Whats The Best Build For Skywrath Mage?

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Whats The Best Build For Skywrath Mage?

[The Average Ivy Enjoyer]

Builds are common, bad choices to describe it as and it is a bad idea to follow the idea of Builds. Since someone may have a more different preferation of playstyle to one thing rather than the person right next to them, following this concept of the other person playing may be difficult for the other, so it is always best to create a guide for yourself Personally.

[SLanted Edge]

Take ult when you can, max Q.

You should have at least 1 point in W E. I decide which to max first based on how slippery their line up is. AM, Slark, QOp, ember, storm, etc i'll take more points in silence.

If you're talking items, he's pretty flexible. The most fun build I use is force eblade (you W, force, silence, eblade, then ult). Standard builds usually have rod or sheep in it

[GreenTeaAddict]

You wait for 6.87 when he will be buffed

[Weird Grim]

Try to get alot of mana and scepter so you can cast your ulty some times bloodstone + core (highest mana item in the game) + dagon will do the trick and try to get athos or vyse for a extra slow. Max damage i ever did was 4 ultys thats 3200 mana.

[Raven]

Originally posted by jamezoar:

Whats The Best Build For Skywrath Mage?

Q > W > Q > E > Q > R > Q. For items, INT, Mana, and Mana Regen are your priority 3 stats. (Bloodstone, Scythe, Arcane Boots, Eul's Scepter, Ghost Scepter, Rod of Atos, etc)

Skywrath's role in the game is a ranged magical nuker that scales with INT and becomes more powerful the later the game goes. While his spells are spammable and fairly good early on, his mana pool is unsupportive for the early game. You almost HAVE to have Arcanes before you do much more than pressing Q to trade with your lane opponent.

[J_A_P_G]

Originally posted by Rainbow Dash:

Originally posted by jamezoar:

Whats The Best Build For Skywrath Mage?

Q > W > Q > E > Q > R > Q. For items, INT, Mana, and Mana Regen are your priority 3 stats. (Bloodstone, Scythe, Arcane Boots, Eul's Scepter, Ghost Scepter, Rod of Atos, etc)

Skywrath's role in the game is a ranged magical nuker that scales with INT and becomes more powerful the later the game goes. While his spells are spammable and fairly good early on, his mana pool is unsupportive for the early game. You almost HAVE to have Arcanes before you do much more than pressing Q to trade with your lane opponent.

This is correct. Once you have basically infinite mana, you might consider aghs, but DON'T RUSH IT.

[Raven]

Originally posted by Matau99:

Originally posted by Rainbow Dash:

Q > W > Q > E > Q > R > Q. For items, INT, Mana, and Mana Regen are your priority 3 stats. (Bloodstone, Scythe, Arcane Boots, Eul's Scepter, Ghost Scepter, Rod of Atos, etc)

Skywrath's role in the game is a ranged magical nuker that scales with INT and becomes more powerful the later the game goes. While his spells are spammable and fairly good early on, his mana pool is unsupportive for the early game. You almost HAVE to have Arcanes before you do much more than pressing Q to trade with your lane opponent.

This is correct. Once you have basically infinite mana, you might consider aghs, but DON'T RUSH IT.

Agh's is almost like a 5th or 6th item for Skywrath because of the huge amount of mana he chews through, even without his ult having a 0s CD. The probably-optimal option would be Octarine THEN Aghanim's so you have something to support your ultimate's mana-devouring upgrade. Even that is pretty optimistic about your mana pool. Sure, you might be able to ult once (maybe twice), but you probably aren't gonna get much else off that fight, so you better make sure you land that ult.

[SLanted Edge]

If you are building a 2-3 role maybe, but in the 4-5 its gonna be hard getting bloodstones dagons etc.

Get force you need to positioning and the build up is kind and the int helps u. Rod is great if ur team has no other slow's stuns.

But nothing is more fun than a ebalde. it slows, feeds off of ur primary stat, syn with ur seal, and amps ur ult. And the added benefit of protecting you from physical dmg ppl.

[Schrödinger's Cathulhu]

I really like the tortedeline standarts builds, they give you a nice base to heroes you are not dat experienced whit.

[SUMDOG]

6 divine rapiers

[Metal Arms]

Start: three branches, healing salve, tangos, 3 clarity's.
Early: arcane boots, magic stick, null talisman.
Early-Mid game: rod of atos, magic wand, void stone or basic items for your next item. Tp Scroll
Mid-late: pretty much any support item/intelligence hero items work on him. I like euls, force staff, hex, etc.

[Sky Marshall Sanders]

Atos should be a priority if you are a core. It has the best int:gold ratio in the game and helps you get damage on your ult and more uptime for your q. Beyond that you'll need some form of mobility, blink or force depending on if you can afford to move in aggressively vs the enemy team. Otherwise you can build any of the items that an int core normally builds, hex is great, shivas is strong, a linkens or lotus orb can be clutch, eth blade is fine.

If you aren't a core you just build survivability, get force, glimmer, or ghost depending on what you need. Max your silence first with maybe two points in q. The silence is basically instant, focus on using that and your w to disrupt the initiation and then drop ult when someone else sets you up. Late game you'll hopefully be able to get some of the same items that the core build would, but with a higher focus on team utility. The biggest difference will likely be that support skywrath should only very rarely get atos and should consider ethblade more strongly; after all, it is very likely you will need a ghost scepter.

[76561198276602023]

Originally posted by Ninj4Turtl3:

Start: three branches, healing salve, tangos, 3 clarity's.
Early: arcane boots, magic stick, null talisman.
Early-Mid game: rod of atos, magic wand, void stone or basic items for your next item. Tp Scroll
Mid-late: pretty much any support item/intelligence hero items work on him. I like euls, force staff, hex, etc.

i don't get why i need the tree branches, what do they even do?

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also, thanks everyone for the replies, actually from all your comments i realised that it goes down to personal preferences. all i need to do is just learn how to use the stuff i have instead of knowing which ones to get. but thanks anyways.......(fades out)

[OntologicalWeevil]

Bloodstone and aghs for ulti build
Or focus on intell and utilize your Q