Counters, Synergies & Matchups

Tactical Matchup Note: Charm is the whole matchup: mages who have to stand still to cast lose to it, and mobile assassins who can wait it out beat her.

Tactical Matchup Note: Twin Disciplines pays in both currencies, and Mark of the Assassin wins extended mid trades - the counterplay is a point-click Silence, stacked Magic Resist, or vision dropped straight into Twilight Shroud.

Tactical Matchup Note: Headbutt-Pulverize goes through squishy supports, but Black Shield blanks the knockup and Monsoon undoes the engage.

Tactical Matchup Note: Curse of the Sad Mummy catches melee carries mid-commit; early-invade junglers beat him because his level-one clear is the slowest here.

Tactical Matchup Note: Crystallize cuts off anyone who has to walk at her; assassins with a gap-closer beat her before the egg matters.

Tactical Matchup Note: Pyromania flash-Tibbers bursts squishy bot lanes (Sona) and short-range mid mages; long-range poke and Blitzcrank hooks catch her before she gets into cast range.

Tactical Matchup Note: Frost Shot kites slow melee forever; hook and lock-down supports beat her because there is no escape in the kit.

Tactical Matchup Note: One grab ends the lane against immobile carries. Black Shield and Spell Shield both eat the hook outright.

Tactical Matchup Note: Pillar of Flame and Pyroclasm decimate grouped bot duos and immobile mid laners; dive assassins (Kassadin) and displacement hooks (Blitzcrank) punish his lack of escape.

Tactical Matchup Note: Feast health and Rupture punish melee that has to commit; percent-health damage undoes the whole plan.

Tactical Matchup Note: Mixed damage means neither resistance answers him alone, and Valkyrie escapes most engage that is not point-and-click.

Tactical Matchup Note: Sadism outlasts sustained damage; Madred's Bloodrazor and Vayne's true damage are built specifically to beat his health bar.

Tactical Matchup Note: Stealth beats champions with no escape and no vision habits; once pink wards are up she loses the pick that funds her.

Tactical Matchup Note: Arcane Shift keeps him out of every skillshot engage; point-and-click lock-down and short-range true damage are what actually kill him.

Tactical Matchup Note: Crowstorm from fog of war wipes out grouped bot lanes and objective skirmishes; instant CC interruptions (Kassadin silence, Blitzcrank hook, Janna knockback) cancel Drain and Crowstorm.

Tactical Matchup Note: Remove Scurvy answers the slow-and-poke top laners; hard early duelists beat him before Raise Morale matters.

Tactical Matchup Note: Silence plus a true-damage execute deletes casters in lane; scaling duelists simply outlast his window.

Tactical Matchup Note: Barrel Roll poke and Explosive Cask burst down mid squishies and disengage top juggernauts; mobile assassins (Kassadin, Ahri) and unstoppable duelists (Olaf) punish missed casks.

Tactical Matchup Note: Turrets hold the lane against melee that has to walk in; any mage who can burst him from range ends it immediately.

Tactical Matchup Note: Monsoon is the hard answer to every engage support in the game; sustain and poke lanes beat her because she cannot trade back.

Tactical Matchup Note: Cataclysm traps carries who rely on repositioning; crowd-control immunity and early invade pressure are the answers.

Tactical Matchup Note: Counter Strike blanks auto-attack champions completely. Armor stacking and true damage are the two things it cannot dodge.

Tactical Matchup Note: Defile clears forever against melee that cannot reach him; assassins beat him because Wall of Pain is not real protection.

Tactical Matchup Note: Magic-damage burst against 30 base magic resist, and Riftwalk leaves any fight he starts losing. Magic resist and hard CC are the counterplay.

Tactical Matchup Note: Resets shred immobile casters; a single point-and-click stun cancels Death Lotus and the whole pick with it.

Tactical Matchup Note: Righteous Fury shreds low-mobility top bruisers (Singed, Garen) and Intervention flips teamfights; early-game lane bullies (Pantheon, Jax) punish her weak pre-6 laning.

Tactical Matchup Note: Slicing Maelstrom dominates teamfights and ranged stuns bully melee top laners; disengage (Janna Monsoon), CC-immune bruisers (Olaf), and silence (Kassadin) interrupt his engage.

Tactical Matchup Note: Percent-health damage answers the health stackers; 500 range with no escape loses to anything that reaches him.

Tactical Matchup Note: Energy costs mean he fights at any point in the clear and beats junglers who need a full camp first; armor and scaling beat him late.

Tactical Matchup Note: Chain CC runs over sustain supports; Black Shield, Spell Shield and Monsoon are the three things that turn it off.

Tactical Matchup Note: Whimsy turns off a diving carry mid-commit; she loses lanes where she has to win a damage trade rather than react to one.

Tactical Matchup Note: Long-range poke and Light Binding control immobile mid laners and squishy bot lanes; hard-dive assassins (Kassadin, Ahri) and lockdown engage (Leona) punish her lack of mobility.

Tactical Matchup Note: Ground Slam and 25.75 base armor shut down attack-speed carries; percent-health damage goes straight through the armor plan.

Tactical Matchup Note: Nether Grasp suppression removes a champion from the fight entirely; mobile assassins reach him before he can channel it.

Tactical Matchup Note: Highlander resets punish squishy compositions; Rammus and hard CC are the reason he is not simply unbeatable.

Tactical Matchup Note: Impure Shots wins early lane trades outright; no escape at all means any engage support that reaches her wins.

Tactical Matchup Note: Black Shield blanks hard-CC engage supports (Blitzcrank, Leona) and combo mages (Veigar). In Mid, high-mobility burst (Kassadin, Ahri) counters her, while poke supports (Sona) whittle her shield.

Tactical Matchup Note: Wither turns off the carry sent to stop him; early duelists beat him before the stacks are worth anything.

Tactical Matchup Note: Javelin Toss pokes down immobile mid mages and kited top laners; sticky duelists (Jax) and burst gap-closers (Kassadin, Lee Sin) catch Cougar form before traps grant escape.

Tactical Matchup Note: Consume is 1000 true damage at rank five and steals camps outright; junglers who can fight him at the camp beat the plan.

Tactical Matchup Note: Ragnarok ignores the crowd control that defines this roster and Reckless Swing is true damage; ranged kiting is the only real answer.

Tactical Matchup Note: Aegis Protection blocks a basic attack outright, which wins every early auto-attack lane; armor and sustained duelists beat him late.

Tactical Matchup Note: 28.8 base armor plus Defensive Ball Curl makes AD compositions unable to kill him; magic damage ignores all of it.

Tactical Matchup Note: Sustained spell damage beats slow scaling melee; assassins beat him during the long farm phase he needs.

Tactical Matchup Note: Deceive and box control beat junglers with predictable pathing; armor stackers and duelists who can fight at the camp beat him.

Tactical Matchup Note: Shadow Dash and Stand United turn dives across top, jungle, and bot lane; ranged harass (Teemo, Sona) and true damage (Olaf) bypass his Feint shield.

Tactical Matchup Note: Poison Trail punishes anyone who chases; ranged percent-health damage beats him because he cannot make them chase.

Tactical Matchup Note: Enrage health and a stun hold a lane against melee; ranged champions beat him because the whole kit is telegraphed.

Tactical Matchup Note: Spell Shield blanks the point-and-click engage that decides Season 3 fights; 425 range loses every marksman duel.

Tactical Matchup Note: Impale drags a carry out of position; anything that kites or slows him never lets him arrive in the first place.

Tactical Matchup Note: Auras and Aria of Perseverance win poke lanes; assassins beat her because 450 base health does not survive being reached.

Tactical Matchup Note: Global healing beats sustained-damage lanes; burst that outpaces the heal, and hard engage, are the answers.

Tactical Matchup Note: Dazzle plus the armor aura wins AD-versus-AD lanes; ranged sustain and disengage supports beat him because he has no reach.

Tactical Matchup Note: Blinding Dart turns an auto-attack champion off completely; mages and assassins ignore the blind entirely.

Tactical Matchup Note: Rocket Jump and Buster Shot are real self-peel against engage; the weak lane phase loses to marksmen who start stronger.

Tactical Matchup Note: Undying Rage guarantees five seconds on a squishy target; armor stackers and crowd control mean he never reaches one.

Tactical Matchup Note: Gold Card plus Destiny is map pressure that slow champions cannot answer; assassins punish every mistimed teleport.

Tactical Matchup Note: Ambush positioning beats compositions that group without vision; armor stacking and point-and-click CC end him instantly.

Tactical Matchup Note: Silver Bolts true damage is the answer to every tank in the item pool; the early lane loses to any engage that reaches her.

Tactical Matchup Note: Primordial Burst deletes squishy scaling champions; assassins beat him during the long farm phase the stacks require.

Tactical Matchup Note: Infinite Duress is a full suppression on a target that cannot walk away; early invade junglers beat his weak level-one.

Tactical Matchup Note: Decoy wins extended melee trades and Cyclone is a real team fight ultimate; Jax and Olaf beat him at the thing he does.

Tactical Matchup Note: Time Shift and Chronoshift save carries from hard engage in bot lane (Leona) and nullify mid-lane burst; displacement hooks (Blitzcrank) and silences (Kassadin) prevent ult cast.