Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-27802145-20170616174404/@comment-27802145-20170616183753

Cjdead wrote: ... using the colors for and ... (this) would imply that to counter physical damage you need to build armor, and to counter magic damage you need to build magic resistance.

That's actually the reason why I thought about this issue in the first place. Never saw a reason why Physical / Magic damage should be coloured the same as AD / AP when really they have a more consistent correlation to Armour / Magic Resistance.