User blog comment:Myself v1.0/HP over defenses? O rly?/@comment-98.232.242.48-20130124171658/@comment-98.232.242.48-20130125172430

Myself v1.0:

I think you kind of missed the point.

I wrote out an example, not the standard for every game. I was pointing out that even in the case of Darius, who effectively scales with almost every move on AD, was built for health in a high elo game (where knowledge and counters is extremely high so you can't screw around with troll builds) and destroyed the opposing team as a result. That implies that pretty much exclusively building high health IS viable. And that isn't the only game I've watched where stacking health is what won for a team - if you actually take the time to look, health is built far more often on champions than happened in S2. That's not a coincidence. This has nothing to do with being a "sheep" as you so ignorantly pointed out, it has to do with using a valid example.

Now as far as lower elo, the same still applies. Since lower elos tend to not know how to focus and distribute their damage (especially in team fights), higher health champions end up living because even without MR or armor, they survive the distributed damage where a lower health champion wouldn't.

Your argument about "what if they stacked defense" is worthless - I can say what if all day about anything. The point is that they DO stack health and it DOES work. They DON'T stack defense and it DOESN'T work. What if the players sprouted wings from their back? "What if" doesn't work just because you want it to. It's not a valid argument.