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Spells:
Flash
Teleport
Ability Order
Ionian Fervor (PASSIVE)
Irelia Passive Ability
Introduction

This guide will hopefully teach you how to build, play, lane, and off tank successfully with




Pros -
+ She is arguably the best at the job!
+ If she's low/medium health, she will be getting many more stuns from her

+ Can easily solo top - and fit a great role in the team.
+ Has high damage even when building tanky!
+ Can 1v1 most other champions with ease
+ Super fun to play
Cons -
- There's not always a spot in the team for an off tank.
- Not very easy to play successfully
- Unreliable CC
http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/offtanks-the-new-metagame-79701
In Short -
The art of off tanking is essentially being a second or "reserve" tank for your team. If your tank is there to initiate, ALWAYS let them go first, THEN you go in. If your tank isn't there to initiate, it's your time to shine! Off tanks can be a back up tank, essentially, and peel off the carries with your pretty crazy DPS for your survivability!
You essentially just want to run in like the female Rambo, use Q and E to dive and stun, then activate your



The beauty of an off tank is that they build tanky items when the team fights start happening - meaning they know what to build by who's doing the best on the n

A good question. She's very tricky in lane until she hits level 6 and gets a



You might notice that, as










Sustaining as


If you opt into a

After you do get to level 6 (and usually, with a



If you're still a bit uneasy about laning with her, I'd advise watching someone like Wickd (Who's one of the best


To be honest, the only ones I'd list as viable would be 9/21/0, 0/21/9, 0/16/14 and 0/9/21.
Defence is simply amazing.


Utility is, in my opinion, the second most viable for an off tank

Offence is a little iffy.


Greater Mark of Desolation
Hands down THE best marks for physical damage. Increase damage from your Q, R, and auto attacks in general. These are pretty damn bad *** if I do say so myself. The closest thing to an alternative would be

Greater Seal of Replenishment
These give you what's essentially unlimited mana late game. These help your harassing a little bit, and are generally awesome. If you want an alternative I'd highly recommend


These are essentially what we rely on for some early game MR, but with these, a good



Greater Quintessence of Desolation
Same reasoning as the marks really! However, flat health quints (




A

After her

I get the


This item is optional,


The




After this, I get a



You might notice I left the last part blank, if you didn't take a


What You SHOULD Get -




Just like

What You CAN Get -

With no reliable CC, this would be the closest thing to a reliable CC you'd have. This is a great spell and should never be overlooked, I just feel movement is a lot more useful.

Shuts down healers, and can help towards those early kills a great deal. I still feel





What You SHOULDN'T Get -

She's not THAT mana hungry...

Why are you even considering this spell?...

Let a support or a tank take this, you are extremely reliant on your summoner spells!

This is for the supports, let them take this!

You aren't jungling.

Your passive and


This spell is so outclassed it isn't even funny...
Don't take this spell. Please no.

Often frowned upon, but it does have it's uses, just not on




- If you're struggling, last hit minion with your
Bladesurge, this can result in quite a lot of gold! Watch out though, it can end up costing a lot of mana!
- You can combo up
Bladesurge and
Equilibrium Strike for devastating harassment.
- If you're getting ganked and are at low health, don't just pop
Equilibrium Strike at the first chance you get, try and do a quick evaluation of the situation, can you kite them to your tower and then use it? Sometimes it turns out a lot better if you wait to use it!
- You can use
Bladesurge to dash through minions to enemies for unexpected damage.
- Remember, you're only an off tank, you aren't invincible! Let the tank go first if one is present! You didn't build that
Trinity Force for fun, you know!
- Even though you're extremely bulky, your main aim will be focussing squishies down and getting focussed that way. In most cases, you will be up in their face with huge damage and a stun waiting for them - not forgetting your
Randuin's Omen active! That's an easy and awesome way to get focussed or peel a carry or some heat off your own team!
6/6/11 - Added a

16/6/11 - Added an alternate build.
13/7/11 - Turned the second build into a tankier build, and the first into a more damagey build. It's important to note that the second build is MUCH better in lane than the first.
23/7/11 - Fixed a mistake in the second build's skill order.
26/7/11 - Added


25/9/11 - Added a new section on Laning.
27/10/11 - Changed the second build to something similar to LLL Zealot's


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