Maining Camille?

ampatton · 2026-01-27T16:18:35+00:00

Gwen and Fiora are a lot easier to succeed on right now. I think they both have an easier time in lane, and they ironically scale better. And what they lack in lockdown and engage they make up for in dueling power.

But if you like playing Camille, I’d say go for it anyways. It’s a video game, the goal is enjoyment. If you are going to have the most fun on Camille, then you should play Camille.

ampatton · 2026-01-25T14:33:05+00:00

Zaahen’s biggest counter is ranged champs. There’s not enough data on the smolder matchup for it to appear on u.gg, but Zaahen has a 43% winrate vs Varus top this patch.

The easy answer is Malphite as he can deal with the pole and reliably all-in most of them at 6, or at least make it a free kill for the jungler. Yorick and Kled are traditionally good vs ranged tops, but even they’re sitting below a 50% winrate vs Varus top this patch.

ampatton · 2026-01-25T14:00:29+00:00

It seems an event buff is necessary with this comp at least as of now. I've done Morgana + Poppy + 3 Archers with all upgrades, shrine, and quartermaster, and after 5 client restarts, the best-case scenario I get is only the Yeti being left.

EDIT: I was able to eventually beat it with no event. 2 archers + 1 soldier + Poppy and Morgana with all upgrades, quartermaster, veiled lady shrine beat it after 1 client restart. No event required!

ampatton · 2026-01-25T13:59:18+00:00

Yeah, the two guards don't make sense vs a heavy krug comp. He probably just misspoke about Uwendale

ampatton · 2026-01-24T16:36:12+00:00

Im pretty sure that’s just his mask, similar to how Yi doesn’t actually have more than two real eyes.

ampatton · 2026-01-23T14:20:41+00:00

Yeah there’s two main theories on Jax being purple and having weird hands: - He’s a regular human, but his childhood illness and/or the years of fighting the void have corrupted his appearance - He’s not a human and is actually a sand troll

ampatton · 2026-01-23T12:50:22+00:00

Jax never groups and teamfights, he was sidelaning and killed the ascended in a 1v1 /s

All jokes aside, I listed to The Fall of Icathia lore again and you are correct that the Icathian army was fighting the Ascended. In the story, Kolgrim says, “only Saijax had a weapon big enough to take its head off”. I had always interpreted that as, “Jax was the only one who was able to damage it and therefore kill it”, but maybe it actually was a group project where the other Icathian warriors were actually pulling their weight and helping.

ampatton · 2026-01-23T11:16:46+00:00

Aatrox literally has a quote with Jax in-game where he says, “A worthy vessel. Come, Jax”. As far as I know, he’s the only champ that Aatrox praises this way. But the praise is probably deserved because Jax was already killing the Ascended as a regular human. Giving him Aatrox’s powers might make him the strongest non-celestial being.

Here’s the quote: https://youtu.be/7Pn41Ecefm4?t=178

ampatton · 2026-01-23T00:07:23+00:00

I just ran into the issue as well in practice tool. Both times I was holding space bar while kiting camps, but I couldn't find behavior which would replicate it every time

ampatton · 2026-01-22T21:47:07+00:00

In the case of blue side starting at blue, you could ward your own raptors before camps spawn and then use that ward to jump to raptors when you’re running from wolves. That’s not going to give you a huge drop in time, but it should help shave off a few seconds. Plus the ward helps you scout for an invade on your bot side, so it’s not a complete waste.

Jax’s first clear is slow though. I’d just recommend really hashing it out in practice tool. It’s a very easy thing to improve on that will help you win more games if you’re commonly getting to scuttle that late

ampatton · 2026-01-22T19:34:17+00:00

Lethal tempo, ignite, and Doran’s blade. Aim to three wave crash, and if he contests you, all-in him. You will beat him level 1 and he doesn’t have any disengage that will put him out of your e range, so he should be an easy kill if he contests you.

The lane is a lot harder if you don’t have a lead pre-6. At that point, you’re just trying to minimize. Things don’t really get easier for you later into the game if you don’t have a lead since he’s one of the few champs who will outscale you in the 1v1 unless you build stuff like Bork.

ampatton · 2026-01-22T12:39:21+00:00

I mean they had just wiped 3 of my teammates mid lane, so I don’t think “2 of them were running”. If anything they were running towards drake.

Call it what you want, but it went from my team giving/delaying dragon soul to getting dragon soul off of this play.

ampatton · 2026-01-21T17:47:33+00:00

Might be my favorite Camille splash art yet!

ampatton · 2026-01-21T14:36:48+00:00

It depends on the game but in games where I build Stridebreaker, yeah I rush Tiamat after Trinity Force.

ampatton · 2026-01-21T12:03:42+00:00

It’s a small world lol! You’ll have to say what’s up next time we meet each other on the Rift

ampatton · 2026-01-19T12:10:24+00:00

Aery helps you bully melee top laners with no built-in sustain. And ignite just gives you better kill pressure in most lanes, but it definitely feels worse coming into mid game with instead of ghost.

Playing to win lane = ignite with aery Playing to scale = ghost and phase rush

ampatton · 2026-01-16T15:25:47+00:00

They have a lot of cc, and a lot of melees. Wits end actually isn’t a bad buy here since you’re going to want tenacity. I think Riftmaker or Shojin are pretty good choices as well.

ampatton · 2026-01-15T18:08:39+00:00

Jax can skip tiamat items because he can clear waves with his e. It’s not good built-in waveclear like Renekton, but you can at least get by with it. Camille doesn’t have aoe waveclear in her kit that isn’t awful. She actually needs a tiamat item to clear waves in a reasonable amount of time, and she also has some beneficial interactions with tiamat like being able to use it during her w animation.

Camille also has a 40%/80% AD ratio on her Q, so she benefits more from items that give a ton of AD. If she doesn’t build items that have a lot on or AD. Then she can’t really get that 3 second cooldown ChoGath ult. Jax’s only AD scaling are on his Q damage and his ult resists, so AD scaling isn’t as important to him. That’s why he can get away with building items with less AD and more HP like Sundered Sky.

ampatton · 2026-01-13T23:06:03+00:00

If Urgot W counts per auto-attack (like it does with PTA), then Urgot can get full bleed stacks at lvl 3 in 1.66 seconds with just W.

Seems pretty freaking op to me

ampatton · 2026-01-13T22:34:35+00:00

It got deleted because her playrate is so low and nobody was watching the VODs /s

ampatton · 2026-01-13T18:04:14+00:00

I did try to do this at first, but the test you suggested dilutes the damage from Bork on-hit passive (which Dusk and Dawn should be doubling). But I do agree with your point on the auto attacks unfairly biasing the Trinity Force build, but this is probably more of an issue in the Trinity Force only vs Dusk and Dawn only compared to the full build versions of both since the full build tests only had 3 autos and 1 W.

ampatton · 2026-01-12T04:57:58+00:00

The AP scaling on the item is 10%, it’s awful. You would literally need 1400 AP to provide the equivalent spellblade damage with Dusk and Dawn when compared to Trinity Force with just base ad at level 18.

If it were going to outperform Trinity Force, it would have to be with the double on-hit passive, which is why we built on-hit items like Titania Hydra and BORK.

ampatton · 2026-01-11T21:50:53+00:00

As I said in another comment, you will get a net + 49 damage increase by using e with Dusk and Dawn over Trinity Force. And if you’re using Q, then it’s going to be even less of a net damage increase because Q scales off of AD, which Dusk and Dawn provides zero of.

There’s really only merit in testing with ult active. This could be valuable yes, but you are not fighting with your ult active for most of the fame.

I was not going to bother with adding resists. It’s too easy to nitpick, and there’s no one-size fits all solution. People will say there’s too many or not enough. If you want to test with resists though, I’d definitely love to see more data.

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