With control of the Elemental Dragon secured and the Rift Herald claimed, Luo Zhen's itemization path became very clear.
If his teammates were messing around and there was obviously no chance of winning, he would blindly go Comet plus Pain Mask. The damage might not have been high, but the visual effect was disgustingly annoying. It was definitely good enough to entertain himself.
If his teammates were playing seriously, then it would be the ward-clearing blade plus Grievous Wounds, followed by all-in Cooldown Reduction. The focus was on supporting the team.
And this game, he chose the second playstyle—selfless dedication. (No blame attached.)
Chapter 7: The Smile Vanished.
"This Ashe... is kind of annoying."
A few more minutes passed. When Conyon skillfully used the First Herald alongside the bot lane's Lane Control advantage to flatten the First Blood Tower, the Ashe and Miss Fortune duo was finally freed from the Laning Phase. Things would have been fine if they had stayed put, but once they came out, everyone on the Red Side had to suffer.
Luo Zhen understood this very well.
Sure, during the Laning Phase, he and his ADC had relentlessly Kited the enemy bot lane and created what looked like a nearly one-sided stomp. But in reality? Once Ashe left lane and entered the rotation phase, when the game moved into the fight for Map Resources, her weaknesses would be exposed to an infinitely greater extent.
No mobility, squishy, and aside from her ultimate and her vision-providing E skill, her Q skill and W skill were practically useless.
Oh, wait.
Her W skill still had a use. Throwing out a slow to disgust the enemy was something, and calling it poke wasn't entirely wrong either.
Since Luo Zhen understood his own power window, he naturally knew how to