I'm going to blow all your minds...

Flat damage reduction masteries and Strength of Spirit are the reasons I invest in the defensive tree. They're soo underrated it's disgusting. Offensive tree is way overrated, I absolutely hate it.

Offensive is definitely the least used tree. Utility is the most used, and for good reason (for non mana champions). Problem with offensive tree is going past 9 points is only worth it for auto attack heroes who invest in crit items/runes. Rarely would you have more than 1 of these heroes on a team, and even some physical carries would never go deep offense tree(Jax, Ezreal, Olaf are just some examples).

Mordekaiser is always 9/21 for me. So are champs that don't use Mana at all and spells from Utility like haste or teleport.

Scars of the Veteran is pretty ****. I don't go further than 16 into Defence though, Ardor and whatever the 21 pointer are seem kinda eh.

noone even going to mention 4 percent reduction to damage at the end of the tree? when you start capping out in armor and or magic resists - i requires like an additional 100 of either just to move up 4-5 percent...... 4 percent is huge when you're taking 600 dmg.

Noone even going to mention that additional HP helps early game? Ever see garen with 900 HP at level 1 face roll people?

Defensive mastery is underrated.

Utility is over used.

And offensive is pretty much a ****ing waste unless you're tryndamere, plank.

MANA using carries gain far more benefit from having faster regen, speed, cooldown reduction early game and ignoring meki pendant or any other mana item and focus on core builds instead of offense.

pretty much every other champion gets 9 offensive for CDR AP boost and spell pen. Other than that its ignored. 21 def or 21 utlity.

When you jungle like me, defense masteries are the only way to go, minion reduction and dodge chance plus extra hp is pro dude.