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[PBE Ashe] Ranger's Focus

chocoboqt·12/1/2015, 11:58:50 PM·1 votes·1,049 views

Thank you for lowering the amount of stacks necessary to activate Ranger's Focus from 5 to 4. It definitely addresses some of the issues I was having with Ashe, but 4 stacks still feels a little conservative. These are the things that annoy me while playing Ashe:

  1. I need to hit a champion or minion 5x before I can activate Q. Early game, this is a difficult task because the attack speed is simply not there to build 5 stacks very quickly. Late game getting those 5 stacks is a little easier but at that point most champions can kill you through a rotation of their skills. Yet, Ashe is forced to "ramp up" and the damage isn't all that great.

  2. Ashe is an immobile and a squishy champion. In order to survive, you have to pseudo-kite and position perfectly. Yet Ranger's Focus tempts players into risky situations with very little payoff. This model is a bad one because either Ranger's Focus does incredible amounts of damage to warrant the HUGE ramp up and risk involved (which might be unfair to enemy champions) or it does mediocre damage that feels unrewarding.

  3. I miss the old Ashe that was guaranteed a critical strike upon the first basic attack. I could go into teamfights with this knowledge and focus a priority target knowing that I would have impacted the outcome of the battle even if I were to die quickly (as Ashe often does). I don't have that option anymore. I can't build stacks in the jungle or on minions and hope that I can maintain them so that I can quickly Q at the start of a teamfight. I also can't volley or ult and build stacks quickly. Instead, I have to hit champions 5x and hope I don't die or get the peels I need in order to actually start doing "damage".

Lowering the stacks is a good start, but if you are going to keep them at 4, could you extend the duration of the stacks as well by a few seconds? Or consider lowering the amount of stacks required to 3. Three seems to be the condition for almost everything else.. Vayne's silver bullets, Varus' magic damage, Tahm's devour, Xin's three-talon strike.. .etc

2 Comments

Dominick Destine12/2/2015, 12:03:53 AM1 votes

Does Runaan's trigger the Ashe stacks? can you enter Ranger's Focus after two shots ?

chocoboqt12/2/2015, 12:56:30 AM1 votes

Yeah, Runaan's was fixed so that you will get stacks of Ranger's Focus if the side shots hit nearby enemies. The problem with Runaan's early is lack of AD to make use of its AD modifiers (crit, atk speed) and late game, you need item space for lifesteal, armor pen, etc. Although Runaan's is a recommended item for Ashe, I don't like building it as I find the weapon is only useful for clearing minion waves or jungle camps. In terms of wave clearing, Stattik Shiv+ Volley performs just as well. Also, the range of the side bolts is disgustingly short so unless you are team fighting people that don't mind their positioning, it rarely helps in team fights.