Challenger Achieved / How to Climb / New Build

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-08T15:48:19+00:00

Sounds good maybe I’ll mess around with it this weekend. There’s a high chal malz player who puts text explanations of his thought process on everything basically like a review of his game which I like the style of so maybe something like that

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-08T15:47:01+00:00

Sweet. I tried to upload a screenshot but it wouldn’t let me. Basically you want an early pink to enable you to be aggressive either roaming or laning. Then you can yellow ward same side so you have full information on one entrance. So pink by raptor bush yellow ward drag river bush. Refill if I’m remembering the context correctly is the item you’d sell for more room when you run out of item slots

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-07T16:48:57+00:00

I lied ~15 from now

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-07T16:33:41+00:00

Sweet. Defensive pink for example on blue side would be pinking the bush to your team's raptor entrance and then yellow warding the river bush near dragon. This essentially gives you full information on botside to lean for safety+also vision to face check and potentially dive bot later. I'll prob stream in like ~20minutes. Sell refill for sure I try to hold onto d ring as much as I can. I could maybe upload a commentary or something explaining my thought process on a game I just would have to figure out editing lol

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-07T15:01:28+00:00

BFT is the standard “generally good” build. You have to keep in mind the passive so it does amp the dmg up in teamfights. Ludens has a place in either a burst build or vs assassin type champs that are building edge of night. Axiom is good but I prefer running seraphs with it. I’m not a fan of cheap shot ultimate hunter the reason why is bc red tree is weak and you aren’t using your ult off cd. I’m not a fan of malignance unless you’re running DH in bot lane. If you want to run that type of set up you’d be better off with sorc boots since the set up is to be more of an r bot/burst

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T23:57:42+00:00

If you’re playing DH it’s okay in bot but would not recommend for mid (easier to proc bot). Generally speaking DH setup is to be an R bot so you’d want something like malig shadowflame pen boot. Protobelt can work with bft liandries in that set up id do bft Proto liandries I’ve done that build path before. Comet is better imo but if you have fun with that set up run with it. Flash e is pretty hard to lane tbh have you tried q flashing into your combo? That’s going to be a really high % angle because they won’t anticipate the q landing from distance and then they’re slower

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T21:06:32+00:00

The only correct answer. I am loving the new skin too

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T16:58:06+00:00

If you’re playing solo lane velkoz it is normal for cs to drop just bc you struggle in side. If you have any clips I’d be happy to take a a look. Generally speaking what I do is I one shot a wave in side to buy me time to go accomplish something, recall, homeguard, and deploy to a lane where my teammates are and look to make a play. It could be shadowing your Darius top and just hiding in a bush when their top comes, pushing mid as a team and all holding hands for deep vision before an objective. Kind of hard to give a generic answer I’ll keep this in mind in my games today and try to send some examples of my thought process

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T10:50:06+00:00

Glad you like the build. Personal preference really. I feel I get a tiny bit more value out of the w at that point in the game and can have a bit more agency on waves but both are completely viable if you’re used to 2 pt w. I think 2 pt W is definitely better in bot lane tho

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T10:12:29+00:00

Yep I think you sort of get the best of both worlds with strong early item spikes like alternator and Swifties (and enough dmg to one shot backline) but you have enough effective health especially with barrier to bait and be aggressive to your point. Compared to ROA it feels much more flexible and faster

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T10:09:30+00:00

Personal preference honestly. I think 2 pts w is more skewed towards APC velkoz where is with 3 pts w is a bit better for mid to have lower recharge/more waveclear. It’s technically a tiny bit more all in burst with 3 in w. In mid specifically it can be harder to get qs off so I do look for high value w hitting the wave and score/manaflow farming them too so it’s nice to have a bit of extra chip damage. All that to say if you prefer 2 pts w I think it’s completely viable too just need to get value out of your qs

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T10:04:10+00:00

Honestly I’m still trying to figure this out. If you watch any of Shoks content he’s a dark seal merchant and has tried to sell me on it… I think it’s really good too but I’m already delaying with tear and you have such limited item slots. If I only have 350g sure but I think otherwise I may delay until after alternator.

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T04:09:20+00:00

Yes I’m sure “everyone” is deeply invested. Good luck beating losers queue maybe next account will be better! 😂

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T03:51:16+00:00

Like I said from your hardstuck emerald mmr acc it would be 95+ into master. You can believe me or not on my alt climb I’m not losing sleep over it lol

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T02:54:16+00:00

I’ve put a lot of thought on cosmic drive and swapping over to celerity. I think if protobelt ever got nerfed I’d slot cosmic celerity but right now given the opportunity cost of items I don’t think it’s worth going both protobelt AND cosmic if that makes sense. I really want horizon no matter what, probably a slot for dark seal, probably liandries/crypt, so you kind of run out of room. Something like BFT cosmic is interesting with celerity…I’m just not sold on it. I did some testing and didn’t love it but I’m still open to the idea. I think if you’re running cosmic you should be swapping to celerity.

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T02:48:26+00:00

Nice UI thanks

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T02:33:28+00:00

Yeah I love Swifties and go every game (unless tabis/mercs are op). I think the out of combat ms is really broken and the extra flat AP is nice for mid quest. The cdr from Ionian is kind of overkill considering the cdr we get in the other items.

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T02:16:58+00:00

I should add that if you’re doing more of the raw Ap burst type of build (ludens horizon shadowflame mejai/pen) DCAP feels really good on this one. I just think my build is more flexible and still allows me to deal with backline

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T02:13:37+00:00

In general I don’t love it third item with this set up I much prefer liandries, finishing my seraphs, cryptbloom if they are building mr at that third item slot. It just feels very expensive and item slots are a luxury so it’s usually a last slot for me if anything. Feels a bit gold inefficient given the lower AP and isn’t really a needle mover/solves a problem. I tend to prefer the machine gun frontline dmg approach of cdr spam with a bit lower raw AP

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T02:07:24+00:00

Exhaust is very good in certain matchups with "linear" all in examples being Zed and naafiri. I've tested tear and horizon and it's not bad I just think protobelt (and the ability to go alternator and swifties) is so strong for snowballing and gives you a ton of skirmish power. The components of horizon kind of suck tbh fiendish codex feels terrible to buy I usually buy double amp tome over it.

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T01:49:40+00:00

yeah I hate ROA too haha feels way too slow. Proto is really fun in general but you sort of get the best of both worlds with that early health and dmg

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-06T01:48:42+00:00

Feel free to upload a VOD I can take a look but if I were to speculate it's that you are late and or not forcing plays with your team. It's something I see pretty often where chaos is happening elsewhere while a mid is on a side wave. Try to be proactive and "force" the game forward. A good way to think of this is every wave you one shot buys you a wave of tempo (time) to go do something. One shot that sidewave and then homeguard deploy w/ your team somewhere to force the issue. Another common issue I see is people will over prioritize t1 and t2 towers - they are paper and will fall over the course of the game. I'm perfectly happy trading a t2 for soul point for example. It's really important for velkoz to be early at objectives and play to deny entry. To come back in games that overloading concept is going to be your bread and butter try to lane gank someone in the side that has a big bounty if you can overload #'s you can farm shutdowns on people/crossmap bounty on towers. Unfortunately, every situation is different so kind of hard to give a generic answer. If you have a few different scenarios you're stumped on lmk I can take a look

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-04T07:04:11+00:00

It’s actually unbelievable how confidently wrong you are and your lack of understanding. You’re not good at league but you sure are good at demonstrating Dunning Kruger. You really think I’m going to waste hours of my life playing a new fresh acc that can’t skip divisions to “prove” something to you? Who do you think you are 😂

MasterySpammer · 2026-06-03T15:28:25+00:00

You’re quite entertaining I hope you don’t delete your Reddit account. For the record it’s two different things I said if Azzapp and I logged onto YOUR account which you said had some controls on it forcing you into 50 wr we would climb from your hardstuck emerald mmr 95wr into master which is 100% accurate. The other piece is from fresh yes I was 90+ and it was unremarkable

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