Introduction About Me Why Twitch Pros & Cons

Runes & Items AP or AD? Runes Items Summoner Spells

Gameplay Laning & Earlygame Midgame & Lategame

AP

AD

AP Twitch - Starting items For AP Twitch: Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potion's - Twitch struggles with mana a LOT in lane, this helps him deal with that as well as giving some early AP for extra damage on your E Contaminate + Passive Deadly Venom. Before playing AP Twitch for the first time I would recommend going into practice tool and practice last hitting with Doran's Ring, as you do very little damage per auto, and it can feel difficult if you aren't used to it.

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First Recall After your first recall, the most ideal first item is Blasting Wand as it provides a huge spike earlygame and should be your highest priority. If you cannot afford Blasting Wand opt for Dark Seal, after that start to build towards Nashor's Tooth, priority for the components should be Blasting Wand > Recurve Bow > Amplifying Tome > 2 Dagger's. Refillable Potion and Control Ward are always good options when you have extra gold, but if you can't afford this along with the highest priority item mentioned above, don't go for either (for example, recall on 950g? Blasting Wand + Health Potion > Dark Seal + Amplifying Tome + Refillable Potion

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Core items Nashor's Tooth + Rabadon's Deathcap - Nashor's Tooth is AP Twitch's dream first item, this champion LOVES raw AP, however just raw AP isn't enough to burst someone at one item, the insane amount of attack speed it gives as well as the on-hit damage allows you to have an insane one item spike that can 1v1 almost all adc's at one item. For second item Rabadon's Deathcap is always the option I would recommend, as mentioned earlier twitch loves raw AP due to the amount of things that scale with AP (even Nashor's Tooth on-hit damage scales with AP as well as his Passive Deadly Venom, W Venom Cask, and E Contaminate)

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Situational items Mejai's Soulstealer, Zhonya's Hourglass, Banshee's Veil, Everfrost, Riftmaker - here is when the AP build shines in terms of its versatility, Snowballing very hard and want a huge damage spike? Opt for Mejai's Soulstealer. Enemy has a fed assassin that's giving you trouble? Zhonya's Hourglass is your new best friend. Enemy has an important ability thats giving you trouble such as Blitz q or Rakan Ult? Banshee's Veil will prevent these issues. Is there a melee champion such as Tryndamere, Jax, Udyr Running you down and zoning you from the fight and you can't deal with him? Everfrost will provide self peel. Is the enemy team extremely tanky? Riftmaker Gives you a big damage amplification and extra true damage to turn them into butter.

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Boots If there are people that are going to run at you often or the enemy team is a bit tankier, opt for Ionian Boots of Lucidity for the cooldown reduction on your W Venom Cask + E Contaminate to kite them for longer and get more rotations of spells off. If the enemy has low threats or is very squishy then Berserker's Greaves are great for both burst and DPS, OR if you are snowballing heavily for the same reason.

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AD Twitch - Starting items For AD Twitch: Doran's Blade + 1 Health Potion OR Long Sword + 3 Health Potion's - If you are laning against a champion that can harrass/poke you easily such as Karma, Varus, Ziggs, or easily outsustain you due to healing, such as Soraka or Nami then go for Long Sword + 3 Health Potion's to match the sustain or survive for long enough through the poke. If enemy lane doesnt have either of these opt for Doran's Blade + 1 Health Potion.

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First Recall First recall with AD Twitch your most ideal item is Noonquiver, which is made a lot easier if you started Long Sword, if you cannot afford Noonquiver then pickaxe is the next best option, if you cannot afford that either then opt for the components of Noonquiver - 2x Long Sword + Dagger Refillable Potion and Control Ward are always good options when you have extra gold, but if you can't afford this along with the highest priority item mentioned above, don't go for either of these, unless you REALLY need them to survive harrass/ganks. Cull can be a very good item situationally. I would only recommend buying Cull in either EXTREME circumstance of lane, if you are very ahead of the enemy laner and don't need the extra damage to kill them, Cull is a good extra item to generate more gold long term. Or if you are very far behind and have no chance to ever kill the enemy laner, then you can buy [[cull] to try and recover a bit via farming.

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Core items: Press the Attack runepage Galeforce is the dream item for Twitch, it's extremely versatile. Great to either dodge a key skillshot or escape someone running you down, but it is also very good to use offensively, not only does it allow you to close the gap to get more auto attacks off, it also provides magic damage which is an execute for unexpected burst in combination with your E Contaminate. Lord Dominik's Regards is a great second item for this playstyle as it gives you an insane amount of damage at second item, and with the meta currently having many bruisers/tanks you can also melt them easily. Infinity Edge is self explanatory, you have AOE auto attacks with your R, and after the first two raw damage items this one makes your damage go through the roof. Usually games are over by this point, however if not then Runaan's Hurricane is a good 4th item, as by this time in the game people are more likely to group and teamfight, so it's harder to look for picks. Has great synergy with your R Spray and Pray, but its difficult to buy it early since you deal very low damage with it as a second item, and you need Infinity Edge third for the biggest spike.

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Situational items Kraken Slayer - I wouldn't recommend buying Kraken Slayer almost ever, Galeforce is too good of an item, but if there are ZERO threats then it can be an option, if you are buying this make sure to take Ultimate Hunter instead of Ingenious Hunter. The Collector - This item can be a good second item instead of Lord Dominik's Regards if the enemy team has no people that will be buying armour at all (which is very rare, if enemies even buy Plated Steelcaps then Lord Dominik's Regards is better). Wit's End - Amazing item if you are against an AP heavy team, if laning VS an ap champion such as Ziggs and they also have an AP mid or jungler you can rush this item before your mythic. If you are against an AD laner, but enemy team has double AP in mid jungle which are threats to you such as Elise + LeBlanc you can buy this item second. Blade of the Ruined King - VERY situational item, only buy this very late into the game and only if enemy has MULTIPLE tanks which are an issue for you.

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Boots Berserker's Greaves are the only option for boots on AD Twitch in my opinion, buy boots after mythic/first item whenever you have the gold to do so.

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Core items Lethal Tempo with Lulu If you have a Lulu support take the Lethal Tempo rune page mentioned above, the starting items/boots/situational are almost the same (except for The Collector, never buy this with Lethal Tempo) however the core build order looks different: Core items for Lethal Tempo Twitch with a Lulu: Galeforce -> Runaan's Hurricane -> Lord Dominik's Regards -> Infinity Edge -> Phantom Dancer - Due to Lulu's insane attack speed steroids you scale a lot better with attack speed, so Runaan's Hurricane second is perfect as you want to force teamfights as soon as possible. Lord Dominik's Regards third generally outdamages Infinity Edge with this build, even though you're already at the 60% crit threshhold required for Infinity Edge's passive. I would only recommend Infinity Edge third if enemy has no tanks/bruisers that are an issue for you. Other notable options for lethal tempo twitch: On-hit items such as Wit's End, Blade of the Ruined King, and even Guinsoo's Rageblade become much better with this build as with the Lulu and Lethal Tempo you will have much higher attack speed to proc these on-hit effects more often, the situations you buy them are still the same. Guinsoo's Rageblade can be a very good 4th item ( Galeforce -> Runaan's Hurricane -> Lord Dominik's Regards -> Guinsoo's Rageblade -> situational) if you are against a VERY tanky team, as you melt tanks insanely fast with Guinsoo's Rageblade's on-hit damage and all the attack speed. However this is much harder to play than any other style of Twitch because you will be reaching attack speeds upwards of 3.5-4 per SECOND, so if you plan to try this I would recommend practicing kiting with it in practice tool.

Laning & Earlygame with Twitch

Laning is generally the same for both AP and AD Twitch since you don't have the items yet, the only differences being your first few recalls, rune setup and how often you can roam.

AP Twitch has two very notable powerspikes, if you can get Blasting Wand first base then you have insane burst to surprise the enemy laners with and look for kills with Ambush, the other strength with this comes at level 5, with Blasting Wand and 3 points in your E Contaminate, if you can't look for kills in lane you can W Venom Cask the wave, auto the melee minions twice each, press E and the entire wave dies, this gives you good chances to roam. His second big powerspike being finishing Nashor's Tooth. Generally Twitch with Nashor's Tooth can 1v1 any adc with any mythic when you have ignite.

AD Twitch has less noticeable powerspikes, but the two most notable ones would be Noonquiver + Pickaxe at level 6 with Press the Attack, this generally is always enough damage to oneshot an ADC that isn't expecting it due to the damage from Press the Attack and the amount of AD you have from items + your R Spray and Pray as well as damage from Ignite. The other notable spike is when you finish Galeforce, This item is great for picks earlygame, you can stealth on most ADC's and oneshot them, make sure to Galeforce as late as possible as it deals more damage the lower they are, either use it to follow their Flash, or for unexpected burst when they are low in combination with your e Contaminate. Beware of ADC's with Immortal Shieldbow though, as this item can prevent you from oneshotting them when you have Galeforce unless you are far ahead of them.

Generally Twitch's hardest point of the game due to how weak he is early, you really need the enemy to make a lot of mistakes to win lane, or you need your support to play very well, however there are a few things you can do to make the lane easier.




If you ARENT leashing, while the enemy is leashing, you have two options:
If you believe you can beat the enemy level one because your support is stronger (For example you have Thresh against enemy Janna) you can sit in the lane bush closest to enemy tower, and look to fight level one with E Contaminate start, this is best with Press the Attack, however it can be good with Hail of Blades also.
If not, start w, auto a caster minion once which should pull the enemy minions closer to you, and then you can W the wave and start slowly pushing it to the enemy to make sure you get level 2 first.




If both teams are leashing (most games) you have a few options:
If the enemy botlane has champions that are stronger than you level 1 and want to harrass you such as Draven, Caitlyn, Karma then a good option for level 1 is to start W, this ability truthfully doesn't do a whole lot earlygame, however when the enemy looks to auto attack you, you can auto back, throw your W down for a slow and to stack your passive Deadly Venom on them more, then if they want to keep trading then they have to continue to walk through it to trade, the slow can be really useful to outspace the enemy, when they look to auto you and are slowed, you can walk away, then as they turn away you can look to get another auto off. Basically when you use this ability you force them to disengage because nobody want to stand in it the whole time, and when they are trying to do that you can attack them, and if they try to attack you back then they have to stay in it and take more poison damage.

If the enemy botlane is either weaker than you or about the same strength, then you can look to cheese and early trade with Q Ambush start, this again is best with Press the Attack, but can also work with Hail of Blades, just stealth up to the enemy ADC when you know the support isn't in range of you and look to get three autos (for both runes) and then disengage, people often forget this and it can lead to a good hp advantage earlygame.

If you have a hook champion such as Blitzcrank or Thresh you can wait to level your skill, farm like normal, and if they hit a hook you can level E for a big burst, but this is alot rarer than other circumstances.




After any of the above mentioned scenarios, just look to farm safely, and trade with the enemy laner when you can do so without missing minions/losing the trade. If you started Long Sword + 3 Health Potion's and the enemy started Doran's Blade + 1 Health Potion you can look to take a lot of trades, even if you lose the trade in the short term, you will outsustain them and they will eventually be too low HP to trade back.




A good tip for trading with Twitch is to look to auto whenever you can, walk back and wait a bit, and just before your passive Deadly Venom runs out try to look for another one if you can do so safely, if you can't auto them safely anymore you can also throw your W Venom Cask at the enemy before the poison runs out, as this resets the duration and adds more stacks of it, so just try to re-apply it as many times as possible by taking short 1-2 auto trades and throwing a w here and there, always hold your E Contaminate as long as possible, only use it either when the enemy gets to 6 stacks (the poison icon on them will change and be noticeable at this point) or use it at 3+ stacks when you know you can't re-apply the poison safely any more.

Obviously you can look to stealth with Ambush on the enemy whenever it's safe to do so (you know the enemy jungler isn't nearby, you have vision on the enemy support or know exactly where they are, such as in a bush etc) but only use Q Ambush when the enemy can't see you, otherwise it's very obvious. If you need to chase an enemy it's fine to use it when they can see you, it gives extra movement speed so it's a great tool for chasing that people disrespect it.

After level 6 is when you have the most opportunities to look for 2v2 kills or 1v1 picks when someone is alone, your ultimate Spray and Pray gives you a huge burst of damage and an insane amount of range, if you are even with the enemy ADC in terms of items/gold/level then generally you can beat majority of them in a 1v1 if you stealth on them and have Ignite, Always use Ignite early to reduce summoner Heal as this leads to a lot of kills. If your support has CC such as Leona, Nautilus, Thresh then if they land any CC on the enemy adc/support after level 6 you will generally always win the fight due to the high damage and range from your ultimate Spray and Pray.

Every time you recall in lane, look at both top and mid as well as your lane, if you know you wont miss too much CS (dropping one wave for a guaranteed kill it always worth it but losing more waves can start to feel really bad), if one of the enemy laners is low or overextended you can try to attempt a roam coming from base, as people are usually late to call MIA when you recall, so it's more unexpected. If you see a gankable lane always ask your laner if the enemy has Flash so you can play accordingly to that.



Other times to roam:

If you are hard losing lane, and know there is no way to ever win a 2v2 anymore, you can give minions and just start to roam constantly to try find a window back into the game by getting gold for yourself or tilting the enemy team, if you are going to do this I would recommend buying Boots earlier than normal to help get to places faster.

If the game is looking VERY doomed, say your team has 5 kills while the enemy team has 20 kills, Usually this game would just be a ff15, however because of your Q Ambush, you can abandon your lane and play for the last resort: enemy shutdowns. When the enemy team looks for plays on your laners. At this point just think of yourself as a second jungler for your team and try to create a numbers advantage when enemy team goes for a play, a few big shutdowns on Twitch in these games can turn the tides like crazy and allow you to 1v9, but don't forget to farm when you do this, if you get a few shutdowns don't just keep running around, make sure to get exp and gold from minions otherwise you will just fall too far behind to carry due to being at a huge level disadvantage, it's all about balancing it perfectly.

Tip for mana struggles - If you are finding yourself very low on mana often, try to auto attack an enemy once (universal for both AD and AP Twitch) to apply your passive Deadly Venom and Presence of Mind, your poison restarts the timer of Presence of Mind with every tick, so you have increased mana regeneration for a long time.

Midgame & Lategame with Twitch

Generally midgame is played the same on both AD Twitch with Press the Attack and AP Twitch, the only difference is when you are playing Lethal Tempo Twitch with a Lulu and Runaan's Hurricane second item.

After taking the enemy bottom tower or losing yours, you should find yourself switching lanes with your midlaner, starting to farm mid while he goes to a side-lane, at this point whether you are AD or AP your goal is the same, farm the mid waves and look for picks on people that are alone or overextended in either mid or sidelanes if they push too far with your Q Ambush. With Press the Attack AD Twitch you want to be looking for as picks for as long as you can and as often as you are allowed to. AP Twitch is really good for picks due to his strong earlygame, however it is also EXTREMELY strong in teamfights due to your W Venom Cask, so either options are fine for you at this point.

The difference comes with Lethal Tempo Twitch in midgame, after finishing your mythic, boots and Runaan's Hurricane you generally want to group and look for as many skirmishes/teamfights as possible to get the most value from Runaan's Hurricane as you can, but make sure not to fall too far behind in exp/gold from grouping and losing CS for it.

Inevitably after a while people will start grouping and looking for teamfights, and all the three different styles of Twitch I have mentioned have different ways that they want to play teamfights so I shall go over them all.

Teamfighting with AP Twitch

Firstly AP Twitch loves teamfights after getting items due to how his W Venom Cask works. If you can get a pick before a teamfight this will ALWAYS be the best case scenario, however if that is not possible your goal is to play the fights as SLOWLY as possible, AP Twitch in the lategame is essentially both an Assassin like Evelynn, and a control mage like Anivia, you either look to make an asassination when people don't expect it, or play extremely far back and slowly, getting as many W's and E's on people as you can, you can easily kite people back with your W Venom Cask due to its insane slow with AP, then you just use your ult to apply more stacks of your passive Deadly Venom to get the maximum damage out of your E Contaminate. W can also be extremely useful at baron nashor and dragon fights to cut off entrances, if the enemy is approaching through a small gap you can place your W down and watch them run through an AOE Nasus Wither while taking true damage.



Teamfighting with Press the Attack AD Twitch
This build is much worse for teamfights than other variant until you get your 4th item Runaan's Hurricane, however you can't always avoid them. Before you get Runaan's Hurricane try to play teamfights as an Assassin like Evelynn, look for Flanks with your Q Ambush to try and create a numbers advantage for the fight, remember that getting a kill or assist resets your Q Ambush cooldown, So if you make a pick and know you can't get any more, you can Q again and attempt to run away and re-position. After Runaan's Hurricane teamfighting becomes much easier, you can still look for assassinations as before, and it will be much easier to kill multiple people with these flanks now. If flanking/assassinating is too risky/difficult then you can also position like a regular ADC, try to stay out of vision of enemies and wait for them to use important spells/engages on your teammates when they think you aren't at the fight, after important spells are used you can exit stealth and look to wipe the enemy team with your R Spray and Pray + Runaan's Hurricane synergy.



Teamfighting with Lethal Tempo AD Twitch
This is arguably the best scaling build for teamfights, Especially with a Lulu, this is where it shines the best, however you need to play the fights differently, you can't really look for assassinations as easily due to how Lethal Tempo works, and you cant sit in stealth waiting for enemies to use spells, the most ideal situation for teamfighting with this build is to be able to see all of the enemies so you know you won't be flanked, you run up to the enemy, throw your W Venom Cask and press Q Ambush to go invisible while pretending to run away, your W will start the Lethal Tempo proc, and once it activates then you can unleash everything on the enemy with the insane attack speed steroids from exiting Ambush, Lethal Tempo activation and ideally your Lulu's W Whimsy+ E Help, Pix!, if you can do this then you're likely going to win the teamfight unless you get caught by somebody on the enemy team. There are a few other circumstances to use this build well rather than w -> q into engage on the enemy that I just mentioned.

It also works if the enemy is chasing you, you throw w to slow them, activate q to pretend like you're running away and then re-engage with ultimate when tempo procs. The last option which isn't as good and should generally be the last case scenario or can be helpful to bait enemy is you can walk to up an enemy in stealth, cancel stealth by auto attacking them once, then either pretend to disengage by walking away a bit, or dodge a spell that they throw at you while you wait for Lethal Tempo to activate, after it activates then you can use your ultimate Spray and Pray and gun the enemy down.

Generally you don't want to use your R Spray and Pray without your Lethal Tempo being active as it wastes a lot of potential DPS.



Other important tips, before a teamfight happens, think about how it's going to play out:

If you're AD Twitch and the enemy Team has a Leona that will use her ultimate Solar Flare on you every fight and they have the follow-up to oneshot you? Be ready to use your Galeforce to dodge this ability.

If you're playing AP Twitch and the enemy team has a Qiyana + Zed? Think about when you're going to use your Zhonya's Hourglass in their combo to avoid the damage.

If you're running Exhaust on either build variant, think about the biggest threat to you and when you need to Exhaust them so you're ready for when it happens and aren't caught by surprise.

Just always be aware of what poses a threat to you and think about how you can avoid that threat.

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