User blog comment:Krankenheimer/Critical Strikes/@comment-6486964-20140424132034

I still don't get why everyone complains about critical strike. In the game critical strikes need to be in place in order for a marksman or adc to be balanced. there needs to be the luck because if critical strike was a flat number, it would simply be a better option. making critical strikes bee overpowered. Look at it this way. Ability power focused ability's usually have a higher scaling than attack damage. this is because most mages or ability power mages work off burst damage. while their auto attacks suffer. Ad focused champions such as bruisers and assassins don't build critical strike because they don't use auto atttacks as their main source of damage, they build flat damage. now the problem lies with the marksman, if you switch critical strike to bonus damage with auto attacks or even scaling ad. this would make marksman WAYYYYY too powerful. imagine if you had a twitch who's auto attacks did as much damage as a full ad darius Q, every time you get hit with it. and if it effects abilty's ad scaling than the marksman like caitlyn, or graves, or draven would do rediculous amounts of damage while tristana or twitch, or vayne would fall of for not having really strong ad scaling. point is, crit will never go away. it is just too balanced.