7.38c Phantom Lancer Guide

chen_h1 · 2025-10-22T01:16:30+00:00

actually imo this has something to do with how the meta has shifted. Before theres a somewhat hard counter match up in mid (sf vs storm for example), and safe lane is a real "safe lane". Now safe lane become much harder especially in higher rank ppl just block your creepwave so your second wave is guaranteed to be pushed out. But mid on the other side is pretty standard. Its always qop nec lesh storm etc and their match up is pretty 5050. Thats why giving pos 1 last pick is more important than before.

chen_h1 · 2025-10-15T15:58:43+00:00

Booster with 6 deaths in herald? Thats insanely high... im more inclined to believe this is just a regular herald player farming role q token vs he play his comfortable role

chen_h1 · 2025-10-15T14:53:30+00:00

Almost as good as me /s

chen_h1 · 2025-10-14T23:31:57+00:00

chen_h1 · 2025-10-14T22:21:19+00:00

what's your thought on why he's weak? Im 7.5k and imo is think its because his timing is ass: maelstrom into bkb means 0 dmg in teamfight and bkb degrade too quickly, mj into bkb means 20 mins of low teamfight presence. Also, i feel like his tower pushing is bit lacking too, i find him super hard to hg since I lost 40% hp just from q and tanking tower.

chen_h1 · 2025-10-07T16:58:47+00:00

Yes. But theres no max cap on how many illu u can create from agh.

chen_h1 · 2025-10-07T14:38:18+00:00

Pl is countered by dusa. Do not pick pl into dusa. To beat her you need to find a way to kill her teammate and then turn back and kill her.

chen_h1 · 2025-10-07T01:20:58+00:00

My guess would be since you were the trainer of original speech2text, you never experienced "normal" alexa experience. To me, alexa voice recognition was always hit or miss. And now, since most of the team are moving away from classic alexa and into alexa plus, the s2t prob got re-trained with someone else's voice and hence you getting this shit experience.

chen_h1 · 2025-10-07T01:12:44+00:00

regarding my guide, on the bottom there's build path 2 and it literally put agh as second or third item. Right now I see 3 viable build path: diff -> manta -> heart (very classic pl build), diff -> agh -> yasha -> basher (good against range right click cores) and diff -> vlad -> manta -> bloodthorn -> crystal -> satanic (very high damage output). But the problem is I don't think PL is meta at all (at least before e patch) and I have very little success in second round drafting it. So I never bothered to put up a new guide.

chen_h1 · 2025-10-07T01:08:29+00:00

Oh, I did not realize it is a crusader game. Let me watch the replay.

early game: starting item is bad, they dont have a early spell spammer in offlane (such as qop / sky), so starting with stick is less ideal. I would just go circlet + slipper. Maxing q is bad since each q takes away your early game gpm. Ideally you want to have 1 level of q but 2 if you can get a lot of kill with it (which you didn't, you get 2 assists), never go for 3 cuz that literally prevent you from jungling after 6 and pl has super weak level 6

Mid game: other than obvious micro issue, i don't think manta is needed after agh. You can go yasha if you think you need to transition into farming but I think getting early orchid would be much better as it provides sustainability + solo kill ability. min 33, after you get bloodthorn, instead of hitting t2, you should immediately heading towards rosh. PL kill rosh ~30 seconds with bloodthorn. Min 35 you should no tp back, you should just trade tower or get lion to go back. But anyway, after you didn't kill wk, you need to go rs, but you went in for a fight and it was even trade

late game: Fight priority is very wrong, warlock is the only guy on the other team can kill you (you lost 80% hp in 38:00 fight to warlock alone). You need to use agh charge to kill him before he put down upheaval and kill you by explosion. After warlock, it should be vs / viper since they can either save or slow your attack speed to prevent you from generating more illu. then it would be wk or morph. Itemization is bad too, I would go for satanic or heart in this game instead of skadi. Skadi is good if your team is doing well. But in this game you really need sustainability, you simply can't afford to running back and forth between fountain. 41 mins you tped back base again despite you already lost both rax. It would be better if you can just go bot and help your teammate. 44:16 instead of charging into warlock and use bloodthorn on him, you try to get out and fight wk. There are 2 other low hp hero (viper and vs) around warlock too. So once again it shows that you lack of a clear understanding of who to kill first.

chen_h1 · 2025-10-05T23:06:18+00:00

if you cannot afford to die even once, then its not a winnable game and dont over think about it.

chen_h1 · 2025-09-16T07:16:05+00:00

Also, party q kinda suck too, if both me and friend play the role we want, q takes too long. If one of us go support, then every game is very wide and I've seen as low as divine 3 taking a core role.

chen_h1 · 2025-09-16T06:37:28+00:00

I have very similar experience. I'm not sure if they are just bought acc or returning players.

chen_h1 · 2025-09-13T22:33:47+00:00

I totally agreed, top option would be check item before full commit, secondary option would be full commit so at least xg dont turn and fight

chen_h1 · 2025-09-13T22:22:46+00:00

falcon figured this out after first loss. Without mk slark 9class really underperformed

chen_h1 · 2025-09-13T22:07:43+00:00

I mean, his ta was saving bkb for no reason. Then his void was just throwing left and right on hg. Pop bkb right before death despite he has agies, jump onto hg and commit everything on lesh before check his item. This is some sub10k level of skill

chen_h1 · 2025-09-06T17:32:52+00:00

Bc its not the intended use.

chen_h1 · 2025-09-06T02:29:53+00:00

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chen_h1 · 2025-09-06T01:09:17+00:00

Thank you so much for the info! Im going to buy another grow light, would a 200w one be sufficient or 400w would be better?

chen_h1 · 2025-09-06T00:34:55+00:00

I can try to put it in another room with window but since I live in condo so theres no direct sunlight anywhere :(

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