urticata can fail to land poison sens or hex, but there are other champs that can fill that role. she's going to be less effective against force. because the chance is conditional on any champ hitting a crit, even if she's weak hitting, your other champs are going to land crits in her stead.

this is all just her poison value, nevermind the fact that her raw damage is going to outdamage banshee by quite a bit due to good multipliers and giantslayer value. urticata also doesn't take a turn off in laying poisons to reapply poison sensitivity, when banshee does which brings her poisons per turn down to 1.33. urticata averages 3, another double hitter and the rest singles, and you've matched banshee.

if you can get everyone to 100% crit rate, you only need 8 total hits per turn to match banshee's poison laying capabilities. Urticata gets around that in a lot of comps. she just can't lay enough poisons fast enough at 1:1 to maximize her values.

Banshee's biggest drawbacks is that she underperforms without a 2:1, vizier, ally attack or counterattack setup.

I've seen a lot of 'banshee's just better' and I think that's really short sighted. She would have a similar functionality with venomage.

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