The roller damage/ cam lobe is what causes the misfire, hemi tick is the lifter failing top lift smoothly. That creates a "tick". That is why when you are able to stop the ticking, you stop the damage. Many times even with a smoothed cam lob the roller can be fine, or not fine, just depends how bad the pressure is or the quality of rollers. Even when they "fixed" the roller bearings 2016, you still have hemi tick in hemi's. Most guys who solve their tick with a lubrication strategy, save their cam for an early demise. Mind you some times cam fail without ticking. It is not 100% perfect.
The science of "molybdenum". It lessons the coefficient of friction on perpendicular forces, IE lifters lifting. This is why the two known successful lubrication strategies were effective, both are centered around moly, one 50% success rate the other 80% success rate from polling 100's of trucks. So when their is ticking you have friction on perpendicular forces of lifters, you add the moly, and in time usually 500 miles or less, the tick goes away. Fits the paper on the moly plate, if it was something else making these ticks go silent like viscosity or base oils, the tick would stop right away, but since we have ticks go quiet all the way out to 2200 miles and 1700 miles and most 500 miles, you know it took time and pressure for the plating to happen, which is what the white paper says. Yes sometimes the ticks go away right away, but it is the ones that take time that reveal the truth about the moly plate.
The roller/cam lobe connection is most benefited from zddp, it doesnt require time or pressure to plate and it not perpendicular, it plates very easily. However, this plate is not enough to stop hemi tick, we proved that early on.