Talk:Garen/@comment-6016076-20131019230341/@comment-24004625-20131020032940

No, because that would make courage's passive UTTER rubbish.

It means that if Garen's Bonus armor/resist is reduced to less than 0 then Garen gets nothing from the passive.

So say you have 100 base armor, plus 200 from items, Courage grants you 20% of your bonus so an additional 40 armor. You then get attacked by a rampaging... Lets say Yi, for the lulz. He has a Black Cleaver and no other reduction items, Garen gets 5 stacks for 25% reduced armor droping his armor from a studdly 100+200(+40 from courage) armor to a slightly less nomnomnom 75+150, Courage is now granting you 20% of that reduced amount, for a total of 30 armor.

So in that given situation, with a Garen rocking 100 base plus 200 bonus armor, the enemy hitting you would need to reduce that 200 bonus down to less than 0 for courage to have no effect. Basically in early game, when your bonus armor is low THEN there's a chance Courage may have no effect, but once you're rocking a decent amount of bonus armor unless the enemy is making a point of stacking Armor reduction, Courage should still have an effect.