Board Thread:Game discussion/@comment-4726614-20130404050044/@comment-6016076-20140330005540

As far as I can tell, you aren't reducing Garen's base armor in your calculations from Wukong's Crushing Blow. You are reducing the total armor, then deriving his bonus armor left assuming his base armor hasn't also been reduced. A bonus armor of 7, for example, implies Crushing Blow reduced his 30 bonus armor by 67%.

Ultimately, the first one should be correct because in multiplication, it doesn't matter which order you do it in. In other words, you can multiply by 1.2 then multiply by 0.7, or you can multiply by 0.7 first then 1.2. Same answer of course. This is why it works for Shen. The reason you are getting a different answer in the second case is because as I mentioned you aren't reducing the base armor in that calculation; if you did, you would come out to the same answer.

Nevertheless, something weird is going on in Garen's case. I tried once for several hours to recalculate exact numbers with Garen based on damage dealt to him using an in-game screen shot of his death recap and portrait with items, and I could never get it to come out right. The closest I got was within 1 point of damage using a rather implausible scenario. The fact you come out to the exactly the right answer with Shen but not with Garen reminded me of this. This makes me wonder if there's something wrong, like Garen's actual stats aren't correctly displayed or something.