Double Doran’s?

TheWannabeAsian1·3/14/2019, 2:19:18 AM·1 votes·3,013 views

Hi there folks, once again me here with a newbie question.....I’ve seen a select few people building double, even triple Doran’s blades/rings and I was wondering why exactly you would rather than building item components.....my friend said something about increased landing power, but I was hoping if one of y’all could give a more detailed explanation?

5 Comments

TehNACHO3/14/2019, 2:27:14 AM2 votes

It's just a short term trade off.

Many component items are kinda just straight useless in and of themselves. A single Ruby or Sapphire Crystal does not a power spike make. Especially for more fighty champions in the early game, they want the raw power that a Doran's Blade/Ring can offer for the same price point at that time. Generally speaking, if your first back leads to having less than let's say 1300 gold so you can't pick up a midtier item/BF Sword, and truly no component item is useful to you, just grab a Doran's item.

Tr4shB4NSYST3M3/14/2019, 2:27:50 AM2 votes

Basically its buying immediate strength to be stronger early. The stats on the dorans items are worth more than the gold to buy them, so often if someone has to back before they have the ~900+ gold to buy an item component item 3145 item 1059 item 3134 item 3086 item 3133 they'll by A dorans item to give them more power now than they would get with item 1036 item 1052 item 1051 /item 1042 .

The drawback is you eventually have to sell them to make room for better items and take a net gold loss.

Craft Zeppelin3/14/2019, 9:31:19 AM2 votes

Let's say you made the gambit. Enemy build: item 1056 item 3802 1700g 55AP 300 mana Your build: item 1056 item 1056 item 1052 item 1052 1670g 70 AP 120HP Mana regen equal to lost chapter + minion waveclear passive that stacks.

The enemy's next item would be blasting wand 40 ap (850g) so they have a lag time to actually spike that costs something more than a kill and a simple lead. While you can make your lost chapter components for MORE pushing to dominate the early game. The only drawback of course is that it can backfire.

Inkling Commando3/14/2019, 9:52:50 AM1 votes

i dont get double item 1055 but having double item 1056 gives you 2 mana every second giving you early high mana regen until your mana pool is bigger or have larger mana regen from say item 3107

Saevum3/14/2019, 4:58:09 AM

Double doran blade is a more viable tactic than double doran ring. Hands down.