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You can have up to 2 masterwork items, that upgrade automatically when you hit level 13.
Each friendly champion can have 1 masterwork item. You can upgrade one item at each level 14,15,16 and 17. The upgrade is applied to the up-gradable item in the champions first slot. So if they have 2 up-gradable items, make sure you tell them to put the one they want upgraded into their first slot temporarily while you upgrade it. Note that the item order on the scoreboard does not reflect the item order in their inventory.

Q -> W -> AA
Standard poke combo.

Q -> W -> E -> (AA)
This is the basic all-in combo, and you can often get an auto-attack off at the end while they are still CC'd.

Q -> E -> W -> AA
This is less optimal, but if an enemy walks in range of a Q-pillar you can knock them up to allow you to freely hit W followed by an auto-attack to proc brittle.

Q -> R1 -> W -> AA -> R2 -> E
Full combo CC for maximum duration with triple brittle proc.

R1 -> Q -> R2 -> E -> W -> AA
Alternate full combo that is easier to hit.

Using Q

Take Q first to help secure the some of the minions that would give your opponent free damage on you if you had to auto-attack.

When using Q to last hit minions, move to the side and line up the minion between you and your opponent to hit them both for free poke.

When your opponent is in front of the minion, plan around the fact that your Q will stop shortly after the enemy champion.

Using W

An easy time to hit a W is when the opponent is about to last hit a minion, then auto-attack them to proc brittle. They will usually not get trade damage on you because their auto-attack is either on cooldown or cancelled by your knock-back. You can walk away after the knock-back.

You can also hit W on a target slowed by your Q. Follow this up with an E into the pillar/terrain or an auto-attack to proc brittle.

Using E

Using E into terrain for the knock-up is the most obvious use. In threatening match-ups you can also use this to disengage trading. Or to close the gap when chasing an enemy in order to apply the slow from Q.

Using R

R is a great engage tool that can be used from afar. Make sure to hit the first cast to apply brittle and a slow to deal more damage, CC longer and have an easier time on hitting the recast.

Buying items

Buying items while in lane, means that you only need to recall for health and mana. So the longer you can sustain your health and mana, the more you can stay in lane, earning gold and xp. Because of this, it is often favourable to trade less with your opponent, so that you can stay in lane longer while they have to recall to buy items. In addition, you can buy items to help you sustain, for example buying mana when you are out of mana. But make sure that this is contributing to the item you are building.

You can also pay attention to times when you are stronger than your opponent because they have unspent gold, while you have items.

When buying items, go into a bush or out of range of your opponent so they can't cancel it by damaging you or engage onto you easily. Try to time buying items so that you won't miss last hits.

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