User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Item Concept) A New Kind of Crit/@comment-6016076-20150710101311/@comment-1330314-20150710160223

I saw that thread! I think I posted in it, too, though, my replies are lost in the sea of responses there; I really loved that you brought up crit and its randomness, and I agreed with pretty much everything you said then. I also saw Morello's posts, and I somewhat agree with his points too. I had your thread in mind when coming up with this rework to crit, and my crit mechanic comes very close to your proposed Phantom Dancer passive. It's amazing that you got responses from both Rioters and professional players on this, and I feel the topic needs to be brought up now that preseason is nearing (Black Marker Brawlers is basically a preseason patch in disguise). One of the things I had in mind when brainstorming this kind of crit was the idea of DPS-based explosive power: Morello mentioned how important it was to give DPS champions bursts of damage, and that's one of the things that led to this system. At the time of your post, I was a strong support of a percentage autoattack damage multiplier, but since then I've changed my mind, as I think it would make marksman power expression a bit too flat.