Talk:Youmuu's Ghostblade/@comment-4542190-20151030081305/@comment-26231232-20151113000432

Crit chance was awful on this item. It made no sense, it never did. Ghostblade was the only finished item with flat armour pen (disregarding Warrior since it's only for junglers), and flat armour pen is a phenomenal stat for AD Assassins like Talon, Zed, Riven, Kha'Zix, and the likes, because it gives you means to better burst squishy champions down. The thing about AD Assassins is that (save a few exceptions like Yi, Xin, or Nocturne) they're casters, meaning they cast a lot of abilities to deal damage, but are not reliant in AAs. Even Fighters that output good damage, like Lee, Renekton, Darius, Jarvan, Vi, Jayce, Pantheon, Rengar, Shyvana, they always prefer flat armour pen for increasing their damage output, and not crit chance, because building crit chance implies having a build around it with other items that provide crit chance, since only having one or two items with crit chance is very innefficient, because with low crit chance you won't be critting a lot.

So, now, you had an item that catered to Assassins, but with a stat that was mostly useless to them. Because it had crit chance, it couldn't have more AD, otherwise it would be too strong for Marksmen. So, not only was crit chance useless, it also prevented the item of being better for the class it was designed for. The only solution, and one that has been a long time coming, especially since Devourer (on-hit vs crit, Devourer junglers can now build Ghostblade and be even more effective), was to remove crit chance and give it more AD.

Personally, I more than welcome this change. All my bruiser toplaners are gonna love this.