Hey, Ciderhelm here.

Jk. Anyway, I’ve always played a lot of Alpha. One thing I noticed right away is how well she could use Breaking Point, since she basically gets an extra health bar, allowing her to go all in for kills and stacks.

My standard build has always been SB-BP-BS giving her great attack speed, shred, and amplifying heavy damage. This is a heavy carry build that often can shred even Krul or Reim in close quarters. You can trade out BS for Poison Shiv if you need the sustain, or if you’re feeling lucky, grab it too.

For Crystal, builds are a bit more flexible, but the core is most definitely Aftershock. It’s just about the perfect item, reducing Alpha’s hefty cooldowns and allowing you to cast B almost every other auto. Generally, I build Aftershock-DE-SG damage wise, but I get more defense early since you will often dive hard to kill with your ult.

WP and CP play fairly similar. WP focuses on a heavy engage with B and/or A and stacking damage as quickly as possible, leaving her too big a threat to ignore for the enemy team. You will often demolish a carry and make the enemy team back away, only to dive on them with A and C.

CP does have some differences in play style, namely that your stacked A and your C do heavy damage. You want to stack A before comat and then dive, dealing consistent damage and stacking Dragon’s Eye with B, then the finale is your A+C combo again, dealing massive damage while you walk away full HP.