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My name is John Rescigno. I am a student at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, and an avid League of Legends player. For those of you readers who do not play or understand League of Legends, it is a realtime, session-based strategy game. You choose a champion/character to play as, and you and your teammates battle against your opponents.

The purpose of this blog is to help people learn more about the game and champions that they may or may not know about/play. My job is going to be to play these champions and explain the mechanics involved. I.E. I'm going to test out the champion for you and give you tips on items to build, how to level your skills, and even some tricks that not everyone knows.

I look at this as an opportunity for me to improve my gameplay as well as help others to improve theirs. I am all for reader interaction, and I am happy to answer any and all questions asked as they pertain to the game and my content.


Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Sivir ADC


Sivir


Today I had the pleasure of being last pick in a draft pick game. Usually, when you're last pick, people make you support, and for some people, that's the worst possible situation. For me, ADC is the worst thing you could ever make me do.




 




ADC is my worst role. I can carry a game, but with autoattacks? Gross. Or, as Taric would say,

Speaking of Taric, Where would I be without my lovely support? As I said in my overview of the roles, I would have done stupid stupid things for the entire game. My support was a friendly, yet handsy robot named Blitzcrank. Blitz can pull you to himself and knock you airborne, making is easier for the ADC to get kills.


I played the only ADC that absolutely ANYBODY can play: Sivir. Sivir has a ton of pushing power with her W: bouncing blades. this ability makes it to that her next three basic attacks bounce to nearby enemies and deal damage to them. When her AD is high enough, these three attacks that the one use of the ability can kill all six minions in a wave, making it much easier to push down towers.

Having never really played ADC before, I figured that I was going to lose my lane to Jinx and Thresh, a deadly combination. However, at level 2, Blitz pulled in Jinx and knocked her up, giving me more than enough time to kill her. I received the normal kill gold PLUS the first blood bonus. Jinx continued to get hooked by Blitz and killed by me. By the first time I went back to the store to heal up and buy items, I had enough for the B.F. Sword. This sucker gives +45 AD and cost me a sweet 1550 gold. After this, I was able to push out the waves very quickly and take down their tower eventually. I stayed in lane long enough to farm up for my Bloodthirster, my core item. It gives me +70 AD and lifesteal, which makes my basic attacks heal me for a percentage of the damage dealt.

After the Bloodthirster, I worked on my Static Shiv. This item builds up charges as I use basic attacks and run. at 100 charges, it expends all of the electricity built up and deals damage to subsequent targets on the first basic attack I make. In addition, it raises my attack speed by 40%, my critical chance by 20%, and my movement speed by 5%, making it an all-around good item on any ADcarry.

After these two items plus berserkers greaves (boots), the items you build are your choice. Usually, however, I go for a Last Whisper. This item gives you +40 AD plus a unique passive ability. This item's passive lets your physical damage attacks and abilities ignore 35% of your target's armor. Ignoring armor applies before your armor penetration, and lets you do more damage because their armor isn't preventing a lot of your damage.

After these 4 items are done, basically you just build a Guardian Angel for armor and magic resist plus the revive passive. This should let you deal enough damage to the enemy team to carry them to victory.
Final Score:
12/4/8
174 cs
34 minutes approximately


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