Rift Herald Can Be Solo'd

Robert Smith·5/5/2017, 8:38:23 PM·2 votes·7,713 views

I have used Udyr, MasterYi and Nocturne to solo the new rift herlad successfully. It seems ridiculous that I was able to do it easily alone without being ahead. The old on needed a champ who was ahead, had a clone/pet or lots of sustain. I am not the best jungler NA, nor do I claim to be the best at these three champs (Maybe Yi) but here is what I noticed on what I needed to take Rift Herald with these three champs. Use this knowledge to use on your main so you too can solo, gank a lane and take 2-3 towers afterwards.

The first thing I noticed is not many people think you will solo it. This is due to not many people knowing you can. So if they have vision of you heading to it, enemies might think it is for a gank or you are farming. Second make sure there are no wards. Pink the area and make sure you know the enemy jungler is not top side. Third have two smites ready to resustain yourself mid fight and to finish it off to gank a lane. And finally you might want a completed jungler Item along with boots. After that go in and solo.

Udyr He has a new Tiger/Turtle stance that refreshes every 3 autos. This helps with damaging rift constantly and sustain. The rift does occasionally do a full turn attack which a turtle shield should help with the damage.

MasterYi His Q can dodge many of the attacks and when she is about to do heavy attacks a simple W can work to soften the blow, followed by a quick auto to the eye. Yi really needs the double smite to not die but is able to finish her quickly due to his E and passive.

Nocturne Probably the easiest to do out of the 3 but his mana cost could be a problem. He has sustain so he doesn't need the double smite as much. But here is the kicker. The Rift Herald heavy attacks, the ones where she does the most damage but leaves her eye open to you, counts as a spell. So Noc can spell shield the Rift Herald's 2nd strongest move and counter attack her.

The more people that realize how easy it is to solo her the more people are going to do it. With more people soloing Riot can nerf Rift Herald as it is broken in the right hands. If you found another champion that can solo Rift please tell me. Besides XinZhao Aatrox Nunu Warwick I can't think of other ones.

20 Comments

TryMucinex5/5/2017, 8:48:20 PM1 votes

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DrCyanide5/5/2017, 9:15:18 PM1 votes

Riot said they wanted it to be solo-able, but that it should be better to take it with more than one person.

Escheton5/5/2017, 9:20:53 PM1 votes

I've had it stolen by a randomly passing jungler because it took me so long to solo, though. Don't much recommend it in anything other than a normal game where you feel lucky, punk.

Proxy3455/5/2017, 9:28:23 PM1 votes

All you really need to kill the Rift Herald is item 3153 and then its super easy to kill. Rift Herald's AAs only does 1 or 2 health bars of damage against a Yi which is like nothing while having a lifesteal item.

Zane Zephyr5/5/2017, 10:12:15 PM1 votes

Hell, with old herald all i needed was my jungle item and a vamp scepter and i could solo it. took a while, but it's possible

rework trundle5/5/2017, 10:20:10 PM1 votes

Redmercy made a video, there's a "bug" rn that it doesn't turn fast enough and you can proc the eye by yourself, soloing it. Soraka can solo it.

Critmaster Garen5/5/2017, 11:03:00 PM1 votes

really easy with Fiora

dash behind every time the eye opens.

PermabannedGaren5/5/2017, 11:16:55 PM1 votes

You could solo old Rift Herald too.

I did it every now and again as Tryndamere or Yasuo top because the old buff was the bee's knees on them, but not enough of the bee's knees for my jungler to prioritize it over dragon.

Halluc1nate11/2/2018, 11:32:39 AM1 votes

Shaco with ult

Killer Rim2/22/2019, 5:50:35 AM1 votes

This is kinda old but whatever. After using warwick a bit, he is really good against rift herald. Just do smite, hold q to lunge past, e, attack and try to repeat. The q allows warwick to get behind rift herald and do extra damage. e just adds defense in case stuff goes wrong

Inkling Commando2/22/2019, 6:29:44 AM1 votes

no surprise there. those same champs can solo Baron as well when built enough.