how do i know when my champ is fed/hits their powerspike?

Jennifer17·11/13/2019, 8:37:07 PM·1 votes·1,575 views

lets just take diana. i dont play her but i think she is a good example. half the time i see dianas, they literall q+r and im dead. they can be 1/0/0 and they explode me. how do i know when my champ reaches this point?

how do i know "i can kill this dude in 1 combo" or "he will most likely survive and then turn on me and might kill me"

i know people say to just focus on your champ and play them a lot, but what if im new to a champ? there has to be some way to tell this stuff earlier instead of playing like 50+ games where you feel clueless

10 Comments

The thigh guy11/13/2019, 8:39:17 PM1 votes

Mostly just fast math. It takes ages to work out, but once you get it down it kinda sticks around.

Sirsir11/13/2019, 8:45:33 PM1 votes

Sometimes it's obvious. 9 On syndra is a huge powerspike because she gets maxed Q and therefore passive. Some champs scale really well with 6 over others. 2, 3, 6, 9, 11 are the big level-based spikes you'll find. Some scale with items, like Kat with gunblade or Rumble with Sorcs (at least thats how it used to be, don't @ me)

Some have much stranger power spikes you'll only really notice through guides, practice, or theorycrafting.

in the end, just look up some really good guides. The long one,s that probably have more info than you need, but will likely have what you want in there somewhere. You can't expect to simply know stuff even by reading the champs kit

Brotha11/13/2019, 10:53:09 PM1 votes

Experience.

CaptainAntiHeroz11/14/2019, 1:02:58 AM1 votes

start simple, Talon is meme'd to be the first blood champion because he has a level 2 powerspike with Q+W+AA and ignite if need be whereas someone like Ezreal probably wants to have a specific item or items (in Ezreal's case item 3070 + item 3057 ) to come online

learning which champs have innate powerspikes and which champs have item power spikes isn't always easy and sometimes they have both (usually they have both because a champion can powerspike multiple times. Talon + item 3147 is going to do more damage than early game talon and has extreme damage against people without armor for example) but stick with it and learn when your champ is able to take fights and get kill pressure

Also it should be noted that powerspiking into a bad match up might not seem like a powerspike Sticking with that Talon example, if a talon trys to fight a Rammus item 3075 (for whatever reason we'll say they're laning against eachother) hes not as likely to kill him despite still having the same set of skills that would likely allow him to 100 to 0 a mage

Hopefully this helped in some way

7thHeaven11/14/2019, 11:50:45 AM1 votes

When your champ reachs 10 deaths power spike

preternatural11/14/2019, 12:45:22 PM1 votes

some champions are item gated some are lvl gated some are some weird shade of grey inbetween

Need Gold 4 Tent11/14/2019, 1:08:09 PM1 votes

KDA means absolutely nothing - always press tab and check items. You may be 2/0 but greedy and staying in lane, he died twice but farmed enough to get item 1036 over your now empty item 2033 . You may have the better KDA and even more gold, but your gold in that situation useless while his has turned into stats. Same thing with levels, always check levels + items before picking a fight.

Also depends on the match up and you have to know the match ups like the back of your hand. A MasterYi item 1419 is a totally different champion to item 3124 . You may have whooped him a couple of times, but the second he gets that item, the match up changes - well depending on your champion also. Also, different champions do differently against other champions. This is why you see good top laner guides from people like RTO and Fogged have a comprehensive list of each and every possible champion they face and for their particular one-trick champions, not just a general "if against bruiser play like this, against tank play like this etc etc...". Instead it'll be "Against Akali, do etc..." and so on because it depends on what your champion does specifically against the other champion, not their class.