Have I mentioned that I relish any excuse to play MF? Most people consider her weak but most people build her; IMO; wrong. Every time I see an MF put more than 1 point in Q in it's current state I cry.
My Blitz didn't even really land many hooks [He did land a couple of good ones for our 2nd and 3rd kill on me however; after I'd slowed with E]. We manfought a Draven/Leona lane. Which manfights everything and usually wins. Draven spent most the game farming alone to catch up [Or pushing out super minions we got around the 24 min mark] while I pushed towers and looked for picks using Strut and Make it Rain with Blitzcrank and/or Lux's snare; which is why I'm behind on CS.
But seriously. Why on earth don't more people max E first on MF? Rank 1 has a 25% slow. Rank 5 has a
65% slow. Allowing you to rack up a lot more Impure Stacks; help your allies land skillshots; and makes it easier to get more ult ticks. I was forceing flashes just by showing up and getting into E
range.
And then you go Ghostblade for the combination of the early pen; crit; CDR [MF likes this a lot] and the active. Because MF has a few goals in a teamfight:
1: Keep at mid-range. Your dominant range. Strut and E help this. Ghostblade helps if you lose Strut.
2: Get a good ultimate. This is linked to that positioning that Ghostblade helps with
3: When not ulting; autoattack whatever target is safe. Ghostblade helps this giving you a second steroid you can pop
when you need to. Building a raw attackspeed item isn't that great on MF; since Attackspeed is useless with her R. Instead; you use Impure Shots and Ghostblade when you need to autoattack; and you can ulti when they are cooling down; or before you activate them. [Both of which are optimal points as well due to how Impure Shot's passive works. Either ulti to rack up early stacks at range or ulti when your select target already has a lot of stacks to finish them, even as they flee.]
I dunno; I know MF has issues but they are greatly exaggerated, and she has some key strengths as well. Also note I didn't go Cleaver. We didn't have any other physical damage and MF herself deals significant magic damage [Some games I even go Sorcs; like a Corki]. In an ideal world you keep Strut up; which is difficult to do while dealing damage. Helps she's pretty good early; mid and late. She dosen't really fall off neither does she really; really excel at any point.
But damn her Q mechanics. MF's Q is probobly one of the worst spells in the game atm. You take it at Lv 1 for the AA reset and then probobly never use it except for the occasional lasthit past Lv 4.
Oh and that Ekko got First Blood. Then got completely owned by C.C. Turns out Ekko really hates snares because it disables his R and E and insane MS boosts. And he really; really; really hates Entangle. Which stops him autoattacking as well as moving.
