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AP Rumble - Pyromaniac

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Spells:

Flash

Ignite

Ability Order

Rumble Passive Ability

Introduction... And a Drum Roll.

Odds are you're looking at this build because some Rumble you laned against pushed you off the map, or Rumble's free (never happens). Whatever the reason, here's my favorite and most skilled champion and how I play him.

Rumble is a high damage melee AP caster who excels in team fighting, chasing, and when properly played, getting multikills when outnumbered (And thus the solo top role).
He's a great champ to play, being very strong and very fun. I feel he's underplayed. Maybe it's because Rumble's team niche is often taken away by bruisers, tanks, and AP carries.

This build is mainly focused on how to play a full AP Rumble, how to hurt and not as much to live. So don't expect too much of Tanky Rumble or DPS Rumble. Tanky Rumble is great, but personally, I think he's not as fun, and there are many other guides up the list which explain it very well, probably better than I ever will. DPS Rumble isn't stupid but it's damn useless (however hillarious, like DPS or AD ).

One last thing I think is worth mentioning: first guide.

Awesomes and Not So Awesomes

PROS

AP Rumble does huge AOE damage
Easy chases, ganks, and escapes
Team fights become really one sided with a well placed The Equalizer
Low Cooldowns
INSANE Laning
Does everyone's job, should they fail (except support)
Few counters
Fuzzy Yordle

CONS

You hurt, I hurt.
Melee
Heat Resource may be hard to master
The few counters... (explained below)
Too many cons (yes.)

Masteries of Masters

In this guide, Runes come later because my guess is that if you're looking at this build, you're one of these people: You don't have runes, you don't have IP for new runes, you already have these runes and you're fine already at picking runes, or you're here to read a build because you have nothing better to do.

So here are the masteries.

12/7/11

21/0/9

9/21/0

Summoner Spells

RATING: EXCELLENT

Before it's nerf, this summoner spell was absolutely ABUSED. is still a very good summoner spell capable of closing gaps and scaling walls, but mostly just for jumping the walls. Specifically, for Rumble, it's good for when you need that inch-long escape after being CC-ed without , proc-ing for that pentakill, or landing that oveheat auto-attack from for that Level 3 First Blood (YES!).

RATING: GOOD

vs. : A long debated dilemma. I used to run ghost every game and still will provided that I can trust my teammates (which usually, I can't find out by team selection). So now, I prefer picking Flash over Ghost because Ghost doesn't provide that surprise gap close or wall jump OR the desperate escape from heavy CC. However, it does have a significantly lower cooldown and gets you from A to B for a teamfight faster.

RATING: Mediocre

This spell is good but comes with a long cooldown. allows you to return to your Top or Middle lane quickly early game and helps you traverse the map for a teamfight in a matter of seconds. In laning phase, going back and Teleporting back in lane immediately gives you a health advantage (and mana for non-Rumbles) and item advantage, and your jungler doesn't even have to reveal himself (or herself..). If sight wards (as well as s, s etc.) are positioned properly, you can also Teleport to those for effective ganks and saves.

RATING: EXCELLENT

Along with Flash, I think that is a must for most AP Casters, including Rumble. It's rather self explanatory: Ignite provides a significant amount of bonus damage to a single target, making it an extremely useful tool for finishing off a target or for desperate use in a one-on-one encounter. I find Ignite most useful early on, especially at Level 6, when I can use and Ignite together, almost guaranteeing first blood.

RATING: Bad

Promoted Minions do whatever you do worse.

RATING: Deferred

Generally avoided for non-support/tank.

RATING: Deffered

Simply obsolete with

RATING: SINFUL

MANALESS? HELLO?

Items - Explanation and Alternatives

Here's a general map to follow:

SEQUENCE

ONE

These are your first three items regardless. and are just smart and safe to play with. is going to help you survive and maximize damage.

So why not + or +5? Because they don't build into anything. I guess you could hold onto them for a real long time and build them into or , but we'll leave that route for another Tanky Rumble guide. And it just takes away the great movement speed bonus from

One additional possibility is to begin with +. However, this is very risky and will very likely get you killed by the enemy jungler.