How does Armor Penetration works with Critical Hits?
I'm wondering if there is any advantage obtained with Critical Damage having Last Whisper as item.
Will the Armor Penetration work directly with the total Critical Damage? Or there's some calculations to pass through?
I've been using Shaco almost 7 out of 10 ranked games atm to get to Platinum Tier, and it's really an issue for me since Critical Damage is one of Shaco's 'bread and butter' and I've been experimenting on different set of items each game.
Best Answer
The crit damage is counted like "normal" attack damage after armor penetration and reduction, just modified by your crit multiplier.
When attacking, armor penetration and armor reduction are considered in the following order:
- Armor reduction, flat
- Armor reduction, percentage
- Armor penetration, percentage
- Armor penetration, flat
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How does Armour Penetration work?
Percentage armor penetration reduces more armor on targets with higher armor. For instance, with 40% armor penetration, a target with 200 armor will be considered as having 80 less while a target with only 50 armor will be considered as having 20 less.Does armor penetration and lethality stack?
This stat stacks additively and cannot reduce a target's armor below zero. Lethality is the sister stat of the bonus armor penetration and is applied to the target after taking out the bonus armor penetration.Is armor penetration better than lethality?
In conclusion, it is usually better to build Lethality on assassin champions that have burst abilities in their kits that prioritize enemy squishy champions and ADCs, while it's probably better to build percent Armor Penetration on AD champions that are outputting a constant stream of damage to enemies with higher ...How good is armor penetration?
As you all noted before, yes, armor pen reduces the effective defense of the target for your attacks. As Pepe noted: In normal mode, defense works as the following: any incoming damage is reduced by the target (player or enemy) by half of the target's defense, rounded up, to a minimum of 1 damage.World of Tanks PC - Explaining Mechanics - Armor Penetration
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Answer 2
so the way this works if fairly simple.
your attack does a set amount of damage
this damage is reduced by their armor or magic resist (depending on the ability or attack used).
critical damage is applied. (200% normally but Lord vann damm's pillager increases this to 250% which is very useful for a character like shaco)
hope this helped ya :)
Answer 3
Armor penetration and critical damage stack multiplicatively, which means they combine well and it is efficient to focus on both at the same time.
If a normal attack would deal 100 dmg (no crit, no arpen) but 150 dmg with arpen (still no crit), doing a critical hit with that same arpen on the same target will deal 150*crit_multiplier (ex : 200%)
Since you talked about Shaco in particuliar, be aware that his Q (Deceive) is guaranteed to make you land a critical hit, but at rank 1, the crit is a modified 140% damage multiplier instead of 200% standart. Riot has stated that they consider it a regular crit, only the damage multiplier is modified to make it balanced. Other critical damage modifiers still work on Shaco's Q, like Infinity Edge and crit damage runes. Here is a post from Riot Guinsoo about it, it's from 2010 but the idea is the same as of patch 4.10. I just wanted to remind everyone that, because the tooltip isn't very accurate, but you probably already know if you play Shaco a lot.
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