Talk:Tiamat/@comment-98.207.180.242-20120626222733/@comment-5025602-20120627171657

I just tested it and it seems that either ricklessabandon was wrong, miswording the statement, or, since that post was 3 months ago, now out of date.

Tiamat takes everyone's armor into account separately for the splash damage. Test is simple.

1) Make sure you're playing a melee character and have 0 armor pen.

2) Get 2 Tiamats. Your attacks should splash for 100% damage for super-easy calculations.

3) Attack the blue buff golem. It has more armor than its lizard minions and you'll notice the lizard minions will take more damage per hit than the golem does.