Leather Jerkin

The main foundation for all physical defensive items. As the third most cheapest item, Leather Jerkin is specifically meant to be spammed in the wearer's inventory, although 1 or 2 pieces will always do the job. Despite being a lowly Tier 1 item, Leather Jerkin is very underrated for its ability to prevent early ganks and snowballing by the lane opponent/s, to explain this in an understandable manner: • An allied is facing a in the Top Lane. Naturally, a Ranged Top wins the lane easily as they can punish and poke the melee hero with little to no reprisal but lets say that the knows how to handle such. In this case, has to both keep the pressure and be on her guard but here's the catch. Let's assume uses the Assassin Emblem and applied 3 talent points on Invasion, this gives about 20 and at level hero 2, grants 15 at level 1 while the only has 18 or less at hero level 2. This means that the moment manages to get near which is likely to how much mobility has, will be taking more than just True Damage that of which is even amplified by how damages are boosted if the target has a negative defense. This makes the fight extremely one sided. • To solve this, rather than buying trying to build as fast as possible, buying 2 will be able to temporarily stop the from dominating the lane. While may have helped here, does not rely highly on his and will benefit more from Swift Boots as 2 Leather Jerkins only costs 440 Gold while a full Warrior Boots costs about 7