Crit for Thought

After looking at the PBE changes for ADC all I can say is...

The ER buff would be better off getting a slight change than an AS buff. "After using a total of 4 abilities and auto attacks in 5 seconds, you gain Essence flair." I think changing it to something like this would expand the item to more users and make using it more natural than it currently is.

The IE cost reduction is unnoticeable, the item is just way worse than before. Not only is the +50% crit damage gone, but you also lose out on 20% crit chance when you build a second zeal item. At least make overcapping crit give some reward, being forced to waste it feels awful. You'll understand the more you read, but seriously, this current iteration of crit items flow so awfully with each other, it's no wonder the champs suck.

ADC champs are getting buffs to bonus AD scaling on abilities and Storm Razor's damage is scaling faster with crit. This seems to be a way to solidify Storm Razor as a rush item on crit ADC's. If you want to be remotely decent early as a crit marksmen you need Storm Razor, but the problem is that the item is better on lethality users at every stage of the game and just slows down crit builds to the point that it's more money than it's worth. The item's either gotta increase it's damage from crit beyond 200%(to catch up with lethality users), or get actual 10% crit put on it even at the cost of other stats. Then it wouldn't feel worse at 3 items when compared to the standard IE, double zeal build.

If you want to have an actual quality 3 item spike, you have to build a zeal item first then IE into another zeal, which leaves you shooting cotton balls till late game; just for a 3 item spike that's not even as strong as it used to be. The build path is back to being the clunky, season 6 build where you buy an early BF then let it sit in your inventory while you finish your zeal and later, your IE. The buffs will barely make those cotton balls hit any harder too, since rushing a zeal item with that one BF as AD is not enough to get much out of these AD scaling buffs early. So basically, Riot is shifting us away from this season 6 build, and trying to embrace a new Storm Razor->Zeal->IE build, but those item's synergy with eachother are just not that good, especially when compared to previous iterations of 3 item crit builds.

TLDR; These buffs aren't gonna do anything when the build path for crit has no flow, and very little synergy. Literally any build you can think of for crit feels awful till 3 items, sometimes 4 if you build stormrazor. No, crit doesn't have to be as good early-mid as it was before, but damn it shouldn't be trolling early-mid game either.

P.S. If Caitlyn becomes the new Kalista because of pro-play, I'm quitting League of Legends.

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