Talk:Gangplank/@comment-112.153.137.147-20130112070518/@comment-112.153.137.147-20130119181715

It's text. If the ingame formula were ever changed for the specific champion, the wiki text can be *gasp!* updated to include four whole characters.

It is not clearer, it is unnecessarily more complicated.

3 + (1 * level)

vs

3 + level

Anything multiplied by one equals itself, so (1 * 18) = 18.

It is not standard, look at Fiora. Even if it were, it'd be a stupid standard that only demonstrates the author's lack of mathematical understanding. Besides, passives are so varied and on different pages that arguing about this being a "standard" that somehow helps readers is just silly.

Lux, Kog'Maw, Nautilus, and others have legitimate reason to use (x * level) because X is greater than 1. Gangplank, Swain, Alistar, and others, meanwhile, have no business doing the same, because they are all (1 * level), which just = level.