===RUNES===

===MASTERIES===

===ITEMS===

===ADVANCED TIPS===

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Best-to-use:


For champions that lack attackspeed or utilize it with something, like Vayne

greater mark of desolation
For nearly every phisical damage dealer


For champions that need earlygame kick with extra AD like Pantheon


For nearly every magic damage dealer

Best-to-use:


For nearly every champion, flat ones because difference is most noticeable at early level, when you don't have much armor itemized/gained from champion itself

greater seal of replenishment
For nearly every champion that lack mana regen early game a lot,
keep in mind that at level 7 bonus/level ones are better, so use it ONLY if you need mana regen early game, during laning phase like for Sona or sometimes for Sion


For the ones that lack mana regen through entire game like Kassadin

Best-to-use:


To get as much ability power as possible for champions, that need strong kick in midgame like Cassiopeia


For champions that need to steamroll enemies on laning phase with extra AP like Lux,
keep in mind that at level 7 flat ones are almost as good as bonus/level ones


For nearly every champion, it improves your anti-magic defense in midgame when mages are strongest, usually those are better than flat ones for champions that don't build magic resistance with items, and don't have magic resistance gain per level


For nearly every champion, it improves your anti-magic defense in early game when you get a lot of harras from skills. At level 9 they are almost equal to bonus/level ones


For champions that lacks cooldown reduction a lot, or just need that almost 10% cooldown reduction at level 18 given by 9 that glyps, to reach 40% cooldown reduction cap with items.

best-to-use:


Frequently used by mages, not Greater Quintessence of Scaling Ability Power as at level 12 only they are better


For mages that have a lot of AP on their own like Veigar and won't even feel exta ability power from
Greater Quintessence of Ability Power. Also it's good to increase natural magic penetration of champions that have it on their own like fiddlestick

greater quintessence of desolation
For nearly every champion that deals high physical damage


For champions that need early game kick with extra AD like Pantheon. Also it's important to note, that if you want from runes both: extra AD and armor penetration it's more beneficial to use set: greater mark of desolation+ Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage than Greater Mark of Attack Damage+ greater quintessence of desolation as the ratio for trade AD for armor penetration in these runes is more effective that way


Good for supports, supported by Greater Seal of Gold and Greed it provides 7,25 gold/10 seconds which is free gold generator since game starts and that is important for supports, that don't have lasthits. Also it's like a free ward every 21 seconds, and 1740 gold gained total, during 40 minutes match (that's +/- 25% more gold than ordinar support reaches in that gametime)


Good for ranged physical damage dealers, especially after all lifesteal items nerfes.
If supported by Vampirism it provides 9% lifesteal, which also makes you less independant on lifesteal items (and it sometimes allows you to not buy them at all)


For nearly every champion, especially for melee champions that have problems at sticking to their target. Also this stat is not easily itemizable. Supported by Swiftness provides extra 7,5% movement speed!


As with marks, there are sometimes used Greater Quintessence of Critical Chance and Greater Quintessence of Critical Damage for champions that utilize critical strikes a lot like Shaco and Tryndamere.

Tier 3 key masteries:


It's for every champion that deals physical damage, and 10% armor shreeding is awesome thing


This one is for magic damage dealers, like Weapon Expertise for physical damage dealers


This one is huge kick for earlygame health, not only because of Veteran's Scars itself, but also because if you want Veteran's Scars you need to take 4 points into Durability too.
Can save from death in situation when 1-2 attacks more would kill you (and those situations are very common)


Great for junglers as it improves buffs duration, also good for mages that usually take blue buff from their junglers, and ranged physical damage dealers, that usually take red buff from their junglers



Last tier key-masteries:


Bread and butter for all magic and physical damage dealers, as it helps with landing a kill, works even better with Havoc . And last thing to notice - Pantheon with his Heartseeker Strike is just that mastery lover!


Bread and butter for tanks and offtanks. Not only nice to have extra 3% health,
but also very important 10% crowd control reduction which is one of hardest to itemize stat


It's nice-to-have thing as summoner's spells usually have really long cooldowns.
Although it's not so great as 2 previous mentioned masteries.

TIER 1




Extra AD is always good to have, especially earlygame - good not only in order to reach higher tier masteries, but also very good itsef



As with Brute Force it's also good to have. Although it's usually spent as 3/4 with Summoner's Wrath , not full 4/4 points, because it usually acts higher tier unlocker, and you need to spend only 4 points on 1st tier masteries to unlock higher ones



Was good before all jungle nerfs, now that nearly every champion can jungle it's almost useless



TIER 2



Just to reach Weapon Expertise , but kinda OK to have itself too



Mostly to reach Arcane Knowledge , but 4% cooldown reduction sometimes helps to reach 40% cooldown reduction cap, with items, runes, and also Intelligence so it's kinda good mastery itself



Useless at all as during team-sieging a tower you have enough damage to manage destroying it



TIER 3



Mostly to reach Lethality , bonus itself isn't very high but OK to have, especially for AD casters like Urgot



It's commonly said to be useless, but it's not true. It's weak, but sometimes still better than other masteries,
it's usually taken because "there's nothing better, and i need to reach Executioner ".
Comes good in AP masteries because it increases also AP like Rabadon's Deathcap or Archmage (increases damage of skills too, so also it increases AP gained from extra %AP item/masteries even more),
Also it has use for AP/AD hybrids, as it increases damage regardless what's the source of damage, so it improves both: AD and AP aspects. And don't forget it improves damage from on-hit effects too!



TIER 4



Extra 10% critical strike damage is very good thing for physical damage dealers, that will build critical strike chance and those that rely on critical strikes themselves like Shaco or Tryndamere, also keep in mind that for Pantheon it's always stronger finish-off with Heartseeker Strike. Also it's very hard to itemize stats because the only item that provides extra critical strik damage is Infinity Edge



Kinda weak stat itself, works best with lifesteal items and runes.
It's good if you start with Doran's Blade because you'll have 6% lifesteal, and if you have also Greater Quintessence of Life Steal you start off with 12% lifesteal and if you got to the jungle with Vampiric Scepter you start with 19% lifesteal. So it's very good, but only as a synergy effect



Like Vampirism it's kinda weak itself, but if you also have Mental Force , Greater Quintessence of Ability Power and Greater Glyph of Scaling Ability Power - then the bonus is quite strong. So again, it's good, but only as a synergy effect



TIER 5



It's very weak itself as for such a high tier mastery, but it works extremly well as synergy effect with other flat armor pierce things. With 9 greater mark of desolation and Sunder you get strong 21 armor pierce against low-armor champions. With greater quintessence of desolation you reach 31, and if you have also flat armor penetration from The Brutalizer or Youmuu's Ghostblade, or even skill from champion itself, like Olaf's Ragnarok, you can shreed target's armor down to minus values. Only then this mastery is strong.




Increases damage output of mages, because usually around 50% od skills' damage comes from all colleced AP, this will increase total damage output of mages by around 2,5% - not much? Add Havoc and Rabadon's Deathcap and you'll feel it a lot.

TIER 1



Very good thing earlygame, for those champions that lack magic resist. Works even better with Greater Glyph of Magic Resist because you can have extra 18 magic resistance resulting in 58 total magic resistance for most squishy champions that don't have magic resistance per level gain, and usually don't build magic resistance. Also worth to remember is that it counters Sorcerer's Shoes which with Greater Mark of Magic Penetration could shreed 29 of your magic resistance down to nearly 0 if you hadn't any extra magic resistance



Works like Resistance , usually earlygame your magic resistance is higher than armor so it can fill the hole in your shield a bit. Works better with Greater Seal of Armor resulting in 19 extra armor, which usually sets 1st level armor at level around 35 for most squishy champions. If you did read about Sunder you know how much armor shreeding your opponents can have earlygame from runes and masteries only. So it's perfect counter against that



Same as with Butcher - after all these jungle nerfs you totally don't need that. And spending points only to reach Bladed Armor is not worth it, as Bladed Armor is, for the same reason, not needed



TIER 2



Very weak itself, used usually to reach Veteran's Scars , and then it's kinda OK thing to have. The main case here is also to pick it because Vigor is worse



Very weak mastery as health regeneration is very easily itemizable, especially earlygame where you can buy Regrowth Pendant and a bit later philosopher's stone. Goes totally useless lategame, midgame, and even later-earlygame



TIER 3



Very weak mastery, again. The only reason to take it is that there are worse masteries here, and you sometimes need to spend that 2 points in order to reach Juggernaut



Nice mastery, as area of effect spells are common, works even better with Honor Guard



As I said before with Tough Skin - you don't need it anymore after jungle nerfs



TIER 4



Even more useless than Demolitionist



It's very good movement speed bonus for initiation, during real clash you loose health turing off that mastery's effect. But movements speed bonus during map travelling or chasing target when you are on almost full health is very strong, when supported with Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed and Swiftness



Well, it seems like comparable thing to Greater Quintessence of Scaling Cooldown Reduction but tanks usually don't need cooldown reduction unless they gain it from items like Frozen Heart - then it can come in handy if you want to reach 40% cooldown reduction cap



TIER 5



Kinda weak mastery as for 5th tier, but it's very good if you add Evasion to make its effect stronger. Also works very good with Ninja Tabi and champion's skills that reduce damage taken (like Poppy's Valiant Fighter).



Well, if you go for 21 points into defense from masteries you usually are a tank or an offtank. And those usually don't have problems with gaining gold unlike supports for which it would be kinda nice. It provides around 600 gold per average match.

TIER 1



Some people say "it's good only if you die - you don't want to die = don't take it". Tell me, how many matches you've had with 0 deaths? Almost none. This mastery is surprisingly good as for tier 1, especially lategame, when respawn time is so long, and because of that 1 ace is usually lost game because during spawn time enemies can destroy even 3 or more turrets (not talking about inhibitors)



Very weak mastery. Usualy taken only in order to reach Meditation Bonus isn't noticeable during entire game. Could be good only for Ryze as it gives him extra damage for skills (so it's like extra AP) or Blitzcrank as his Mana Barrier transforms that mana into temporary shield when in danger. Could have use for Manamune or Archangel's Staff but bonus isn't very strong then either.



It's like nearly nothing, sometimes you recall in bush and manage to escape milisecond before hit, but that situations are rare and it's not worth spending that mastery point



TIER 2



Very good mastery, if you add other bonus movement speed sources like Initiator , Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed, Zeal, Phantom Dancer, Trinity Force and skills like Master Yi's Highlander. Kinda weak itself



It's good for mana hungry champion like Karthus from early level, works better with greater mark of replenishment or Greater Mark of Scaling Mana Regeneration



5% bonus sight range for wards is so weak thing that i can honestly say it's worst mastery ever



TIER 3



In order to get Wealth . Better with gold generator runes. Usually for supports.
I's also a free ward each 6 minutes and 15 seconds



Like Vampirism but for mages. The huge downside is that spells aren't so spammable source of life regeneration like atuoattacks, although mages usually aren't in need for spellvamp as their usual purpose is to nuke down squishies. Could be slightly good only if you plan building Will of the Ancients. Last thing to notice: for mages it's usually better to have other quintessences than Greater Quintessence of Spell Vamp so it's not as great as Vampirism after all.



TIER 4



Allows support to buy extra ward early on, and that's it!
Also allows support to start with Regrowth Pendant in order to create philosopher's stone quickly, while it's just enough gold to buy ward you wouldn't have money for if you didn't take Wealth so it's ok... for supports



Well, seems kinda OK but i don't know what to think about this mastery personally. It would be OK to have for farm/level dependant champions, but those usually don't go so deep into utility tree



Same as Awareness



TIER 5


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Could be good for mana bulk champions like Ryze but it's such a high tier that it's not so worth going so deep into utility only for this mastery



Very descent mastery with Sorcery as cooldown is essential for many champions. The huge downside is its high tier that it's not worth going so deep into utility tree only to get this mastery.
But it's extremly worth taking if you are that deep in utility tree anyways

EFFECTIVE HEALTH = HEALTH POINTS x (1 + 1% of defense)

117 defense for each 1000 of health

130 defense for each 1000 of health

20 DPS and 100 HP vs 10 DPS 200 HP

50 DPS and 100 HP vs 10 DPS 500 HP

50 DPS and 200 HP vs 10 DPS 600 HP

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