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[9.15/Mid and ADC] Ne3k0 cUr1oUs

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Neeko ADC
Neeko Mid
Neeko Glacial Augment

Runes: Lethal Tempo (ADC) (I recommend)

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Precision

Lethal Tempo

Overheal

Legend: Alacrity

Coup de Grace

Inspiration

Magical Footwear

Biscuit Delivery

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

General

Flash

Heal

Items

Start

Early Items

Core Items

Choose Two

Ability Order ADC

Neeko Passive Ability

Champion Build Guide

Introduction and Neeko is Why

UPDATE: I AM TRYING A NEW RUNE FORMAT, PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR OPINIONS ON IT TO SEE IF I SHOULD MAKE IT WIDESPREAD ACROSS ALL MY GUIDES.

Hi! I am Sassya and I am an ADC (forced by premade) main on the EUW server. I main , , and but recently picked up .

I love Neeko because she is a mage who goes into ADC, like . Recently, I've been asked to make a guide for her and decided to try mid and god she is fun. What's your most AP on her? Mine is around 1400 where I got , a fully stacked , , and two .

Summoner Spells

Obviously you need as everyone but and a few junglers. As an ADC main, I am not a huge fan of many summoner spells so I take when I am playing mid, is quite defensive, which most mages lack, and her chase and poke is quite good to clean up kills. You can use if you are more comfortable with it. If you are playing ADC, take

Runes

Firstly, looking at , we you can take either or , I personally prefer as it is the only keystone that gives you attack speed (other than but is best in ADC). is also just a good all round talent as it helps you with your burst damage along with comboing nicely with .

Then we take , especially if you take , this talent is generally best considering your first item is .

Next, you will take with and with . When you have the bonus attack speed with , the attack speed doesn't feel like so I take . Saying this, against high CC comps with high CC champs like , is also an option.

Generally, is the best talent and Neeko is no exception, (if you are interested, takes and takes )

Looking at Domination now, I like to take over because I feel she isn't pokey enough for and each helps which makes it great, though both are good builds.

Secondary, I like to take for its bonus to blow-up and or follow-up.

Next, I like , I prefer this to on non-jungleres and is irrelevant.

My final suggestion on this tree is , the lifesteal is essential for me to play any mage but on Neeko the alternative isn't too good because can be kind of hit and miss.

For inspiration, is key as this is what the build is centred around. This rune is seeing a lot more Korean play and hence people are starting to play with it. As a person who played and didn't really enjoy it, I don't really play this path.

With , and , these are all the runes you generally take if you are in Inspiration, though is good with .

Finishing off main runes with . Here we take because is better for champions like who don't have any effect on movement.

Next you want to take . This is generally best on this tier and, as Neeko struggles with mana, it is very good at keeping you in lane.

On the next tier, you want . I don't really like this talent but isn't too good as you won't really get enough CDR for it to take effect and Neeko doesn't need .

On the last tier, you want . This is best because is quite bad and isn't amazing as Neeko isn't a mid laner or ADC who ganks a lot.

Moving to secondary, if you started or , you will want to take . I like to take for its bonus to blow-up and , the lifesteal is essential for me to play any mage but on Neeko the alternative isn't too good because is can be kind of hit and miss.

If you started or , you will want and you want to take . This is generally best on this tier and, as Neeko struggles with mana, it is very good at keeping you in lane. you want . This is best because is quite bad and isn't amazing as Neeko isn't a mid laner or ADC who ganks a lot.

Finally for those Neeko ADCs, I like to take Inspiration as the others don't offer very much in my opinion. Though, is still a possibiliy, but is far too good at keeping you in lane and is still good, even after the nerfs.

Runes (Alternate Formating)

Optimal (On Hit)
Precision is great when you are taking ADC or any on hit build. This is substantially weaker in other roles

Optimal (AP)
I love domination on almost every mid laner. It gives you nice sustain along with bonus damage and vision.

Optimal (Glacial Augment)
This is good if you particularly like , along with giving you a good early resource advantage in gold, mana and health.

Situational (AP)
I prefer this when you are in a very pokey match-up, with champions like or , where you are less likely to combo.

Weak (All)
Resolve doesn't really offer enough for it to be useful, but you could try something off-meta with it.

Optimal
This is particularly good as it gives you more burst if you hit , as long as you have high attack speed

Optimal
This is quite good in more sustained match-ups as it gives you more sustained damage and rewards you more for hitting

Weak
As you already have some what decent sustain, with and gap closing, with , this talent doesn't offer very much for you.

Situational
This can be good in particular match-ups where you need a bit of passive healing from poke, such as or . This is also quite good considering every bloom of gives one stack.

Optimal
As it is quite often that you can overheal with , I like this, especially in more sustained match-ups.

Situational
This can be good if their comp is very bursty with the likes of or when doesn't have enough of a presence to be useful.

Weak
As isn't the greatest in this build and is available if you have mana problems, this rune just gets outshone.

Optimal
The bonus attack speed is very useful to get a lot of triggers of .

Situational
I would only take this if their comp had a lot of cc and pay offs, from champions like , or as these can be threatening.

Weak
Due to , you don't need much more lifesteal and this would be a bit too much to be useful.

Optimal
She isn't in a lane of tankies and she isn't squishy and she has no pay-offs/ reason to be on low health. This means is just best.

Weak
She isn't in a lane of tankies and she isn't squishy. This means is just best.

Weak
She has no pay-offs/ reason to be on low health. This means is just best.

Optimal
This is particularly good as it gives you more burst and follow-up when you use your full combo on an enemy

Optimal
This is quite good in more pokey match-ups if you would rather take this over as you can get the odd dark harvest. It can also be good in a match-up where you the game is going to or is preferred to go late with the likes of , or

Weak
Neeko does not like sanic sped, it makes her tummy feel weird.

Weak
This isn't very good with on hit as gives you better pay offs along with isn't very good on a laner that isn't passive as it will not normally trigger very often.

Optimal
This can be very useful for an advanced Neeko player who can easily land or . This is just a generally good talent.

Situational
I would recommend that if you don't take for whatever reason, this should be in your talent tree. This should be good to help you stay

Optimal
This is another useful tool in blow-up. has a short stealth frame and counts as a leap so this can help if they have

Weak
This isn't particularly good as the only way you will kill wards, relies solely on Control wards.

Optimal
As a mid laner, this will give you much required vision on both of pixel and top river bush simultaneously. This will also, unless you snowball, give you more ap that .

Situational
If you are in an easy match-up or it looks like you are likely to snowball, this talent can outshine the others as not only will it give you more ap, but the vision is less essential. Normally, I wouldn't advise it but there is a situation for it.

Optimal
As Neeko lacks any form of sustain, this is an overly good rune to keep you in side of team fights and laning and giving you more options.

Situational
If you want to build activated items, this could be an option.

Weak
Neeko already has enough gap closing with , and , this doesn't benefit her enough.

Situational
is most impactful when you can into the enemies and stun and deal lots of damage. Considering the 5 minute cooldown on flash, the reduced cdr isn't that great. Having said that you can still take this, if you like her ultimate.

Situational
This can be good if their comp has a lot of movement and slipperiness where is less likely to hit, for example with or .

Optimal
This is a generally good rune for more poke when combined with or .

Weak
As Neeko already has a ton of gap closing with every ability that isn't , this will not be that great to catch-up.

Situational
This is great to prevent extreme burst from champions such as or .

Optimal
This is good to give you more passive mana regeneration which Neeko does need. This also comes with more mana to hold, which is also useful.

Situational
This Is an option, though I don't use it. It can give you movement speed to get closer into the middle of the team before you kill everyone.

Weak
As she doesn't have the longest cooldowns, also she won't realistically get over 40% cdr, this isn't the best rune.

Situational
This is okay if they have a lot of chase and gap closing with champions like or , this can give you that slight edge to run away..

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Optimal
This is just generally better than all of the other runes on this row, especially with the spell vamp from (if you take ).

Weak
Scorch just isn't a very good talent as it doesn't contribute enough and it is too delayed.

Weak
This won't be active enough of the time for it to be particularly impactful.

Optimal
This brings Neeko some infinite scaling which is helpful as she doesn't scale as well as some champions like or as she does start to drop off.

Weak
I, seriously, do not know how this rune works and who it is good on. This is really a judgement of a better player than me or someone who is experienced with this.

Optimal
This is a good rune when taking inspiration. This really gives your enemies no escape as not only do you like using basic attacks, but it makes your basic attacks stronger.

Weak
As she has nothing that will empower basic attacks, I don't think you will get enough procs out of this to be useful enough.

Situational
This is useful when you are playing into a hard pusher such as and you can be an ally, then use and Hexflash in. It also can be personal preferance.

Optimal
This is just bestt as it causes you to get a small reduction on pricing, which is good on and early game champion such as neeko, along with a permanent movement speed buff.

Situational
This Is an option, though I don't use it. It gives you a stopwatch which is very useful if you choose to build , along with CDR on it.

Situational
This is good for neeko as she is a good champion early and normally your debt won't have enough time to catch up with you. If they have a stalling champion like , this is a bad choice as the game will likely go long. I personally don't like this rune as it is reverse value.

Weak
is highly efficient at clearing waves, this makes this rune not that useful compared to the options.

Optimal
This is gives you brilliant sustain in the laning phase, along with permanent bonus mana sustainability. Overall, my favourite

Optimal
This is just the best item on the tier, it also brings you bonus cdr on items which you can realisticly have 3 of.

Weak
This isn't great as you already have bonus chase from along with all your other gap closing abilities

Weak
This won't be active enough of the time for it to be particularly impactful as you don't get a lot of potions.

Items

So it has been 4 days since I finished this guide but never did the items part, so let's talk.

MID

First, your start. I take as I think it is all round better than , especially after its nerfs in 9.12. Then we, as all champions I know, take

Your first back you want to look to build . This item is great to get as early as possible. If you can't, get and prioritise . If you have left over, get . If you have picked up an early kill and haven't died, think about . If you still have gold, grab .

If at any point , gets lots of stacks, think about .

Looking at your first item, you want or respectively, if at any point you have enough gold buy s until you have , as it is a hard to buy item but is worth it when you do.

Looking at second item for you want to get that will build into a . This gives a second trigger to , which is generally enough. Meanwhile, you will build into a for some nice

ADC

I start with the classic ADC start of a . It gives lifesteal (which the runes lack), which inevitably keep you in lane longer. Then we, as all champions I know, take .

Then we build , this gives bonus attack speed that'll trigger more often, as well as the bonus damage being nice. We then start going towards and .

We follow this into , a second that becomes and to .

NEEKO SO FABULOUS NOW

Often the most used part isn't very well understood is using it to deny your enemies important information, such as health and mana, making champions like , , , , and less able to know if they can successfully hard dive you.

Another good use is aggressive returns to lane/ ganks. Here you can facade yourself as a very scary ganker such as or but do remember about effects like , or as these effects will prove you aren't who you look like. If done correctly, these ganks can burn or or even an ultimate like or which can be extremely impactful for your team later on with the lack of those abilities.

The final use I use is aggressive. This is where you facade yourself as a low person. This is especially effective when you are adc. You both go into the bush, you facade as them (while they are low) you go out of bush and start trying to bait them. The general idea is that they get greedy and then you punish with which gets a follow-up of . You need to act the part though, and that is the main thing to remember with deceit, you need to act like you are what you are trying to be.

Also remember some abilities that look like they should damage don't like and

Exploding Flowers

is pretty straight forwards. It is a very good ability to use after an enemy has been hit by as it is one that really wants your enemies still. It has very good scaling and considering the number of explodes, it has a very good combined AP ratio (All 3 hits 90%). It also is very good follow up for

Army of Neekos

Like , has many uses but requires skill to use effectively.

The first use is the most straight forward one, and this the movement speed. You can use this to get out of area of effect damage such as or or just to get to lane quicker.

The next use body blocking, this requires perfect timing, especially considering its long cooldown. You have to see the projectile coming towards you because you could struggle if you activate this too early. The best things to body block with this are (do it, it's so satisfying), , , while under , any hook, , or the list goes on. The thing to remember here is that this can be gifting the enemies something. It could give them a , , or so you have to be careful.

The next use is escape and this is another part of Neeko that is really hard to learn and master. Do at least one of these two things when trying to escape, run right next to your clone, following its exact movement (do this if you are quite close to your tower) or run down a convoluted path through jungle. This works because people assume that people will always try to run to their base as directly as possible. While your enemy runs after your clone you can escape and once they realise it's fake, you've escaped. Remember this, chasing Neeko can be almost as pointless as chasing if you do it correctly.

The Eternal Root 2.0

is Neeko's best form of CC. This is a very good immobilise, especially compared to most ADCs. For example, requires initial CC to be reliable, is slow to set up. This then means that she is a lot better with enchanter supports such as , or . This ability is still a skill shot, try to get at least one enemy in the way of your real target to get that baseline two second slow which goes up to three seconds when it gets upgraded.

Tactical Neeko Incoming

is a very interesting ultimate with many different uses.

It can be very useful to interrupt channels that may kill you or multiple members of your team, the two that immediately spring to mind are or , especially .

Another very good use is just to gain the shield and health to survive in a fight, which then can be followed up by and along with the rest of your team.

The final is a bit of a combo. You use along with , preferably while under , and you get them stunned preventing them from running away.

Changelog

Patch 9.14:
BUFFS

Basic attacks on champions no longer break your disguise

NERFS
Attack Damage: 52 => 48
Attack Speed: 0.645 => 0.625
movement speed reduced by 10% at all ranks.