AD Item

Ragewinner·Sep 1, 2018·1 votes·873 views

I think there should be an item that's similar to Rabadon's Deathcap but instead the effect is transferred into attack damage instead of ability power. Who else thinks this would be a interesting item?

3 Comments

Elite4RunnerSep 1, 20181 votes

Infinity Edge has pretty much always been the counterpart of Rabadon's Deathcap.

Think about it this way, if you have 200AD through whatever combination of items, without landing a critical strike you deal about 200 damage, not factoring in damage amplification or mitigation.

When you land a critical strike your auto attacks will deal around 400 damage

With Infinity Edge, your critical strikes deal 250% damage instead of 200%, so your 200 AD translates into 500 damage instead of 400.

The current version of Infinity Edge also doubles your critical strike chance, so you are 2x more likely to get a 150% increase in damage output.

LuaDotExeSep 1, 20181 votes

IE doesn't increase your crit damage anymore, though.

Elite4RunnerSep 2, 20181 votes

Ah, that's right. I forgot that they changed it. (I actually don't play ADC much)

Now 10% of critical strike damage dealt to champions is dealt as true damage.

So, I guess you could say that your critical strikes still deal 400 damage, but 360 of that damage is physical damage which can be mitigated by armor, and 40 of that damage is true damage which is not mitigated.

You do still have a better chance of dealing a critical strike, which is still massively scaling your damage output in a way that is similar to Rabadon's Deathcap.