Is Riot trying to kill crit adcs and Yasuo?

Lazydork·4/12/2017, 7:10:57 PM·3 votes·619 views

Yeah... I understand that this new Randuin's item is purely experimental atm, but why does Riot want to buff crit items and then make it harder on crit champions? We just got out of a lethality meta yet with all this armour lethality is gonna be the only thing useful yet again. Making this new Randuin/Thornmail item not only pushes Yasuo out of the meta (sure he is pretty lame to play against, but why would you want a champion to be useless? That is not fun for any Yasuo player) If they wanted crit to be the best thing for adcs to build, why make it harder on them?

Salty Yasuo and ADC main

4 Comments

Blue Kaozi4/12/2017, 7:26:45 PM2 votes

Every armor item has more armor despite having less health on it. Due to this it is a direct nerf to lethality, more than crit builds. (Crit builds only use percent shred generally, so the items having slightly more armor does not impact them as much)

Also, Stattik shiv and firecannon are going to have much more synergy and IE is cheaper. Not to mention the less expensive zeal which is great for the IE zeal powerspike. I could be wrong, but I feel like crit carries are going to make a comeback.

As far as the 5% increase in crit damage reduction, I feel that this is a wash with the other buffs to crit / AD items. Im more concerned about the impact of Randuins having thornmail passive

Sahn Uzal4/12/2017, 7:18:03 PM1 votes

No. They are not trying to kill crit adcs and Yasuo.

Mecha MaIphite4/12/2017, 7:39:15 PM1 votes

with all this armour lethality is gonna be the only thing useful yet again

Stacking lethality doesn't counter stacking armour, stacking armour counters stacking lethality. Especially now, since a lot of items have more armour than they did before.