Thought Experiment: What if crit was removed tomorrow?

SaltyToplaneGoat·Apr 19, 2015·2 votes·419 views

With seeing the current threads I think it's time for a little thought experiment. If crit was gone, what changes would be needed to make ad-carries not entirely useless?

Of course it has to be something that's not RNG-related, because that's why we would remove it in the first place. Simply changing crit to a %increase of AD would not cut it I think and would be a highly unelegent solution. So... how would we solve this?

Just give ADCs a similiar wide itemisation as casters have. More active items, some of them maybe as offensive steroid like ghostblade, but with a lot of varaity. "Next X seconds fires two basic attacks with every shot" basically 100% crit, but it would be ok because it would be bound to an active item with high cooldown - and it would be visible "Oh he buffed himself up, better stay away" and not "Muh freaking lucker with his crits".

Or how about some items for peeling? Since adcs can't oneshot everyone now they need some defensive options now to defend themselves. How about an active item with a small knockback? (only ranged, projectile line shot that uses the basic attack animation).

Or what do you think about items for a more riskier playstyle? Active item: While active basic atatcks drain X health, but also deal additional Y damage on hit.

Adc would still have more stats to invest on as compared to mages (who don't have to buy attack speed in most cases in addition to AP and penetration). All in all: removing crit could be the chance for a wider and more intersting adc itemisation.

Because right now, no matter what you build: IE+ Other crit item is the core, no matter what you play.

Or what do you guys think about it?

For most seasons, caster-esque marksman focusing on big AD with item 3072

or weaving spells and autos together with item 3078

have been the marksman most frequently chosen, often circumventing their weak early and reliance on a strong late by just going straight for a strong, caster-heavy mid-game anyways.

The issue with removing crit would be more with removing a certain playstyle. Producing more annoying play styles, or removing a lot of clarity from the game.

You'd no longer have an incentive to run glass-cannon sustained damage champions, and instead you'd only really find glass-cannon mages or some tanky, irritating, blue-build Ezreal things. Moving the champions in LoL less from a very clear and heavily specialized build into a more bland, typical RPG meta-golem kind of deal. Which damages the reasons to have LoL's style of itemization in place to an extent. And you'd remove the fairly clear idea of focusing the marksman first in a team fight, which could lead to some communication issues in several games and damage a general backbone of strategy ADC's kind of place in the game by reliably doing the same thing and being in every game ATM.

Also - you'd heavily damage specific champions specifically reliant on itemizing for crit, namely MasterYi

, as they specifically rely on crit for their ability ratios to really come in line with most AD burst rotations, taking a hit on early power with the promise of better late game power.

and

could likely keep Crit just as Jax

kept dodge chance through dodges' removal. Trynd, and most light fighters, are almost better off played item 3074

assassin/Riven builds anyways.

Thought Experiment: What if crit was removed tomorrow?

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For most seasons, caster-esque marksman focusing on big AD with or weaving spells and autos together with have been the marksman most frequently chosen, often circumventing their weak early and reliance on a strong late by just going straight for a strong, caster-heavy mid-game anyways.

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