Plat Eve main with 185+ games played this season AMA

Support Evelynn··4 votes·1,651 views

I see you guys have a lot of issues with this champion in particular, and I figured I could help by spreading my knowledge about her and maybe stopping some misconceptions. If you have a questions do ask and I'll answer to the best of my ability.

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Crabby

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Piantissimo1 votes

how do you get past her early game clear being horrid?

Support Evelynn4 votes

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how do you get past her early game clear being horrid?

Learn to line up jungle monsters to make the clear as fast as possible. You can also kind of leash them like a ranged champion but I think that takes too long.

For golems just stand to the left or right of them, for wolves pull them slightly with Q so they all bunch up.

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A simple path for beginners though is to start gromp, go to wolves then do blue. This should be doable with 1 health pot so you can immediately back to get your trailblazer.

junglerboy161 votes

I saw someone a few days ago post a clear route that instead uses Krugs first and by using a combination of Q and E you can soft leash and get really frequent stuns off (because E does on-hits and gives so much AS). Have you tried that idea out or is it just inferior to starting Gromp (especially with the changes to gromp next patch making it scale off of bonus HP instead of with level)?

AbiwonKenabi1 votes

Do you build her AP or AD these days? I'm assuming people still build Eve mostly tanky, too?

Support Evelynn1 votes

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Do you build her AP or AD these days? I'm assuming people still build Eve mostly tanky, too?

AD bruiser is typically the best build from the jungle. Not because she can't go damage/assassin (AP or AD), but because of what people need out of a jungler in this meta. You'll hard pressed to find even the assassin junglers like Kha go full damage, they typically build 1 to 2 (or sometimes more) tank items to act as their teams front line or backup to the front line.

However it all comes down to playstyle, if you enjoy AP assassin more then you should use it.

Acidic Puddle1 votes

Why do you play a shit champ?

Support Evelynn8 votes

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Why do you play a shit champ?

Because I enjoy playing her.

Pæan1 votes

^ that. I love playing stealth champs. Shaco x Evelynn 5ever!

InSingedWeTrust1 votes

Why do you go with the (somewhat) unreliability of AD bruiser over the burst and pick potential of AP?

Support Evelynn1 votes

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Why do you go with the (somewhat) unreliability of AD bruiser over the burst and pick potential of AP?

Funny you should say AD is unreliable because I think it's her most reliable solo queue build. AP has a lot of risk involved and is generally a very comp dependent and greedy build.

InSingedWeTrust1 votes

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Funny you should say AD is unreliable because I think it's her most reliable solo queue build. AP has a lot of risk involved and is generally a very comp dependent and greedy build.

What's your build and rune/mastery setup? Every time I've tried AD it's generally ended pretty shitty because after the initial engage there's damage lacking. Or maybe I'm stuck in the assassin mentality of playing her.

Support Evelynn1 votes

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What's your build and rune/mastery setup? Every time I've tried AD it's generally ended pretty shitty because after the initial engage there's damage lacking. Or maybe I'm stuck in the assassin mentality of playing her.

AD doesn't instakill like AP does (although AD can with trinity, botrk active and chilling smite, but you gotta be ahead for that), but AD just sits on an adc as they try to hopelessly run away from the mach 5 Eve trinity procing the hell out of them. She does do a lot of damage, you just kinda learn to use it I guess?

Kitten of Evil1 votes

What are your thoughts on her stealth, insofar as it has been a challenge for Riot to balance?

Support Evelynn1 votes

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What are your thoughts on her stealth, insofar as it has been a challenge for Riot to balance?

I think it's kind of problematic right now, but with mandrake ward it should be much easier to manage.

41314356_DEL1 votes

Oh another fellow eve main.

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=kirasnote

No questions here but glad there are still some of us. I played her heavily during the beginning of the season but now I use her as a niche pick to try and snowball games easily. Been playing a lot of Sejuani lately and I can't wait till tomorrow when she gets buffed although the bans might come in eventually. Eve might have it more rough than she has it now next patch but the invisibility is still strong if you know how to use it.

Support Evelynn1 votes

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Oh another fellow eve main.

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=kirasnote

No questions here but glad there are still some of us. I played her heavily during the beginning of the season but now I use her as a niche pick to try and snowball games easily. Been playing a lot of Sejuani lately and I can't wait till tomorrow when she gets buffed although the bans might come in eventually. Eve might have it more rough than she has it now next patch but the invisibility is still strong if you know how to use it.

It's good to see that other people play her a lot too :P

RuGu1 votes

How high do you think you could climb with a more reliable / better jungler? :p

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How high do you think you could climb with a more reliable / better jungler? :p

About the same or lower, I do have my other reliable junglers and I don't think Eve is even that much worse in solo queue. I'm also extremely well practiced with Eve so that gives me an edge.

8yVkmwxq0D1 votes

We need more Eve mains!!!

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Jerky

I used to play her as more of a bruiser, but I've recently been playing her more as an AD assassin, with maybe only 1 defensive item, usually item 3110 .

The main problem I have when I play with her is whenever I get behind, it becomes extremely hard to stay in the game. She really needs to be ahead in the game to be useful. I think my last game with her, I got counter jungled so hard by lee sin, and was behind, and couldn't get back in the game. I feel like she needs a good team to be effective. As you can see in my last game, we had a really good leblanc, but our ADC wasn't that great (we also had a Taric top vs. vlad), and I was behind, and we lost.

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The main problem I have when I play with her is whenever I get behind, it becomes extremely hard to stay in the game. She really needs to be ahead in the game to be useful. I think my last game with her, I got counter jungled so hard by lee sin, and was behind, and couldn't get back in the game. I feel like she needs a good team to be effective. As you can see in my last game, we had a really good leblanc, but our ADC wasn't that great (we also had a Taric top vs. vlad), and I was behind, and we lost.

While Eve can be feast or famine, she isn't THAT feast or famine. I feel like your issue is more fundamental than champ related. You should try to farm more and gank less (as odd as that sounds for eve). Only go for ganks with a really good chance of getting you something, and if you're behind just powerfarm your jungle because eve is so damn good at it.

8yVkmwxq0D1 votes

Yeah, sometimes I try to gank too much. It doesn't help when laners keep pinging for help then get mad at you because you're farming jungle and not helping them.

I'm not really a fan of jungling. I also used to play Eve in lane a lot (top or mid), which I did pretty well with. Mid is obviously better since you can gank easily. Top is also not that bad, depending on the matchup. She does really well against Nasus top because she basically negates his wither, and her ult is very useful against him during a jungle gank. The only problem with her going top is most top laners farm basically all game, which doesn't let her roam as much. What I try to do is get the jungler to fill in for me top when I'm roaming, but it's hard to coordinate when you're in solo queue. I much prefer playing her in lane, but I don't do it as much anymore because people complain too much. Last time I went mid with her, my teammates gave me so much crap, but I ended up going 9/4/6 and we won the game.

Sesshomuronay1 votes

Thoughts on golem start with e at level 1? I play a lot of eve as well and really like this start path. Starting e is a bit slower clear but with a decent leash you hardly lose any Hp. I can do that, red, blue and still gank or another camp.

Support Evelynn1 votes

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Thoughts on golem start with e at level 1? I play a lot of eve as well and really like this start path. Starting e is a bit slower clear but with a decent leash you hardly lose any Hp. I can do that, red, blue and still gank or another camp.

Q is better 100% of the time. No reason to start with E.

Conturbatio1 votes

How do you clear the new jungle as Evelynn? Is it so hard? How do you build her? How do you gank lanes with her?

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How do you clear the new jungle as Evelynn? Is it so hard? How do you build her? How do you gank lanes with her?

First page.

AD bruiser, I build trinity into tank.

You gank lanes by baiting them into engagements, Eve has very few tools to force ganks so you really wanna catch them doing something dumb.

GodOfCrabs1 votes

eve is broken in this meta i play in bronze and no one buys pinks :DDD Evelynn

GodOfCrabs1 votes

Crabby how do you build her? because I tend to be to squishy early game with just trinity as defense and until 25-30 mins i am to squish :/ any recommendations?

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Crabby how do you build her? because I tend to be to squishy early game with just trinity as defense and until 25-30 mins i am to squish :/ any recommendations?

I rush trinity force first item, then my jungle item. The trick to not dying is to engage at the right times, use your stealth to your advantage.

GodOfCrabs1 votes

ok cheers man

Raid Boss Morde1 votes

If you roll her in ARAM, how do you normally build her? AD? AP? AD Bruiser? AP Bruiser? Straight Tank?

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If you roll her in ARAM, how do you normally build her? AD? AP? AD Bruiser? AP Bruiser? Straight Tank?

I play like a man and go full AP assassin.

Raid Boss Morde1 votes

I always do that too, but I'm terrible at EVE! Thanks xD

bad arcade kitty1 votes

do you get executed by jungle creeps? i met a eve main recently, silver one though and s/he was executed once...

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do you get executed by jungle creeps? i met a eve main recently, silver one though and s/he was executed once...

Lol I get executed on any jungler cause I get stupid greedy thinking I can kill a camp with no HP.

Drunk Rummate1 votes

do you prefer an attack speed build with devourer enchantment or triforce build with warrior enchantment?

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do you prefer an attack speed build with devourer enchantment or triforce build with warrior enchantment?

I run Trinity with Magus for CDR and superior punch on my abilities to do tons of damage during the mid game.

Devourer is a fun build, but Eve shouldn't be going for delayed powerspikes.

Drunk Rummate1 votes

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I run Trinity with Magus for CDR and superior punch on my abilities to do tons of damage during the mid game.

Devourer is a fun build, but Eve shouldn't be going for delayed powerspikes.

cool i never considered magus before. thanks!

Support Evelynn1 votes

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also, have you ever tried level 1 smite stealing gromp? it's hilariously fun to just walk up and take it and walk away unscathed while they're down a potion and a full level in xp :D

Nah, I don't like making risky plays like that. If it doesn't work out I just put myself behind.

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