Vi's E cone doesn't crit: crital strikes now affect the cone

Hilsun·3/22/2019, 5:16:59 PM·10 votes·7,726 views

Bug: The cone from Vi's E does not critically strike. Expected result: The total damage caused by the cone should be amplified by 2 (or 2.25 with IE) Actual result: The extra damage applied by the critical strike of the melee attack is added to the cone, rather than the cone itself critically striking.

I figured this out when I tried to make a cheesey AP Vi build with an Infinity Edge at the end for some silly high E crit damage. It turns out the extra damage added by the crit is NOT affected by the AP ratio at all, because the extra damage comes strictly from the actual melee strike rather than the cone's damage. Either the language in the patch notes should reflect the proper functionality, or this functionality should be remedied to allow the E's cone damage itself to crit, rather than be based off of the melee critical hit.

5 Comments

NepgearDesu3/23/2019, 10:49:25 AM3 votes

With 253 AD, 672 AP (2 Essence reavers, 4 Rabadon's, irrelevant runes), against a 100 armour target (practice dummy):

Expected damage on E: [ 90 (base) + 278 (AD ratio) + 605 (AP ratio) ] / 2 (armour) = 973 / 2 = 486.5, rounded up or down. Expected damage on critical E : 486.5 (E damage) x 2 (critical strike multiplier) = 973.

Actual, witnessed damage: 126 damage on basic attack, 253 on critical (working as intended), 486 damage on E strike (as intended), 613 on critical (woopsie).

Critical E damage is equal to 486 + 127, that is regular E damage plus basic attack. Thus E damage (target and area of effect) is equal to : 0.1 total AD + 0.9 AP + one basic attack at 1 total AD, which can critically strike for a supplementary 1 total AD (1.25 AD with IE). Not as ridiculous as it could be, but I suppose it's still a potential critical strike in a rather large cone.

Can confirm this issue. This isn't as cool as advertised. I want my money back!

JuiceBoxP3/22/2019, 9:45:57 PM2 votes

Well.... It's not a bug... You won't crit of you don't build crit. But nobody builds crit on vi because she's a fricking bruiser... It's absurd they added that.

Alzon3/22/2019, 10:07:39 PM1 votes

It worked back on PBE. Critting E’s for nearly 1k with just three cheap items 👌

Hilsun2/24/2020, 6:34:17 PM1 votes

This still bugged. Please fix.