@Riot Axes: With IE's new passive, Zeal items need to have 25% crit chance

Teridax68·5/2/2018, 3:27:42 AM·2 votes·1,003 views

With the new Infinity Edge passive doubling crit chance, picking any fully built Zeal item will provide 60% crit. With two of those, however, things become a lot more awkward, because suddenly marksmen end up wasting stats by getting 120% crit chance with two Zeal items. Effectively, this change will cause a lot of current marksman builds to be somewhat wasteful, and creates this gap where crit marksmen are either going to stop at just one crit item, or make a tradeoff in efficiency that doesn't seem intentional. Assuming the doubled crit stacks multiplicatively, Yasuo himself is also going to have a much more awkward build path, as IE + Shiv/PD's previous 50% crit is now going to also waste stats no matter what.

I know neither marksmen nor Yasuo are popular here, but I feel it might be better for the sake of build diversity, smoothness, etc. if Zeal items exchanged 5% crit chance for some other stat, likely attack speed. Depending on how these changes affect balance overall, it may not even be necessary to add stats, but a 5% attack speed gain on these items in exchange for 5% less flat crit chance could be a safe bet for making marksman itemization a lot smoother with these changes, or at least less awkward. I'm all for nerfing marksmen, but seeing how these changes also clearly aim to enable a greater variety of builds, it would likely help to avoid this kind of anti-synergy in future crit setups.

2 Comments

MrHaZeYo5/2/2018, 4:28:11 AM1 votes

Maybe that's the point?