Crit defense items?

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Anyone know why Hi-Rez never added crit defense items. Like reducing the crit damage you suffer or if opponents are in 50 meters of you lower their crit chance by 20 or 30 percent.

Is it a good idea to add crit defense items?

[Drcipres]

There used to be one, but they changed it, Geb is the only option now, or nemean

[794redfield]

Originally posted by ☁☯DrCipres☯☁:

There used to be one, but they changed it, Geb is the only option now, or nemean

Or Hou Yi with his "Can only get crit every 3 seconds" passive. Besides, Crits exist so Hunters and Assassins can have an easier time melting down Tanky targets, if crit was easily countered or wasn't useful, than Smite would quickly become Guardian dominated since Pen can only do so much when the target has tons of protections and Health and/or matches would start to drag on for an eternity since the Warriors and Guardians on each team would take forever and a day to kill.

[no brains]

Originally posted by 794redfield:

Originally posted by ☁☯DrCipres☯☁:

There used to be one, but they changed it, Geb is the only option now, or nemean

Or Hou Yi with his "Can only get crit every 3 seconds" passive. Besides, Crits exist so Hunters and Assassins can have an easier time melting down Tanky targets, if crit was easily countered or wasn't useful, than Smite would quickly become Guardian dominated since Pen can only do so much when the target has tons of protections and Health and/or matches would start to drag on for an eternity since the Warriors and Guardians on each team would take forever and a day to kill.

titan's bane + qin's sais

[Anonn 20 16]

if i remember correctly the only defence item against crit was celestial legion helm but they changed the passive, it was also only usable by magical damage dealers. now the only things you can use against crit is hide of the nemean lion and shield of thorns. they do not make crits less painful but the enemy will think twice before attacking you because he can kill himself by attacking.

[EmethSAS]

Crits actually exist to move the ADC power spike towards the end of the game as you purchase more expensive crit items that increase your average DPS in a non-linear, non-predictable curve. It also allows mechanics for increased player damage without necessarily increasing damage to structures too much (since you can't crit against structures), AND the aforementioned degree of randomness so ADCs can't just calculate exactly how many basics will kill someone... Which also works for frontliners/tanks not knowing precisely how many basics they can take from an enemy ADC, so the randomness works on both sides...

As far as items to counter crit, there are no items that directly affect crits, but there are items like Hide of the Nemean Lion where basic attack damage is reflected back to the attacker, Midgardian Mail that has a chance of lowering a basic attackers attack and movement speed, Witchblade that lowers enemy attack speed in an aura around you, and Jade Emperor's Helm that lowers enemy physical power in an aura around you. If an enemy Hunter is really taking off I'd recommend some combination of the above items and perhaps Sovereignty to provide a physical protection aura to teammates that will help them take less damage from a Hunter's basics. There's also the Relics Shield of Thorns that will also reflect damage back at an attacker, Magic Shell that provides 2 stacks of block which will nullify the next two basic attacks, Horrific Emblem that lowers enemy attack speed as well as their move speed, and Phantom Veil that provides a flat 15% damage reduction for the duration of its effect.

Crits just double the damage for that particular basic attack, so Witchblade/Sovereignty/Jade Emperor's Helm will lower that DPS, while Hide of the Nemean Lion will deal damage back to them as a percentage of their own DPS. Those are your anti-basic-attack items that will have the most effect on gods building crit. Combine them with the Relics I also mentioned and you should at least have a fighting chance if your own ADC isn't too far behind.

[𓃸 Happy 𓄫]

Kuzen, Geb, Hou yi, neman, Thorn's, I mean just those few god's/item's make it hard to make high power crit's or even crit in general lol.

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Crit is important but games like Paragon and Dota have items that defend against crit and those game are working just fine.