Does anyone know why people at MSI build so much armor instead of MR against a mostly AP comp?
Huni was playing Galio and build 3 armor items 
against Kennen 
,Ivern 
(who sorta AP),Syndra 
,and Karma 
.
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Most Kennens build Bork and Runaans now in the pro scene, and the HP from Sunfire is also good against Syndra's burst damage. Caitlin would be putting out much more sustained damage to worry about, since Syndra will never be targeting Galio when the rest of the team is alive.
Sadly, only Bobjenkins plays AP Kennen in high elo anymore.
These days, whenever a pro player plays Kennen, they build items like 
and play him as a kiting ranged auto-attacker, kind of like Teemo with no blind and a stun.
Ivern and Karma don't do much damage, and Galio already has a passive magic damage absorbing shield, so he's stronger against magic damage than against physical damage without accounting for items.
Building lots of armor and a little bit of MR has been pretty normal for a long time now, though. The reason for this is that most magic damage dealers, like Syndra, deal damage in bursts. If Syndra's full combo doesn't kill you (and the health you got from your armor items also made it more difficult for Syndra to kill you in one combo) then Syndra doesn't deal that much damage after that. On the other hand, most physical damage dealers, like Caitlyn, deal sustained damage. Especially because much of their damage comes from auto attacks. Ignoring crits, each auto attack will deal the same damage. And, especially with crits, those auto attacks will deal a lot of damage, very consistently, for a really long time.
There were two sustained physical damage dealers on the enemy team, Kennen and Caitlyn, and there was one burst magic damage dealer on the enemy team, Syndra. Huni built enough health and magic resistance to be beyond Syndra's ability to burst for any significant damage, and he built so much armor that it would have taken Caitlyn and Kennen a ridiculously long time to kill him.
galio flat out counters kennen cuz of galios passive shield on W and kennen is an auto attacker so armor items vs the ad kennen completely shut him out...
ivern didnt really have shit for damage he built 
karma only has a 
the only real AP threat was syndra but she has 
now galio also gets damage reduction built into his kit as well... and it scales with MR so if he had MR runes that would of been enough
and he is the "front line tank" so kennen and cait would auto him if he didnt build 
but as syndra got void staff and kennen built witts ends you see galio get 
which gives him more HP for syndra's burst and enough mr to stay save which also buffs his damage reduction he has in his kit from building MR
Kennen didn't deal that much ap with his build. Their plan was to execute syndra asap and with all his armor and natural magic damage shield, galio would be almost invincible.