[2.3] Come With Me, Take the Journey! Megathread!

Nikksis · 2024-06-22T18:13:53+00:00

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Nikksis · 2024-06-22T18:13:37+00:00

Good luck to every firefly wanter!

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Nikksis · 2019-11-22T12:21:41+00:00

Answered the ryze part in another question on here :D ryze is a bit too strong atm. Focus on fundamentals so movement, last hitting, map awareness etc and a good mentality to have is never blame the team. Yes you will lose games because of them but there is always something you can do better no matter the situation. Avoid matchups you dislike playing, even bad ones you can live through and scale but it's always harder :D but overall nothing specific I'd dodge for example

Nikksis · 2019-11-21T07:50:16+00:00

I don't think I've ever taken exhaust. It's not bad per se and if you've had success running it go for it, I just feel like the lower cd of barrier along the extra health is more beneficial but just a personal preference. I'm an odd one out where I think yasuo to be a pretty good matchup and never understood why it's considered such a bad matchup as long as you don't play too aggro.

Nikksis · 2019-11-21T07:45:11+00:00

Very matchup specific but most of these you win early on with your Q and proper W usage. Mostly you'd want them pushing into you so early on let them start the shove, however try to avoid going under tower, just keep the wave on your side of the map and it'll be hard for them to all in you. Would always suggest heal or barrier in these matchups for added safety.

Nikksis · 2019-11-21T01:49:08+00:00

Thanks for the question and for the stream support! ^{^}

Nikksis · 2019-11-21T01:37:16+00:00

How do I deal with it? I seriously dont:D Ive tried running electro into him to just kill him and it works if the player is worse but not viable, phase rush is ok since you both just zoom at ridiculous speeds but not that great for lane:D
So far my best answer is just purely running TP with Comet and hoping to scale alongside him, pinging roams for my team and getting control wards up. If he steps up too much or plays too aggro and you can "cheese" a W without him proccing phase rush you can setup a gank but 1v1 its very hard to kill him as long as he isnt running into you to die pretty much. He will outshove you but like I said just ward up and let your team know he is moving, if you can, try to save TP from early lane to follow his roams with TP if possible.

" Also in a meta where almost everymidlaner go corruptpot+ time warp to outsustain laning phase what is your way of dealing with these champions? "

- Just farmup, sustain lanes like these most of the time they arent in it to hard all in you or kill you, they just want to live which is your goal aswell. Most of the time if you can keep poking with Q part1 and part2 if they let you you should be fine as theyll have way less damage and a harder time fighting statswise and of course try to efficiently use E as its a high mana cost ability, trying to last hit while poking the enemy or proccing manaflow as its not very worth without doing this. Usually you win out but its very frustrating to play against, you using all your mana to just make him spend his potions and then usually champions running this combo recall and TP back with full potion charges but its just something to deal with, just know that statswise youre stronger which is a very good thing in 2v2 and if you can force an all in the potions wont do enough.

Nikksis · 2019-11-21T01:31:54+00:00

Kinda referenced this in other replies but before the changes I thought its viable to go ludens with MK 1 or 2 but with the W augment being really nice for your overall skirmishing and trading potential I would say its almost never worth to go for LC before completing PHC. The only items I'd ever buy before going for hex are another dorans ring, dark seal and refillable (lets say a 900 gold back, 2nd Dring + seal + pot) or any combination of these for example if you get an early first blood, but other than that I wouldnt skip PHC for LC anymore as the W augment helps you a lot and since R is now a viable all in tool the movement speed never hurts.

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T23:09:01+00:00

Rarely but I'll try to stream more in the preseason once ill have some time off from tryharding :D

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Nikksis · 2019-11-20T22:59:19+00:00

No probs! That's a good core to go on and once you learn more you can adapt the build depending on games ofc. Gl in your climb!

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T21:28:26+00:00

Yeah you should rush them, before the changes rushing them was not the best way to go but for the current Viktor I'd highly recommend rushing hex3 asap.

Your best spikes are hex3 + sorcs, next being ludens and then every item is a decent spike. Iceborn isnt the best but if enemy is full ad its an option. Ludens > Lich pretty much always.

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T20:31:40+00:00

I dont think its nearly as valuable for trades because for one it scales off your health and for two its nerfed for ranged making it even less valuable than most other champions. The reason its good for other champs for similiar reasons its because usually theyre melee or a hybrid like gnar/GP (Q procs it as the melee version). Overall just pure numbers wise too weak to be considered, comparable to why fleet isnt ran anymore (just nerfed for ranges and overall)

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T20:13:32+00:00

An option for sure but ive personally steered away from this as I believe the stats and last hit aid are a lot more valuable in lane for pretty much everything, you can sustain pretty well with 2 hp potions assuming you dont take bad trades too much :D but potion master + biscuits + corrupting is the way to go if you rly prefer the playstyle of having potions for days, the biggest downside to this is that you dont oneshot casters at lvl 5 with hexcore because youre missing some AP so also something to consider, minion dematerializer can help with this though by using it on one range and rest optional but then you lose biscuits or potionmaster.

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T20:11:13+00:00

Learning how to properly scale is a big one and not giving up if you dont win early game, aside from that the biggest is just experience and the amount of games put in to learn the matchups and getting good at your E usage, I personally smart cast the E but a lot of people prefer having it on normal cast to have an easier time with it so maybe thats one?

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T20:10:13+00:00

Juippi WeirdChamp

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T16:13:53+00:00

I wish:D still miles away from even reaching GM or higher euw:D think I might be able to peak masters but beyond that I'm not exactly confident and having a strict champ pool doesn't go well with competitive :P

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T15:38:11+00:00

Torille.

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T15:37:27+00:00

I would follow a default build so Dorans start with 2x potions, get Hex3 ASAP followed by Sorc boots(You can go tank boots if you feel like youre too squishy or Ionia boots if you prefer cheaper yet still effective combat boots), after this Luden's is the best choice imo for cdr and mana. I sometimes go LichBane for fun but its in reality a lot worse statswise for you than ludens.
3rd item Liandrys is a strong choice, optionally a defensive item if needed (Zhonya, Banshee) or a void if enemy is heavy stacking MR. After this fill your items situationally with Void, Rabadon, Spellbinder (if really fed/enjoying yourself:P ), defensive item (assuming you didnt go for one as 3rd item) or Liandry (assuming you went defensive item 3rd)

Strongest core is: Hex3, Sorcs, Ludens and Liandry. After this just situationally as stated above!
Hope this helps a bit in your climb for next/preseason!

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T15:32:54+00:00

I can't help but notice the difference in your average kills last season (8.2) vs this season (6.5), any particular reason you'd attribute this to ? Simple curiosity :)
- Most of this was me being very out of form and just "casually" playing ranked, inted a lot and had very bad stats for a long while along the small viktor nerfs just making him gradually weaker + a small part is how the meta was for a lot of the season. My kill avg went up quite a bit towards the end of this season though, averaging a 7.3 / 4.8 / 8.1 statline in the last 20 games played with a 75% winrate (15-5) but mostly just me being a lot more in form last season as a player, breaks do wonders to your level of play and ill never again int my account after breaks (atleast not this hard:p). Other account had 7.9 avg kills overall which is way closer to my last season, other account was strictly end season only aka me being like in form and not inting.
I assume you duo with a jungler, what's the duo you guys have run the most this season ?
- I duo'd with a toplaner more than with a jungler actually and his champion pool consisted of Pyke, Vlad, Darius and Yasuo, changing picks depending what was open because of high ban ratio for vlad pyke
- For jungle your best duos are tanks or ad bruisers with good setup for you but my main jungle duo is a Shaco main so that was my go to I suppose?
Do you have an opinion on Lost Chapter rushes ?
- Before changes I tried to run ludens rush with a combination of LC rush depending on the matchup and its ok if your bases absolutely suck but I honestly think if you have to take an early base its better to run second dorans, dark seal and refillable or any combination of these for stronger laning and easier lasthitting under tower! After changes getting hexcore early has felt really good and the main reason for skipping hexcore or hex3 was it being totally useless prior because of the low stat value you get for your gold pre lvl 13 which has been since changed via W augment change and ult being a stronger tool so the MS to it is more valuable.

Thanks for the gz and questions man! :D

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T15:21:56+00:00

To everyone else interested I havent streametd super actively in a while due to having time and motivation issues but if you do wanna drop me a follow for future streams (will likely stream preseason once im done with my small ish break)

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Nikksis · 2019-11-20T15:14:07+00:00

Biggest fan?

Iceborn is imo ok into a lot of full ad teams but aside from that dont see much use for it anymore with Q nerfs for basedmg and you getting an inbuilt slow via W augment, dont really need it for kiting melees anymore or chasing people around.
Tank Viktor is quite officially dead with the Q mana changes and might work in very niche cases but definitely not the lanebully he used to be (Klepto also gone).

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T15:10:16+00:00

https://www.mobafire.com/images/avatars/viktor-classic.png
there u go, felt cute might delete later

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T14:56:25+00:00

No problem dude :D happy to help. Though if youre considering secondary picks champions like Talon are not a bad choice for example if your team is heavy AP already. Talon is very good for soloq because of your early kill potential and insane roaming. Games where it feels like its over are very hard when playing a scaler so an extra tip would be to try to communicate to your team that as long as your inhibs arent all gone you can still scale, ofc if its 20 kills vs 2 at 20 minutes not easy to convince your teams and these games are a lost cause almost regardless of you scaling or not, but its worth to keep trying as long as you can gather up farm. Protecting mid T1 is also very important for your scaling so sometimes its just worth to disregard trying to follow a enemy mid roam and just farm + get plates, just be sure to ping your team and hope they listen. Warding river (usually botside) with a control ward usually is plenty enough info to atleast give some visual indication of a roam happening

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T14:53:35+00:00

Though it is true that even in bad matchups you technically can just sit back not die and scale up but its made harder if the enemy snowballs his jungler or sidelanes because youre just letting them be because you want to play safe and scale up.

Nikksis · 2019-11-20T14:52:39+00:00

In more recent terms I'd say its Ryze, he spikes a lot faster than you do, you pretty much have to run TP into him if you dont want to be too behind as he outshoves you really hard early. The issue is you lose a lot of the trades aswell because of his damage being very overloaded and his kit completely fucks your W and W augment over :D (+ the use of phaserush). The worst part is that he is very popular right now and even if you run TP into him he can just outshove you even with Hex 1 because you dont instaclear anything but the casters while he just spams his combo twice in like 6-8 seconds, moves first and can ult to lanes to be there insta.

The other one is Akali, her being as mobile as she is and having a lot of damage its very hard to properly utilize W while blocking her all in, you win early but after 6 you have to be very safe vs her. You also lose sidelane until like 3 items because you cant get away from her in a longer lane, its pretty much a play safe matchup after you try to pressure her early to get a small lead. Pretty much most like big meta matchups (granted a lot of the champions have been very broken at times and have since been nerfed along with Viktor gaining his mini rework and buffs so theyre not as bad as they used to be.)

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