whats the point of armor/magic resist again?

Akali Prime·Mar 15, 2019·2 votes·911 views

me and shen had plenty of armor, and still got shredded like wet toilet paper by enemy udyr. mid game with no armor pen.

whats the point of buying armor again?

7 Comments

Rock MDMar 15, 20193 votes

I'm looking at your game right now. I believe you're referring to when Udyr killed you at 18 minutes.

The point of armor/magic resist is to make sure that you don't melt as quickly. It does a good job powering up quickly and then falling off as the game progresses. If you built only tank stats, you probably would've been fine. However, you built one Bramble Vest and you're suddenly expecting yourself to be extremely tanky. That's not how this works. You can't go for zero defensive masteries besides maybe the armor stat shard, and then for itemization run Cinderhulk into Rav Hydra (which does not synergize with CH because it doesn't give you any HP) and then say, "Okay I got 35 armor you can't kill me."

Akali PrimeMar 15, 20191 votes

And what about the shen on my team who at the time had 186 armor and was also shredded by udyr solo

ZerglingOneMar 15, 20193 votes

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And what about the shen on my team who at the time had 186 armor and was also shredded by udyr solo

Udyr is essentially a juggernaut. You're not supposed to beat him in a stand up fight. He has 3 steroids with his passive, Q ASPD, and the damage on every 3rd hit.

Basically you have to remember. If you'd lose to Darius in a given situation, you'd probably lose to Udyr too.

Rock MDMar 15, 20192 votes

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And what about the shen on my team who at the time had 186 armor and was also shredded by udyr solo

Udyr is 3 levels up and has double his gold value.

This isn't an exaggeration. It's literally 6,503 vs. 13,202. If you're Nami and your lead is that substantial you should shred your opponent, now imagine that gold differential is on one of the strongest early-game bruisers/duelists.

HP CrookshanksMar 15, 20193 votes

Magic resist is useful if the enemy team has an AP champion (even more useful if there are multiple APs) but I agree armor is completely trash even when the enemy comp is full AD.

ZerglingOneMar 15, 20191 votes

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Magic resist is useful if the enemy team has an AP champion (even more useful if there are multiple APs) but I agree armor is completely trash even when the enemy comp is full AD.

No, Malphite still completely shits on comps like that.

Granted, it's literally only Malphite that's like that, but still.

xDogMeatxMar 15, 20192 votes

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Magic resist is useful if the enemy team has an AP champion (even more useful if there are multiple APs) but I agree armor is completely trash even when the enemy comp is full AD.

unless your 700 armor (with w of course) rammus but if you add in blade of the ruined king then nvm on the armor advantage there.