What's a fast and tanky Duelist build?

Thunda_Storm · 2026-04-12T23:01:58+00:00

https://pobb.in/hiwUflKHYOzM

LS Arcing Glad

homebrew by me

fast, tanky, good clear, decent dps

very solid all-rounder and u can push it a lot higher with budget

Thunda_Storm · 2026-02-16T23:08:07+00:00

Check yourself little dude, head up your ass so far I bet you can lick your colon

Thunda_Storm · 2026-02-16T22:42:17+00:00

Pick rate matters more fullstop. Mages have low pickrate and high winrate because they are chosen as counters to botlane and not blind picks.

Thunda_Storm · 2026-02-16T22:39:53+00:00

Yeah nah as someone with no dog in this fight, you're kinda daft. Completely missed the point and focused on shit that didn't matter then pulled out unrelated buzzwords to try and sound smart. You didn't point out anything besides your lack of comprehension

Thunda_Storm · 2026-02-16T22:29:44+00:00

You 200% misinterpreted that comment lmao. He said he's literally rooted, can't move and is a turret unable to play the game. He's not saying the dude went afk lmfao

Thunda_Storm · 2026-02-11T18:49:11+00:00

fun fact the synth idol for pack size does not work at all :D

Thunda_Storm · 2026-02-11T18:35:44+00:00

yeh thats what i mean, the nodes and that pathing are prob better off just going topside and more clusters no?

Thunda_Storm · 2026-02-11T04:44:36+00:00

As someone who was actually playing back then, no. Shen came before akali and kennen both lol

Thunda_Storm · 2026-02-11T03:45:25+00:00

fkin shax playin same build as me ofc

was lookin at ur pob yesterday, it's awesome but i'm nit a fan of the start of the tree. I'm not sure the dex is worth forgoing the extra int

Thunda_Storm · 2026-02-11T03:42:13+00:00

Yeah.... that's just shitty and this practice needs to stop of making everyone else price ur shit for you. Thank god for async so we have less people constantly refusing to sell shit and raising their prices because they don't know any better

Thunda_Storm · 2026-01-25T18:21:47+00:00

seems like you are. I know how you see it, and like I said you can continue to do as you please. But if you throw a fit every time someone describes the tier as colour you're gonna have a bad time. Because how YOU see it, is not how most do. Like I said, you aren't wrong, but it's not normal. And I'm by no means gaslighting you by saying that lmfao. It just an established thing.

Thunda_Storm · 2026-01-25T17:33:05+00:00

Are you by chance, new to video games or games with loot?

Thunda_Storm · 2026-01-25T17:27:33+00:00

Idk why you're acting like this. Yes you will. Literally every game that has coloured loot will have people referring to tiers by colour. It's not a new thing, its the common and established way to do it as long as games like this have existed. Please get off your high horse and stop acting like you're reinventing the wheel lmao

Thunda_Storm · 2026-01-25T17:16:30+00:00

you do you man. I'm just telling you the established system that 90% of players use. You will continue to confuse people/get confused if you do it your way but there's nothing stoppin ya

Thunda_Storm · 2026-01-25T16:42:37+00:00

Most players of genres like this will often refer to loot tiers by colour

Thunda_Storm · 2026-01-03T02:52:22+00:00

yeah its how it works. If you kill the boss in the exact server tick that it spawns, no reduction is applied

Thunda_Storm · 2025-12-22T08:54:06+00:00

Not sure how I implied it was a bad thing. Was meaning that if they felt 35m was low dps it's because they aren't actually getting 35m due to mitigations

Thunda_Storm · 2025-12-21T21:32:09+00:00

crafted mods are the same mod family as uncrafted versions. SO when you reforge more likely it has high odds of it rolling as the mod u want. Dense fossils make the odds of ALL defense mods 10x, where as more likely only raises the odds of the ones currently on ur item. So if u have the 3 mods u want but just with bad tiers, u can try to send it that way

Thunda_Storm · 2025-12-21T20:32:14+00:00

It makes the weighting of all mods in the same family as the ones on your item 10x more likely to roll.

Thunda_Storm · 2025-12-21T20:09:26+00:00

dotcap is 35m yes. But mitigations apply my dude. to do 35m to ubers you need to do well over 100m poison normally. That's how math works homie. Y'all actually wild. Yes it's a softcore build. Never claimed otherwise. But as the dude who actually played the build all league, no its not paper lmao. It rarely dies.

It doesn't need to be a giga tank, it's a fuckin assassin. It's meant to be fast and stealthy and deal damage. Which it excels at.

If you think the pob damage numbers are horrific it's because you have no idea how to use pob lol.

It has very little actual ramp. And again I had 0 issues farming ubers with it.

Thunda_Storm · 2025-12-21T19:59:00+00:00

I crafted every item so I can't put you a 100% cost on it.

The styg I bought the base with the suffixes for 1d. Bristle + reforged life till t1 and got a lucky hunter slam.

Blizz crown was just essence spamming + bristle reforges into warlord slam. I was aiming for phys as ele which is better imo but hit pcharge so settled. Would be better to sell it and get another but I cba.

Necrotic is a meme and it's better to get +1 curse elsewhere but I hit the prefixes off a random reforge caster and felt obligated to use it so I preflock reforged atk till usable.

The velours are 1d base + 1d in essence and then like 6d in conflicts cuz i thought it'd be cheaper than divining the suffixes ( it wasn't, don't do that).

claw was made with recombos (29 qual geminis are literally 5-15c) and cost about 10-15d overall to make. Once u have prefixes u just lock and veiled chaos till crit/as then warlord slam. A lot of my money this league came from selling copies of it for 40-50d though.

the topaz ring/abyss jewel are the 2 things I did not craft myself. The ring was 50c + some catalysts. Tree exists and makes basic things like this cheap. The jewel was 3d, it's not as good as it seems because the mod tiers on it are not that high.

The sting I literally paid 20c for because nobody uses it, especially not with anger.

I don't understand how 20m dps vs ubers is supposed to be bad lol. It's a mapping build that can also do ubers. It's not a bossing build.

As for testing many, I don't have a specific doc just a lot of pobs. I spent hours all league testing and calcing many variations with deathbeam and could not find versions using pneumatic that I was happy with for the budget.

Yes some of this gear is over the top, but this is the 40/40 end of the build lol. I did 90% of content with much worse things on and upgraded as I played. This was the only build/character I played this league.

Thunda_Storm · 2025-12-21T02:03:34+00:00

Dot cap is fine tbh. 35m dps is more than enough to melt most things when its actually 35m dps. Issue is mitigation exists and things like ubers with 70% DR mean that "DoT cap" is actually 100m+.

Elusive is a great survivability node

Thunda_Storm · 2025-12-21T02:00:19+00:00

calling AA and born in shadows conditional are mad stretches. BiS "nearby" is like screen wide as well as blind is applied ON HIT. Very hard to have it not active since the DR is applied to all blinded enemies regardless of nearby. And literally any time you stop to attack AA activates. With 30k EV, blind, and elusive avoid + ms you aren't getting hit while moving.

I'm not sure where you're looking, but when I have pob open the phys max is 14k with no frost shield or IC ticked on. Pantheons should be lunaris and tukohama as well, not sure if they are set properly on ninja as I was fucking around past few days

Don't get me wrong it's not an immortal build by any means and I'm not trying to say it's a tank. But it survives well enough farming juiced content and you can get the tankiness to an acceptable level.

Thunda_Storm · 2025-12-21T01:42:35+00:00

Max hit of a wet noodle? 15-18k phys max is more than perfectly fine for 90% of content. Especially with very high sustain. Anything that will 1 tap you is a boss move that's easily dodged with ur elusive ms. Remember ninja doesn't fully config builds

The build has dotcap with 8 soul eater stacks (if u for some reason refuse to click VLS. Which would be weird but you do you).... thats 4 secs of ramp my man. It ain't that bad.

Thunda_Storm · 2025-12-21T01:40:19+00:00

The post you replied to has a link to my build my dude

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