This item has been a thing ever since LOL was created. For 8 seasons this was a balanced item. It receives minor changes occasionally, but overall it remains the same...crits do more damage. Why does Riot feel that after all this time it's suddenly broken?
Micronova4 votesThe changes are to focus it more towards scaling into sustained damage rather than just bursting anyone the marksman attacks.
Basically they're finally making IE do what it's supposed to have been doing.
Angrychickén2 votesThe change makes it more viable against tanks and less against squishier champions
The Bad Touch1 votesSame logic Riot always uses... overbuff something... break it... rework it. They simply refuse to admit when they fuck up.. and revert things.
Old IE with 20% crit damage and only PD to work with was a balanced item.
ADC's back in season 1-2 running Boots/IE/PD/PD/BT/LW were balanced.
Riot just started adding dumb shit like the new runes... RFC/SS ect. Also the removing of dodge.
In season 1-2 pretty much any champ could be played. Now we have 60 more champs... but only 1/3 of the total champ are even worth owning at any given time.
Remember folks there was a time when AP Sion and old OLD Taric ulti were considered OP. These days AP Sion would get 3 shot by an ADC and Mundo gets a 100% heal ulti.
Micronova1 votes[{quoted}](name=The Bad Touch,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=xk1ncyM5,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2018-05-09T01:57:55.715+0000)
Old IE with 20% crit damage
Infinity Edge has ALWAYS had +50% critical damage. It was never 20% at any point.
KZ Engel1 votesto give the illusion of change. the effective dps is nearly unchanged, or only marginally worse. someone did the math, somewhere
ExcessX1 votesWhen an items cost jumps up 1000 gold, deals less damage, and you need to sit on 1k gold to finish the item after 2 BF swords the item is trash. When zeal cost 200g more than it did, and gives 50% the crit chance than it did before, the item is shit. Any champions that build crit builds (with the obvious exception of Yasou Tryndamere) are dead, and no amount of "AD ratio buffs" will do anything. Twitch and Jinx are the most powerful and if the team has fed bruisers there is 0 counterplay still. Crush in lane on those 2 champions brusier jumps on you, you die instantly. But hey thanks for that 150 true damage my crits give me. It might do 725 damage total for a crit, but 500 of that is negated by armor. IE Crits deal (375).
Warlord Rhinark1 votesWhen an items cost jumps up 1000 gold, deals less damage, and you need to sit on 1k gold to finish the item after 2 BF swords the item is trash. When zeal cost 200g more than it did, and gives 50% the crit chance than it did before, the item is shit. Any champions that build crit builds (with the obvious exception of Yasou Tryndamere) are dead, and no amount of "AD ratio buffs" will do anything. Twitch and Jinx are the most powerful and if the team has fed bruisers there is 0 counterplay still. Crush in lane on those 2 champions brusier jumps on you, you die instantly. But hey thanks for that 150 true damage my crits give me. It might do 725 damage total for a crit, but 500 of that is negated by armor. IE Crits deal (375).
Oi mate.
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