What if crit added armor penetration instead of damage?

y0r1ck·Jun 25, 2018·1 votes·573 views

So x% crit grants y% armor penetration. Adcs no longer burst squishies as hard, but do their job as tank busters. Adcs don't kill assassins as fast so we can tone them down a little. Supports don't have to be so insane, now that assassins aren't as fast. You still need tanks to force adcs to get crit, otherwise they'll get ad and attack speed because they don't have to cut through a tank. Thoughts?

In a way, this is what riot is already doing with crit. Ie now gives 100% armor penetration to a portion of damage, and the overall damage has been lowered. Supports have been scaled back slightly, looks like we're still in the middle of this. Hopefully they'll scale the current op picks back enough that crit adcs are viable again. If riot continues on this track, I expect a much healthier meta this time next year. What do you think needs to happen next?

2 Comments

Balderdash1000Jun 25, 20184 votes

The thing is, they already have something that gives armor penetration. It's called armor penetration. Why completely change another stat to give us something we already have?

y0r1ckJun 25, 20181 votes

Because what we have does more relative damage to squishies than to tanks. A late game adc auto might do 30-40% of a squishy champions health, but it'll do only 10% of a tank's despite any armor penetration an adc may buy. At the end of the day an adc will do several times more damage to a squishy than to a tank. And I tought they were the tank busters?

Crit reducing armor instead of increasing damage will force adcs to decide between raw dps and tank killing much more than they do now. If crit reduced armor instead of increasing damage, they won't be able to get the best of both worlds by having big damage on squishies and the most effective tank busting build.

Basically I want adcs to have to choose between tank busting and raw dps more than they do now. I'd also want them to come online faster in general. I'm notsure if this isthe best way to get those things.