Hey everyone. If you didn't know, electrocute got a pretty big change last patch, with its
cooldown being reduced from 50 to 25 seconds, but its damage got slightly nerfed.
It was supposed to be a nerf in general to the rune, but it actually ended up being a
buff to certain champions who can proc it everytime it comes of cooldown. Champions
like Leblanc, Syndra, Ekko really come to mind.
So in this video we're going to be analyzing how CG Febiven smashes a challenger zed main
by abusing the new low cooldown on electrocute.
Leblanc is an AP ranged assassin, vs Zed a melee ranged assassin. Leblanc has more range,
slightly more waveclear because she is ranged, and they both do equal damage with a full
combo. Zed has more sustained damage after they both use their abilities though since
he's melee, so leblanc will never want to be in range for zed to auto her.
And the last but most important part of the matchup, is that zed uses energy and leblanc
uses mana. This means that if they both stay in lane trading for a while and Leblanc can't
force zed out of lane, she will eventually run oom and zed takes control of the lane.
Knowing these things, lets create a gameplan.
Mission 1: Push the wave with autos to create big waves
Since Leblanc needs to spend mana wisely in this matchup, she doesn't want to use abilities
to push the wave, she has the ranged avantage so she can easily get the push.
Mission 2: Harass Zed whenever electrocute comes up
With electrocute only having a 25-20 second cooldown, every time its up leblanc can easily
go in and proc it giving him a ton of free damage.
Mission 3: Continue missions 1 and 2 until zed is forced to recall or overstay
If Leblanc plays this matchup right, it's almost impossible for Zed to win nowadays,
zed can't proc electrocute unless he hits his full W E Q combo which is really easy
to dodge for good players, so zed will eventually get too low to stay in lane and be forced
to recall and lose a ton of CS or just straight up die to leblanc.
Alright, lets move to the gameplay.
At the start of the lane, Febiven is playing really aggressive by starting Q and looking
for harass early. I actually really disagree with this choice. Leblanc used to start Q
in melee matchups like this but ever since they changed it so targeted spells draw minion
aggro, it hasn't been worth it.
I think he either misclicked it, or he was just testing. Especially since leblanc lvl
1 start with W is really strong using the auto W auto combo to proc electrocute.
As we can see, he's taking way more damage than zed is which isnt how this matchup is
supposed to start."
But, he's working on mission 1 and autoing some minions now. Look how Leblanc doesn't
even need to auto at the start to get the push since zed has to actually walk up and
grab minions where LB can stand back and do it whenever she wants.
Now a big wave is forming since he's only using auto attacks to push, which is exactly
what he wants to transition into mission 2.
He hits level 2, and is positioning aggressively like this incase zed steps up into range of
his Q W combo, he still makes sure he doesn't lose any CS while doing this though.
Now the cannon wave is about to show up and he walks up and throws a Q at zed right before
the waves meet each other. This is a trick that you can use on any champion to get some
free harass without drawing minion aggro. This is because when you take a lot of minion
damage, it normally comes from the ranged and cannon creeps, so since they are not in
range yet of him, he's free to throw this Q without them aggroing him.
Alright, now he's going to begin mission 2 and start abusing electrocute. Since zed wont
walk in range for him to use Q and then W. He uses W first, then uses Q and an auto to
proc electrocute. This chunks zed to about 50% health. It wouldn't be worth it to do
this with old electrocute because the cooldown is so long you get 2 or 3 uses out of it before
having to recall, so it was really good at surprising people with the damage it did combined
with ignite to get a kill.
But since the cooldown and damage are lower now, he wants to use it whenever it comes
up to really milk the damage out of it.
His abilities are on cooldown now, so he's going to finish pushing the wave in and collecting
his CS.
After the wave is cleared, he sees that the enemy jungler is way overextended trying to
take his junglers red buff. This is a perfect time to roam as he won't miss anything and
zed can't come with the huge wave being pushed in.
So he heads down river, and trundle flashes over dragon wall. Knowing that trundle doesn't
have flash lets him W, E flash, then Q to get him a kill. If trundle had flash here
he wouldn't have done this because he knows trundle would just flash away.
And yes you heard it right, leblanc can use E to buffer it then flash, making her chain
a lot easier to hit when trying to chase somone because of how slow the chain actually moves.
He heads back to lane, and as soon as he gets there gets back to mission 2 and goes in for
a trade. This is a really nice trick on leblanc that many players dont use.
Good players will always be standing behind minions when going vs leblanc to make sure
her chain doesn't hit, so when you W in they will just run around their minions.
So the trick is to W on top of a low health minion like he does here, so first the minion
doesn't block the chain, and second the enemy laner wont dodge the chain because they are
planning on standing in that spot for the minion to block it.
Another trick he uses here to get such a insane trade off, is that he walks one way and sees
zed step up to use his W E Q combo, he immediately walks the other way, then dashes the perfect
angle to the side of zed and dodges both shurikens. And trust me this was no accident.
Anyways, this trade drops zed to 30% health and febiven is basically at full.
I'm not really sure why zed actually swaps to his shadow afterwards, if he hit his shurikens
leblanc would be a lot lower and this could potentially be a kill for him but I don't
know, this was pretty troll by him. He ends up dying for this and using his flash so he's
pretty screwed when Leblanc gets back,
After zed dies, febiven is going to recall instead of pushing the wave just like I did
in my latest video where im playing akali vs zed, and let the wave push to deny him
a lot more CS than it would if he pushed the wave in.
He comes back to lane to a huge wave that he's going to want to clear before playing
too aggressive, if he autos or uses Q on zed the minions will do so much damage to him.
So he uses his minion dematerializer on the cannon, and starts last hitting.
Then when zed uses his W he does the same trick as before and uses W on top of a few
low health minions, killing the one that zed was hiding behind and lands a full combo on
him proccing electrocute and doing 50% of his health.
Now hes just finishing clearing this wave so he can start missions 1 and 2 again.
The wave is pushing back the other way again, and as soon as zed comes back into lane he
jumps in and lands all 3 of his spells again, proccing electrocute and bringing zed back
down to 30% health.
And since zed knows that febiven is stacking a big wave to push into tower, and eventually
dive him and kill him, he's forced to recall here.
Febiven notices that zed recalled so he starts using his abilities to quickly push in the
wave, he wants to the wave to crash on the tower now so zed is punished for recalling.
He now has 3 options, recall since this is a time where if he recalls he would miss nothing,
and you can't always get a perfect recall.
Look for a roam
or stay in lane.
Which one do you think hes going to choose and why?
He chooses to stay in lane because he has 2 corrupting potion charges left, both his
top lane and bot lane are recalling so he cant roam, and he has a huge wave on the tower
where he can harass zed when he's trying to CS it. If he was out of corrupting potion
charges he would have recalled.
So while hes waiting for zed to come back hes getting some tower damage to potentially
get first tower if zed really messes up.
Then when zed starts to last hit the ranged minions, he looks for some harass, he fakes
like he's going to combo him to make zed use his Q to last hit, then he hits him with Q
while out of tower range, then goes in with W and an auto to proc electrocute. This brings
zed from 100% health to 30% and he just got back from base.
And now its back to mission 1, pushing in the wave without using abilities.
as soon as he hits level 6 he uses W and R to get some more harass on zed and forces
him to use his W to retreat. This is a big deal because zeds W is his only outplay potential
since his flash is down. Without his W leblanc can dive him really easily.
Febiven finishes pushing in the wave, and now mission 3 is in full effect, Zed needs
to recall right now or he dies, lets see what he does.
Febiven walks up and uses Q W E and an auto to proc electrocute and get the kill. So now
zed dies AND loses this huge wave on tower, where if he just recalled he would lose the
wave but at least wouldn't give leblanc 300 gold.
First, febiven started off the lane kind of poorly by starting Q instead of W and wasn't
winning the poke war at all. So he eventually stopped and started pushing the wave and hit
level 2,and used a W Q auto combo to chunk zed to 50% health. He finished pushing in
the wave and noticed that the enemy jungler was way overextended trying to take his own
junglers red, so he moved down river and caught him with a W E Flash combo to get him his
first kill.
As soon as he got back to lane he executed a perfect trade with the trick that we talked
about while also dodging zeds full combo, bringing zed to 40% health while febiven was
full. Then Zed trolled really hard and swapped to his shadow looking to keep trading and
ended up flashing away and dying.
The wave was pushing towards febiven so he recalled to deny zed even more CS. When he
got back to lane the wave was really big so he made sure to clear a few minions before
going in and using the same leblanc trick to get another really nice trade on zed. Then
zed moved out of vision while his potion healed him up, and when he got back in lane febiven
chunked him again forcing zed to recall while a big wave was pushing into his tower. Febiven
quickly pushed in the wave and got some tower damage while waiting for zed to come back
in lane. When zed got back he waited for him to go for a last hit and used electrocute
to chunk him again to 30% health. Then he started pushing in the next wave and as soon
as he hit level 6 used W and R to harass zed some more and force him to W away. Zed needed
to recall here but he didnt, so febiven finished pushing in the wave and dove zed, killing
and making him lose this huge wave, closing the lane out.
Thats going to be all for this video, see you next time!