Why are Crits still a thing in 2015?

Penta Penguin·Oct 8, 2015·2 votes·493 views

Ashe deals extra damage against frozen targets Kalista stacks up extra damage for a pay-out later Draven deals extra-damage if he can keep catching axes Vayne deals extra damage with consecutive hits on a target Fiora deals extra damage to vital points

etc. etc.

There is no need for Crits in this game when Riot is perfectly capable of crafting interesting bonus mechanics for attack damage carries

Crit is basically just the snowball stat that either doesn't do much (you're behind), a gamble (even) or just further shits on your opponent (you're ahead). For no reason. All of the mechanics above have a reason to deal extra damage reliant on a circumstance or player skill.

Even LCS games are decided by the one lucky crit that finished somebody off and secured a base push and win.

Why is this still allowed?

5 Comments

ValyrianBladeOct 8, 20152 votes

Most often you have ie+pd or shiv and have 45%-55% crit chance. A 1 in 2 shot is not a lucky crit.

Crit makes things interesting. Games get boring pretty fast when you know exactly what will happen before it happens.

It's also thematically accurate. Sometimes you land a well placed blow on an opponent. It wouldn't make sense to have what ashe has - oh you do x extra damage on each attack but it's not attack damage. Err, no, it is attack damage that just scales as a %, it should just be attack damage then. There's no logic to it.

Crit feels natural. Sure, there's that 1 in 1024 chance that you land 10 crits in a row at 50% crit and all are against enemy champions - but it's rare and to be honest if an adc is getting 10 attacks out against non tanks late game they'd have won the fight whether they hit 10 crits or 4..