IE and how much does the change make an impact

Kosmic Rider·1/15/2015, 11:08:42 PM·1 votes·638 views

5.1 introduced the change to Infinity Edge by decreasing its crit from 25% to 20%.

Up to this point most ADC champions were rushing IE>Static Shiv.

With this change, you will actually be losing crit chance over all, yet if you build Phantom Dancer you will have the crit advantage.

So is Infinity Edge still going to be a first buy on a lot of ADCs? How much does this change laning phase harass/ duels if both sides go even?

What are some of your insights?

4 Comments

It Hertz When IP1/15/2015, 11:12:43 PM1 votes

Tristana is going to feel this. Crit builds for her are already tricky because most of the crit items hit up AS as a stat, which she shouldn't be building a lot of to avoid her Q hitting the cap. This change forces me to get item 3046 on her to keep the same ratio of crit chance to item slots, when I would far rather be building item 3142 . We need more crit items that don't use AS.

disregardable1/15/2015, 11:15:39 PM1 votes

It's not going to be too much of a problem. Riot wasn't intending to make a shift away from IE. They just want more people to buy Phantom Dancer.

Kosmic Rider1/15/2015, 11:21:33 PM1 votes

Fair enough. Felt id reach out the community since I am still trying to get down itemization and the reasoning of why I should build X item in situation Y.

Xtremey1/15/2015, 11:22:19 PM1 votes

they were trying to increase diversity between item 3087 and item 3046