User blog comment:Deshiba/Are you Critting me !?/@comment-7878249-20130518150033/@comment-7996065-20130520235410

"Luck influences skill is still skill. It just means you have to take randomness into account".

We are not talking about "taking randomness into account" being "being absolutely certain about the outcome" (mainly since that is impossible), we are talking about whether skill can require "taking randomness into account" which arguably makes it not skill, since you are effectively gambling. Let me explain it this way. Lets say you and I make a bet (more precisely, a 50/50 bet). I get to do 2 coinflips and if I get both flips to land on heads I win, otherwise you win. If I win, was it because I took randomness into account or was I just lucky? Does the same apply to you (with lucky being switched out to unlucky since you clearly have the odds with you)? I would certainly argue that neither of us win because we are "skilled in coinflip betting" but because we just happened to have luck on our side. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this is exactly how it works out in LoL at the moment (since most fights are won either because of previous battles, hero picks or proper spell timing) but in a case where "randomness decided who won" neither party can claim they won because of skill.

"Focusing on crit if behind will allow a player to get lucky and win, whereas this complete focus on skill just reinforces the game's snowball effect and is only fun for the skillful." You are essentially saying "I want teams who play worse than their enemies to be able to win by random chance" which doesn't fit with almost any sport or otherwise competative activity.

How does it only become fun for the skillful if the game already is largely based on skill? MANY matchups in mid and top have no random mechanic in them, and extremely few junglers can use crit effectively (I don't even know if there are any). I can't even think of any caster with a random mechanic on top of my head. At the same time I would say pretty many people (who might not be very skillful) still find it fun to play top, mid or jungle.