Why do people think Spirit Visage is bought for MR?

Yeah but when it's bought depends on whether or not you need the mr

I'm not gonna rush visage against a kled

I don't think that many people look at visage as a mr item primarily. I see it and I first look at the champion to see if they have a lot of healing. It's a pretty open and shut case that spans all of 3 seconds with the scoreboard pulled up.

It depends on the champion. If you're a manaless tank, you're forced to either buy Spirit Visage or Adaptive Helm (or both) against magic damage threats as those two are the only items that give HP and MR regardless of their passives.

Like what? Spirit Visage and Adaptive Helm are the only good health/MR items, and SV gives more health so it's naturally the better choice lol.

It's literally the most slot efficient MR item in the game after the tank item changes fucked over

(70 MR -> 45 and later -> 60 300 Health -> 0 100% health regen -> 0)

It's the best MR item if you don't need other stats/passives of other MR items.