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Upvoted the guide. Have a similiar mindset when playing support Skywrath in that people are greedy and unrealistic with their item build. My build is a little different though. I get tranquil boots, wand, talisman, then go for Eul's Scepter.
To mitigate Skywrath's squishiness, tranquil boots can be used to keep you at full health while roaming around and gives a teeeeeensy bit of armor. The high movespeed of tranquil boots + the movement speed of eul's gives you 425 movespeed. With Eul's, every 10 int you get you'll get an additional +1 mana regen per second, so after Eul's, I usually go for Rod of Atos for the HP boost and extra intelligence.
It's true I didn't list any health items, although I do have Veil, which provides good armor and HP regen.
Armor scales with HP. The more HP you have, the more armor does. Since skywrath has low HP, the benefits of veil are mostly lost.
Skywrath Mage has a very small starting HP pool and next to no strength gain. A Bracer or Urn of Shadows are both much more effective than Null Talisman, which yes gives you 9 damage to your right clicks comparatively to the next to no stat gain of the others, but to be frank... Skywrath doesn't need the damage.
And while yes, you may argue skywrath needs the mana from the int, his int gain is great at 3.2, so simply getting a few levels would solve his mana problems.
Thanks for the info about the pictures, I didn't know that. I will update the guide to be a little prettier.
I qualified Dagon as a choice only if you're doing well. It helps that in the first build that Null Talisman is already built. It's true I didn't list any health items, although I do have Veil, which provides good armor and HP regen. I might even make that core on this build. I also see Force Staff as Skywrath's survivability item, but it requires a lot of careful play. I tried to choose items that made Skywrath's strong points even stronger, but since this guide is intended to spend money as efficiently as possible, I explicitly ignored his weak points.
Most of this is good but a bit confused about some of the item choices. You say that he is squishy yet you don't suggest any item which can rectify this, such as a simple bracelet, which can give you some much needed health. Also, a dagon on a support isn't really a good way to spend your limited amount of money.
I personally prefer maxing ancient seal first as a 6 second silence is invaluable against some hereos.
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To mitigate Skywrath's squishiness, tranquil boots can be used to keep you at full health while roaming around and gives a teeeeeensy bit of armor. The high movespeed of tranquil boots + the movement speed of eul's gives you 425 movespeed. With Eul's, every 10 int you get you'll get an additional +1 mana regen per second, so after Eul's, I usually go for Rod of Atos for the HP boost and extra intelligence.
Armor scales with HP. The more HP you have, the more armor does. Since skywrath has low HP, the benefits of veil are mostly lost.
Skywrath Mage has a very small starting HP pool and next to no strength gain. A Bracer or Urn of Shadows are both much more effective than Null Talisman, which yes gives you 9 damage to your right clicks comparatively to the next to no stat gain of the others, but to be frank... Skywrath doesn't need the damage.
And while yes, you may argue skywrath needs the mana from the int, his int gain is great at 3.2, so simply getting a few levels would solve his mana problems.
I qualified Dagon as a choice only if you're doing well. It helps that in the first build that Null Talisman is already built. It's true I didn't list any health items, although I do have Veil, which provides good armor and HP regen. I might even make that core on this build. I also see Force Staff as Skywrath's survivability item, but it requires a lot of careful play. I tried to choose items that made Skywrath's strong points even stronger, but since this guide is intended to spend money as efficiently as possible, I explicitly ignored his weak points.
I personally prefer maxing ancient seal first as a 6 second silence is invaluable against some hereos.
Adding some pictures and more content would be nice.
will give Skywrath Mage.