Talk:Olaf/@comment-174.55.32.72-20120224030101/@comment-129.161.72.140-20120224081245

Its a huge buff. At lvl 1 it gives a better damage reduction against anything over 115 damage, and at max rank anything over 96 damage is reduced by more than his old passive. At lvl 6 almost every champ is dealing more than 115 with their moves, and if they bought any items their auto attacks are probably around there. So essentially he trades exactly like before and nukes do less. On top of that, by making it armor/MR you can afford to build a tiny bit less tanky, building health is more valuable and therefore he benefits more from his W. Oh and they are buffing his late game damage with the scaling of his Q, which will now deal more damage than before at early levels, and if you have ZERO attack damage he loses 12 damage late. If you build more than 12 AD it deals more damage than before. And while he has his W it will always deal more. I love Olaf exactly the way he is and honestly I feel these buffs are too much. The only reason he isn't seen much currently is hit damage falls off a little later since his E has limited scaling, but he already has a monstrously good laning phase against melee that now he will become much more popular.