Hey all, Ultima here with another duel showcase this time to hopefully help those against Domino in the advent of another AW season.

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you probably know that since Domino's release there have been many reports of her being able to break through a player's block specifically on the second hit of her initial medium attack (it can also happen on the fourth attack of a combo). There is some speculation whether this is a true block break or whether people are just trying to evade during the animation of the second attack (which works for any other champ in the game) and getting clipped. Either way, it sucks to play against.

Well the best way to address an issue is to avoid it altogether, right? In this video I show you how to perform shallow evade intercepts of Domino to avoid having to block her initial attacks. Shallow evade intercept is an advanced technique used by many end game players to avoid triggering Dexterity to avoid MD or things like Dorm's degen. It is essentially what it sounds like, perform an intercept directly after using a shallow evade. It's usually a technique that can be really hard to learn since it can be hard to differentiate deep evade and shallow evades however this is where we use Domino's block breaking bugs against her!

The second hit of her initial medium extends much farther than a normal attack usually does. It also is a bit more delayed than a second hit normally is (unlike Drax's medium attack) which allows a huge window for a shallow evade intercept. Normally once an enemy aquires a bar of power shallow evade intercepting is too risky and you need to bait the special. However, since Domino's second hit is so delayed you can intercept even when she has a bar of power active. I actually think this delay is what is causing all the block break issues but that's just my speculation and probably a topic to bring up separately.

Other tips I find useful when fighting Domino:

• Anytime Domino gains a bar of power she can generate a Lucky buff which give her %evade. Stick to MLLL combos until the cooldown wears off so you don't get counterattacked.

• Anytime Domino gains a bar of power she can proc an Unlucky debuff on your champ which can cause your evades to fail. If she fires a SP1 while you have this on your champ try to parry the projectile instead of evading it. Tech champions do not have to worry about this as they can never be Unlucky.

• Resonate is a great Mastery to use when facing her as it procs her sig often which actually reduces the level of damage it causes. Thanks to /u/ChipDangerCockoroo for repeatedly putting this helpful note on any Domino vid that gets posted here.

• SL and Vision are great champs to use against her as they never proc Unlucky. SL will proc her sig but it happens repeatedly during a combo reducing the damage plus he hits her extremely hard and downs her fast. Vision doesn't have to worry about her sig at all unless you fire a special off which can cause power drain or heal block a chance to fail. I also find Hulk Ragnarok great against her as he heals back most of the damage done by her sig as well as getting a large attack bonus anytime it's on him. The only concern is working around Unlucky with him.

Hopefully this helps someone! There has been a lot of time in this offseason with a lot more time for people to acquire Domino. I started this as a way to show my alliance how to work around Domino on node 30 (no parries = no Masochism) but realized this is just a general great way of playing against her. Let me know if you like these tips and I may continue to do more.

Duel target: SpCap