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Vapora Dark In-Depth ADC Ashe Guide Season 12

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so nice!

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thanks!

trhanks

Hello, also this guide is very informative and the way you express it is very understandable! There is absolutely nothing I wouldn’t agree with you! But one important thing for me is missing… Maybe you should create a little corner and explain which support synergies well with Ashe and why. There are so many people taking wrong supports that don’t really work out with the ADC. On Ashe I could imagine supports like Lux, Morgana, but I don’t know how to feel about Yuumi, Nautilius.

What are your thoughts on the new hail of blades with shieldbow/kraken, wit's end and rageblade build that is getting more and more popular?

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Hail of Blades is good regardless of what you're building, just sucks that you give up precision runes for it which are generally better than the domination runes.

I've been using a similar build to that lately and it feels really good.

I'm kinda surprised that Guinsoo's Rageblade is not a recommended (or even optional) item in this guide, while Infinity Edge is. Infinity Edge does give 70 AD, which is a lot, but other than that it's an incredibly meh item on Ashe, since it only gives AD and crit, but her passive eliminates the crit damage bonus from IE's passive, since all that her crits do is increase the slow. But that additional slow is not worth the 3400 gold for buying IE. So just eliminate the empowered slows, and trade it in for more damage. Way more damage.

I play Ashe regularly and Guinsoo's Rageblade is my 2nd or 3rd item most of the time (or at least build Rageknife, it's only 800 gold), and it feels incredibly good to play her that way. In a sense it is giving 40 additional AD for every single crit item Ashe already builds.
If you were to build it third, like IE, then Guinsoo is also 600 gold cheaper than IE, so technically you can immediately buy another Cloak of Agility for your next crit item, which is converted into an effective 30 AD. Meaning that Guinsoo's as 3rd item is effectively 150 AD (40 AD per crit item, and 30 AD from CoA) and 45% attack speed for 3400 gold, versus IE which is 70 AD for 3400 gold.

This additional on-hit damage also counts as damage for lifesteal, meaning that Guinsoo combined with 1 or 2 lifesteal items will make you a healing monster, possibly on par with Samira. And if you're not healing, you're dishing out the damage anyway.

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but her passive eliminates the crit damage bonus from IE's passive, since all that her crits do is increase the slow

This is a somewhat common misconception, but 's damage does scale with crit. Her autos deal minimum 10% increased damage onto targets affected by Frost (her slows), and this 10% gets increased for each point of crit you have, and also for crit amplifiers you have (the passive). She doesn't crit, but her passive directly gives her damage per the amount of crit purchased, thus any crit you purchase is not going to waste damage-wise.

Rageblade may also be viable, but no one uses it and I haven't tested it since it got nerfed when it was broken on her in Preseason.

Thx for all yours guides Vapora

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No problem, glad I could help :)

Helpful for learning Ashe

beauty

I love it

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OK update: I have been playing Ashe with my sister on support Zyra for a few games now and when we were lucky with teammates, we had a huge win and when we weren't, both of us still had a decent K/D/A.

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That's awesome to hear, good luck to you and your sister in your future games. :)

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Perfect guide, runes and ability levelling alone already got me to 7/0 K/D rate first time around! love it

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Am a bit disappointed with this guide. Ashe is a champion I've been wanting to learn for awhile, but this guide is mostly just a copy/paste of your other adc guides except with explanations for ashe's build and a little bit of ability explanation. I was hoping to see some in-depth strategy on how high elo players win with Ashe, but what I got instead is how to play adcs in general.

Hope you take this into consideration when you update this guide. I mean the build info is good, but I don't read guides for the builds, i read them for the "secrets" that people learn about champions after a lot of practice.

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is a very straightforward champion. She's your typical ADC but with an ult for engaging, an E for vision, W for poking and Q for DPS. That's it. Dunno what "secrets" you expect me to write about. She has no combos or spell rotations to speak of, they removed her auto-attack reset, there's not really many champion-specific things to talk about here, it's all very straight forward.

Riot is hesitant to release more ADCs because they're all too similar. If you think this guide is too similar to my other ones, complain to Riot, it's not my fault all ADCs are played the same way with only slight differences.

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For example you show a build for people good at landing their arrows. You don't however explain who to target with arrow(if you did i missed it) or how to actually hit them other than 'get gud scrub'. For your e you can explain all the strategies involving it so people can read how to use it fully. Your W is similar, there are specific strategies that ashe 1 tricka do that sets them apart from other adcs. Sure she has a basic kit, but like you said she has a lot of utility and with that cones strategic depth.

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Your W is similar, there are specific strategies that ashe 1 tricka do that sets them apart from other adcs

No there isn't, it's one of the simplest spells in the games. You don't even have to aim it properly, so long as you don't shoot it in a way where it'll get blocked by minions it's impossible to miss.

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For your e you can explain all the strategies involving it so people can read how to use it fully

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It's most useful for checking objectives like baron without having to facecheck

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but in laning phase it can also be useful for scouting information about the enemy jungler, such as what camps he's done, which camp he's doing, and where he's most likely to gank next.

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you can take Hawkshot if you wish to get information on the enemy jungler's whereabouts or check for an incoming gank.

It's vision, so you use it as vision. The only thing I forgot to mention is that you can use it in a very small range on fleeing champions that flee into brush so you don't have to facecheck and can see if they stop and wait to ambush you. Aside from that it's very obvious what it can be used for, and I explain it. Whatever 'secret' strategies you expect to learn don't exist.

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