At 100 armor/magic resistance, you should have at least 1500 HP.

At 50 armor/magic resistance, you should have at least 1100 HP.

If during LoL games you don’t always know what to buy armor / magic resistance or health to spend gold effectively you may use this graph to make a decision:Įxamples showing how you can use this graph for calculations in LoL: Mages prefer Abyssal Mask or Athene’s Unholy Grail. Supports are looking for Mikael’s Crucible or Locket of the Iron Solari If you want to build strictly defensively to increase your survivability recommended item for armor areĪmong the magic resistance items each champion can find something unique for himself.ĪDC can use Maw of Malmortius or Quicksilver Sash Mostly Seeker’s Armguard is a Mage’s artifact because it can be upgraded in Zhonya’s Hourglass later. If you want to build strictly defensively to increase your survivability recommended item for armor are:Īlso, I want to highlight such item as Seeker’s Armguard, that increase armor by 30 but also increase armor by 0.5 for each slain minion, up to 15 additional armor. 250 HP shield on 100 MR would provide 500 effective health against magic damage. Champions who are able to change their forms from melee to ranged and back also do not gain magic resistance per level, e.g Nidalee or Jayce.Īrmor and Magic Resistance are working great with shields since they increase their effectiveness, e.g. However, there are a few exceptions among melee champions whose magic resistance does not increase with level up: Yasuo, Kassadin, Poppy, Maokai, Shen, Singed. Magic resistance starting point always equals 30 and only melee champions gain it per level. The only champion who doesn’t gain armor per level is Thresh due to his passive ability Damnation which increases his armor for collected soul instead. Each champion starts with 16-35 armor (to cut it short melee champions get more armor while ranged less) and it grows up with each level up to 65-97 at 18 level ( Gnar has 65,5 armor and Maokai 96,7). LoL ARMOR AND MAGIC RESISTANCE CALCULATION FORMULA:Ģ5 resistance: 80% incoming damage leads to 20% reduction and 125% total effective healthĥ0 resistance: 66% incoming damage leads to 33% reduction and 150% total effective healthġ00 resistance: 50% incoming damage leads to 50% reduction and 200% total effective healthĢ00 resistance: 33% incoming damageleads to 67% reduction and 300% total effective healthģ00 resistance: 25% incoming damage leads to 75% reduction and 400% total effective health CHAMPIONS WITH THE HIGHEST / LOWEST BASE ARMORĭespite that LoL armor and LoL magic resistance working similarly, there is a difference in starting points. There is simple formula using which you can calculate reduction on your own. This means the effective health of that champion was increased from 1000 HP to 1500 HP against physical attacks. For example, a champion with 50 armor and 1000 health needs 1500 physical damage in total to be slain.

Each point of resistance requires an attacker to do 1% extra damage to a target to make a kill. We will combine these two terms into a single one: “resistance” for convenience reasons. They reduce incoming damage each from a particular source (physical and magic accordingly) by percentage. Armor and Magic Resistance are characteristics that all units have.

They work similarly thus we will consider them both at once. Aatrox Ahri Akali Akshan Alistar Amumu Anivia Annie Aphelios Ashe Aurelion Sol Azir Bard Blitzcrank Brand Braum Caitlyn Camille Cassiopeia Cho'Gath Corki Darius Diana Dr.Armor and Magic Resistance mechanics are the cornerstones of LoL and we will explain how they work in this guide.

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