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Runes:
+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10% Tenacity/Slow Resist
Spells:
Flash
Smite
Items
Ability Order
Deadly Venom (PASSIVE)
Twitch Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Kindred
IMO Twitch's worst matchup. She wins the 1v1 at any point of the game, and she'll just abuse her advantage to counterjungle you like crazy and get free marks. You can't do anything unless your team rotates to punish her invades, and in soloq good luck with that. Ban or dodge.
Lulu
Best support with Twitch, DPS boost and punishes anyone for going on you.
Lulu
Best support with Twitch, DPS boost and punishes anyone for going on you.
Introduction

He's pretty infamous for his level 2 ganks with red buff, and if the enemy team doesn't respect you a first blood is an easy thing to get, putting you on the road to an unstoppable snowball. And come late game Twitch's ability to hypercarry is second to none.
Twitch jungle is actually very high skill cap. While anyone can press Q and right click, the champion's main weakness is his weak early jungle clear, which requires perfect kiting and macro to not be bullied by early invades which is the rat's kryptonite. On top of that, if you fall behind with Twitch, it's very hard to come back since your clear is slow, and you can't 1v1 most junglers (you're only good at ganking lanes). That's why this guide will focus a lot on early game (pre 10 minutes).
Another thing I really like about Twitch is that he's able to sell his boots while relying on


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Twitch's passive may look very underwhelming since it gives you no burst, but it always works in the background especially in long fights, helps you with the early jungle clear, and you can apply it to the entire ennemy team with
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When ganking, start by autoattacking, do not initiate with
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Your ultimate really shines in teamfights with a
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Twitch's skill build is very straightforward.



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Twitch's pathetic health pool and the fact that you never buy a single health item on him makes
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Any rune on this line gives you AD, so they're all a decent choice.
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The most important rune on Twitch in the game.
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Stat shards
Attack speed + adaptive force : accelerate your early clear, you need all the early game help you can get
MR : since literally every mage in the game goes for early game magic penetration, this is the best remedy against getting oneshot.
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Pretty straightforward, you want to clear the single target camps and gank early game, besides you couldn't clear camps like raptors even if you started
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Pretty straightforward also, you could go 3*
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Talisman is always the first thing you want to buy when you recall. Huge help when clearing, especially camps that need AOE like raptors, krugs and wolves. Finishing
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You don't want to upgrade your boots on Twitch. Never buy
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Completes your crit build, tons of AD, CDR for your ultimate, mana restore, etc.
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You want one of these two items in every game, but you can't get both because the passives don't stack. PD against AD heavy or balanced teams, but always get a Maw against AP heavy teams.
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Don't forget to grab an early
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Great late game item, solid mix of survivability and damage. Also boosts your 1v1 ability by a lot.
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To kill red/blue buff : Walk to attack range of the buff (do not Q to it unless you are fed). Autoattack, take a step back, autoattack and so on. Kite back until you arrive at the leash range. You shouldn't take a single hit for now. When at the leash range, press Q, *get a last autoattack in* (very important, prevents resetting), and move through the buff while invisible. You can take about one hit while doing that. Go back to around its spawn point, and keep autoattacking and kiting back, again without getting hit. When you arrive at the other side of the leash range, the buff should be dead. For the blue buff, beware of the bush since it makes the golem invisible and that can be a pain, bait him to go around the bush instead.

To kill gromp : There's no counterplay, you have to tank the damage.

To kill raptors : Don't do them before you have talisman. Move next to them, W the whole camp, tank them while getting 2-3 autoattacks in, and press E to apply talisman burn to the whole camp (W does not).

To kill krugs : You can do them even with only machete. Only focus and kite the big krug, it's the only one that hurts, the medium krug will bodyblock him which helps you. Use Q if you arrive at leash range here like before. Once the big krug is dead use your W+E on the medium/small krugs while tanking them for some big AOE damage.

To kill wolves : Pretty obnoxious camp as they're very fast. Best is to W the whole camp and get 2 autoattacks on each small wolf, finish the small wolves at the same time with E, and then kite the big wolf. Same thing, use Q when reaching leash range.

You can solo drakes with bloodrazor as only item. To be safe, use your Q to walk into the pit and drop a control ward once inside, this way you can't be seen with wards.
Your objectives in the early game are to :
1) Cover your starting buff for invades
2) Secure both your red and blue buffs ASAP
3) Get first blood
Possible jungle routes :
- Red buff -> gank
Bot lane gank only when playing blue side. This is viable but greedy for two reasons. First your laners will only be level 1 when you come to gank, so only do this if your allies have level 1 CC or hard engage. Second, it will be obvious where you are so the enemy jungler who started red can invade your blue buff with impunity. Typical followup is to invade the enemy blue buff in response.
- Red buff -> krugs -> gank
Like above except you wait for your bot lane (or top lane when playing red side) to reach level 2 by making good money off krugs while losing minimal HP. Good kill potential but you'll likely lose your blue buff. Ward your blue (or ask a teammate to do it) if you want to play like this, so you know whether to go for your blue or the enemy blue afterwards.
- Red buff -> blue buff -> gank
You're almost sure to get both buffs (if your blue gets invaded you're in good place to contest or cheese it with invis + smite). The best route to gank top (when playing red side) or bot (when playing blue side). Then move to gromp and crab, then wolves and back.
- Blue buff -> gromp -> red buff -> gank
Efficient clear and early gank. Your red can be invaded so warding it recommended (if it gets taken go for enemy red). After gank go for crab.
- Blue buff -> gromp -> red buff -> krugs -> crab
Twitch's version of a full clear, in the rare case where there is nothing to gank. You only do camps you can kill without losing much HP so you can still go for the crab and even contest it / smite out of invis if needed.
A lot of Twitch's playstyle is about sitting behind his teammates, waiting for enemies to engage on them, and counter-engaging at the right moment. Especially when playing against a diver/assassin heavy team. Also hugging your support is a good idea since you can protect them and they can protect you.
So always keep this in mind, you need proper positionning, and that means having a big meat shield in front of you when you engage, ideally when the enemy team is starting to focus that guy. In fact in a lot of ways Twitch plays more like a peel support than like an assassin.
You are a rat, so fight like one. Don't mindlessly charge in, use your teammates as bait to get kills :)
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