Talk:List of champions/Magic resistance/@comment-24.238.48.157-20120707072821/@comment-4937115-20121021131219

Regarding what the Anon said about Cho... Your target STILL needs to be in melee range. Yes, you can use it to poke in lane by autoattacking minions and hitting the champions behind, but still, he is clearly a melee champ. Also, to try and explain this list of flat 30MR melee champs:

-Cho'Gath already has a very tanky potential from his ultimate and can sustain very well with passive. If he had the increasing MR he would destroy as a tanky AP mid.

-Galio's passive means that even with the non-increasing base MR he still has 15 free AP, AND that MR items would be core on him anyway. He doesn't need the MR/lvl and it would in fact make him a bit OP.

-Gragas has fantastic sustain, just like Cho'Gath. Giving him MR/lvl would also make him rape (even more) as tanky AP mid.

-Maokai follows the same logic as Gragas and Cho'Gath, good sustain and a tanking ability (his ultimate). Although I believe MR/lvl would not make him OP, just a tiny bit unbalanced.

-Poppy has a strong passive versus high-damaging magic abilities (like Karthus/Ez/Ashe ulties) and besides she is already a strong anti-AD. Giving her scaling MR would make it much harder to counter her. Though again, not really OP.

-Rammus is an armour tank, meaning magic damage is the one way to counter him. Besides, he does have a huge MR steroid from W, meaning if you are smart enough and can anticipate when you're about to get bursted down from magic damage you can still increase your own MR.

-Shen is a health tank, meaning Madreds and DFG counter him, along with champion abilities that deal damage based on percentage health (and almost all of them do magic damage). Scaling MR would make it pretty damn hard to counter him too.

-Singed... I don't know. I guess because of his passive he tends to have very high HP and therefore follows the same logic as Shen.