Lord Van Damms Pillager change, in regards to dominion.

Hello all, I noticed in the Patch 5.11 Notes, that there is a change happening to , causing it to inherit an enhanced version of the bleed, while losing the IE style passive, critical attacks now deal 250% instead of 200%. The stated reason the change will occur is as follows:

"We don’t have anything against bringing Infinity Edge’s crit damage multiplier to other maps, but it was kind of random to shoehorn it in at the expense of Wicked Hatchet’s unique identity."

The confusing thing here is, this new passive completely overshadows , which possesses a 90% bonus ad value bleed. Both and build out of , so I am confused as to how would be losing its unique identity, since there is a perfectly valid item already building out of it that continues the unique identity of . applying this change to will only make the inferior choice for everything but the stealth mist and nearby trap detection, which are extremely niche effects.

The removal of an IE style passive from dominion will also handicap crit based ADCs, who in my limited experience suffer from the lack of burst, and fall flat against the burst assassins as well as tanky bruisers.

Since already represents the unique identity of passive, a build path change for is all that is required. Honestly, I wouldnt even bother with that, since there are a few unique passives we see that have two build paths, where one build path completely drops said passive. with , the legacy is retained.

TL;DR losing IE passive, gains passive, ends up overshadowing due to stronger passive, changed because passive is a unique identity they didnt want to lose. (despite having said passive)

Thanks for your time :)

also obligatory rito pls