I still don't understand Items

Aweshumness·Nov 29, 2015·1 votes·1,081 views

Hi,

I still don't get items or how to build items on a champion. Also, I don't know how people melt health bars the way I've seen some do. I usually main support, so is there anything I should be doing as a support better in my item builds? I don't build much damage. To be honest, I never build damage at all.

But I'm trying to go into top lane or any other role, but I never know how to build a champion because most supports can get away with building the same starter item, a pair of boots, and then a sight stone.

I need some dialogue on this.

5 Comments

charcharmunroNov 29, 20152 votes

It honestly depends on the champion and the match-up. Generally speaking you wanna itemise against your enemy laner and the jungler, if possible, and then consider the rest of the team while also building damage/utility/general tankiness.

RogueWillNov 29, 20152 votes

The first thing I recommend to a player going into new roles is to start with a simple champion, a champion whose kit isn't hard to get or follow, champions like warwick, garen, annie, master yi and a bunch of other really straight forward champion so you can learn the gist of the role and then move to the gist of the specific champion rather to struggle to learn both gist at the same time. This way is a tad easier to determinate mistakes and you can improve a tad faster.

As for items it really depends on the champion you want to pick up, top normally is run down by ad bruiser (around 70% of the champions played top regularly are ad bruisers) so normally what you get is some defense (armor/hp) item first and then some attack item (if you think you will tie or lose lane) or rush the attack item first and then the defensive one (if you plan to stop your lane). What item to get first, what item rush depends on the champion you are playing and the match up you are against, so cookie build are really a bad idea.

AweshumnessNov 30, 20151 votes

Cool, I was just having a rough time lately. My favorite champions are Aatrox and Braum by a mile! And with Braum, I could get away with building nothing but tanky items and adjusting to whatever items I was being hit with first. With Aatrox, I'm told I should rush BORK.

But after getting BORK, I'm lost usually thinking I should get boots that could help me win more, or get boots that gimme a defensive stat. Maybe Another defensive item. Then another attack damage/speed/or lifesteal item. And then... everything else after that is kinda a mess of buying more attack damage because we're winning and I've won my lane. OR buying more tanky items because we're loosing, or my lane is looking ROUGH.

I think I'm thinking in the right direction, but I'm still unsure because I don't get any feedback usually.

I figured a good way to start off with a champion is checking out what they scale well with and then adjusting your build better according to those things.

It's just really rough going back into lane against a champion that's going to blow me up and I have to play close to the tower the entire time I'm in top lane because they're super aggressive and sooner or later, they WILL call for a gank and kill me under my tower.

RogueWillNov 30, 20151 votes

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Cool, I was just having a rough time lately. My favorite champions are Aatrox and Braum by a mile! And with Braum, I could get away with building nothing but tanky items and adjusting to whatever items I was being hit with first. With Aatrox, I'm told I should rush BORK.

But after getting BORK, I'm lost usually thinking I should get boots that could help me win more, or get boots that gimme a defensive stat. Maybe Another defensive item. Then another attack damage/speed/or lifesteal item. And then... everything else after that is kinda a mess of buying more attack damage because we're winning and I've won my lane. OR buying more tanky items because we're loosing, or my lane is looking ROUGH.

I think I'm thinking in the right direction, but I'm still unsure because I don't get any feedback usually.

I figured a good way to start off with a champion is checking out what they scale well with and then adjusting your build better according to those things.

It's just really rough going back into lane against a champion that's going to blow me up and I have to play close to the tower the entire time I'm in top lane because they're super aggressive and sooner or later, they WILL call for a gank and kill me under my tower.

I'm not a much of an Aatrox player so don't take what I'm about to say set in stone, instead try it on lane and see how it goes.

As Aatrox I understand the essential item is item 3074 and not bork, simply because you get better stats out of it rather than just life steal, agaist AP i understand what you rush is either item 3156 or item 3091 if you still want to go offensive or item 3065 if you think your lane is going to be rough. That said there aren't many AP champions that can counter aatrox (maybe liss) so it will only happen if your opponent skill is superior than yours. You don't get more than 2 ad offensive items on attrox, you can get away with 3 if you are really ahead but 2 is a good point to start, usually is Hydra+bork and move on to buy resistances.

AweshumnessNov 30, 20151 votes

I think I'm thinking in the right direction, but I'm still unsure because I don't get any feedback usually.

I figured a good way to start off with a champion is checking out what they scale well with and then adjusting your build better according to those things.

BTW: I really like your lengthy detailed response by the way. It shows you that you know. +5 points for Knowledge