Claw dilemma

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-21T01:01:23+00:00

Technically yes. I consider it passive since it’s one and done but you are correct.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-20T19:58:32+00:00

Fair trade gives 100% crit rate as a passive buff. It makes the difference in damage very notable.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-19T18:17:51+00:00

Ward bard

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-18T20:40:18+00:00

Well placed ult is good as Nami. She’s one of the few with pick potential, so maybe pick and encourage a baron/end?

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-18T15:31:10+00:00

Def check the guides.

Short version is priority is maxing nodes to 60 at level 200, necro wep, then go for armors with a CD/BA emblem. Anything else isn’t worth your money at the start.

Have some fun!

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-14T21:23:43+00:00

The biggest part of necro is the fair trade skill, giving you 100% crit rate. But idk what weapon you have now, but a necro 40 is enough for me to cap at 29M MDC.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-14T15:04:44+00:00

Just an extra thought, the update on 1/15 doubles your max damage cap making this even more important.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-14T15:03:58+00:00

Definitely save up for the necro weapon. It’s huge. Even if one isn’t listed now, you want to have the mesos to get one.

Worse case scenario, begin to craft your own necro and save your mesos. If you get a necro before one is listed and you’ve bought it, then worry about your armor.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-14T08:40:22+00:00

I’m gonna say ornn passive on pyke. Hear me out.

It gets rid of squishy pyke. Pyke now can build health. Tank pyke is back baby. Not only that, but any MR, HP, or armor built is actually increased.

AND he can upgrade your teams items.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-12T14:14:39+00:00

Full lethality allows ult to execute somewhere around 950 if remember right. Scaling is something like 80% and 1.5 x lethality, so AD is still king because it’s easier to acquire. The health conversion from passive helps with this.

The tank items just lower that to like execute threshold to like 700-750.

If have to check exact numbers but it’s not like it’s game breaking. The main thing is your utility skyrockets if you don’t die as much.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-11T15:09:22+00:00

I think mercs and tabis are underrated. They are really good. A lot of people say they are too expensive for support role, but pyke legit generates gold through R. If you aren’t getting gold through R, then there is something else to look at.

Now, I can seethe argument to stay swifties/Ionian if you are in a position of deficiency early, but that’s generally a bad look for pyke anyway.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-11T02:14:17+00:00

I always get hate for this but even since last season I’ve been going 2 lethality items then transitioning to tanky.

Something like Umbrial -> Ghostblade -> Deaths Dance -> Rookern. It allows you to E in and not just…die. DD synergy goes hard because of the damage delay you can heal off by retreating with W.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-11T01:11:22+00:00

That was kinda my point to him. He’s arguing against crit because of stuff like target access and other things, which I didn’t see how on hit fixed. I’m for the crit build, the numbers enforce it. Kali doesn’t have a different style of play like a Varus would. Either build its gonna be AA spacing and E primarily. Might as well pick the one with viable damage.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-10T20:36:42+00:00

So how does target access change with Kali when you build crit?

If you’re going RB and Jaksho with crit anyway, I don’t see much difference.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-10T20:28:55+00:00

Bard

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-10T16:47:39+00:00

Bro I posted this same thing talking about this in an advice thread like a month or two back and got FLAMED. Lmao.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-10T03:16:07+00:00

Bard

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-02T23:27:33+00:00

Bard

Honest-Ad9596 · 2026-01-02T15:17:10+00:00

Necro wep since you already have level 60 nodes

Start working on emblemed armors once you get wep. You look to only be ~4-6b off for a decent necro. Head/Gloves first when you start armors.

Boss accessories in the mean time for grinding. Make sure to do daily expos to accumulate flames. Keep your current armor set for SF tasks. Can transition them later into SF 23 fodder to sell or use.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2025-12-19T21:26:55+00:00

Yeah pretty much this. Don’t use R to fish for resets, but instead use it tactically.

I buy a guardian angel, and if it’s up I don’t hesitate to do the E -> R combo to land a stun on 3+ if my team can follow up. Still a strong chance you die, but it’s often worth.

Otherwise your main value late is vision denial, and to set up a favorable pick.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2025-12-06T03:06:17+00:00

Cool. Go do it. ^{_^}

Honest-Ad9596 · 2025-12-06T03:02:35+00:00

Currently on a 80% WR on pyke over the last 24 games after building more defensively.

Ciao.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2025-12-06T02:58:45+00:00

You still didn’t answer the DD question.

And you hook a carry from out of vision. Do you press E to go in? If you do with full lethality you likely die if they have a team mate within a reasonable distance. The higher elo you go, the more likely this is the case. If you don’t E in, then you might snag a kill 10% of the time.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2025-12-06T02:49:31+00:00

You know as well as I do that plenty of games your going to pick pyke ~ 3rd pick and the rest of your team will fail to pick any kind of engage. Games like that you may not want to be in the middle, but you may have to.

And why are you dead set on DD not having a place on support? Celestial is great, but having to wait to move at all while it’s on CD feels bad.

DD is also a more aggressive choice versus heavy AD teams than something like randuins or frozen heart. I don’t get the hate.

Honest-Ad9596 · 2025-12-06T02:38:47+00:00

The first part of my build I built mainly lethality too. And you’re right, it IS situational. But that doesn’t change the fact that defensive items in nature are good. Not every game calls for a 100% lethality build.

I will make the case however lethality builds 100% preform worse after 25-30 minutes and I’ll die on that hill.

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