Talk:Ashe/@comment-26222017-20151121051447/@comment-24385282-20151126043536

IE increases your passive damage by 50%. It works so well with other crit items on her. If you get Rapid Firecannon along with it, it doesn't just give (30 + 30) = 60% more damage, it gives ((20 + 30) * 1.5) = 75% more damage. If you get maximum crit, it changes your damage from +100% to +150% with your passive - that's a huge difference. And with 100% being the hard cap on crit strike, even an item with 50% crit chance couldn't give you that much damage.

Other marksman increase their damage output substantially more than Ashe with crit items. Because their crits are chance-based and not Frost-based (guaranteed 100% chance on targets who've already been auto attacked), they can get 150% bonus damage per crit much earlier on with arguably a less substantial drawback. An early IE puts Ashe at 30% bonus physical damage per auto on Frost-inflicted targets, meaning she'll have to attack 6 times to get the same crit damage any other enemy will usually get in less than 5 autos.