It seems that Riot is going from ad items to critical chance items as a number of the new items and old items now give crit chance while ad items have been nerfed. New meta is not about consistent damage but about probability that you will crit.
Incognonymous4 votesRight, because RNG is a healthy game mechanic.
Mister Mackey1 votes
Random? Hahahaha
Chaotic Reks1 votescrits 4 times in a row
Sire Hippington2 voteswell, maybe they try to avoid rng by slapping so much crit on everything that you will reach 100% after 3 items, no matter which items it were..
Mimy1 votesThat's cool I'll just get crit runes and make sure i got 100% crit by 30 minutes. xD
disregardable1 votesrip your cs
dangopee2 votesSome people can actually CS without 15 AD runes. Not saying I'm one of them.
rampaging poet1 votesI don't know about the new numbers, but with the old gold efficiency buying AD was flat-out worse for auto-attackers than buying critical hit chance after ~144 AD. After one real AD item, it was better to get attack speed and crit. That's why the ADC build has been Rush IE into Phantom Dancer for so long. The only reason to buy more AD after that was because it happened to be attached to the stats they really wanted - lifesteal and armour penetration.
If there was a lifesteal + crit chance item, ADCs would grab that instead of The Bloodthirster. If there was a crit chance + percent armour penetration item, ADCs would grab that instead of Last Whisper. Regardless of the (quite low) odds of a bad string of non-crits, your expected damage output increases more by buying critical hit chance.
Hearing people whine about "the probability that you will crit" is like the reverse of people that buy a lottery ticket every week. "I might not crit!" True, but you probably will and the difference in damage more than makes up for the risk.
