Talk:Tryndamere/@comment-25837934-20151108060105/@comment-26231232-20151115090130

Unfortunately, crit chance is unreliable, both for him and you. There was this video I once watched with LeBlanc dying to Zed's crit at level 3-4. Zed had a crit chance mark. That's 0.93% chance of critting.

So, what's the counterplay? The answer is, there is no counterplay. The best you can do is back off if he gets a lucky crit at the beginning of the trade. Otherwise, just give yourself unto the RNG gods like Hearthstone players already have.

Although, I should share some knowledge that you might find useful. Crits in League are not exactly random. Riot's system, and I think a few games share this system, make crits more reliable by altering their chances at a given moment. They do this to try and minimize a series of attacks that don't crit but should crit once or twice, or to minimize a series of attacks that crit all the time but only should crit once or twice. This works by increasing your next AA's crit chance if your last AA didn't crit. I don't know the actual values, I don't even know if they're public, but imagine this scenario:

- You have a 50% crit chance. - You AA, and you crit. - You now have a 40% crit chance. - You AA, and you crit. - You now have a 30% crit chance.

The system works this way so that Tristana can't crit you 10 times in a row with only an Infinity Edge. It also works the other way around:

- You have a 50% crit chance. - You AA, and you don't crit. - You now have a 60% crit chance. - You AA, and you don't crit. - You now have a 70% crit chance.

Mind you, those are not the actual values, but it's a representation of what's happening in the game to give you a more accurate idea of how critical strikes work in general.

And now the most important question: how is all this crap even helpful? Pretty simple: watch your opponent AAing minions. If his last AA didn't crit, then there's a higher chance his next one will. If it did crit, then it's safer to go for a trade. As for Tryndamere in particular, be wary of his Fury bar as well.