Original League of Legends (LoL) Thread

I really don't get all the disappoint with Dominion. Looks like a cool idea.

I start off boots and 2 hp pots. Or a doran blade if I don't have a tank/support to lane with.
My first major item to build is a Zeal I get it and I buy a ward when I base everytime, no exceptions.
Next I get a BF sword and upgrade to zerker boots.
Now that I have my bf sword I get a phantom dancer upgrade to the zeal and grab a vamp scepter to help my sustain.
I build my BF sword into a IE later on after my dancer is done.
The two tiamats are really filler spots, but with excellent positioning you really don't need to buy survival on corki with his valk and flash to get out with.

edit: Forgot to mention my runes/masteries too: I run 21/0/9 masteries with armor pen reds, critical damage quints, hp per level yellows, and mr flat blues (the blues are slowly being replaced with critical damage blues).

My main point of playing such a high damage/high attack speed build is that I split push, like a boss, every game I can. It is so damn easy to juke multiple people
if you split push a side lane with a couple of key wards up at choke points.


I max E first as it's your primary burst damage, W second since it's my primary escape & initiation, Q does so little it's literally a walking mana sink so I don't bother with it at all.
Between E, W, R, and my passive on top of exhaust I have no problem killing people very very very fast. Maxed E does wonders bro seriously try it.

Ah, okay. I basically got it instead of Manamune. I think I got boots and a BF before one Tiamat then finished pretty normally. I'm finding Bloodthirster a lot more awesome than I gave it credit. Maybe I happened to get into a few close call 1v1/1v2 situations my last few games.

I hate to argue semantics, but how is a skill that does DoT "burst" damage? Especially one that requires you to stay on your opponent and commit for a second or two. Q does modest, instantaneous damage that farms well and allows for harass without commitment. It is mana-hungry though :<
I'll try earlier Gatling gun, but probably more like lvl3 Q > Max E
I don't find myself going for super-aggressive early kills. Usually start giving people a very hard time at lvl9 or 10 once I'm leveling Gatling anyway.

Edit: Mathcraft
Assuming a decent midgame AD of 150, attacking a player with max gatling, no phos bomb
Gatling gun hits twice per second for 5 seconds for 20% of AD per hit ->300 damage. Requires 5 second commitment and keeping opponent in range for full time duration. Additional armor shred bonus to auto-attacks
16 second CD

Max phosphorus bomb is instant 270 damage. Some MR reduction to be accounted for (~1/4 of 270. Not too much MR midgame against most champs you'd see in lane or should be focusing)
8 second CD

My priorities through early game are heavy farming and safe harass > winning lane through CS and pushing. Bomb helps me more in accomplishing this. Gatling gun would help me more in committed attacks.

But hey, I'll have both max at lvl13 and that's not very far into a game at all.