Can we have the real armor formula?

Onotori·Apr 8, 2018·1 votes·153 views

You build 5-6 MR items, and you actually take much less damage.

You build 5-6 armor items, and you take 10% less damage (if that), even if they're not building armor pen.

So, obviously you changed the armor formula, and it isn't accurate anymore, nor is the tooltip in game. That, or ADCs and melee clickers are actually autoing for well over 2-3k per auto.

Imagine if armor actually did something though; Tanks would be viable and a real threat, and LC$ games would become even more boring, so you'd have to add more armor pen items that ADCs could easily build, and add more passive armor shred to champs that don't need it. (or the game could actually be somewhat fun for non-AD champs)

1 Comments

Nanuk PihoqahiakApr 8, 20181 votes

You take less damage with MR because most mages can only do damage in chunks. They are typically gated by cooldowns, and thus magic resistance + health is more effective against them.

Armor appears to do less because a lot of sources of physical damage are constant. ADCs pumping out 2 attacks every second while getting unmitigated crits for around 700-1k will do substantially more over time.

And regardless, you should never be building all armor / mr items. There's diminishing returns on the stats. More will net you less reduction. After 2 items, it's typically better to get health, or items with regen / effects like Adaptive Helmet that will reduce damage by a percent.