You'll likely have to back at least once before you can make any huge purchases, so get a Vampiric Scepter on first back to sustain yourself if you happen to get ganked. A second Doran's Blade may also help hold you over until your B. F. Sword.


Bloodthirster goes towards your heavy AD scalings and dueling power with it's powerful Lifesteal while Trinity Force amplifies your dueling and split pushing powers exponentially. The Sheen procs will give you more burst and you'll kite even harder with Phage. Mercury's Treads are preferred to shorten nasty CC from locking you down.


Last Whisper is essential because the first reaction enemies will have to seeing a dual marksman comp is to stack armor. Randuin's Omen further amplifies your dueling powers against other AD champions with it's passive and actives. You can use the active to help in team fights by peeling or chasing down fleeing targets. Banshee's Veil is essential to avoid being blown up by mages. Get this earlier than Randuin's Omen if AP is your major threat.


With the Assassin build, Valor innately attacks very quickly to decimate targets. Heavy AD and Crit are his best friends to kill squishy targets, so if you get ahead enough an Infinity Edge is the perfect buy. Youmuu's Ghostblade is another Assassination oriented pick compliments both Valor's assaults and dueling and kiting as Quinn nicely. Statikk Shiv has multiple purposes. The first is to split push to oblivion with free wave clear. The second is to bypass enemy armor stacking by having a bit of magical DPS in the mid game. Lastly, you may find yourself buying this item if your actual marksman starts doing poorly, and you have to pick up the slack and go with a more traditional Marksman build.


If you find yourself fighting an AP Top Laner, or our main threats on the enemy team are AP, you may consider the hexdrinker early on for a defensive/offensive buy. Maw of Malmortius is there should you feel like finishing it later in the game, but the purchase is mostly for the shield passive. Blade of the Ruined King is another hybrid defense/offense item. It's active can help you to assassinate Targets as Valor or kite more effectively as Quinn. Guardian Angel is always a super aggravating buy when you're ahead. Having to kill a fed marksman twice is annoying as hell for the enemy team, especially when they have another potentially fed Marksman to deal with.

Kiting

When fighting as Quinn, you will need to kite to maximize your dueling power by stutter stepping, or orb-walking. Quickly taking a step after an auto attack cancels out the end of the animation and "resets" the cooldown of your auto attack, allowing you to create more distance while continuing to deal damage. Quinn's Heightened Senses will make kiting even easier.

Vault Trix

Vault has many uses and a few quirks. The Vault-back can land you over walls if you go over the thresh-hold, so if you find yourself backed against a wall, hop off an enemies face over said wall to safety! This can be done on most walls if you are close enough to the enemy and the wall, and is particularly useful when caught warding the river at top lane. Additionally, Vault will track targets until Quinn or Valor actually reaches them, meaning that if the enemy uses a dash or Flash, you may potentially get yourself killed, so be careful using it! Lastly, Vault's dash range is variable, but the Vault-back range is consistent, meaning you can gain or create distance depending on how close or far away from the target you are.

Tag team Valor: Backdoor Extraordinaire

tag team can be used to destroy exposed Inhibitors or even the Nexus if your team can distract the entire enemy team for long enough elsewhere. If Quinn can get to them undetected, she can either destroy it herself and use Valor to escape, or send Valor himself to destroy the structure with his insane attack speed. Valor's movement speed out of combat will help you get in faster, but then he will not be available to make your escape.