User blog comment:Deshiba/Are you Critting me !?/@comment-7878249-20130518150033/@comment-7996065-20130519210956

I think you need to re-read what I wrote. It's simply not possible to think take "randomness" into account and not end up in scenario 3 every time. If you actually "take randomness into account" the way I described it, you must think that the enemy will always crit and you will never crit. In such a scenario, with the same gold, you can never win*, as your enemy almost does twice your damage. But if you reason "he is not gonna crit every single shot" you are gambling on that since you are not 100% certain of this.


 * It is possible to assess that you can stunlock an enemy to death, before they get to make an attack, but in such a case the "randomness" doesn't need to be taken into account as the enemy will never have the chance to attack (and hence no randomness to take into account).

I also loved how you didn't even touch of the question that was the entire point of the question.