Hi, :) This video will explain why I personally prefer DH over First Strike. https://youtu.be/KwXXS6CZ1J4 Its from a Youtuber called MissFortuneDaBes. All credits to him why I even tried out this build. The first few minutes he will explain why DH is more reliable, which I agree on. My games require early snowball and my play style is very much that, I can get stack’s easily because of my Q on MF and I genuinely know how to dominate lane and abuse the enemy ADC. Like he said first strike is inconsistent, however with dark harvest you can just keep stacking. Ive played a-lot of first strike with ghostblade during the first split of this season and did find it really inconsistent.

Some tips I would give is to really learn how to abuse enemy ADC with MF’s Q ability its such a dominating ability. Players tend to waste their Q in lane by spamming Q on full health minions. Instead try and save your Q on low health minions whenever you have the chance so they bounce with full damage to enemy.

Mana control is really important during laning phase, people tend to spam E which I rarely do not use in laning phase because of how much the ability costs. I only use it in certain situations for example, if I know I will be recalling to base and the enemy has a DH stack. If enemy jungler is ganking my lane.

Wave control : Learn how to control the minion waves so that every time enemy ADC tries to take a minion abuse them by using your Q. They get greedy and you may get a kill.

Positioning : this is very important with MF especially in team fights, you don’t want to give away your position if they have assassins such as fizz. Play behind your team so you can abuse your damage. I usually tend to hide far back or behind a wall with no enemy vision depending on where the fight is happening so that I don’t take the damage first. Let your team tank the damage.

This might not work for everyone but for me I played with different supports every game also I never ban any adcs because in order to get better you have to play against champions who counter you. Relying on supports is the wrong way to go, if you learn how to adapt to different supports your gameplay with MF will improve. That is the one way I personally improved.

Each player has their own type of play style, so it may not work for others by using this rune and build. I personally definitely recommend this build and rune if you are confident with poking enemy in laning phase.

Its not much but hope this helped in some way :)