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Starting Items

Cloth Armor & HP5 Start with these if your lane is going to be tough. It gives great sustain from the get-go. Works well when laning against other bruisers.

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Boots of Speed & HP4 Start with these if your up against a fairly easy lane. Gives you enough mobility to chase, escape and dodge. Remember to wait near the fountain for the 4th potion.

Boots

Mercury's Treads Great boots for that boost in MR if you're against multiple casters. Also gives +35 Tenacity which reduces the time you're effected by CC.

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Ninja Tabi You can pick these up if you need the early sustainability and bonus late game armor. They also give 10% reduced damage by non-turret basic attacks.

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Ionian Boots of Lucidity I don't really recommend these unless the opposition doesn't have much CC although they are very viable and have great CDR.

Core Items

Double Doran's Blades This is a great way to spend your coins on the first back. These are perfect for snowballing your lane and getting that extra AD, Health and Life Steal. I don't recommend buying this and Wriggle's, just one or the other.

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Wriggle's Lantern As I mentioned earlier, just buy this or the double Doran's. You can keep this item all game to make it part of your full build and still shred. It has major sustain and control. It's also got a free ward.

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Warmog's Armor This will almost instantly remove any squishiness you yield. Gives you great survivability and makes you a pain to kill. Passive combined, you gain a whopping 1,270 health. Again, I recommend either this or Frozen Mallet, not both.

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Frozen Mallet Like Warmog's, this will de-label you as a squishy. Instead of flat health and health regeneration, it gives you 700 Health and 20 Attack Damage. As if that wasn't enough you even get a built in slow. This is a great alternative to Warmog's, but like Wriggle's, only buy one of the other.

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Atma's Impaler Combined with your Warmog's or Frozen Mallet, it is an absolutely deadly combination. Although they nerfed it via the Hecarim Patch it's still viable and worth the coins. Critical chance, armor and AD? Pretty powerful. At 3,000 Health you get 45 AD and at 3,500 you get 52 AD.

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Infinity Edge Gangplank's best friend. His Q procs, so combined with an IE he is a killing machine. Not much to explain here, you just know that once he gets it they're screwed.

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Trinity Force Gangplank's second best friend. Every single stat boost on this items applies to GP. He greatly benefits from buying a TriForce. But do not buy both IE and TF, just one. Again, not much to explain here.

Final Item

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Phantom Dancer This is a perfect item to finish up the game with. Movement Speed, Attack Speed and Critical Chance. Makes you even more lethal than before.

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Banshee's Veil This is an amazing item if you're playing against an AP heavy team. You can shut down those pesky Casters and AP Carry's instantly.

Hexdrinker Good early game item to counter casters and get bonus AD. If you take magic damage leaving you 30% health or lower you absorb 250 magic damage for 5 seconds.

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The Bloodthirster Massive amounts of AD. Can be picked up mid game if you think you don't need as much sustain. Last Whisper Awesome ArP bonus with extra AD. Be cautious though, these will render your runes useless if you take ArP Reds & ArP Quints. I only suggest this if you're stacking AD runes.

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Philosopher's Stone Philosopher's Stone Good early game item as well if you feel like you're mana deprived. As a bonus you get 5 Gold every 10 seconds.

Heart of Gold Pick it up early for extra sustain. This also has 5 Gold every 10 seconds.

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He's a bit powerful and can poke you with his Q. His passive will block your Parrrley so you can't harass him too much. Just make sure to hit him before his shield is up and shut down his farm if possible. When laning against him just be careful and don't let him close the gap on you with his W.




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Damn near unkillable and one of the hardest match-ups. He will almost always beat you from the get-go so farm as much as you can against him to shut him down. Play safe until one of your teammates gank him. But even then he'll be hard to kill if he's built Wriggle's. Push him back to his tower and dive him with a couple of your mates as you ult him.




WEAK

Often you win early but his W can be deadly if you let him farm his Q too much. Like most champions, shut him down early before he's able to spam his W on you. Easy to kill for the most part.




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She's pretty hard to kill almost all game so build tanky early on so you're harder to kill as well. Dodge as much as you can and set up a gank early to shut down her farm and make her useless later. The longer she's out of lane the better.




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It almost takes no effort to kill him because he's that easy to counter. Start out with Cloth Armor to take him out or else he'll push you too far. Build a Wriggle's and this lane should be super simple. Just be careful if you 1v1 him when he has his ult because if you're low and he pops his R he's invincible for 5 seconds.




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You can beat him early but pay attention to what spells he's using. If he has Ignite then he's planning on owning your life when he gets his ult. Keep him down and deny his farm if you can. Sustain as much as possible.




WEAK

Pretty easy to beat. Buy Tabi's and Wriggle's and Q him until he's ripe enough to kill. That's it.




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Another easy champion to dominate early. Just be careful of his ult and don't ever Q his clone. The clone gets annoying but it's easy to tell which is which. Early shut down.



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Not many WW's lane, they jungle. But if you do come across a laning one then you're in luck. He's easy to kill even when he has his ult up. You can W his ult and Q him to death.




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Easy to kill until he gets to level 4. Build MR against him and dodge his E if you can because it does loads of damage. Try to kill him when his abilities are on CD or if your jungler helps you gank. Don't Q when he has his W up, it'll be a waste.




WEAK

She's pretty easy to lane against. As usual try and shut down farm and harass here if you can. I find her W and E to be quite annoying so shut her down early.




NEUTRAL

You beat him early but do not let him farm or get fed because he will be a pain in the neck to the entire team. Shut down early.




STRONG

She tends to outpush you often and her spear shreds all your health. Dodge it as much as possible. Your ult is useless on her because hers counters yours and she will almost always beat you 1v1. Sustain a lot.




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He's pretty powerful but can be countered. A well played Renekton will out-lane you no matter what. He falls of later in the game but survive as much as you can early on and kill him when given the chance. Shutting down is the key to most hard champions. His ult also shreds.



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I hate this champion with a passion. Don't let his size fool you. His passive makes him stealth and he'll just wait for a gank when you've pushed too far and own you easy. Buy wards to counter that. Either AP or AD his stupid poison does so much DoT that it's almost unfair. Kill this noob early and laugh later.




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He's annoying but you can just AFK farm him easily and make it a sustain lane. Ward bushes and be weary. He's not that strong.




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He's not hard either just don't underestimate him too much. his kncok-ups can and will be your fate. Other than that he can be killed no problem. CHYAFLABYAGYAFYAh!




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He's a mix of easy and hard. Dodge his Q and watch out for his E because it deals true damage. He builds loads of ArP so be weary of him. Take him out early for a simple shut down.

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