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So I think I found a build on that I like. If you think you are going to be team fighting early then get after your jungle item + . If you are still going to be ganking individual champions then get after Devourer. The thing about Guinsoo’s is that you have to stack it before it is doing AoE splash damage. Death’s Dance makes and the bonus damage from heal you so you can pretty much leave toggled to on unless you are in dire straits and need the bonus healing from . The 10% CDR you get from it is also nice as you really don’t get it from anywhere else unless you are jungling and don’t have a mana user to hand it off too.

At the point at which you have , , and your damage and healing are pretty crazy but you will be squishy and have to be really cognizant of whether or not your is on or off of cool down. This is where comes in as it will keep you alive through a prodigious amount of burst, and if you are alive you can heal up pretty quickly.

I you don’t need any more damage, then you can look toward some more defensive options. is good if you are facing some big AP burst. The armor pen it provides is a also nice addition to the stats you are already packing. If you want to be ultra troll or you are getting focused down too quickly then . You get more bang for your buck with if the enemy teams damage sources are mixed, but that isn’t a hard requirement as most champions either have some magic damage in their kits or they get magic damage from items they purchase (think or and the energized strike from .

is also a great addition if you feel like you have enough damage but need more healing and more MR and/or you are dying because you abilities aren’t coming off of cool down quickly enough. Between it and you will have 20% CDR.

is also beastly for more survivability, more attack damage, and even more AoE damage, plus the active counts as an auto attack reset which comes in handy when you need one more auto attack to kill off your target.

As far as your jungle item goes, if you think you'll have trouble sticking to your targets then can be a good choice. If however you figure there will be someone that you will need to be dueling later in the game like a then I would recommend .

Tailor your boot choice to the game. If they have a bunch of slows the are the way to go. If they have two or more forms of hard CC e.g. + then you will probably want to pick up . If their team is AD and autoattack centric, the would be appropriate. If you are really riping it up, then you might even consider getting but I feel that as a potential primary or possibly secondary form of initiation does appreciate some defensive stats and you will already have a huge amount of attack speed from the combination of your kit and your item build.

I'm still fleshing out the final build and will probably always have some variation from game to game, but so far I feel like

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Are core. With these items in hand you are definitely setup for split pushing which might be the tactic you use if you weren't able to snowball your lanes. And if you choose to team fight as long as your is off cool down you are going to be able to get in and mix it up which is what you should probably be doing if your team is sufficiently ahead and is not outright outclassed by the enemy team in terms of team fight prowess.

The other items are debatable, but if I could get away with it my only "defensive" item would be .

So a full build might look like the one depicted above.

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Game where I bought second. I wanted Challenging Smite for and , but also wanted a slow since they had a lot of mobility in the form of and and once she starts doing her + + bit. I also considered that the % health damage would help me cut through and somewhat match the BotRK that would inevitably get. It worked but I didn't get a lot of opportunities to start snowballing and so I felt a bit weak as I was ramping up. Fortunately and were doing well.

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Observations after another game.

I still like + into . However, you need to make an early determination on how slippery your targets are. Or to put it another way, you need to ask your self if having a ranged and targeted slow in your kit will help you make plays more than the mini-exhaust + vision + true damage over time that Challenging Smite nets you.

You can get the slow/speed theft from two sources. in the form of Chilling Smite. Or / . Interesting note that the active on Bilgewater does magical damage while the active on BotRK does physical damage according to Lol Wiki. Not sure why the change. Also not sure if the physical damage from the active on BotRK heals you if you have .

I had a game last night where it would have been handy to have some sort of slow as a kill or two slipped from my grasp due to insufficient range or move speed. Though IIRC at least one was as a result of not even having tier 1 boots at the time.

In this game I felt a little like I was lacking in attack speed before my Devourer was Sated since I felt was necessary to survive the burst of a fairly fed . My rough take away from this is that a second attack speed item is somewhat core to feel like you are fully on line. That usually comes in the form of the way I'm currently building but I don't like buliding it first as it takes time to stack meaning that its fully potential usually doesn't come on line unless you have really good lock down from your teammates in a gank.

I've built second in another game and i did appreciate the attack speed and ability to shred objectives like Dragon, but it terms or raw burst damage compared to it felt lackluster. I supposed the more sustained DPS in the form of % health damage can be useful in situations where you are going to have time to hack on a target (especially a tanky target), but in ganks that is not often the case. To me, Trox feels best when you can hit the target with enough burst damage that you are just more healthy than they are and then there is no way they can win the sustain battle allowing you to clean up anyone still standing after your initial burst.

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Wasn’t quite sure what defensive item to go with last here. Was thinking for the times when my was down but their champions with much magic damage were so weak I went back and forth between GA and for the extra hit points. could also have been an option, but was deleting everyone when we couldn’t manage to CC him, so I am not sure a little attack speed reduction would have helped. Also despite having I noticed that did no critical strike damage in the after game stats. Wondering if that is a glitch.

I healed up 28821 damage, which just about covered for the damage dealt to champions by , , and .

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First game when I was messing around with accidentally, because it is in 's recommended items list. I had intended to buy after . Whoops! However, I was pleasantly surprised with how effective felt. Like I said above it is a good source of sustain and requires no ramp up time unlike the passive from Guinsoo’s.

This is also when I found out that is kind of hard to duel even if you are rather fed and I think I would have won that fight if I had Challenging Smite as opposed to Chilling Smite.

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