Talk:Critical strike/@comment-190.17.114.213-20111122222731/@comment-4087140-20120110024819

It's "countered" in the same way that damage in general is "countered"; lots of armor, lots of health, Thornmail, or any combination thereof.

Attack damage, critical strikes, and attack speed all do exactly the same thing, with very few exceptions (some effects trigger on hit, which makes attack speed more valuable than the other two in that case, such as, , and ).