Talk:Udyr/@comment-4593717-20130104161827/@comment-125.194.203.150-20130106103551

In Layman's terms. Suppose you get enough armour to get 50% physcial reduction, someone attacks you for 100, it does 50 damage.

Now, assume you get 75% reduction. While it is only a 25% increase 75% reduction reduces a 100 damage attack to 25, which is half of 50. Hence even though armour is diminished, percentile reduction increases exponentially and the diminishment serves to moderate the increasing effects of armour.

This is most extreme at the high end. Assume you get 98% armour, so you only take 2 damage. If you increase your armour by only 1%, you take 1 damage, which is the same 50% damage reduction compared to 2 damage.