PSA: Tanks should build warmong's armor after getting your first 2 major resist items

Geshultz·6/25/2017, 7:07:05 AM·6 votes·1,077 views
Warmog's Armor

Reasons to build it

  1. Makes your resists more effective. Some math behind it is that to think of each stat of one resist as 1% more effective health against that particular damage. Say you have 100 armor then getting warmong's armor grants an extra 1600 effective health against physical damage. Typically most tanks have around 200ish armor and 110 mr after their first 2 major resist items grabbing a warmong's alone grants an extra 2400 against physical damage and 1680 against magic damage.
  2. It grants the most health regain in the game and grants a way for tanks to heal fully after activating its passive Warmong's heart after 6 seconds of not taking damage. It makes the item great for skirmishes or tanking a tower then backing off to regenerate the health lost and be able to take a teamfight afterwards or being able to back out of a teamfight then come back in afterwards, along with the dozens of other situations its useful for.
  3. It is one of the few tank items that has cooldown reduction on it to help cap your cooldown reduction.
  4. It synergizes extremely effectively with items like sterak's gage, Titantic hyrda, and Gargoyle's stone plate and make future resist items way more effective then just buying 3 armor and health items alone.

26 Comments

Paroe6/25/2017, 7:13:32 AM5 votes

I.... no. Just... plain no.

A tank should be building item 3109 item 3065 item 3742 item 3047 item 3193 item 3025. The build you just described is no tank - thats a bruiser. item 3053 item 3065 item 3748 item 3193 item 3111 item 3083

I understand the confusion, but theyre VERY different.

JuhnChan6/25/2017, 7:21:47 AM3 votes

No, because 1) item 3193 gets you way more bang for your buck

and 2) why the fuck would the Tank just leave the teamfight

This is why Garen is bad item 3070 Garen item 3070

RenownedWheat426/25/2017, 7:46:15 AM3 votes

I like WA, but it'll never be my third item.

item 3742 item 3065 item 3047 item 3193 item 3109 with a final item toss-up.

If I've got AP in mid and jg then item 3001 instead of item 3065 priority.

But really, item 3193 is better for teamfights than item 3083 by miles. And teamfights should be the primary concern for your build-path.

Tobias Brackner6/25/2017, 8:03:37 AM1 votes

Thank you! I was always curious about Warmogs but was too lazy to sit down and to the math on it. I'll definitely try to work it into my builds. Thanks for the help! [zombie-nunu-hearts]

Weasel Kensei6/25/2017, 4:11:27 PM1 votes

HP doesnt make your your resist more effective...

Thats like saying upgrading the engine on your car makes the tires more effective. The the car got better, but nothing about the tires were changed.

Resist make HP MORE EFFECTIVE.

HP gets a direct benefit for having higher resistances, making the effective health of an HP item higher (making that health item more effective). No amount of HP makes the resistances you already have better, resistance effects are static.

I get your trying to help people, I commend you for that, but we dont need people who dont know how effective health and resist work ALSO learning it backwards and telling other people backwards info... thats how religions start.

BLACK REALM GOD6/26/2017, 2:07:17 PM1 votes

personally... that's debatable.

your definitions are unique to your opinion, but the way i see it unless you're playing a champion with health stats built into your kit you should probably save warmogs for the last two items or not at all. damage improves the ability to survive more so than health. only certain champions would i even recommend getting heavy health items for any reason. improving your base stats without improving your kill potential is a waste of gold regardless of the passive gained. having to stack hp to get that passive is even worse.