Ability Explanations

Rat-ta-tat-tat

Deadly Venom: Twitch's basic attacks infect the target, dealing 2/4/6/8 damage every second for 6 seconds. Stacks up to 6 times.

Total damage over time from passive

Level 1: Level 6: Level 11: Level 16:

1 stack 12 24 36 48

2 stacks 24 48 72 108

3 stacks 36 72 108 144

4 stacks 48 96 144 192

5 stacks 60 120 180 240

6 stacks 72 144 216 288

• The effectiveness of twitch's abilities varies on the amount of stacks of Deadly Venom an opponent has on them.

Ambush: After 1.25 seconds, Twitch becomes invisible for 4/5/6/7/8 Seconds. While stealthed, twith gains 20% bonus movement speed. If twitch attacks a unit while stealthed, he gains 30/40/50/60/70% Attack Speed for 5 seconds

• Use this early game to check bushes
• Middle game, this ability allows for escapes, easy ganks, relatively safe lane pushing, and excellent map awareness.
• Late game, this spell allows for ridiculously high DPS thanks to its attack speed buff, continued map awareness, escapability, and positioning for your Rat-ta-tat-tat
• note: Avoid roaming if the other teams has started to buy excessive pink wards and oracles. This usually applies late game, but can apply mid game as well

Venom Cask: Twitch hurls a cask of venom that explodes in an area, adding 2 stacks of Deadly Venom, and slowing targets hit by 25/30/35/40/45% for 3 seconds.

Contaminate

• Keep in mind that Venom Cask has an incredibly long range. If you feel safe, you can use this to slow any enemies that are chasing one of your teammates, too.
• This ability resets your autoattack timer, giving you the ability to outduel many other carries during the early levels.
• Use this ability after trades to cause your Deadly Venom to reset its' duration. This is very important and can make a significant difference in trading.

Contaminate: Deals 20/35/50/65/80 physical damage to enemies infected with Deadly Venom. Contaminate deals an additional 15/20/25/30/35 (+.2 Ability Power) (+.25 Bonus Attack damage) Physical damage per stack of Deadly Venom on them.

• Early game, this turns out to be a very strong way of harassing the opponents. it costs a lot of mana though , so try not to use it, unless you find yourself at full mana
• Effective at Kill-Stealing your allies' kills. I suggest taking the kill anyways; It's better to assure your team a kill, than even risk having the enemy Flash + Locket of the Iron Solari away at the last moment. Anyways, It really isn't considered kill-stealing, if the gold and experience is going to the AD carry now, is it? ;)

Twitch

• This spell makes you have a longer attack range than turrets. Use this to push and knock down a low turret, if you think that you it's safe to do so.
• This ability merits its own section in the guide.
• In team fights, you can use this as a range extender to damage assassins from afar.

Skill Sequence: Leveling

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

Ambush

• If you are getting pressured against a kill lane, leading a jungle invasion, or need to facecheck brush, get Ambush at level 1.

Contaminate

Contaminate

Ignite

Contaminate

Ambush

Venom Cask

Venom Cask

Choosing a Support: Abridged/Tl;DR

Good Supports:

Okay Supports:

Nunu & Willump, Soraka, Janna, Shen, Karma(outdated, will update soon), Kayle

Trololol:

Zilean

Choosing a support

Thresh is a really strong support for twitch. He offers good peel in team fights, gives twitch an escape ability, and a reliable, very strong CC for twitch.

• Death Sentence's passive provides noticeable early game damage. DON'T OVERLOOK THIS! Plus, the active provides a great displacement + stun on a target. If he lands this on a carry, it is devestating. Synergizes with Rat-ta-tat-tat
• Dark Passage Gives a nice shield to help against harass, plus it gives you an escape mechanism. This is very helpful in team fights, and relocating to a more favorable position. While this is not as good as a heal during the laning phase, the shield seems to be good enough of a defensive boost. Dark Passage solves twitches' inability to escape from bruisers.
• Flay is a good CC. It yields good damage early game, that can also displace an enemy carry, making jungle ganks & duels in lane a lot easier. Late game, this is an amazing peel for you.
• The Box is a good CC. It deals good damage, and applies a nasty slow effect. The box synergizes well with Rat-ta-tat-tat if thresh can box in several people.

Leona's Sunlight can apply a nasty damage debuff on your targets, and she has good defenses. Keep in mind that your Deadly Venom Damage over time effect procs the sunlight debuff. HOWEVER, keep in mind, that you are twitch, and you still do not have any sustain, this combination is typically very effective against a bottom lane that has not many ways to disengage.

• Leona is a very strong support for twitch, but she is

  Very hard

  to lane with. You two must play offensively, and have very good coordination! You must be ready and able and in position to hit any Champion Leona hits with her spells, while still being able to farm Creep score. Twitch doesn't have a dash or spell that deals damage on its' own, like Piltover Peacemaker, so he needs to followup leona's Zenith Blade with as many autoattacks as possible.

• Sunlight yields a massive increase in Twitches already pretty high damage, as Deadly Venom is capable of proccing sunlight.

• Leona's abilities can stun a single target for up to 3.25 seconds with Zenith Blade and Shield of Daybreak, and can stun a group for 1.5 seconds (with her ultimate, Solar Flare. She has a lot of CC

One of the strongest supports, in that of all supports listed, a morgana will likely keep you the safest. With her ability to make you immune to CC, her long range, long duration snare, and her AoE slow stun, your opponents will have a hard time getting to you.

• Dark Binding is the strongest invading spell in the entire game.

• Dark Binding has a high base damage early game, and a very long duration. A morgana that can land several bindings early game can force a recall. Her landing a binding on a weakened champion that is caught out of place will more likely result in a kill. Lastly, this spell is really good at setting up ganks/dives with a jungler.

• Black Shield can help you get away from ganks, reposition safely, help stop CC locks from some champions, or just mitigate some harass that you might be taking.

• Soul Shackles can help force all-ins that will likely end up in your favor. It is also very strong follow up CC in team fights.

A very strong support. While she provides few defensive bonuses for twitch, annie provides lane presence by way of CC & tons of damage. Few supports, or even ADCs can match her early game damage.

• Pyromania gives very strong CC.

• Disintegrate, along with her passive charged allows for easy, and usually safe trades in lane. Incinerate as a follow up makes her one of the highest damage dealing supports you can get.

• Is fairly tanky early game due to Molten Shield

• Long autoattack range; Will have the longest autoattack range come patch 4.4

• Summon: Tibbers, when prepared for correctly, is an instant AoE stun. Allows for good all-ins, when you hit level 6, along with good initiates for team fights

A great support. She is a force to be reckoned with early game. You and her will win most trades early game, beacause of her attack speed buffs. Late game, she most useful because of her ult, Crescendo. Her lane presence falls off hard after level 7, though due to her squishiness. Be sure to use her early level aggression to force opposing ADCs out of lane.

• Her Aria of Perseverance will help heal both her, and you/ one of your buddies.

• Her Song of Celerity, although not quite as good as a Shurelya's Battlesong, is quite effective for engaging/escaping fights, or just roaming. Early game, the on hit effects of this help set up jungle ganks well.

• Finally, her Hymn of Valor - her slow/damage debuff can be quite effective if she uses it well with her passive. Don't overlook it's early game damage

• Crescendo: Large AoE Damage/stun? Yes, please! Combos with Rat-ta-tat-tat

Your success laning with a Nami is totally based on skill. With an experienced nami, the lane will turn into a total kill lane. At worst, the lane is a passive farm lane. Her passive movespeed steroid will probably save your life a couple times.

• Aqua Prison is a tough to land skillshot. However, it is an AoE stun that synergizes well with Rat-ta-tat-tat. A nami that can land this spell will win team fights. Hitting this spell in lane will secure a kill, or force a flash.
• Ebb and Flow is a Damage/Healing ability. Early game, this will be her main contribution to duels. It provides a surprisingly strong heal, and some nice damage too. However, this ability does not scale well into the mid-late game.
• Tidecaller's Blessing gives you an attack steroid. It gives a slight damage boost for the late game, but is mostly used to help you duel the opposing carry during the laning phase.
• Tidal Wave offers good peel and kiting capabilities for team fights. Decent synergy with Rat-ta-tat-tat.

Lulu is a great support. You and her can play offensively, but you need to play differently, too. A Lulu/Twitch lane can be played offensively. However, you need to adopt a different sort of offensive play style when playing with Lulu. Lulu, relative to other supports, is squishy, especially during the laning phase! You and lulu should play defensively, when the bot support can heal back any harassment you do, and can also poke back

• An experienced lulu will use Glitterlance well, harassing the opposing bottom lane, so you don't have to.
• In the early levels, Lulu/twitch lane will win trades in small pokes/exchanges. Avoid long, drawn out fights, until you are sure you have the upper hand due to good harassment!
• Help, Pix!: The shield this gives you pales in comparison to say, Janna's Eye of the Storm, but it has more utility as early game harassment. Don't overlook the damage this can deal.
  Late game, Lulu shines because of Wild Growth. It allows for any character she casts it on, to become substantially tankier for a short duration! Twitch loves the feeling of being tanky, especially if he doesn't have to buy any extra items!

Great as a support. He makes up for his weak early game (1-3) with his ability to set-up future ganks well. Additionally, he has a noticable late game presence and acts as a fine offtank with Unbreakable Will

• Absolutely Amazing CC: ~1 second stun on target + 1-1.5 second stun on AoE

• He can tank damage for you early game, and your team late game! Gotta love Unbreakable Will!

• Triumphant Roar acts as a dual-sustainer! =)

• He may run in to mana problems, though, so try and work with him by positioning yourself to be able to attack a carry in case he is able to land off a knocked airborne combo

• Alistar's Pulverize + Headbutt combo, allows for your auto attacks to amount to more or less, 350 damage. In the early game, that can be nearly half of a carries' total health pool right there. If your jungler adds another CC to that, you can easily get 6 stacks off of your poison, which is another 350-ish damage. Combo with Ignite, and its nearly impossible for the enemy support to heal through that burst...

Zyra is a very strong support for twitch. Her plant sports offer incredible brush control. When playing with a zyra, you hardly have to ever worry about being lane ganked by a jungler. Pre-6, your lane may be a little rough if going against a poke-heavy composition. After level 6, the synergy you both have is terrifying.

• The plants zyra can produce from Rampant Growth yield strong, sustained damage, and can be effectively used to zone other carries.

• deadly bloom has a very long casting range, and will allow for "free" harassment against most carries.

• Grasping Roots scales very well in terms of damage. If she throws some spores down on her roots, she'll get plants that do a lot of damage, and slow. Getting a snare + spore combo on an ADC will probably win a trade, or secure a kill if your jungler is coming to help.

• Stranglethorns deals a lot of damage. It provides excellent CC, and most importantly, it synergizes with Rat-ta-tat-tat, because it will allow you always have the range advantage over other carries - especially when complemented with her Grasping Roots (which is very easy to land if your opponents are airborne.

Zyra is a fairly strong lane for twitch. While she has no sustain, she can deal a lot of damage, and also runs quite a bit of CC in her kit. Levels 1-3 will be rough if pitted against a poke heavy bot lane ( Sona Caitlyn e.g.). Aside from that, she is an excellent support. Her ultimate, Stranglethorns is comparable with sona's Crescendo, in terms of lockdown. She will provide great peel for you, so long as you are not pitted against champions with low cooldown gap closers like Akali. Also, she scales very well into late game.

Blitzcrank is an amazing support. He can create a large zoning area by simply standing in brush. He can be built as an off-tank, except he helps secure kills exceptionally well. He has no sustain, but can engage early game fights well, and can help you commit to fights with his peeling power. We weary when playing champions with good poking power, like Caitlyn, Lulu, and Ezreal.

• Rocket Grab yields excellent killing potential - early and late game. It wins games

• Being one of the best defensive supports in the game, he can make tower dives against you much harder than they should be. If your blitzcrank is good, he can Rocket Grab a carry/tank into your tower and force a Flash.

• Power Fist is an amazing CC that can also do excellent damage.

• Static Field Allows for AMAZING lockdown of AP carries, especially late game. This is especially good, since most assassins with mobility (like Katarina or Kassadin) cannot just jump in and kill you immediately

LOVE him as a support. Possibly one of the best supports you can have, because of his good offensive and defensive buffs, stun, tankiness, and early game sustain. His nerfs to Dazzle allow him to get easily bullied by ranged supports in lane, however.

• Dazzle allows you to get several stacks off of your target, and a possible kill if your jungler helps gank too!

• Imbue is amazing at sustaining you and him, and can have a short cool down relative to other supports; Especially early game.

• Shatter gives you tremendous amounts of armor (great for sustaining) and can give your enemies a nasty armor debuff, which can basically make your attacks deal them true damage in the early game. He has great late game presence, too, because he can Radiance, giving you extra attack damage. Who doesn't want free AD? I'll tell you who - the Sivir on the other team who is getting her socks rocked!

Okay, bet you didn't see this one coming. Even after the nerfs, supportlesticks is still a really strong support for twitch, falling just behind Sona, and is approximately tied with Taric, because of his great single target lock-down.

• Terrify ensures that you can freely auto-attack the opposing carry for 2.25 seconds.

• Fiddlesticks has great self-sustain in lane, and can safely harass the carry bot with Reap

• Deals noticeable damage with Bountiful Harvest and Crowstorm. Additionally, Bountiful Harvest is an effective way to tank & secure key objectives like dragon and baron.

• Terrify and Reap can be used late game to completely lock-down 1-2 people in a team fight.

Nunu & Willump has a nice sustain, a very long slow Ice Blast, and a very nice attack speed/move speed buff with Blood Boil. Finally, his ult, Absolute Zero, forces opponents to either a) Focus fire on nunu, b) run like hell or in the unfortunate case of fighting against a soraka c) CC nunu; Be that as it may, all case, saving the last one, allow you to attack the enemy freely. Twitch Likes free hits. If you can get him to tank the enemies' hits, he'll be an effective support. Easier said than done though.

I put Soraka on the bottom of the strong support list because although her Astral Blessing and Infuse will mitigate a lot of damage, soraka has serious trouble sustaining two people unless both she and you play passively. I don't like this, because twitch deals so much damage, that i think i should capitalize on it, rather than use it to solely last-hit. Do not ask for her as a support if you are playing against a Leona, Blitzcrank, or anyone who can force you to commit to fights

• Yes, her armor buff from her Astral Blessing helps a TON, but i do not view it as too much of a help, because a good team will notice the target of her heal, and then just switch targets.

• Her Infuse is quite good for spamming abilities, silencing the enemy, AND harassing the enemy! Twitch already has a fast mana regeneration, but the infinite mana from this ability means that he can safely AND effectively harass his enemy from afar! ( Venom Cask + Contaminate is probably one of the safest, and most reliable harassment means against a non-sustainable opposing bot lane)

• Soraka's Wish changes games. It has saved so many of my teammates - me among them!

Soraka

Twitch

A good support. Her Howling Gale knocks enemies airborne, which if coordinated right, will allow for massive damage. It also acts as a good disengage. The bad thing about Janna, is that she is incredibly squishy. Twitch isn't too tanky either. She cannot tank damage for you without risking her life as well.

• If she uses her Zephyr's slow on an enemy too, the carry/support will likely have to pop their flash to escape the massive damage about to come, unless they have their support right there to peel for them a little.

• Eye of the Storm allows you to effectively zone enemies, and gives you a large attack damage bonus, if you are lucky enough to get into a fight with them. It is difficult for a janna to always land an ideal shield, so if her skills as a janna support are in question, just play your lane safe.

• Monsoon, if well placed, can function to separate you from an enemy, or to separate an enemy from the rest of their team = free kill :) In the early game, this will protect you from tower dives.

Graves

Draven

Blitzcrank

Shen isn't really a "support", nor is it easy to lane with him. He can secure a kill easily with Shadow Dash + you + help from a jungler, but he is much better top. Regardless, having him on your team is an invaluable asset to you and your team.

• Although his heals through Vorpal Blade could be quite good, your heals depend on the amount of damage you can deal. This means that it is difficult to regain health AND avoid pushing the lane.

• Although he may suffer a little late game due to possible lack of farm, his Shadow Dash taunt is quite effective

• You and your team are guaranteed a safer game, since his Stand United is global, and gives a nice shield!
  Although with all of his buffs, I wouldn't see why he would go bot support, rather than solotop

Yes, karma seems like an excellent supplement to twitch's laning phase, and end-game in particular. But Since she lacks reliable hard CC, and is pretty squishy herself, do not pick her vs burst lanes.

• Karma's Gathering Fire synergizes well with the passivity of the bottom lane. Due to the occasional passivity of the bottom lane, karma can easily keep >1 stack of Mantra up.

• Inner Flame is a strong damaging ability in brawls in bottom lane, when your opposing laners are fighting you, and are forced to stay in the AoE of inner flame. It has a low cooldown too, so it can be spammed easily in lane for safe harassment. This may end up pushing your lane though

• Focused Resolve allows for effective disengages and chases. With twitches' low AA range pre-6 though, it won't have much offensive use in early fights that you have with her. If karma does not use this ability defensively, she is trying to set up a gank or kill.

• Inspire gives a good shield and can help you kite and disengage from fights. Take advantage of the temporary movespeed buff to distance yourself from bruisers in team fights, as it is difficult for twitch to kite against bruisers otherwise.

I've always love having Kayle on my team. While she is best solotop, she still can be a support for twitch. For a while I firmly believed that supports should be able to dish out a reasonable sum of damage, too. And she can do that, especially if she has a strong early game. As un-kosher as it may be, you should consider giving her 5 or so CS, so she can buy a fast philosopher's stone as Kayle sometimes has mana/gold problems.

Having a Kayle on your team will give you the most survivability, when facing some of your hard counters.

• Kayle lacks hard CC, but may make up for it in the amount of damage she can dish out to an enemy champion.

• Finally, her Intervention combined with the movement speed buff from Divine Blessing make it quite easy to escape from a team fight, help you commit to a fight, or in rare cases, help you get back into a fight.

• Finally, please look carefully at the duration of Intervention; 3 seconds of invulnerability is ~Huge~. 3 seconds is usually enough for twitch to mow everyone down, and to life-steal his way back up from near-death moments.

• Kayle lacks any hard CC; Other support champions have some sort of Area-of-Effect, team wide buff, or CC. Taric has Radiance, Sona has Crescendo, Janna has Monsoon, and even Soraka with Wish, they all have some sort of Area-of-Effect, team-wide Buff or CC.

• Kayle lacks the ability to effectively harass, or initiate in bottom lane, because of the short casting range of her Reckoning

• Much of her late game damage potential is lost, if she is denied farm

If you haven't seen this combo, prepare to laugh. I read on a forum that someone wanted to make a combo, where twitch would go Ambush, and zilean would cast his Time Bomb on him. So when you would run ( Ambushed, of course) next to the enemy champions, they would take a nasty nuke. This is quite literally 'stealth bombing'

Time Bomb

Laning / Early Game

Ambush

Ambush

Deadly Venom

Contaminate

Venom Cask

Contaminate

Contaminate

Deadly Venom

Deadly Venom

Contaminate

Ambush

Ambush

Freak your opponents out, possibly making them lose CS, AND
make it easier for your jungler to set up ganks

Items

Deadly Venom

Contaminate

Ambush

Item Sequence

Health Potion 50

Bilgewater Cutlass 1600

Boots 300

Blade of the Ruined King 3200

Zac

Amumu

Item Sequence

B. F. Sword 1300

Vampiric Scepter 900

Boots 300

Bloodthirster 3400

Last Whisper

Infinity Edge

Infinity Edge

SPACE SPACE SPACE

Infinity Edge

Statikk Shiv

Banshee's Veil

Guardian Angel

Mercurial Scimitar

Last Whisper

: This is your main damage dealer. This dramatically increases the critical strike damage you do, give a likable amount of CSC, and a fat amount of damage!

Okay. This item is okay for twitch. It gives twitch a team-wide armor stacking debuff, extra health, attack damage, and a small yet still significant amount of armor penetration. It synergizes well with Rat-ta-tat-tat. The reasons why this item isn't always optimal is because for twitch, it will take a significant amount of time for the armor reduction debuff to really add up, and because twitch simply cannot use the Cooldown reduction as well as some other carries. Champions build into Black Cleaver because it's a rather inexpensive upgrade path after one buys The Brutalizer. However, this item isn't particularly good for twitch. The Brutalizer's strength comes in the early game, and twitch just simply lacks the damage needed in order to make this item dominate opposing laners. However, it is important to note that it works very well if you have an AD bruiser that could also capitalize on the armor penetration - like Darius, Lee Sin, Jayce, Zed, or Kha'Zix

GOOD It is inexpensive, gives you a small amount of AD, but is effective at what it does - it helps you shred tanks. It makes the armor stacking they do next to useless. Being probably the only person on your team who can deal consistent, sustained damage, it is ultimately your responsibility to drop tanks. While they are obviously not your first priority, you will need this item, or Black Cleaver to really shred down the effectiveness of their defensive items. I start itemizing for this right immediately when i see two or more people on the enemy team starting to buy armor

Strong! Everyone's been there. The enemy team has a fed-to-the-heavens corporate mundo, that has a full tank build with 4.5k health, 170 armor, and somehow, as much AD as you. This is my solution, friends. It is the king of tank shredders. The passive will give you a noticeably high amount of life back, and the base stats on the item aren't bad either and really hurt that mundo! The cost effectiveness of this item sharply decreases the less tankiness the opposing team runs, though. Every single stat on this item works well for twitch. The passive of this item synergizes very well with Rat-ta-tat-tat. However, the true beauty of this item is the item's active. The active on this item makes twitch a true terror during the end of the laning phase. The active from Blade of the Ruined King gives twitch a large amount of burst damage during the early game, and gives him that little extra edge of damage needed for twitch to easily secure kills. Additionally, this item scales well into the mid/late game for twitch, offering both offensive, and defensive stats necessary for twitch. The large burst of damage/healing/MS steal allows for twitch to more easily survive assassin's bursts, kite bruisers, and more easily re-position twitch in team fights. This is especially helpful, since twitch has no dash abilities.

Good! Bloodthirster gives you a nice amount of life steal and damage. If you get this item early game, it allows you to stay in lane forever, and also trade well with the opposing lane, with the spike of AD it gives you. Getting this early game allows you to safely and easily charge up the stacks, so that the bloodthirster will have max stacks by the time you get into the mid game and start team fighting. This best shines in team fights, when you choose to Rat-ta-tat-tat however. EACH target you hit will leech some of your life back! This allows twitch to sustain a little in team fights, if he isn't CC'ed. There have been situations where my health bar has literally gone from two bars, to eighteen bars, and back again several times!

Gives you a spell shield every 45 seconds. This spell shield gives you protection from Rocket Grab, Dark Binding, or any other Crowd control spell, that could easily allow you to be focused. Additionally, the MR this item gives helps negate damage dealt from Thornmail, and gives you a layer of protection against nuke champions like Veigar and LeBlanc, both of whom have either the mobility, or the CC to take you down, otherwise. Also gives health, which is something that never hurts on a twitch :)

Good vs. Assassins & Nukers I do think that this is the best defensive item for AD carries. AD carries are squishy and can easily be chunked by a bruiser of any sort, or a fed AP carry. Having the extra resistances help against that burst. Additionally, the revive every 5 minutes helps clean up team fights. The one thing that I would like to remind you of though, is that having this item is not an excuse to get caught out of position.Have this item either be your 4th item (if you are dying more than you'd like), or your 6th.

• If you cast your Ambush right before you die, you can resurrect already stealthed!

GOOD A rather standard item for an AD carry. I buy it late game, because any extra mobility I can get my hands on helps greatly! The extra mobility allows you to more easily Ambush away, if you get caught in an awkward situation in addition to better positioning myself in team fights. This also gives me a +30% Critical Strike Chance, which always works well with my ultimate. The Attack Speed buff from Phantom Dancer yields is just another perk :)

GOODThis item is about as good as Phantom Dancer. I buy a zeal during the mid-game and upgrade it to stattik shiv by the end game. While it does not offer as useful barebone stats as phantom dancer its passive offers great splitpushing power, a nice source of alternative damage during team fights which both make up for its lower stats. I get this item if my team composition is either imbalanced damage source (AD excessive e.g.), or if my team has nobody with great splitpushing powers ( Nasus, Singed). Also, for every person you damage with rat tat-tat-tat technically counts as an attack, for stattik shiv charges, so this item's passive damage bonus can get applied many times in team fights.

GOODThis item is especially great against AP heavy teams, because it gives some cheap, early magic resist. It also gives tenacity, so any CC's those AP carries may throw at you will be much less effective at stopping you!

GOODHexdrinker is a very effective Item against an AP heavy team. The extra shield you get helps a lot with surviving those pesky Requiems, or surviving Leblanc's Mimic. As for Maw of Malmortius, I would actually suggest against getting this unless absolutely necessary; Although maw's passive is AWESOME, I find that I don't live long enough for the AD bonus to make the difference, should I be focused. Plus Maw itself is too expensive for what it's worth.

And

good Great! we can have a cleanse once every 90 seconds! This item can be O.K. if the enemy team is stock full of CC's ( Vladimir, Urgot, Warwick, Malzahar, and Skarner), but teams usually do not run that much control. With that in mind, you must ask yourself, "is it really worth cleansing out of this 1 second stun? How much more time attacking would I Really save if I cleansed through this stun (accounting for Latency and Reaction)?" The answer is, NOT MUCH! I tend to refrain from buying this unless their team has >1 suppressors. Lastly, get this when you are playing against a Mordekaiser... and keep that pinky glued that that '1' button for his Children of the Grave.

GOOD I usually never get this item, because I don't like the idea of on-hit twitch. However, the extra on-hit effect simply cannot be overlooked, since it can synergize quite well with Rat-ta-tat-tat. Hitting the enemy with Rat-ta-tat-tat will give you (almost instantly) the 4 magic resist stacks Wit's End gives. In other words, you will effectively get 50 Magic resist from this item, plus a fair amount of damage, and a fair amount of attack speed, for a nice sum of gold. Note that this will not benefit your Life steal as well as other items will

[icom=warmog's armor]Good against champions with poor AP ratios When i have to fight against champions like a fed Vel'Koz or Singed, this is usually my go-to item. These kinds of champions do deal a lot of damage, but have poor scalings on their abilities. The health that warmogs offers gives an extra buffer zone, so that i can survive their primary damaging abilities (e.g. Life Form Disintegration Ray) Against AD heavy teams Situational While I don't like stacking too much health on an ADC, I have to say that this item is just too good to not consider. This item does best against teams which have a bruiser with sustained damage (vlad, singed), because the extra life you get gives you a little cushion to survive thanks to your Rat-ta-tat-tat lifeleech. While it depends on how fed the enemy bruisers are, Warmog's can even be effective against people like Xin Zhao, or Lee Sin. Avoid getting this item against burst champions. Many times, the burst damage, combined with the bruiser CC and damage will likely still be enough to kill you anyway Expensive but good I would like to avoid buying this item if possible, just because it costs so much. If your team is incompetent, though, you may be forced into buying this. This item IS anti-AD! It gives you incredible armor, and a nice active attack speed/movement speed debuff to your enemies upon being hit, in addition to giving Tons of health. Final items to consider: Okay I have been testing out runaan's hurricane, and it hasn't yielded me as much success as I would have liked. I find the bonus attack speed to be not very beneficial to me, since Ambush is already a perfectly good steroid. The passive bonus looks great on twitch, and it definitely has some synergy with Rat-ta-tat-tat, but the passive's range is just too small for me to make effective use of it. If you want to try something new, by all means buy it and have it replace the Phantom Dancer. I would not suggest it though. okay can give you a ton of extra attack speed, armor penetration, and move speed upon activation. This may be a temporary substitute for your Phantom Dancer. It is a very solid item, especially if you invested in an Avarice Blade early game. Okay. these boots allow for much more roaming and ganking. Although these boots make ganking much more effective and easier, because the enemy team has less time to react to a MIA twitch. Additionally, I do not prefer these boots, because I feel too inclined to gank, rather than farm bottom for creep score. If you buy these boots, you must keep aware of the creeps in bottom lane. These boots can offer less team fight presence, because you will be losing the +25% attack speed bonus you get from Berserker's Greaves, OR more team fight presence, if it allows you to position yourself better! Late game, this item is outshined by stattik shiv good A very good item that is often overlooked. Attacks with this weapon give some extra bonus Crit chance, and a reduced healing debuff on an enemy champion. That being said, one should be more inclined to take this if they chose Exhaust as a summoner spell rather than Ignite. Also, this is a very cheap item for its effectiveness! Following season 3, this item is not as viable as it used to be, but it is still effective! NOTE: PLEASE GET THIS IF THE ENEMY TEAM HAS A Fiora, A Warwick, A Swain, A Dr. Mundo OR ANYONE WITH LOADS OF LIFESTEAL; I find that their massive life steal is a particularly sticky problem to deal with; This helps. Alot. unreliable This item has been instrumental in winning some games for me. The problem with running this item on twitch, is that twitch lacks instant survivability abilities, barring flash, of course. This means that you have no means of leaving combat, if all the enemy tanky DPS and tanks choose to focus you - which they will do! I say, get this item only if you have a Lux, Morgana, or someone with CC so excellent, that they can keep all of those bad, tough bruisers off you!

Don't stand so close to me!

Caitlyn

Corki

Leona

Solar Flare

Morgana

Black Shield

Zenith Blade

Shield of Daybreak

Sunlight

• There are no items you can get to counter her during the early game.
• Try to CS on your side that is closer to river, so that you will have time to react if she zenith blades from brush. If that is not an option, have your support ward brush and try your best to dodge those lances.
• Never try to CS under 60% health. She can jump you and stun lock you to death if you don't flash up. That said, be sure to stock up on potions.
• Freeze lane. Note that if leona is still playing aggressively, a towerdive is imminent.
• Getting Heal against a leona is a must!
• Always stay behind your front line, so if she tries to engage with a solar flare, you can help damage the opposing front line.

Lee Sin

Oracle's Elixir

Sonic Wave / Resonating Strike

Tempest / Cripple

Lee Sin

Safeguard / Iron Will

Zed

The nerfs hurt his kill potential. If you find yourself being jumped frequently in team fights, and dying to

Death Mark

Quicksilver Sash

Xin Zhao

Ambush

Audacious Charge

Three Talon Strike

Flash

Ambush

Ignite

Garen

Decisive Strike

Judgment

Demacian Justice

Twisted Fate

Destiny

Twisted Fate

Tryndamere

• Have someone on your team be Lux, Morgana, or Alistar. These people have snares that absolutely devastate much of the Damage he will be throwing at you.

• Ask one or two teammates to get Exhaust. This will shut down his DPS

• position yourself so that your Rat-ta-tat-tat hits 4-5 people. This will give you 40-100% lifesteal, depending on the amount of enemies you hit and the stacks on Bloodthirster, but this gives amazing sustainability for surviving!

• Buy a Guardian Angel or (if you REALLY need to counter him a Randuin's Omen).
  While these will kill your damage output, It will give you the survivability necessary to survive tryndamere. If tryndamere is carrying his team, I suggest you get both of these, since an insta-dead Twitch is not a very useful twitch.

Fizz

• counter with a Guardian Angel, or by having a Morgana/ Kayle on your team. Fizz's abilites are meant to burst you down; With that in mind, he really can't sustain himself, or deal continuous damage to you

• Heal helps a lot because of its' grievous wounds removal. Just make sure you use it once you are sure fizz can no longer use Seastone Trident to reapply the grievous wounds debuff.

Riven

• STAY AWAY FROM HER! You're going to need help from your team to draw some of her hard-hitting fire! Always try to get a CC on her. In a team fight, she is your most dangerous threat.

Kassadin

• This guy is mobile! He WILL get to you, so don't even try to position yourself away from him. Still try and maintain a healthy distance from the rest of the enemy team, though!

• He will burst, and he will hurt. So long as your Mid did not feed him, you should be able to survive a burst rotation though. The gap will be enough time for a support to either heal you, or CC him.

• When fighting against Kassadin's team, life steal is your friend!

Rengar

• Thrill of the Hunt does not reveal invisible units, but it does give their general location. If you have Ambush leveled a decent amount, you should be able to get away from him, if he is chasing you.

• Battle Roar acts as a tank steroid and a self-heal... Be sure to pop an early Ignite on him, or buy a Executioner's Calling and use it often. Rengar can regain a lot of health this way... he can regain much more if his Bloodthirster has full stacks.

• Bola Strike acts as a pretty good gap closer. If he is particularly fed, think of investing in an early Phantom Dancer for mobility

• When in doubt, stick close to your support. Rengar is all Attack damage, so Taric is a good counterpick.

• If you are at all bit worried about rengar, don't hesitate to blow an Exhaust on him. It can really mess him up

Teemo

Yorick

Cho'Gath

• You scale throughout the game. Bruiser teemo does not. Be aware that the team teemo is on needs some sort of momentum to shift the game in their favor - whether it be kills, objectives, or towers. Try give them as little as possibe.