I think Senna would be better designed as an ADC and should get less free stats
I understand design-wise for a support that Senna gets free AD, crit, and excess crit to LS conversion. There's a complete lack of AD support items. However, all these free stats make Senna as an ADC a really dumb design in 2 ways: 1) restricted items in the sense that Zeal items feel ineffective and 2) literally being a huge stat ball by a large margin above most ADCs.
I don't want Riot to turn Senna into purely just a support though with some dumb change like reducing Senna's crit damage further. I like Senna as an ADC. I think the design of slow, heavy hits are something unique we lack among ADCs.
Here's how I would fix Senna's passive:
1) Remove the free Crit Chance:
- Senna's passive just gives so many stats at once. It's unnecessarily too much and allows Senna to scale like other ADs without taking the item investment other ADCs have to.
**2) Remove the excess Crit Chance to Lifesteal conversion: **
- If the bonus crit is removed, then it makes sense to remove the excess converter.
**3) Add an effect converts bonus attack speed (before reduction) into another stat: **
- If Senna's passive no longer gives free Crit Chance, then Senna would need to build Zeal items to obtain a similar level of Crit. The issue is that Zeal items are awful on Senna because they're completely ineffective. I believe Senna should have some kind of reason to build those items if she wants to scale, whether it converts to AD, lifesteal, crit damage, or a mixture.
**4) Reduce/Remove the Critical Damage reduction: **
- Since the passive doesn't give free Crit Chance anymore, there is no reason for Senna's passive to reduce Crit damage.
5) Give some kind of scaling with AP or Heal/Shield Power to compensate Support Senna:
- If Senna as a champion loses the free stats she gets to compensate for her items not giving as much benefit, those items should be made to give more benefit as compensation for less free stats.
6) Maybe make an AD Support item?:
- There literally are no support items that really work with champions who use AD. Something that would very much suit Senna would be something with AD and Heal/Shield power.
I want Senna's potential as an ADC design to not be destroyed by the fact she becomes a stat ball with her passive. I also think her ultimate is stupid for being global range and think it will break her in pro play (and then Riot will nerf everything about her but the range), but that is a discussion for another day.