Board Thread:Game discussion/@comment-6110700-20130207032959/@comment-3974211-20130311161609

Actually, the color of his Death Sentance is only an indication of the current charge. Waiting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc, seconds will all have different damages - the fact the icon only changes color four times is for simplicity.

But still, it doesn't need to scale with critical strike. We're talking early game. Aside from Ashe, how many ADC will even crit early game? Having a free magic damage BF Sword early game in addition to a BF Sword is better than your opponent only having a BF Sword. Late game he will have as much critical strike and AD as anyone else - as that is determined by build. The difference in base AD is only around 20. I'd say having 200 magic damage on-hit, even on an ADC carry, makes up for having 20 less base-AD. Even a crit with IE is only 50 extra damage from 20 extra AD - doesn't even start to compete with 200 magic damage. Plus, multi-damage types is a good thing.