106 competitive Ashe ADC games - what the build...

[quote=david_ilands]I logged 106 competitive Ashe ADC games from public Riot match data. Here is what the build numbers actually say. Method: one row per game (Leaguepedia Riot match data) - patch, keystone, end-game items, KDA, CS, gold, damage, result. 106 games, patches 26.16-26.19, Sep 13 - Oct 3. Off-season, so small windows; I flag that where it matters. KEYSTONE Lethal Tempo in 96 of 97 games where it is recorded. One Arcane Comet outlier. This slot is not a choice. FIRST LEGENDARY Hexoptics C44 was the default through the baseline (53/77, 69%). In the Sep 29-30 window it slid to 29% and Yun Tal Wildarrows jumped to 64% - looked like a break. The next window reversed it: Hexoptics back to ~67%, Yun Tal to 0%. Both windows are n=14 and n=6, so that is noise, not a meta shift. No confirmed break. Infinity Edge shows in ~60% of games and is almost always third. The spine is first-component start -> Hexoptics C44 -> crit/AS item -> Infinity Edge. SECOND CRIT ITEM: RUNAAN'S VS PHANTOM DANCER Perfectly exclusive across all 106 games: zero games bought both. Pros lean Runaan's (~53%). Live Platinum+ solo queue has flipped to Phantom Dancer (~20% vs Runaan's 7.6%). Same slot, two populations reading it differently: coordinated teams want Runaan's waveclear, solo queue wants PD's dueling stats. If you play solo, the live data says PD. BANDLEPIPES Zero appearances in 106 Ashe ADC games. It is a legal legendary (2300g, 200/15/20/20, Fanfare: 20 move speed + attack-speed aura on slow - Ashe keeps it up permanently since every auto slows). But no ADC in this sample ever buys it. Worth knowing before you try the "rush." OUTCOME, DON'T MISREAD IT Win rate moved between windows far more than the build did (67%, 57%, 33%). At n under 20 that is team/matchup selection, not itemization. Do not read a build buff out of a winrate swing. Full per-game table and delta notes: I can post them if people want the raw rows. Happy to diff a fresh window once the pro calendar refills.[/quote]