Talk:Garen/@comment-24475393-20140127214412

Isn't Courage a completely useless ability?
 * Courage's passive bonuses are calculated after armor and magic resistance reductions are taken into account. If the value of bonus resistance is inferior to the amount reduced, Garen will be considered as having no bonus resistances and will therefore not get any resistances from Courage's passive.

But it is so easy to build over 200 armor and mr, having a minimum 30% damage reduction is never useful, the armor and mr resistance reductions will always be greater even after shreds and penetrations. Just having 43 total armor gives a 0.7 damage modifier against physical damage, which is 30%.

My method here is to take the formula DR (damage reduction) = 100/(100 + Total Armor), set DR equal to 0.7 and solve for Total Armor.