Crazy Idea: What about a Bizarro-Crit Stat?

Oglaf·Nov 18, 2016·1 votes·731 views

That is the total opposite of regular Critical Hits? Let's call it "Glancing":

"Gives enemy auto-attacks X% chance to only inflict 50%* total damage."

Would tone down ADCs while competitively empowered Assassins and "AD Mages" because abilities are not affected by this new stat**

I dunno, just something that plopped up in my head just now.

*I'm not sure what the actual crit multiplier is, but think it is 200%? **Unless they are able to crit, like Parrrley.

3 Comments

OglafNov 18, 20161 votes

No-one? Not even a random dude who to call me a moron? :C

KiharonNov 18, 20161 votes

Most people already want to reduce randomness in the game, especially around crit. This would simply add more, so it won't be particularly popular on that front.

Other than the randomness, the biggest problem I see with this item is that it if it affects non-critical attacks, it affects everyone to varying degrees. Mages would probably suffer the least, but not getting a kill because your auto was glancing will still feel bad for mages. Fighters would suffer more from this item, as several of them use autos for significant portions of their damage (Jax, Irelia, Fiora, even Riven, Darius, Renekton). If it only interacts with crits, this objection goes away, but it wasn't entirely clear from your description.

Also, there are already two items that kind of do what your new item would, but without the randomness, item 3047 item 3143 . Ninja Tabi reduces all auto attack damage by 12%, on top of whatever armor you have. Randuin's has armor, but only gets bonus reduction against crits, while providing a variety of other effects useful for reducing ADC damage. I don't know if there is need for more items with effects like these, but I, personally, would rather see consistent effects than random ones.

I went along with the assumption that ADCs in general need toned down for the sake of discussion, but I'm not sure it's true, let alone to the extent that new items need to be created just to deal with it.

OglafNov 18, 20161 votes

Is it really any different than getting a kill BECAUSE you critted though? It is all RNG, both ways.