You shouldn't be building Kled with Titanic->Tank

Anonagon·12/1/2016, 12:12:34 AM·6 votes·1,931 views

Hi, Anogano here, World's Worst Kled Player.

I genuinely believe that the "standard" Kled build (item 3071 item 3748 item 3111 item 3143 item 3065 item 3026 ) is shieeeeeeeet

I build this: item 3074 item 3071 item 3156 item 3033 item 3026 item 3047

Now you're probably thinking:

"Ravenous over Titanic? But Ano, what about his stupid high base health?" And yes, between the stupid high base health and the HP from BC and Titanic, Titanic does more damage per autoattack than Ravenous does. However, here is why I build Ravenous:

  • Titanic is a delayed powerspike, while Ravenous is immediate. Titanic doesn't match Ravenous's damage until you have 3500 HP. This is important because Kled has a very very strong early-midgame.
  • Lifesteal is a better defensive stat for remounting than health, because bonus health does not apply at all to dismounted Kled
  • Raw AD is more valuable than on-hit damage, because Kled's ratios are huge

"Four damage items? Aren't you just going to blow up?" Ah, but the choice of damage items is important. Between your heavy lifesteal and the Lifeline effect of Maw (which would probably be replaced with Sterak's Gage if it was a more slot efficient item), you are deceptively hard to burst down, and if you shift your playstyle to be closer to that of someone like Fiora, you will rarely be blown up.

Against a squishy team, you can opt to replace item 3033 with item 3031 - I haven't actually had many games on Kled go beyond three items, but I imagine that a single crit item is the best way to make Kled's damage continue to scale into the lategame.

The most important thing about all this is that Kled wouldn't want you to build tanky. Kled isn't some weak cowardly bitch who builds defense and lets his teammates do the heavy lifting. Tanks builds simply aren't badass enough for Kled. If you build him tanky, you're not roleplaying properly.

10 Comments

Chembaron Yamada12/1/2016, 6:50:39 AM4 votes

"If you build him tanky, you're not roleplaying properly" What a poor argument. ô.o I can use it against you, too. Kled would never buy something like guardian angel and he surely wouldn't buy a bow. He has a pistol, so you probably should buy RFC, right?

This set may fit your playstyle for him and that is fine. I prefer to build him tanky though, because most of the time my team is lacking tanks (somehow no one wants to play them) and so I contribute more to the team being the beefy front line (especially if we ult into the enemy team together).

Danjeng12/1/2016, 4:16:30 AM1 votes

Why build tank when you can build squish.

five oh tree 12/1/2016, 4:30:55 AM1 votes

you should know that the reason titanic massively outclasses ravenous on most champs at all points in the game is that it's an autoattack reset. the stats aren't even important. Isn't different on kled.

Ralanr12/1/2016, 4:33:12 AM1 votes

I like squishy Kled. I like making things go POP!

Done2512/1/2016, 4:52:11 AM1 votes

Your build isn't bad, but why not try something like this?

Boots (your preference. I like Berserker) Frozen Mallet Black Cleaver Maw Blood Thirster Thornmail

"But Done, why so much health?" you ask? Because the more bonus HP you have the more of your health bar will be devoted to Skarll.

This is why Bloodthirster is also slightly superior to Hydra imo. The shield out weighs the AoE imo as Kled is mostly a single target duelist.

Frozen Mallet for sticking power, especially as Kled himself.

Black Cleaver+Maw for ad+cdr and strong passives.

Thornmail because Riot is staffed by cowards who are afraid of an armor+AD item breaking marksman vs marksman down in bot lane. As if a pickaxe and a scalemail isn't a combo that can be built.

Boots should be picked on a game by game basis. Ninja for attack heavy teams. Mercy's for tons of magical cc. Berserker for when you just want to hit someone in the face over and over again!

AkabaneKun12/1/2016, 10:00:14 AM1 votes

Titanic is much better on kled than ravenous because like someone said already it's an AA reset, doing the full W on a squishy and then titanic active is retarded while being way tankier, it also can be your ticket to either dying or mounting since he gains skaarl back mostly by AA champs and the active counts, so no ravenous is not better.

Anonagon12/1/2016, 3:16:56 AM1 votes

also if you don't spam taunt in lane you'll probably lose so do that too

D357R0Y3R12/21/2017, 11:37:20 PM1 votes

item 3033 don't get why this is in your build tho

get item 3053 instead, they buffed kled base ad