How to play Rocco? What build?

[Paraakie]

I am stuck in Practise mode for the next few months because of limited Wifi, still I want to learn how to play Rocco and Cheating bots are just not challagning enough for me
What I learned so far:
-The "Precious" Arrow as I like to call it is a fun ability, the most viable build is probably Cooldown Reduction, Damage and AoE, love the speed upgrade but I don't think it's as good as the AoE.
-The buff is really cool and as I have heard the stronger ability, not sure how to use it to maximum effect though and I have no idea what to build, also the stun only works after a certain distance, so it's kinda a meh upgrade sadly, atleast against bots, is it good online?
-The basic attack is really cool too started trying out the split arrow, which actually hits clunk with the initial and the split arrows (BUG!), quite interesting ability combined with the third arrow upgrade. But than again I love the cooldown reduction upgrade for Precision Shot. Not sure what too pick either for this row.
- Boots are so great on this naut, pick it up instead of Vengence at the start; bad idea?

So... yeah any suggestions, tips or tricks? Would be awesome

[Kyle_116]

If you are only going to choose one skill at the start, get vengence first. Boots + vengence is better than the skill shot + boots in my opinion.

Now personally I start with both abilities, get boots and then build into his AA. I get damage, then the third arrow and then split on contact. After that I like to enhance vengence with the duration boost for each AA hit, the homing arrow and either regen or more slow. Then I will build into the shot if the match is still going. Obivously other utilities are mixed in as needed.

But that's me, I just ran into someone that built into the shot first.

[Paraakie]

Originally posted by .done:

If you are only going to choose one skill at the start, get vengence first. Boots + vengence is better than the skill shot + boots in my opinion.

Now personally I start with both abilities, get boots and then build into his AA. I get damage, then the third arrow and then split on contact. After that I like to enhance vengence with the duration boost for each AA hit, the homing arrow and either regen or more slow. Then I will build into the shot if the match is still going. Obivously other utilities are mixed in as needed.

But that's me, I just ran into someone that built into the shot first.

From what I've heard the AoE upgrade makes the shot early pretty viable. Why do you use the split arrow, is it good for teamfights? Or can you just area denial/poke while killing creeps?

[Kyle_116]

Originally posted by Coookie shall return!!!:

Originally posted by .done:

If you are only going to choose one skill at the start, get vengence first. Boots + vengence is better than the skill shot + boots in my opinion.

Now personally I start with both abilities, get boots and then build into his AA. I get damage, then the third arrow and then split on contact. After that I like to enhance vengence with the duration boost for each AA hit, the homing arrow and either regen or more slow. Then I will build into the shot if the match is still going. Obivously other utilities are mixed in as needed.

But that's me, I just ran into someone that built into the shot first.

From what I've heard the AoE upgrade makes the shot early pretty viable. Why do you use the split arrow, is it good for teamfights? Or can you just area denial/poke while killing creeps?

Because the AA is the only thing that Rocco can use to damage drones (without exploding arrows on the shot) and the turret, the split massively helps his pushing game by being able to hit multiple targets.

It actually has come in handy in several team fights as well.

[76561198239028528]

It depends on who's on the other team. If they have ayla or skoll I'd get range on his regular arrows and damage upgrades on them first, followed by vengence and health alternating upgrades. In vengence you want the upgrade that shoots an extra arrow at awesomenauts, that's his strongest skill.

[Josh Hutcherson]

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[Mdaddy924]

Vengence is Rocco's best move, it is also a move propotional in usefulness to his other abilitys, because Rocco is weak in the early game Vengence is weak in the early game. The money is better spent building Rocco's all importaint upgrade synergys and AA damage. Since he can be played pretty safely early on I would even say hold off on getting boots right off the bat, his speed is not terrible and saving up for an early split shot/ explosive shot/ med-i-can/ or even just bow damage would help him scale into his mid game better.

As for what I like fresh from the pod, percision shot and I farm for split shot or I hold off a couple seconds and just pick up explosive shot. Percision shot allows me to lay down the harrass as I split push, always keeping an eye on the mini map and firing off a shot every 7-9 seconds can go a long way to help your ally(s) win the other lane. Normally i will farm up for split shot simply because it is good early on for push wars and it synergies well with damage upgrades and later Vengence. If the match up is against characters I know will tend to ball up (ie. Voltar) i will always go exploding shot first and gun votl down every time he even thinks of dropping a heal bot.

My personal philosophy with Vengence is to get it when you would normally start thinking of getting pills, by then your AA damage should be up and your build would be more or less set to actually do something. I think alot of people are under the false assumption that Vengence makes them stronger or helps them escape when the only thing it really does is ensures that your opponent will be slower than you in an engagement. When you get it too early all your opponent really has to do is just turn around and engage you 10/1 Rocco is not going to have the burst to actually kill them faster than they can kill you and if they were low enough on hp to actually die a well placed percision shot would have done just as well for far lesser risk.