Yeah Realo, I haven't taken her mid but there are lots of characters that can burst quicker than her, and then once Level 6 hits there's not many mid matchups she would win. Safe farming perhaps, but then they have a farmed Ryze/Morg/whomever, which I think is worse. But at Top, she poops on champions without gap closers or reliable harass. Kennen/Vlad/Rumble all beat her because of MR/WotA and range, but I beast on Darius, and even did pretty well against a pre-fed Pantheon (level 1 engage turned into my 4 teammates dying, so Panth had a full level on me before lane started, then extra gold for his first buy. I died a few times and could've played better, but I did well for what I started with). Her lack of an ult kinda stinks, and I really wish Mantras came up faster, but she's so much fun.
On Blitz, I used to grab Tear for Manamune and max Power Fist for UBER DAMAGE, but it really didn't amount to much. Once I got good with grabs and knowing the limits of my AD, I don't even need the damage - reduced CD on grab is much more useful. I go faerie, 4ward 1pot - I don't plan on needing more than one pot, and extra wards in case we lane for a very long time. Philo, boots1, (optional HoG), Kindlegem, Glacial Shroud, boots5, core is done. Aegis sometimes, Frozen Heart/Force of Nature if necessary, Shurelya's when I have enough spare gold. I basically skip Sheen/TF all the time, much better to get ultra tanky so I can peel, initiate, chase, CC-bot.
I should say that Frozen Heart isn't even good because of the mana, you get like an extra 75. it's the extra armor and the AS debuff. Holy crap 20% AS debuff is huge. It's not just removing 20% bonus, it is 20% of enemies' total AD. so that 1.5as carry is now a 1.2as carry. and any other AA's like Udyr, Jax, Shyv, Irelia. FH is so good.
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