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Threats & Synergies
Fiora
start: doran ring, armor rune How she will try to trade against you: Fiora will usually try to dash towards you, then wait until you try to q her to parry. How to win trades pre6: Bait her dash by walking towards her as if you want to engage but don't get too close, then walk back, if she dashes, auto her once. If she runs away after your first auto, poke her with as much autos as you can before her dash comes back in about 15 seconds if she engages on to you after your first auto, or if you get hit by her dash, auto her once more so she can use her parry, then q her after her parry is over, and kite back into your minion waves until she disengages or dies from fighting you in minion waves.
Heimerdinger
start: doran shield, magic resist rune How he will try to trade against you: the trade that will deal the most damage to you is when heimerdinger will try to bait you into walking up to hit his towers, then throw his stun on you. How to win trades pre6: Bait heimerdinger into wasting his stun bomb by walking up to his tower, then walking back until he uses his stun bomb, your goal in this lane is to survive and keep baiting heimerdinger to use his abilities on you until he is out of mana, once he is out of mana, or very low, you can walk up to him and kill him.
Vladimir
start: doran ring, magic resist runes How he will try to trade against you: Vlad will try to walk up to you and q you once his mana bar turns red. How to win trades pre6: this is one of the easiest match ups, level one you have to poke him down really hard, to the point where he runs away from minion exp, don't allow him to q a single minion lvl 1, vlad won't be able to do anything against your lvl 1. after lvl 1, just keep hard poking him with auto q auto, and only avoid fighting him when his mana bar is red. If you couldn't kill him on first back, build wits end, if you were able to kill him and push the minions in his tower, you can either build liandry or morello. by the time he gets lvl 6, you should be 2 or 1 level ahead of him so his all in shouldn't deal much damage to you if you don't fight him when he has red bar, if you're the same level as him after 6, then build some magic resist.
Teemo
impossible to beat, sorry.
Ryze
Start: doran ring, magic resist runes How he will try to trade against you: ryzes usually either try to get some aoe damage on you if you get too close to minion waves, or he will try to walk up to slow you, then hit his full combo. How to win trades pre6: Don't stay near/into the minions that ryze will q, path next to the minions and constantly try to hard shove into the enemy tower so that ryze has to use his abilities and mana bar on minion waves whenever it's obvious to you that ryze will try to last hit a minion, throw a q at his face. If he tries to walk into you, back away if you can, or if you have a lot of minions around you, try to think when he is about to throw his q at you then side step it, then auto q him, simple way to try to time and dodge ryze q: auto ryze then slightly walk to the left to dodge his q, then q and auto him. if ryze is out of mana from using his spells on the minions to farm, then you can all-in him and kill him. it will be harder for ryze to run out of mana, especially after his first back because he rushes mana items, so don't rely too much on him running out of mana, and focus on slowly poking him when he is trying to kill a minion, or after he used his q on minion waves.
Mordekaiser
Start: doran ring, magic resist runes How he will try to trade against you: Mordekaiser will try to either q you if you're in his range, or pull you then q you and auto you to death with his passive. after lvl 6 he will instantly ult you then kill you. How to win trades pre6: The only thing you need to focus on dodging is his pull, do not attack him if he has his pull off cooldown, once he uses his pull, try to sidestep it, then hard trade against him until his pull comes back in 24 seconds, even if you get hit by his q, it doesn't matter. just make sure you don't get in his auto range so that he doesn't proc his passive. on your first back, rush qss How to win post 6: You should have been winning lane against him pre6, every time mordekaiser tries to ult you, instantly qss him, side step his pull and auto him hard, q when he gets too close then w away.
Olaf
Start: doran shield, armor runes How he will try to trade against you: olaf will try to hit you with one spear then run up to you, grab the spear and run you down. How to win trades pre6: lvl 1 against this match up is the most important because this is your chance to bring his hp so low that he cannot all in you, try to bring his hp down to half lvl 1, all you have to do is side step his axe, then walk up and auto him as hard as you can until he gets his next axe in 7 seconds. after he gets lvl 2, keep side stepping his axe but be more cautious, if olaf walks up to try to grab the thrown axe, disengage, but if he doesn't then throw an auto attack at him. an easier way to sidestep his axe is to stand next to a minion that's about to die, the olaf will try to axe both you and the minion so you can get an idea of where he will throw the axe, then side step it. if he doesn't throw an axe in a while, throw a q at him carefully so he knows this isnt a passive lane. You might want to rush tabai against him.
Malphite
Start: doran shield if comet, doran ring if grasp, magic resist runes, taste of blood. How he will try to trade against you: Malphite will try to q you on cooldown until you are low enough for him to all in How to win trades against him pre6: this match up is sort of like pantheon, you will have to auto auto q trade with him every time he qs you, then back off until your q is no longer on cooldown, hard shove against him, every time you get low hp(under 30 percent hp), don't risk it, recall to replenish your health, rush wits end starting with the mr part. after you complete wits end, malphite won't be able to outdamage you no matter what. just be sure to trade atleast an auto q every time he qs you.
Camille
Start: doran ring, armor runes, press the attack with taste of blood and ravenous hunter. How she will try to trade against you; Camille will try to hit you with a cone, or dash through a wall then auto you. How to win trades pre6: you have to be very aggressive against camille, hard shove against her as well. don't stand near walls, every time she tries to farm, try to proc your pta, try not to get too close to walls, your goal this lane is to try to get her so low lvl 1 that she isnt able to do anything to you future levels. On your first back, rush armsguard, then berzerkers, then nashors tooth. Don't be scared, even if she hits her full combo on you, she will always lose trades, just be sure to save your q for when she engages you, and proc pta when you can afterwards
Darius
Start: Doran ring, armor runes. How he will try to trade against you: Darius will try to pull you then hit your with the edge of his bladed q, then auto w to slow you and auto you to death How to win trades pre6: max e, your goal here is to slowly get him to half hp so that he isn't able to all in you, pre6 if darius is half hp or lower and he grabs you, you can kill him with ignite. the hard part is getting him to half hp without losing your hp, which is easy when you know what to do, so this is how you do it: lvl 1 is the only time that you can poke hard with your e so use that opportunity, poke him a lot lvl 1 but becareful not to get in range of his q, so poke, then walk back, then poke again. after lvl 1, your q is the only thing that you can poke safely, so keep poking with your q on cooldown, but every time darius tries to kill a minion, that's when you poke with your e at a distance, darius won't grab you if he's focused on killing a minion, just poke with e once then walk back. you will know that darius is trying to kill a minion by looking at whenever your minions are about to die, if darius is walking up to that minion, that's when u know he is about to kill a minion, pay attention to his movements, you can kinda tell when he wants to grab you or when he wants to kill a minion. again, your goal is to get darius to half hp without losing hp, after that you can even let yourself get grabbed and kill him, or you can keep playing it smart until he dies. when darius all ins you, if you can dodge his q, you'll dodge a lot of his damage. If you're caught in his e and are able to die, flashing out of his q then poking him will give you more confidence in the match up and you'll learn when you can outdamage him.
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