even though you can't take **** from such a small sample size.

He even ***** on his own argument when he says AS marks are statistically better than AD marks on Lucian and Ezreal, but they "feel weird" so he rules them out as "statistical noise", so he overrides the statistics and recommends AD marks.

He fails to realize that basically every single one of his "statistically better" runes is just "statistical noise". I've experimented with his recommended full AS marks for Tristana in the past, and I quickly ruled them out because playing with no AD was awful. Yes they give more DPS mid-late game, but it wasn't worth the weaker early-game. Many pros have experimented with the same setup years ago and long established that AD marks were better. Phreak is the only special butterfly that wants to blindly take statistics for their word and insists everyone else is wrong for not following them.

If you do care about statistics anyway, use this site as a reference.

http://www.op.gg/champion/ashe/statistics/adc

Check the runes tab: "Statistical noise" still applies, but it only shows rune pages that have a certain minimum games played, so the results are a lot less extreme than if you're trying to take the statistics of a rune page that uses flat HP (which no one uses so the result of that is gonna be inaccurate as ****).

Yeah, I watched Freak's videos as well and I think those are just the ones that WON statistically, but it also depends on the lane. It's always a good idea to take magic resist against a lane with Sona/Zyra/Brand/Nami because they're the ones dishing out the damage. He said flat health is better on some ADC's who don't have an early game, but I like the scaling health overall. The idea of health over armor is to save you from the mid laner who can easily burst you down, but you shouldn't normally see the mid laner until after 6 anyways. I think the only reason he said flat health was to get you through that early game if they do have that Caitlyn/ Sona poke, but I prefer scaling health (like he said, both work and it's up to you as a player to decide).

Besides that, most of what Ekki said about the attack speed runes is pretty accurate! The only thing I don't agree on is the idea that more than 4-5 attack speed glyphs is overkill. Ashe can, for one, use her attack speed to kite better with a mix of her Frost Shot and Ranger's Focus. Also realize that (I don't play Ashe often so I don't know a SPECIFIC build for her) most Ashe's will get items like Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, Essence Reaver, Maw of Malmortius, Mercurial Scimitar, etc. These are all item that give attack damage and not attack speed. I normally only see Runaan's Hurricane and Berserker's Greaves. Furthering your attack speed with runes and then getting tons of AD items in game works efficiently. Just make sure there's a little bit of a balance, like Ekki said. Runes are all about the type of player as well, so yours will definitely be different than mine or others and they all normally work out just fine!

Is that from a new video/article? Or an old one? Always check the date when using those resources. Ashe was strong during the first half of the year iirc, but got nerfed pretty hard and is kinda weak now.

Back on OT. Flat HP is an alternative because it also protects against magic damage (since you're not using MR glyphs). Flat HP seals suck though, they're too expensive and only worth it before level 6. After level 6 the scaling HP runes give better stats.

Attack speed glyphs seem to be decent, but not getting any MR via runes seems way too risky. I've used the 3 attsp glyphs + 6 mr glyphs setup for most of my adc pages, but going for more than 4-5 attsp glyphs seems like overkill in an inmobile adc like Ashe.

Lastly, lots of attack speed might be somewhat optimal on her because of the on-hit multiplier from Ranger's Focus, but it's CRITICAL that you take in account the most optimal build too. Going full attsp runes and starting with a first item Runaan's Hurricane probably won't be optimal. You should probably aim for a Infinity Edge first item. Another factor is that you should be careful to not go over the attack speed cap, otherwise you would be wasting stats because of a controversial rune setup.