Scuttlecrab Champion Spotlight

Welcome to the League of Legends champion spotlight featuring Scuttlecrab, the Rift Scuttler. Scuttlecrab is a mobile manaless tank that is mostly played in the river due to her inability to attack.

ABILITIES: Her passive is Pacifism. Unlike other tanks in league that outdamage you when you fight them, Scuttlecrab will simply run away making her the most balanced tank in the game. Her Q, Ultra Rapid Fire, is a passive ability that doubles her attack speed and crit chance while also making her basic attacks deal true damage. Unfortunately her passive doesn't allow her to use auto attacks so putting points into this ability is worthless. Her W, Weaken, is also a passive ability which reduces her resistances to 10 whenever she's crowd controlled. Unlike other tanks that become unkillable at the press of a button, Scuttlecrab actually has to dodge abilities to survive. Next up is her E, Shadow Dash. This is a move that she learned from the other river champion. It's a long dash that has great synergy with her passive, making her very difficult to kill. Her ultimate, Living Ward, has two componenets. The passive part is that whenever you are killed you become an untargettable ward for the enemy team. Depending on which side of the river you are killed, you'll either guard the Baron or the Drake. That may sound detrimental to your team but it will ensure that you get the most protection from your team and they will be sad when you are gone. Now for the active part: dash to the nearest honey fruit, denying the enemy some HP and being extremely annoying. This ability pisses off a lot of people. Also make sure not to use this when a team mate needs the honeyfruit.

PLAYSTYLE AND BUILDS: Because you don't provide utility nor damage, the best thing you can do is to waste the enemy jungler's time while they chase you. Use your E to avoid dying to the enemy jungler and buy enough time for your team to collapse on him. Scuttlecrab has great synergy with junglers that can quickly come and kill the enemy jungler while they are busy killing her like Rammus, Rengar and Warwick.
Scuttlecrab's biggest counter is River Shen since he'll camp you and kill you repeatedly. I recommend building 6 tears to compensate for your lack of mana and because they are cheap.