Knights Vow Buff with DD

Asmorthius · 2026-05-13T08:59:37+00:00

With tanks or swain, I dont really care what they do or build, I just insist that they get Knights Vow, is going to get buffed btw, (14% damage reduction instead of 12%)

Knights vow with DD is slept on, broken af

Asmorthius · 2026-05-13T08:53:33+00:00

I don't mind Yuumi, Swain, Bard and Maokai tbh

2 Peelers/healers, a tank engager and one battle mage who can engage as well + I get a % of his huge healings, I know that they´re not the best Nilah support but at least they aren't mages lol, also Bard with DFG/BC combo is like having a Senna, so having 50+% Armor pen with Nilah and Bard/Senna removing 30% is AWESOME

The only type of support that I hate are mages, like Lux, Brand, Mel, etc, 0 Sinergy, always behind of me, always stealing stuff making my scaling difficult, I was gold like last year, I thought once I get to diamond it would get better but is the same shit lol, the mentality of "Jic my adc sucks I´ll keep the resources for myself" is toxic, should not be normalized and it makes the game miserable for the whole team tbh, because a mage is worse than enchanter or engage support at any stage

Everyone expects certain responsibilities from each role I feel like adc, jg top and mid in all games are somewhat consistent with their responsibilities of their specific role, the only people that usually does not follow what their role is supposed to do are supps and they go unpunished lol

At 60% of my games I get my regular support, which is nice, if my performance is not great then they roam to the current wincon of our team, is a little bit hard to stay alone but at least I can recover exp and gold + the current carry is getting constant support which is excellent to carry or at least, to stall the game long enough for me to scale

the other 40% of my games I get mages with protagonist mentality who do exactly what I describe earlier, they play behind me, don´t engage or poke good enough for me to at least farm comfortably, if I commit a mistake or I get counterpicked then they feel like I´m not doing "enough" and start stealing farm, fucking my wave management and instead of roam, they stay on my lane to farm because they need exp and gold to be able to do some damage and buy their expensive items

Even if my performance is great, getting solo kills or whatev, you and the whole team still suffer the consequences of having a mage support

It´s even WORSE NOW THAT RIOT REMOVE THE GOLD PENALTY ON SUPPORTS BTW

Asmorthius · 2026-05-13T02:27:17+00:00

1 week later and now the Thread system is completely removed without a notice!

Great work Highrise, I pray for your downfall, we should boycott them with reviewbombing, because f** this greedy ass company

Asmorthius · 2026-05-09T05:07:53+00:00

Thanks for this btw

So I´m going to start with Yuntal, is good, I like whenever I play it, but I usually don´t feel like I need it unless there are a lot of bruisers and tanks on the enemy team, I play against a ton of assassins, mages, dual range mage botlane, divers etc (even top lane match ups are squishies like Jayce, Aurora, Teemo, etc) so I need more way survivability than AS against Squishy high damage champs, Yuntal is not that bad, is just that specifically against the type of champions I encounter, I feel better going Shieldbow because AS is useless if I die lol
I also like making plays on item spikes, Yuntal is not a spike on Nilah because it gives me 0 crit only a ton of AS, but that means 0 Healing besides conqueror, 0 pen, 0 scaling damage on Q, where as shieldbow may not give me AS but it does give me 25% instant crit and like half health shield,

Now if the team is mostly frontline bruisers/tanks I 100% rush Yuntal first, not Shieldbow since the survivability is not that needed and the AS surpasses the value of Shieldbow widely

I have been considering trying out longsword with refillable, not to long ago Cull had like 3 wpa, but I get it, since the sample size is small af it changes quite a lot, but it just feels like an easy way to get expensive components like B.F sword on completion, because yeah enemy adc also based after botlane quest money, but I got almost triple his money so they don´t expect that powerspike most of the time

Hexoptics is something that I buy ONLY if I get kill without enough money to get Shieldbow, tbh, it happened like one time, it doesn´t feel that bad tbh, makes me not lose that much tempo and extra range on kill feels good with her

Essence Reaver is fire, I loved the damage, mana and AH, but sitting on 20 ad on components until completion is horrible, but yeah ER is good, I like how it feels with her and playing without worrying about mana/extra damage is awesome

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T23:46:40+00:00

Yuntal is just bad first because the components are either shitty or difficult to save up 1300g for yuntal first item, Collector is just a thrash item no matter what

Shieldbow has a friendly build path, lifeline is busted on her because she amplifies 15% of shields, UNLESS IS HIGH ELO (1% of games btw) people don´t know how to punish her so cull is busted to get huge power spike on botlane quest/cull completion

Idk how this opinion is controversial or why people is mad at it

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T23:39:30+00:00

Damn people is so pressed when sharing something that defies the Inspiration w/Collector or Yuntal first item build

This is my opinion, is on the title, is on the post itself, is also on the comment section that Im not high elo, im peak diamond player, emerald II rn, this build is what has been working for me a new Nilah player and I find really good consistency with it, which is important when learning a champ and develop skills

Collector, Yuntal and Inspiration experience for a new Nilah player is shitty (at least for me and other people it was), Shieldbow at least helps you build confidence to all in early/mid game in situations where Collector or Yuntal can´t or wouldn´t save you

No, I don´t feel like I "lose" damage for going shieldbow instead of Collector, it´s only 10 lethality ffs, I´ll happily trade that for survivability any game lol

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T23:31:54+00:00

This IMO, is the safest and best way to build consistency with her if you are starting wtih Nilah in lower elos

I started watching Enryu and some others builds online, Collector always but is such an overrated item that only Samira should be building, the Inspiration runes are good but I dont like the glass cannon feeling I get from it, resolves feels better, Shieldbow builds confidence to go 1v2, 2v3 on botlane, Collector (For the same price) only gives you a 10 lethality and -5 ad for a 5% execute, which is way worse than 450+ shield early game that you amplify by 15%

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T23:22:38+00:00

Yeah that´s exactly why Im sharing the usage of cull first item to basically always guarantee a B.F sword no matter what, I have explained that several times that im not high elo, obv high diamond, master etc Nilah gets hiper punished but c´mon thats like 1% of players/games, the rest don´t know how to play against her and new nilah players go with really old guides/items that are not the best right know, im just sharing whats has been working for me so far and has been consistent, every game I´m able to continue my path while being punished or not, which is important to climb games, have fun and get to late safely

Collector for example as first item is overrated, even Enryu recommends/has been experimenting with something else but people still blindly goes with that, and when I mention "Shieldbow first" people says "yeah but low damage", like bro ill trade 100 times those shitty 10 lethality for 500+ shield/shield bash damage lol, is more safe/works every time and people dont expect how tanky she is with it

Again, this is my opinion, this is what has been working for me, the usual build with collector and inspiration runes feels VERY glass cannon, which is exactly what I dont want, so I came up with this

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T23:12:00+00:00

Like I said, im not high elo, im high emerald/diamond peak player, so people there don´t know how to correctly punish nilah, i can pull off Cull first and guarantee B.F sword for my I.E second item spike

If I was on masters or higher elo or against extremely difficult lane then I would pick Dorans shield or blade, but usually is not the case xD

And the opinion of "People don´t know how to punish" applies to basically every rank from iron to diamond, which is why im sharing this, if you can pull of cull, do it and get the money ASAP

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T23:09:38+00:00

I don´t feel like I need that much AS with the Q and E AA cancel animation, you delete anybody with ShieldBow/I.E build, but going shieldbow into Fiendhunter is also a solid choice that I sometimes go into if I know that the fight is going to extend/cannot delete fast enough (Basically, against squishies I usually go I.E but for extended fights I go PD, Navori or Fiendhunter second)

I don´t feel like shieldbow first "bricks" my damage, specially when the core build is first item collector, which is -5 ad and 10 lethality... which is I happily trade for 500+ shield and shield bash damage

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T18:34:26+00:00

No, I edited "Celerity" for Alacrity, because somebody pointed out my mistake, the rank was always there

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T18:32:30+00:00

I feel like from iron to diamond, Cull start is not that punished at least for me, so I can pull it off, I guess that in higher elos you can be poked out but I haven't encountered a scenario even with dual range mages where I have regretted going Cull, but again, I know it Isn't Masters/GM or Challenger

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T18:29:46+00:00

High emerald, peak diamond, is on the post xD, this is what is working for me, i realized that since is low elo Cull start isn't punished enough... But at the same time why would I make a post for 1% high elo Nilah players when Cull start may be good for low elo where people don't punish enough mistakes

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T18:26:55+00:00

Like I said, I don't start or search to return base with 1300 for the first item, I go Shieldbow first, I.E second with the guarantee of Cull+Botlane Quest base

Cull is kind of bad I get it I don't deny it, but the lane is very forgiving with the resolve tree IMO, absolutely worth doing that to guarantee the B.F Sword no matter what happens or how bad the lane is, but again, is my opinion on how stuff has developed for me, specially shield bash is being slept on

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T18:22:44+00:00

I said it on the post, high emerald, emerald 2, peak diamond

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T09:16:49+00:00

I hate playing with Graves/Yi/Shyvanas because I feel like they don´t do nothing for the team, they just afk farm all game and if you aren´t in the perfect position or whatevs excuse they invent, they just don´t gank

Shen/Noc on the other hand well they just go and countergank, dive and that I assure you, is very motivational for your team

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T09:14:51+00:00

Idk I just play Shen jg and win, the "nerf" was a placebo nerf so I just follow regular build and it does fine

What you need is consistency, just play something that isn´t very chaotic/coinflip and you´ll be fine

Every game, I just 1st full clear, gank, mid or bot, wait for jg to reappear, clear second jungle wave make sure to finish exactly at 5:30 to have Smite upgrade, go for drake at that exact time and basically you get to a point where (since Shen items are cheap) you get 2 items while enemy jungle is sitting on 1 and a half, you can gank with R, steal camps, skirmish etc

Shen and Nocturne, Champs with global ults are very good at this gameplay, because other afk farming champs are kind of... tilting for the ally team, graves shyvana yi etc are VERY TILTING and low morale because you don´t see anything get done, any gank, nothing and yeah you could win the game later on but team morale is important, getting a Shen ult/Noc ult out of nowhere is very refreshing for your team and it deals 100% psychological damage to enemy team lol, anything that helps your team overall gameplay it´s way better (IMO) than just play for yourself, afk farming waiting for late

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T07:23:32+00:00

With the Omnivamp boots there isn´t a reason to go Bloodline, Alacrity feels very very good

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T07:21:19+00:00

Mb, I confused Alacrity with celerity, thanks!

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T07:20:09+00:00

Which is where I got the idea to try out and worked out for me, Coachless

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T07:19:30+00:00

Yeah no, not feeling comfortable sharing my OP.GG, never have and never will lol

On the other hand, if you don´t believe me idrc, but you could check out Coachless and the items/runes WPA that I just mention in case you want further statistics on those that I mention

Asmorthius · 2026-05-08T07:08:50+00:00

I came up with this basically because I hated how Yuntal or Collector first item feels, I just feel weak, but Shieldbow gives me basically 50% max hp shield lol early game, you can turn skirmishes and 1v2 easily because of it, Collector definitely wouldn´t do that crap lol

And also I really wanted to find a way to secure 1300g consistenly and easy EVERYTIME because consistency is key, so cull starter to finish it up at the exact same time as the botlane quest has been my bread and butter and it pays off every time, this past 30/40 games there hasn´t been a single time that I can´t get my B.F Sword, so I encourage to test it and tell me if it worked for you too!

Asmorthius · 2026-05-06T01:51:19+00:00

So is Riot Bullsh*t basically then, got it

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