[GAMEPLAY] Ashe sometimes doesn't crit (no flavor text), this creates additional bugs.

Averia·Jul 11, 2017·1 votes·537 views

Ashe sometimes doesn't receive the crit flavor text when auto attacking, and oddly enough it shows a 1 damage value lower when the flavor text doesn't appear. This is hardly the biggest problem but it could do with being fixed.

As is well known, Hurricane is a pretty core item on Ashe because of the way her Q - Ranger's Focus interacts with it. However, when Ashe doesn't receive the Crit Flavor Text, the Hurricane proc's lose ~34% of the damage they're supposed to deal on targets that Ashe has proc'ed Frost Shot on.

Unfortunately it's hard to test whether or not this also has an effect on the amount of slow that is proc'ed by Ashe's Frost Shot, but I think it's safe to assume that it could affect the amount of slow as well as the damage.

Just go into a custom game (I did a practice tool session to make it easy to see), buy around 50% crit chance, and just wail on some targets. When the crit flavor text doesn't appear, the Hurricane will deal much less damage than otherwise.

Also: This occurs while Ashe is using Ranger's Focus as well, but the damage is not reduced on the hurricane. I forgot to include it in the video but it's easy to reproduce, just do the exact same thing and then activate your Q.

3 Comments

SanKakUJul 11, 20171 votes

Um, I didn't realize her critical strikes deal bonus 1 damage. I thought they gave no extra damage. And what are you going on about? You said put on 50 percent critical strike chance...well, that's looking like it's working as intended. Her critical strikes are showing up about half the time?

AveriaJul 11, 20171 votes

She's not supposed to gain extra damage when she critically strikes. That's why it's weird that her damage value shown when she critically strikes is 1 higher than when she doesn't.

I assume this is a hard coded problem with the way Riot's critical strikes are coded in that a critical strike has to do some modifier to the damage you deal. So for Ashe that critical strike makes her deal 1 more damage. Not that big of a bug. The problem is how Hurricane is interacting with her.

Also, the problem is not that she's critically striking or not critically striking. The problem is that as you said, her damage is supposed to be consistent. There is no critical damage on her attacks, the critical strike flavor text shouldn't matter at all for her DPS. However, if you watch the hurricane procs when she doesn't get the critical flavor text, she's losing ~34% damage on her hurricane procs.

With flavor text she does, in this clip, 182 damage per shot to each hurricane target.

Without flavor text she is dealing 121 damage to each hurricane target. This doesn't make sense, because her auto damage is only affected by whether or not the target has Frost Shot applied on them. Hurricane should always consistently deal 182 damage (after the first shot).

Basically, Hurricane is ignoring part of Ashe's passive entirely.

So it's weird that Ashe not only deals 1 damage difference when she critically auto's, but also that her Hurricane DPS is widely different depending on whether or not she crits.

SanKakUJul 11, 20171 votes

You know, it's really hard to watch this video because there are no playback options? Why not post it unlisted to YouTube?