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My question is simple.

When a Hero has (for example) 6 armor, and you apply (for example) slardars ultimate (wich at lvl 3 igives -20 armor reduction).
Does the hero get 0 armor, or does he get -14 armor (and thus taking INCREASED phisical damage?)

The same question for stackable less efficient armor reductions like: , , , ..., etc.

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The armor value of the target with 6 armor will go down to -14 when hit by a level 3 Amplify Damage, which would, indeed, increase the damage taken by the target. The concept also applies to every single armor-reducing effect in dota (except , which reduces a percentage of armor, meaning it will not go below 0 unless another armor-reduction effect is applied).

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Yep, it goes minus, you can see damage change values below:

Armor Damage reduction (%) Armor Damage amplification (%)
1 5.7 / -1 6.0
2 10.7 / -2 11.6
3 15.3 / -3 16.9
4 19.4 / -4 21.9
5 23.1 / -5 26.6
6 26.5 / -6 31.0
7 29.6 / -7 35.2
8 32.4 / -8 39.0
9 35.1 / -9 42.7
10 37.5 / -10 46.1
11 39.8 / -11 49.4
12 41.9 / -12 52.4
13 43.8 / -13 55.3
14 45.7 / -14 57.9
15 47.4 / -15 60.5
16 49.0 / -16 62.8
17 50.5 / -17 65.1
18 51.9 / -18 67.2
19 53.3 / -19 69.1
20 54.5 / -20 71.0
21 55.8 / -21 71.0
22 56.9 / -22 71.0
23 58.0 / -23 71.0
24 59.0 / -24 71.0
25 60.0 / -25 71.0

So in your example, the target would receive an extra 57.9% physical damage.

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It helped alot! :D
Thanks for the quick responses :)

This also "prooves" (can't find the right word) that my with a is devastating.

I really recommend trying it sometime. I hope it will surprise you in a pleasant way just as much as I was surprised.

For those who are intrested:

my starting items are some regen and wards and/or courier, after that just get a in the side shop and use my stun from time to time to harras and scare them away and kinda spam for intimidation and for the sight it grants. (Watch your mana tho, Always have a backup stun ready just in case)
by the time you get lvl 6 you should have , , 3points in , 2points in and 1point in .
This is really all you need for the next 5 to 10 mins. Just go roaming and gank the sh!t out of them.
Engage with a swap and a stun. Aplly both armor reductions and the enemy hero is dead basicly.

Due this "strategy" several enemies I faced left our games cause they wer incredibly outfarmed by the 15min mark. (not to brag or anything, just to proove the effectiveness)

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either one of these 2

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can't recall wich it was, and since i'm at work i cannot watch replay myself

edit: needles to say, i'm playing VS

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?? I do not understand, i'm sorry.

Do you need PROOF of my approach? (that's what I thought, so I linked the match ID's)

or are you talking about something else?

edit: lololol nvm.. x) Now I see that you wer merely correcting my grammatical error.
I thought you wer asking for proof xD

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