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League of Legends (LoL) Question: Is Riot destroying crits again?

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Is Riot destroying crits again?

Asked by Hamstertamer on January 28, 2019

I just saw the tentative changes for crit items. I'm very, very worried they're going to be garbage.

https://www.surrenderat20.net/2019/01/125-pbe-update-more-tentative-balance.html#more

Current crits are actually very good. With two items plus , you sit at 100% crit chance. This leaves you two slots for and one of //. So you have overall great offensive stats, two defensive items, tank shredding with true damage, sustain, and 100% crit chance. The full build is awesome.

What do we get instead?
- no longer doubles crit chance, gives +25% crit chance instead. This is a massive net nerf to the item. Now you need 4 crit items instead of 3 to get 100% crit chance. This is literally like losing a passive (which also reduces the number of crit items needed for max crit chance by 1).

- True damage removed, replaced by a 12.5% damage increase on crits. This is overall inferior and far less versatile. It's literally half of the increase it was before btw (was 25%). Now you need a item to deal with tanks. Oh wait, you don't have a slot for one, because you need 4 crit items to reach max crit chance now.

- New gives only 60 AD (pre rework ER was 70), only 20% CDR (pre rework ER was 30%), and 1.5% missing mana restore on hit (pre rework ER was 3% MAXIMUM mana on crit). It's just a massively undertuned version of the old ER and it sucks.

Pretty sure they're going to put silly changes like these live and once they'll realize that crit ad carries suck they'll try to "compensate" by giving 5 movement speed to or something.

I feel like we've been there before.

Answers (3)

yes!!!

1. ER never had 30% cd reduction. No item had 30%. 2. Returning Infinity Edge to old 50% bonus crit dmg would actually be very nice but this is a nerf indeed. That twitch joke was lit tho xD Tho rito would probably give that ms to vayne or something.

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wrote:

1. ER never had 30% cd reduction. No item had 30%.

It did if you had at least 50% crit chance.
https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Essence_Reaver

Unique Passive: +10% cooldown reduction.
Unique Passive: Gain 0% − 20% (based on critical strike chance) additional cooldown reduction. This bonus does not include the critical strike chance given by this item.

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I think is the worst change. You lose a lot of stats and the passive doesn't really compensate. It looks pretty mediocre.

I think is worrisome. A lot of bruisers liked for its passive, and now there is an item with stats more favorable for dueling. It may make figures like and spike hard after this item.

It's true that doesn't increase critical damage as much, but in comparison I think it's better than doubling crit for sure. We'll see marksmen spiking at two items. Most marksmen rushed and so in the current state marksmen rarely reached 100% crit at three items.

Nevertheless the change is still essentially the old crit items but most stats are worse. It may still be better than the current crit items, but nowhere close to old crit items.

(74) |

Agreed for , although it's by far the least bought Zeal item so the impact is very low, probably only affects Tryndamere and Yasuo anyways, and if it sucks they'll go instead.

will indeed be another BS bruiser item, as if with its passive 60 second cooldown wasn't BS enough already.

however is way inferior to the current one. The only positive thing is that IE rush is now viable again, but as soon as you have 2 items it's worse (50% crit chance instead of 60%), and at 3 items it's far worse (75% crit chance instead of 100%). And frankly right now people who go Stormrazor on crit AD carries instead of the incredibly cost-efficient Zeal item + Zeal + IE (90% crit chance for 2k gold less that the SR build), are really screwing up.

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