PSA Triforce isn't good on Corki anymore

Hige·5/5/2017, 5:20:38 PM·1 votes·437 views

As the title reads, I think the synergy with triforce has gone down for Corki ever since his Rockets were given an static 2 seconds cooldown and here's why I think this is true, please feel free to discuss this in here!

Any adc is just as good at proccing triforce as Corki Current most common build for Corki is: item 3078 item 3031 item 3094 this is because you can throw a rocket and proc the damage from sheen from a somewhat long range, this is also true for many many champs out there, take Cait for example, she could place a trap or throw a Q (which does a lot more damage than rockets) and auto with triforce + rapid firecannon and she would deal a lot more damage than Corki, from longer range, given that the Corki player isn't lvl 18 since his rockets have an scaling AD ratio of course, in which case the damage would be roughly similar

Ezreal for example is much MUCH better at proccing triforce since his skills have low cooldowns and barely no cast time, Corki on the other hand while pretty spammy in nature, needs to wait for all of his cast times, his Q is slow as hell and as far as I can tell it also cancels your autoattack... throwing Q in the middle of a fight will lower your dps quite a bit but here's the catch...

you HAVE to throw Q in if you wanna proc triforce consistently Since rockets have a 2 second cooldown, if you simply wait for the cooldown to refresh you'll be losing dps... Corki's basic combo should look like this

R AA E AA R AA Q AA R AA W AA R AA

but in reality you don't simply sit down and weave your skills like your granny doing sweaters in Christmas, Attack speed plays a huge role on Corki's builds because if you don't got enough you can't weave AA into skills optimally and if you got too much you'll auto twice in between skills (which isn't necesarily bad but could potentially work against you)

A champion like Lucian can proc triforce WAY more efficiently thanks to how his kit flows with his autoattacks and considering he has an autoattack reset plus a cooldown reduction mechanic built in.... Graves is another champion who could squeeze triforce efficiency although his power comes from quick burst and not weaving autos in between skills/dashes

Then we have Corki's Range Corki has the same range as Lucian, Graves, Ezreal, Sivir, Vayne, etc, 550 but his survivality is nowhere close to theirs, he does have a jump yeah but unlike the others, Corki doesn't have something to go in and out of fights, once you burn your jump you're in rockets mode, Triforce is unproccable under this situation and because you rushed it you have LESS AD and your rockets deals less damage

There is also Corki's package... Well, this one is fairly simple, this skill has 700% BONUS AD ratio, triforce only gives 25 AD, in contrast, a BF sword gives you 40 AD:

If you were to rush a BF sword your bomb trail would do a total of 430 IF they stay on the trail for as long as it lasts If you were to rush a Triforce (consider the time and gold it takes to build) your trail would do a total of 325...

See? Triforce has too many drawbacks on Corki for it to be really effective on him anymore... if people were to focus on Corki's AD ratios (kinda like Graves) you'd find out that he can be quite powerful, specially now that some AD items got cheaper

My advice would be to rush an item 3508 instead and then MAYBE item 3146... here's where it gets fuzzy to me because I'm not sure what would work best, I love gunblade on Corki because he heals from everything he throws but... we fall back to the same thing, less AD, less damage from your skills and autos... I think a item 3042 wouldn't be such a bad idea since Corki does spam his skills quite a bit and the extra AD from mana would increase your damage overall...

If you guys could give some feedback about this I'd appreciate it a lot! Corki has been what I call my main since forever but I have left him behind in order to play more viable ADCs... I wanna be able to bring my A game though and Corki is the one I feel more comfortable on!

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