The Current State of Critical Strike

Crytics··2 votes·1,017 views

So, as many of us know; Critical Strike, or Crit, is in a very weird place. It's unreliable and for champions that it's based around, is absolutely needed for their crit to be at 100% taking away from other possible builds. In early game, when one of these champions, such as Tryndamere, Yasuo, or really any ADC gets a crit even though they're only at 10-30%, it changes the game.

I think many of us can agree, regardless of ELO, that it's not a very great mechanic, as it is so unreliable. Even professional league of legends players have stated that they dislike crit and it should be removed from the game.

Now instead of only telling you, Riot, about the problem, I'd like to give a possible solution: Change it to a "Every so many hits, a crit activates" kind of thing. For example if you have 10% crit now, it would be a "Every 10th hit is a crit" in the solution. Same with if you had 33%, it would be every third hit. This solution makes crit much more reliable without breaking champions that rely on it such as Tryndamere or Yasuo. With this idea, you could ALSO add a "Double Crit" where if you have 150% crit, you'd have every hit guaranteed as a crit, but ever second hit could be a "Double Crit" meaning instead of doubling damage, it triples damage.

I'd like everyone's opinions on this matter, and regardless of if you agree with my solution and only agree with that fact that crit needs to be change, please upvote this discussion so others and see! Thank you for taking you own time to read this and have a wonderful day.

9 Comments

Frigid Ice Storm3 votes

Uh no thanks, our current system is fine

TheCeeJay2 votes

Riot has outright said they don't like the way our crit system works but they're unsure how to fix it. So I doubt our current system is fine.

Mathbalnase3 votes

Current system is better than suggestion by OP (which has been suggested by others dozens of times at least over the past few years, and rejected every time because it is bad).

TheCeeJay1 votes

Oh I wasn't saying OP's system is better, but this guy saying that our current system is fine when Riot has said they don't even like it was just wrong. Our current system is better than this one, but it isn't fine in any way.

Mathbalnase1 votes

I agree, but though some clarification was warranted.

Mathbalnase2 votes

Why do you want to give every ADC a Cait passive?

what you deserve1 votes

Build Veigar for crit and watch your enemies drown in tears

Sightless661 votes

Don't like it. Adds a pseudo-cait-passive minigame to every ADC. Doesn't sound fun to play around. Current system isn't great, but is better than that.

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