Teleport on kayn jungle is starting to pick up traction in korean high elo along with
hail of blades burst varus which is being played by pros like T1 Gumayusi.
This and much more as we breakdown 10 of the most op off meta champions or setups that
are on the rise for patch 11.7.
Are there any crazy new off meta champions that you guys have been playing recently?
We love learning about these new picks and will never be able to catch em all so if you
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And without any further adieu, lets get right into it!
The first pick we want to highlight up in the top lane is shyvana.
There's a very unique build going around right now for shyvana top that is much different
than you see in the jungle.
Shyvana's already got the move speed buff from w and coupled with the slow from frostfire
and movespeed from blade of the ruined king, the enemy isn't going anywhere once you've
tagged them.
Jungle shyvana is most commonly played as full AP but for your top lane shyvana a tanky
bruiser setup is the way to go.
The build consists of a Frostfire Gauntlet Rush into blade of the ruined king second.
This setup provides shyvana with immense sticking power and dueling potential.
The build isnt the only unique aspect to the setup though as you'll run teleport with ignite
for summoner spells.
This gives you amazing kill threat early on and because the enemy top has likely never
played against a shyvana in there life, they wont have a clue as to your damage potential.
For runes take conqueror with triumph, tenacity and last stand.
Resolve secondary is best with second wind and unflinching.
The complete build is frostfire gauntlet into blade of the ruined king and then thornmail
third.
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Trinity force buffs have given a lot more strength to split pushing this patch and a
top laner who benefits a ton from that is trundle.
Like shyv we see trundle way more frequently in the jungle but when played in top lane
he can be a side lane menace.
The trinity force buffs allow you to increase your base AD when attacking towers up to a
max of 30 percent.
This buff combined with trundles Q damage procing on towers and being an auto reset
along with his W attack speed and spellblade bonus damage from trinity force allows for
insane tower decimation.
Lets not forget you'll also take demolish in runes to let you melt those towers even
faster.
In the lower elos especially where players have a difficult time responding to side lane
pressure and rotating around the map, trundle can punish that so hard.
At level 6 trundles dueling power is really insane since he can steal the enemies resists
with his ultimate.
So many players will underestimate trundles 1v1 power and you'll be able to pickup a ton
of solo kills as a result.
The complete build to roll with is trinity force into blade of the ruined king and sterak's
Grasp will be your keystone with demolish, bone plating, and overgrowth for primaries.
Take precision secondary with triumph and alacrity.
The Xin Zhao mini rework has been live a few weeks now so our analysts have obtained a
really good read on the best builds.
The most common rush item at the moment is an eclipse however high elo xin players are
loving shieldbow and seeing way better results with it.
Shieldbow just gives xin everything he wants in an item and synergizes with the changes
he got a few patches back way better than eclipse does.
There were two new affects added to xin zhao's w where the thrust damage now scales with
crit and the cast time scales with bonus attack speed.
Shieldbow compliments these changes really nicely as you receive 20 percent crit and
20 percent attack speed from the item.
Whenever the passive shield is available xin's dueling potential goes through the roof which
makes the item so amazing for him.
You'll follow up the build with an essence reaver second and despite its nerfs for 11.7,
ER still performs very well.
On this two item spike you just burst so hard yet still have a sneaky amount of durability
from the shield.
Later on you want to transition into some tankier offensive options like guardian angel
or deaths dance.
Both phase rush and hail of blades can work exceptionally well as the keystone so try
out both and see which you prefer.
If taking hail of blades follow with sudden impact, eyeball collector and relentless hunter.
grab triumph and alacrity for secondaries.
The phase rush page is followed up with nimbus cloak, absolute focus and water walking and
then triumph and alacrity once again for secondaries.
A brand new strategy for kayn jungle that is being popularized over in korea is really
crazy.
Teleport with smite is what we're referring to as it opens up some insane paths for early
on in the game.
What you'll see most teleport kayn players do is look for an early invade, steal away
one or two camps, and then teleport back to there side of the jungle to blast through
a full clear extremely fast.
Since kayn has the mobility from Q and E this strategy can work really nicely as he's not
as reliant on the flash to maneuver out of sticky situations.
Taking teleport allows you to jump start your clear, get the level advantage on the enemy
jungler and then start dueling them to reach form faster.
The whole idea behind this is to propel kayn into his mid game spike way sooner to where
he really comes online and can start taking over a game.
The build is standard stuff with prowlers claw into manamune and then edge of knight
third.
Grab dark harvest for the keystone with sudden impact, eyeball collector and ravenous hunter.
Dip into the sorcery tree for secondaries taking transcendence and gathering storm.
Lethality graves mid is a really great pocket pick for 11.7 as he can style on meta champs
like yone, zed, katarina, talon and sylas.
Since graves e passive grants him bonus armor when attacking it makes him an even stronger
pick into those AD mids.
If someone like yone tries to jump on graves thats exactly what he wants.
Graves deals more damage when the enemy is right on top of him so its really difficult
for someone like yone to win trades.
The mobility from graves e also allows him to effortlessly outplay a yone q, katarina
dagger or sylas e.
As long as you're playing off graves e cooldown there are very few ways for you to actually
lose a trade against those champions.
The push power is another aspect that allows graves to thrive in the mid lane.
Thanks to graves q he can acquire early priority and rotate very easily to help his jungler
secure scuttle crab.
The build consists of an eclipse rush which on completion allows graves to beat up on
these assassin or fighter mid picks even harder.
Not only does he have the bonus armor for tankiness but the extra shield from eclipse
will make it so difficult for anyone to break through.
The collector will be the best second item option and then grab a youmuu's ghostblade
third.
Runes will be electrocute with sudden impact, eyeball collector and relentless hunter.
Resolve secondary is the way to go with demolish and bone plating.
A mid laner we've seen garner a lot of attention from pros and high elo players over the past
few patches is nocturne.
Pros such as Faker and Doin B have been abusing the pick the most.
Noc is actually a really great pick in 3 different roles at the moment and its due in part to
stridebreaker along with his buffs from 11.2.
Nocturne Q cooldown was reduced by 2 seconds and ultimate by 10 at all ranks which gave
him a nice boost in power.
Mid nocturne is really amazing because of the perma pushing strength he has.
Q and passive allow noc to instantly get rid of waves which in turn provides constant pressure
around the map, especially post 6 with ult.
Whenever nocturne ult is available the enemy team is forced to play so much further back
and can never really look for any aggressive plays which indirectly allows your side lanes
to get ahead.
Stridebreaker as a rush item is just way too good for nocturne because it gives him such
great sticking power to remain in tether range of his fear.
Sometimes when you jump on an opponent they can use a dash to break the E tether but with
the active from stridebreaker that'll happen way less often which makes noc's 1v1 and potential
to pick up kills so much better.
Matchup wise noc absolutely destroys meta champs like zed, sylas and yasuo as he's winning
over 54 percent of the time against all 3.
The build path is really straight forward as you'll rush stridebreaker into sterak's
gage and then guardian angel.
Take lethal tempo as the keystone along with presence of mind, alacrity and coup de grace.
Secondary runes are taste of blood and ultimate hunter.
If you wanna annoy the living daylight out of your opponent and make them tilt super
hard then pickup some lulu mid.
Lulu is extremely strong against katarina, yone and zed who all have around 10 percent
play rates for 11.7.
Any sort of champion that needs to play melee and get right on top of there opponents to
deal damage lulu can completely destroy.
Polymorph from w doesnt allow these champions to play the game and even if they're able
to survive long enough you've got the shield and health growth to prevent so much of there
burst.
Lulu mids are seeing really great success with an everfrost rush for 11.7 as the root
just shuts down these melee champs even harder.
For example if anyone ever tries to dive into a fight you root them with everfrost and then
follow with polymorph and spam the laugh command as they're helplessly blown up.
You'll pickup a cosmic drive second to max out on that ability haste and provide your
team with really low cooldown shields and speed boosts.
Complete build is everfrost into cosmic drive and then zhonyas third.
You wanna be harassing melee champs with autos early on so starting with corrupting potion
will let you play really aggressive.
Grab summon aery as your keystone to add another layer of annoying poke against those melee
mids. follow with manaflow band, trancendence and
gathering storm with inspiration for secondary running biscuits and time warp tonic.
A new bot lane combo we've seen a little bit in the pro scene that can do just as well
in solo queue is chogath with senna.
You'll play cho'gath as the carry and senna as the support which is commonly referred
to as fasting senna.
Cho takes all the farm while senna collects her souls and scales without resources.
We've seen this fasting senna in the past with tahm kench however chogath offers much
more kill potential and raw carry power than tahm does.
Senna will run glacial augment in runes and the slow will proc whenever she hits a Q.
This slow allows for chogath to very easily line up his Q and have a really high hit rate.
If you continuously play off each other like this in lane then you'll eventually rack up
a ton of kills especially once you hit level 6.
Another perk chogath has over tahm is that his passive adds a great amount of sustain
making it very difficult for the enemy bot lane to punish.
Cho passive combined with senna heal renders it almost impossible for the enemy to punish
even if they're playing double ranged.
Both champions run glacial augment as the keystone and chogath will rush an everfrost
to make it super difficult for the enemy to escape once tagged with any kind of CC.
Chogath follows with a cosmic drive second and then zhonyas third for the complete build.
As for senna the frostfire gauntlet rush has really taken off over the past patch combined
with rageblade second and rapid fire cannon third.
Runes for chogath are glacial augment with free boots, biscuits and approach velocity.
Secondaries are cheap shot and ultimate hunter.
Primary runes are the exact same for senna and for secondaries run presence of mind and
alacrity.
Varus is finally back in a great spot for 11.7 and there's a new rune setup that's very
underrated.
Like we mentioned during the intro, pros like deft and gumayusi have been abusing hail of
blades lethality varus for a ton of free elo.
Lethality varus is quite standard but the hail of blades is whats really OP and off
meta at the moment.
The reason HOB can work so well is because of the synergy it has with Varus W.
Every Varus auto applies a stack of blight to his opponents stacking up to 3 times.
Since hail of blades gives you 3 really quick autos, this lets you max out those blight
stacks very fast.
Using an ability will consume blight stacks to deal bonus magic damage so this setup just
allows varus to burst extremely hard.
Since you'll be building lethality its really difficult to stack up blight without any sort
of attack speed but by running hail of blades it completely eliminates that weakness.
The full build is a duskblade rush into manamune second and serylda's grudge third.
Serylda's was even buffed for this patch and combined with varus's base AD buff its making
him so much stronger.
Be sure to grab lucidity boots since you want your Q on as short a cooldown as possible
when playing lethality.
The full rune page will be hail of blades with taste of blood, zombie ward and ravenous
hunter.
Inspiration secondary with biscuits and cosmic insight is the way to go.
And then to round everything out the most undervalued support pick in 11.7 is gragas.
High elo and pro players have started picking up gragas support much more but in lower elos
its yet to really catch on.
most notably sword art and core JJ have been spamming it in solo queue over the past week
or so.
Gragas is proving to be a really good answer to picks like Alistar and Rell who are played
at very high rates in 11.7.
Body Slam and explosive cask offer you really great versatility in terms of peeling away
those dive supports and vice versa hard engaging yourself.
If someone like alistar tries to combo your ADC, you just knock them up with body slam
and prevent any sort of follow up damage.
Once you hit level 6 the gank assist and kill pressure is very high with gragas.
His E Flash combo is super deadly and can lead to snowballing the early game out of
control.
The build consists of rushing a locket into zekes convergence and then knights vow third.
For runes grab aftershock with font of life, bone plating and unflinching.
Inspiration is best for secondary running biscuits and cosmic insight.
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