Armor

Armor is an attribute shared by all units. Armor is used to determine the amount of damage reduction a unit takes from basic attack (if it's Basic Attack Armor) and ability damage (if it's Ability Damage Armor) sources. Higher armor values reduce more damage. Armor is increased with each level or with certain abilities and items.

Armor Types

There are two types of armor: Basic Armor and Ability Armor. They function similarly, except Basic Attack Armor will only reduce damage from basic attack damage and is only affected from basic attack penetration and shred, while Ability Armor will only reduce damage from ability damage and be affected from ability penetration and shred.

Damage Reduction

Damage reduction values

All units, including Structures, have an inherent armor value. Any damage dealt to a unit suffers a damage reduction depending on the target's armor.

The formula to calculate a hero's damage reduction is:

$\color{Gray}{DR = A-AP/(100+(A-AP)+10\times(HL-1))}$

Where:

• DR is damage reduction
• A is armor
• AP is armor penetration
• HL is Hero Level

In simple terms, for every unit of armor you have, you gain the equivalent of 1% health in damage reduction against the corresponding type of damage (e.g. having 110 Physical Armor makes you 110% harder to kill with Physical Damage). Additionally, heroes innately gain the equivalent of 10 armor per level in damage reduction, which is exempt from Armor Penetration.

The cap on this value is 100% damage reduction, but it requires an infinite amount of armor to reach the cap, making it impossible to obtain perfect damage reduction.

Armor Penetration

Armor Penetration makes your abilities ignore armor equal to it's value. Penetration higher than enemy's Armor has no effect.

Armor Shred

Armor Shred reduce the target's Armor equal to it's value. The difference between Shred and Penetration is that Shred also reduces armor for all friendly units, allowing them to deal more damage to the target.

Armor Shred stacks with Armor Penetration.

Mechanics
Hero	Abilities ● Affinities (Death/Chaos/Growth/Knowledge/Order) ● Aura ● Basic and Ability Armor ● Attributes (Agility/Vitality/Intellect) ● Cards ● Cooldown ● Cooldown Reduction ● Experience ● Jump ● Gems ● Gold ● Health ● Mana ● Movement Speed (Movement Speed Penalty)
Attack	Armor Penetration ● Attack Speed ● Basic Attack ● Basic Attack Time ● Basic Attack Modifiers ● Damage over time ● Lifesteal ● Power
Status Effects, Buffs and Debuffs	Blind ● Crowd Control ● Immunity ● Metamorphosis ● Rewind ● Shadow Plane ● Shield ● Silence ● Slow ● Stasis
World	Agora ● Minimap ● Backdoor Protection ● Core ● Fog Walls ● Fountain ● Jump Pad ● Minions ● Neutral Monsters (Aqua Camp/Black Camp/Fangtooth/Gold Camp/Green Camp/Prime Helix Guardian/River Camp/White Camp) ● Tower ● Wards
Gameplay	Ganking ● Harassment ● Initiating ● Jungling ● Kill ● Lane ● Pushing ● Respawn ● Traits
Legacy	Red Camp ● Blue Camp ● Altar ● Amber Link ● Harvester (Harvester Keys) ● Raptors ● Shadow Pads ● Travel Mode