[gaijin]

one thing I don’t understand is why stormtroopers wear all of that armor if it never ever works.

every single one of those guys dies after one shot.

I have never seen a scene in which the armor reflected a single shot.

[C19fan]

I thought the armor allows the trooper to penetrate shielding.

[Kirkwood]

It doesn’t matter since they are clones. There is a never ending supply of stormtroopers.

[arderkrag]

AHEM

It also protected the troopers from very harsh environments as well as projectiles and kinetic energy weapons.[1] The armor significantly reduced damage to the wearer from a blaster bolt, but it could be completely penetrated by a more powerful cannon blast. The body glove allowed for operation in warm or cold climates, however it could protect the trooper from almost any environment -- from total vacuum conditions to the very extremes in cold and heat for a very limited period of time. The Imperial Army soon acquired the use of the armor in the later years of the Galactic Empire.

[Boogieman]

They couldn’t even save the stormtroopers from the stone-tipped spears and rocks that Ewoks were tossing at them.