★Your main goal during laning phase is to play passively, and just farm up
Siphoning Strike stacks - Take this level one!

You generally don't want to be trading with
Siphoning Strike, it's fairly weak early game and before you get your stacks.
You'll want to be positioned properly, making sure if you get engaged on, your minions will attack your opponent, causing him more damage than he wanted to take. If you get pushed in, you will want to
freeze the lane just before tower range, giving you opportune time to farm up your stacks.
Spirit Fire will push the lane if you cast it around minions, so be aware of that and potential lane ganks from the
river, or
jungle. You can help peel yourself with
Wither in this scenario.
At level 6, you will most likely win most trades and secure easy kills with
Fury of the Sands. You can potentially 1v2 if the jungler comes for a gank, but only if your ultimate is available. Focus the highest priority target - the one with the most damage!
Once you're 6, you can focus on pushing the wave into the enemy tower and trying to take some early plates with
Demolish.
Help out your jungler if he comes to take
Rift Herald
, and secure first blood tower for your team. At this point you can potentially invade the enemies jungle, taking away vital XP, gold and their
blue buff, if you're on
red side.

Outside of laning phase, you have the option to group with your team and take objectives, or split push. If your team has a strong team fight, you can group with them, invading the enemy jungle, forcing fights over objectives, or pushing lanes.
If you decide to split push, you can very easily keep stacking your
Siphoning Strike, taking towers efficiently with
Demolish and allowing your team to pressure other objectives.
If
Baron Nashor
is
alive and your
Teleport is
available, you can split push
bot lane.
If
Baron Nashor
is
alive and your
Teleport is
down, you will be split pushing
top lane.
If
Baron Nashor
is
dead, and your
Teleport is
down, you will split push
bot lane, especially if a
dragon will be spawning.
If
Baron Nashor
is
dead, and your
Teleport is
available, you can split push
top lane.
You want to split push the lane opposite to the most important, neutral objective, if your
Teleport is
available. This way, you can take the majority of pressure off the objective, as the enemies will not be able to answer you solo, and they give up the objective to your team. If you know the enemies will be collapsing on you soon, you will want to spam ping your team to complete the objective as quickly as possible. If the enemies collapse on your team, you can
Teleport to them to quickly reach the fight.
If you're in the middle of a fight, you want to pop
Fury of the Sands first thing, and try to focus down the enemy ADC. You can
Wither them, and throw out everything you have, smashing them with your heavily stacked
Siphoning Strike. Be careful if the enemy team have a
Lulu, she will
Whimsy you, completely negating any of your damage and essentially rendering you useless. The same goes for any very hard CC such as
Morgana's
Dark Binding, or
Malzahar's
Nether Grasp, or an
Ezreal that has built
Iceborn Gauntlet to kite you.
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