Tips and tricks for champs you play

SwiftKitten88··21 votes·3,121 views

We all have a main, and the vast majority of us play more than 1 champ at a time.

but there are always lots of things that most people dont know about the champs we play. So what are some cool tips or tricks you can do with the champs you play that most people might not know.

Morgana her R will reveal any stealthed champ inside the radius and make then targetable Lux her E will proc a spellshield (Sivir item 3102 Malzahar ) from the slow alone, allowing you to detonate it on them after the shield is proced if you wait of it to drop Nidalee can pounce and transform mid pounce into human form to a longer range last hit auto (not sure how well this works anymore after the auto reset nerf)

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GaleWinUnleashed53 votes

Thresh The lantern is not just a shield. It can also be clicked to dash to Thresh!

Khadaver8 votes

stop trolling m8, it's a ticking time bomb that you run away from.

Toxic Main Riven10 votes

You can put a ward in an enemy Thresh's lantern so they attack the ward instead of grabbing the lantern.

I Hate Jhinger3 votes

pink ward*

Zerenza3 votes

Even i normal ward might kill an ADC, since a lot of ADC's use the Auto Attacking mechanic that makes them attack the nearest thing. Infact sometimes placing a ward mid fight can screw them.

Raven Elizabeth10 votes

Anivia you can stop a lee sin kick mid air with wall if you have good ping.

HateDaddy10 votes

Jax press E to activate beta league of legends and then press E again for an Amumu ult

Nasus will tell you to become dust occasionally. Don't do it.

Maokai throw your children at people by pressing E

Gangplank Eating an orange makes it k. Pressing R makes it even better.

Malphite if you press E near an enemy, you actually turn their game off for 3 seconds.

Vladimir Your first two Qs heal them, your 3rd Q feeds Africa

LU Vanilla Rice 1 votes

Fucking legend ^

CaptnJakSparrow9 votes

Vayne You win more games by not playing her.

CypherDoom3 votes

Vayne main, have to agree

A Liberal6 votes

On mobile so no champ portraits :(

Anivia: if you run teleport, cast it right before you pop your passive. If the enemy can't interrupt the channel, it will channel through and you'll get out alive. Still not sure why they haven't bigfixed this but it works. Also, if against a Blitzcrank, you can summon your wall in the line of his hook and he won't be able to pull you through it, although to be fair I don't know if this still works, but at one time it did.

Morgana: Her pool is wide enough that you can take out an entire minion wave. Wait for the wave to settle, and than cast directly in the middle. Finding just the right spot is hard, but with practice you can eliminate entire waves without leaving stragglers.

Bard: This is less of a functionality trick and more of a playing tip, but I find it extremely helpful to map out my chime paths via pings. Before every game I tell people an example, and it alleviates a lot of the "wtf are you doing bard" moments. I do a plain ping on the chimes I'm going yo collect in order, and then an on my way pung back to my lane. Helps with communication a lot.

Katharina: Your ult is an amazing tool against people with invisibility. Especially against Akali, you can literally just ult on top of them and the kunai will still hit them, unlike some other auto targeting abilities.

luke bjelica5 votes

Shaco You can use his clone (R) to dodge any ability if you time it well. This includes tower shots and Zed ult.

His boxes (W) can block Blitzcrank's pull if you place it just as they activate they activate the pull.

Comrade Napoleon2 votes

RQ in the middle of a fight (when you find yourself in a bad spot) have higher chance for enemies thinking they already killed your clone with AOE and the clone it is actually you, this would make them waste spells and give you a chance to re position. (also would give you couple of seconds before they realized you Q away and use their red trinket/pink ward)

Comrade Napoleon2 votes

item 3147 has a separate cooldown on your clone, you can pop it twice if you AA your target wait 2 secs for it to pop then ult and AA with clone, get another pop.

item 3053 and item 3156 both work on the clone make it alot more durable plus trick unwary opponents thinking these passives only apply on the real shaco.

Comrade Napoleon2 votes

R loses tower aggro and make the clone take a turret shot, unless you damage an enemy (even with the clone) which will make the turret target you again.

You can easily solo drake at lvl 6 by juggling aggro between you, the clone and a box.

Scoroct3 votes

Viktor Chaos Storm (R) cancels channels such as TF ult, katarina ult, and others so don't forget that in important matchups. Also Viktor's Q buffs his next auto attack and causes it to be magic dmg. That means if you plan to eventually build lichbane that game you can often get away with sitting on a sheen till you have more important items finished since the sheen proc will be magic dmg and be affected by magic pen you buy.

Illaoi Illaoi's Q, E, and Ult have long animations that can be abused against cc. Illaoi's Q and E will finishing casting even if Illaoi is stunned meaning that a portion of the stun duration will overlap with the Q and E animations. Knockups and displacements I believe do cancel the abilities though. Illaoi's ult also causes her to be immune to all CC during the animation meaning a tristana cant knock an ulting Illaoi back for example.

Tristana A lot of people seem to not realize that Tristy gets another rocket jump whenever she pops a fully charged E (which does gain stacks from her ult and jump if they hit the target). Thus if Tristana and her support get a good lvl 2 engage Tristana could end up jumping onto the same target twice in the one fight which adds up to a lot of dmg in the early game (initiation jump->E pop-> second jump ->kill/assist hopefully -> jump #3)

Friendly Ram3 votes

Shen you can ult champ clones to send the enemy on a wild goose chase and your W can block minion based AA(plants dongers and bears to name a few).

Sylvant3 votes

Evelynn is invisible, you dont have to rush like you usually do with other junglers as soon as you enter the lane, instead take your time and wait a good opportunity to reveal yourself, let the enemy use some cds and whatnot first

CerealBoxOfDoom3 votes

Ahri

her W counts as 3 single target spell hits from a single spell You can level W to hose champs like katarina or very aggressive yasuo's in lane, just make sure Q gets enough points to push at a reasonable pace She has an unusually high base attack speed for a mage or magelike champ Spellshields only block one shot of her Q W and R. The rest will still hit. If the outwards Q hits then the return will not be blocked as well. Has one of the longest range hard cc abilities in the game on top of a mobility ult. Has lower damage than some similar champs but she deals hers faster in practice. Sure, some deal twice as much in 3 seconds but she will deal all of hers in under 1 second in many cases. Speed matters.

If you use the popstar ahri skin the blue buff golem will dance with you

https://youtu.be/3Jj_lDxTF2U

TheHurricaneGamr2 votes

You can R and then Q asAurelionSol to get some sweet damage off. Gangplank barrels heal all enemy champions that walk in them as he detonates them.

SwiftKitten8813 votes

{quoted} Gangplank barrels heal all enemy champions that walk in them as he detonates them.

Yeahs heals them to full HP and teleports them back to base 30 seconds later XD

Kitty Clarissa2 votes

Zyra her empowered seeds can be used to block skill shots AND is a unit so when fighting Khazix alone use your E next to a seed and he will lose is isolation bonus . idr but you can teleport to zyras seeds for a flank i think. Zyra does not really have a bad match up unless she is vs Olaf or burst characters .. once you get item 3116 almost no champ in the game can catch you . also zyra E has no delay on summoning plants when her Q does .

OrionTheHunter2 votes

Zilean Your Q reveals the area within its blast radius, use it to check bushes or dragon/baron pit. Your E slow is stronger than its speed up. (e.g. a 50% slow divides their speed by 2, but a 50% speed up only multiplies your speed by 1.5.) At lvl 18 with max CDR your ult is on a 33 second cooldown. In other words, it will be up for basically every teamfight. As support, don't fall into the trap of always maxing Q first. If your lane opponents don't have any dashes, maxing E can either get your carry out, or keep theirs still for a gank.

R FLASH XD1 votes

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Zilean Your Q reveals the area within its blast radius, use it to check bushes or dragon/baron pit. Your E slow is stronger than its speed up. (e.g. a 50% slow divides their speed by 2, but only multiplies your speed by 1.5.)

Also note that at max rank zilean's slow is basically a 2.5 second snare since let's be honest you barely move with a 99% slow on you

agbudar2 votes

Malzahar so many people seem to not understand you have to start at 3rd second E proc to cast your Q. (you get a double E duration that way) Braum still blocks every ult riot has come up with. janna ult? not on your watch. gragas ult? nope. ezreal ult, sigh gotta wait for the full duration of the wind up of his ult to pop my shield up. or just stun him. Heimerdinger highest hp regen AT ALL LEVELS of the game. the health regen build toplane is real guys item 3060 item 3512 i made a Ieyasu uninstall with this, just sayin. Kennen her W proc counts as a second hit for thunderlords, great for trading when you know you cannot land Q, quick W proc +E makes every trade hell for everyone. Braum ow one more thing for braum, i ulted while being knocked up by nami ult it went through so it looks like some form's of CC will not prevent you from ulting further testing required. Garen cannot stun E so when those riven buffs are coming make sure you lvl E, ow and all them complaints about riven being able to unload entire kit in 1 second? W duration is 1.5 seconds at lvl 1 so profit please.

Champion Skin1 votes

Ults like Braum if cast before hit by CC will finish casting even when hit by CC (especially easy to notice on Ezeral with his long cast time ultimate which he can use right before being hit by CC to negate some of the effectiveness of the CC)

LuunaLily2 votes

Poppy ~Flash on top of enemys with a dash and w, most likely they'll panic dash as a reaction, then you get a free stun. ~Poppy's buckler has a slow and q's have slows so make sure to chain them when being chased or chasing. ~Also if you kill a nearby minion/monster/champ with her buckler you'll get an automatic shield. (I know it says it in the tooltip but it's saved me far too many times during trades/escapes) ~Also as a warning, since her ult makes them untargetable don't use it right away, you'll probably screw your team over by allowing the enemy to dodge their cc. *Something to remember, if your opponent is stupid and sitting under tower with low health, push the wave, get a shield from one of their minions and just dive them. Poppy has such high resistances you should almost always survive. (Plus extra 12% resistances below 40% hp)

All kind of simple things people forget I guess.

Champion Skin1 votes

Poppy's buckler has a slow and q's have slows so make sure to chain them when being chased or chasing.

The only way the buckler will slow is if you have item 3025 /item 3742 /item 3022

LuunaLily1 votes

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The only way the buckler will slow is if you have item 3025 /item 3742 /item 3022

My bad, always build iceborn. Could have sworn it slowed though... Hmm...

Dealth2 votes

Rammus Ok

AmazonThotPrime2 votes

Vi E is better/faster for 1st clear since you get more dps off than your W passive and get it 2nd . ( ex : E-summoner 11-E-A-A)

summoner 4 and her Q is good for the spooks if timed/aimed correctly and for mad dragon steals. (can't really accurately confirm yet since i only get this late game which isn't often) item 2138 makes her Q hitbox slightly bigger.

her demon skin makes it easier to see her passive procs for some reason. If possible save your ult for back line squishies and disrupting/initiating a team fight.

not sure if it's helpful but i try since I'm the only Vi main I know.

DarkRitual2 votes

Thresh hooks at maxrange just barely outrange Blitzcrank. Thresh can somewhat hide his Hook animation by casting Flay. The sound still plays though. Single effect spellshiields do bot stop Sion's ult. It stops the impact damage, but the knockup goes through still. Nami can activate W while an attack is midair, and that attack will consume one of the three charges when it hits.

Zerenza2 votes

Illaoi Her W is a Dash, use it to dodge skill shot or CC that would otherwise hit you by using it on a nearby minion or by using it on a malphite who's ulting (You'll dash to where he was when you used it and it can let you avoid the knock up).

XinZhao2WinNhao1 votes

Akali shroud is a good way to wait out cooldown between Q's I just learned that Khazix W comes with a heal.

Cubíx2 votes

If you're learning Kha'zix Here's some tips:

While using your E you can use a few other abilities, Smite, ravenous hydra, and you can use W or Q but it activate when you land

Unfortunately towers count towards Isolation, keep that in mind

Not only your ult but entering bushes can re apply your passive so you can use it multiple times in fights

XinZhao2WinNhao2 votes

I don't buy Smite and hydra though. I lane him not jg.

Thanks for the advice though.

Slack King1 votes

Mordekaiser W on collapse steals HP from 2 enemies inside of it. Use it to save allies that are getting stuck to by a melee. The 300+ hp can be a deciding factor and you can cast it and collapse it from range.

Avoid heavy CC champs at all cost. Your shield doesnt get charged when you dont deal damage, Stun = No damage. Meaning you drop faster than sona getting deleted by LB

Malicious Metal1 votes

Unless you build Juggernaut. All the Cc in the world won't be enough to burst you through 1k shield about 3500-4000 hp, steraks and 55% tenacity will make them waste precious disables.

JIDF Operative2 votes

What is the Juggernaut build? I normally take him jungle and get item 1402 item 3111 item 3116 item 3001 item 3157 item 3053 or item 3146

LSmaster161 votes

Pretty sure its rylai's, triforce, steraks, tank. Not sure about the order.

JESUSSAYSNO1 votes

Vladimir Rarely do you want to be the frontline. You are not a tank, you're a ranged dps who needs to stay on the fringe of fights to pull optimal dps and to survive.

Ekko AP, don't E onto someone until you land the outgoing Q, then E onto someone, AA them once, and use your passive to reposition the return Q to hit them. Tank, priorities rely on landing W. Press E, then proceed to be sticky af with Q and passive, unless they out damage you, you win the all in and have complete control over it.

Asudurga1 votes

Darius Do not be afraid to be the first to engage, your kit and build is designed all around being a major threat in teamfights.

Im The Jayce God1 votes

Jayce Hit Q then E when nuking enemies, they have less time to react. When you reach level 2, go to hammer mode, Q your enemy, E them back, switch back to Cannon mode, AA, then Q them for an amazing early trade which allows you to get easy CS.

Kayle BotRK is amazing on Kayle with he insane Attack Speed.

Quinn Ohmwrecker and zz'rot make you move 20% faster when near towers, allowing you to escape/chase so much easier.

Knifecat Reborn1 votes

(In Aram) As long as Rengar is sitting in a bush, he can then throw a poro and dash to it, then jump onto a enemy champion while not being in a bush (as long as its a relatively short distance dash).

IceKingChernobog1 votes

Twitch Your Q resets when an you get a kill or assist(as long as they have the deady venom on them upon death) Your W can be used to reveal enemies with in brushes or unwarded areas

Press Q before you recall so you can recall in stealth

Your R gives you a +300 attack radius and can out range turrets.

Troll Slaiyer1 votes

Teemo Your shrooms bounce for a bit of distance when thrown on to another shroom! If an enemy champion is near an enemy minion wave, bounce your shroom from the right angle so that it lands in the wave which may catch the enemy heroes off guard.

WitchQueen Annie1 votes

Vladimir

Do not use E in lane to farm against champions that have a gap closer; they will punish you with a full combo if you do it. If you have to E farm, make sure you step back right after so they can't counter-combo.

There are a variation of builds but the main focus should be getting to 40-45% CDR as soon as possible through a combination of items, runes, and masteries. Max CDR Vladimir is a God because he will have an AOE nuke available for every team fight (his ultimate). CDR is important because you'll have your escape up more often (W), and you can spam your other abilities too. YOU HAVE NO MANA COSTS. Your health cost becomes completely negligible.

I recommend going mid lane Vladimir (even though he's supposed to be Top) because you'll auto-win most of your match-ups simply by rushing Spirit Visage.

Take Ghost and Stormraider's Surge for dramatically increased mobility in combat. If you kill the other mid laner or if the other laner leaves, you can look to Gank bot or top with a Ghost + Hemoplague attack.

The pros do Rylais on him after getting close to 40% CDR, however, I recommend Deathcap for SoloQ for greater burst and higher AP ratios. Rylais assumes your team mates will follow up on your plays and not be fools; its better to have higher damage with Death Cap so you can solo burst targets if need be. Because you have Stormraiders; if you hit an ability on a squishy you will gain the movement speed boost to rush after them and finish them off.

The main trick to fighting well with Vladimir in team fights is to aim the new E. Always fully charge it in team fights (this is contrast to laning where you want to be more careful). When charging your E, move right up to the target and try to be as close to the target as possible, moving in the same directions as you anticipate they will move. Your combo should be R on as many targets as possible to start (use Ghost to enter the fight if necessary); charge and fire E... follow up with Q, use E, Q and W in any order as it makes sense to do. You'll get a ton of health back when R pops.

A useful trick for E is to charge E, Flash, and then pop it.

Vlad fights as an AOE off-tank. He is "tanky" because of his slippery abilities (Spirit Visage and Zhonya is also usually core). He is the frontline but he also deals a ton of AOE damage and can carry games.

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Also, don't buy item 3152. I know the pros do it but its stats are very questionable and if you take Ghost and Stormraiders... you don't need it. Its generally better to do Visage into Zhonyas into Ionians into Rabadon... or Zhonyas into Visage into Ionians into Rabadon whichever order makes more sense based on match-up. If the enemy is magic heavy I'd switch out Zhonyas for Abyssal Sceptre but you should be careful about not having any amor at all.

ZT Xperimentor1 votes

Blitzcrank His rocket grab is always firing his right hand, which makes the skillshot have a slight angle across his body; also only the hand part of the animation has the hitbox. Which means with patience & practice, you can pull someone from the opposite side of a moving minion wave. However the brief stun doesn't take effect until they're stationary in-front of him, so if your allies are close, be be prepared to use overdrive & power fist if they break his hold with a movement ability (such as flash, or ezreal's arcane shift). But be wary of when to use his overdrive, as the underdrive slows him after the boost, which can gimp an escape attempt.

Darius Is one of the few great anti-tank tanks (juggernaut is just a subset), he can rubble a tank in drawn-out brawls. Obviously his weakness is that he has no mobility ability to speak of. His short ranged apprehend doesn't deal damage, but interrupts other animations and can reach over a handful of walls in the rift. Due to his crippling strike having no scaling with rank, always max it last but take it before level 6; it can be used as an auto-attack reset to get a few quick stacks of hemorrhage. Like teemo, this built-in dot can mess up his farming if he's under pressure, so crippling strike or decimate could be used for farming with good mana management. Despite his sluggish steamroller playstyle, he seems oddly effective at fighting yasuo in a duel; though his shield blocks some of the bleed & guillotine, the fake ninja's dash lands him in the axe path of decimate, and doesn't deny his crippling strike either.

Nautilus His dredge line is similar to blitzcrank's rocket grab but with a few differences; it has a shorter but wider hitbox (for obvious reasons), can't go through terrain, and functions like a cross between blitzcrank's & amumu's grapples. Of the 4 hookshot style champions, he's the only one unable to grab across walls, but instead drags him to the wall he hits; meaning it's his only mobility ability, and not to be used lightly as it still has a noticeable cooldown. In most cases, it pulls him closer to the enemy champion than them to him (something about the center of hitboxes compared to relative mass), so if you nab someone, expect to go farther than halfway to them. And thanks to his sluggish attack speed, it's often best to wait a moment (.25~.5 seconds) to auto-attack after hooking someone in order to maximize the lockdown duration; however his grapple has the same weakness blitzcrank's has, so this forced delay isn't always a good idea. Titan's wrath gives his auto-attacks a dot & aoe, but won't reset his attacking animations either.

Tahm Kench While not as imposing of a tank like the anchorman, he's just as effective at keeping an enemy pinned. If an assassin is trying to nuke your ally, eat the assassin; the assassin will outrun you if you try to save your teammate, this way you keep them from finishing their combo while they create more distance. This is particularly effective at denying buff reliant or time reliant ones (like master yi, nocturne, & tryndamere). However if they have extreme or spam-able mobility (katarina, ekko, leesin, ext) then this is probably stalling the inevitable without more teammates nearby. Note that at pointblank range, his tongue lash can be used as an auto-attack reset if he needs to devour the enemy immediately; but remember he can only eat one champion at a time, regardless if friend or foe so choose wisely depending on the situation. Also if they have some kind of continuous aoe effect, it will continue to apply around tahm too, so don't go walking into your team if you bite a spinning wukong.

Thresh Unlike blitzcrank & nautilus, his grapple is on a significant delay, slightly longer than a second; so don't rely on it if you're not good at predicting. While his sweeping flay isn't sluggish, the area is deceptively small (barely reaching beside him, but mostly in-front & behind), however it's important to know that it can interrupt movement abilities and bump them into the direction you clicked if you time it right. However his ultimate box will not, and though it says it has a 99% slow, there's a minimum movement speed cap; and due to the cast delay, don't expect it to save an ally from an assassin. The shielding lantern from dark passage has similar leashing to orianna's ball, it can only be sent a fair distance, but doesn't return until moved noticeably farther away; remember that it has a lengthy cooldown too, so decide carefully to use it for the damage absorption or saving yank. Something often overlooked is that thresh has laughably low base armor, so don't go thinking you're durable until late game, collecting with the lantern is something handy if you don't want to get close.

Over Innsmouth1 votes

Vladimir

If you don't miss any Rush Q's, your Rush is actually up every 2nd Q rather than every third Q.

E particles will show when they've hit an invisible unit.

Using R then W will allow you to only have to wait 2 seconds for the R heal-pop.

Spamming /laugh as Blood Lord Vladimir or /joke as Classic Vladimir is almost guaranteed to tilt your lane opponent.

Cur Adv Vult1 votes

Nidalee Tip for clears (as in my elo I see so many people doing it COMPLETELY wrong), Start W. Place the first trap just infront of red buff, second trap by wraiths, third trap again just top left of the small redbuff and then one on the Big krug (if you did this quickly you should be able to have another one as they spawn on the small krug) . Smite instantly, at level 2 upgrade Q and proceed to kite and get W procs from your already placed traps. Smite the blue after you have cleared wraiths. I did a solo clear in a custom game and carried on till level 18 without going to base once or slowing down to regen between camps. Hope this is of some assistance :D. Don't start blue please, or Q, this is much more efficient and quick

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