Talk:Braum/@comment-24054340-20140424144819/@comment-1330314-20140424150421

That's actually not nearly as bad as it looks, mainly because you're looking at it the wrong way. 82% damage reduction means your health is divided by 0.18 against physical damage, which gives you 555.6% of your health's worth in effective health. Each point of armor increases your effective health by 1%, and any kind of percent damage reduction acts as a multiplier to that, so it actually works really well.

That said, I agree that it's a far better idea to get Mercury's Treads in most cases, unless you're in a very special situation where the enemy team has very little CC. Braum has tons of ways to reduce damage and intercept attacks, but has no innate resistance to crowd control despite needing to be constantly mobile to make the most of his kit.