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Leather Cowl is the best starter right now for an attack speed based build because it will provide you with high attack speed stats, good strength and some lifesteal not much but enough.
Axe will evolve into 
Devourer's Gauntlet.
Purification Beads will save you during early game giving CC immunity during 2 seconds.
Leather Cowl is the best starter right now for an attack speed based build because it will provide you with high attack speed stats, good strength and some lifesteal not much but enough.
Axe will evolve into Devourer's Gauntlet.
Purification Beads will save you during early game giving CC immunity during 2 seconds.
Leather Cowl
Axe
Health Potion
Purification Beads
Hunter's Cowl it is a really good starter because provides you high strength, some lifesteal but the most important thing: the attack speed aura and the extra lifesteal when you are around an ally.
Devourer's Gauntlet this item gives you power and lifesteal, it is a really good starter item because the first you stack, you will have better sustain during laning phase and late game fights.
Lernaean Bow it is a really impactful item because it provides you of high attack speed, strength, critical chances and the most important thing, antiheal which can be crucial during early game trades!
Qin's Blade you should always buy this item if you don't know exactly what do build next because of its passive, it is really strong for killing supports and solo laners (tanky gods).
The Executioner incorporating this item in an attack speed based build it is crucial because it will give you attack speed, strength and penetration to burn objectives and tanky gods.
Titan's Bane provides you with with great amount of strength and penetration being a very cheap item.
Odysseus' Bow is pretty cool for farming damage and dealing high amount of damage during team fights in late game. The only problem that it has is that it doesn't provide of any power stat so you will have less DPS. Hunter's Cowl it is a really good starter because provides you high strength, some lifesteal but the most important thing: the attack speed aura and the extra lifesteal when you are around an ally.
Devourer's Gauntlet this item gives you power and lifesteal, it is a really good starter item because the first you stack, you will have better sustain during laning phase and late game fights.
Lernaean Bow it is a really impactful item because it provides you of high attack speed, strength, critical chances and the most important thing, antiheal which can be crucial during early game trades!
Qin's Blade you should always buy this item if you don't know exactly what do build next because of its passive, it is really strong for killing supports and solo laners (tanky gods).
The Executioner incorporating this item in an attack speed based build it is crucial because it will give you attack speed, strength and penetration to burn objectives and tanky gods.
Titan's Bane provides you with with great amount of strength and penetration being a very cheap item.
Odysseus' Bow is pretty cool for farming damage and dealing high amount of damage during team fights in late game. The only problem that it has is that it doesn't provide of any power stat so you will have less DPS.
This build is meant for competitive because your enemies are supposed to be in communication and playing smart so you will be in most of the cases only hitting tanks or junglers that are trying to kill you. Most of them will have more than 200 hundred physical and magical protections and more than 3500 HP so you will need to have bought penetration items for being able to kill them as quick as possible.
Hunter's Cowl
Devourer's Gauntlet (Evolved)
Lernaean Bow
The Executioner
Odysseus' Bow
Titan's Bane
Qin's Blade
Rage for Quin's Sais, 
Demon Blade for 
Odysseus' Bow, 
Deathbringer for The Executioner.
In the case you want to go with crits in your build because you are feeling that you are not doing enough damage, you should do both of them to have good critical chances.
This items should be bought: Rage for Quin's Sais, Demon Blade for Odysseus' Bow, Deathbringer for The Executioner.
Rage
Deathbringer
Demon Blade
Phantom Shell should be bought if their set up doesn't have gods with much CC's and they have walls in their kits like 
Ymir or 
Cabrakan.
Aegis of Acceleration it is a really good option because it has low CD. You should always buy it in the games where the enemy gods don't have much CC's or in the case they have many burst skills.
Phantom Shell should be bought if their set up doesn't have gods with much CC's and they have walls in their kits like Ymir or Cabrakan.
Aegis of Acceleration it is a really good option because it has low CD. You should always buy it in the games where the enemy gods don't have much CC's or in the case they have many burst skills.
Phantom Shell
Aegis of Acceleration
Tyrfing, if you are winning early game and you want to snowball as much as possible, this item is perfect for that because of the strength that provides and the passive which adds more damage to your basic attacks!
Tyrfing, if you are winning early game and you want to snowball as much as possible, this item is perfect for that because of the strength that provides and the passive which adds more damage to your basic attacks!
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SUNTOUCHED (PASSIVE) - CLICK FOR INFORICOCHET (1) - CLICK FOR INFOMARK OF THE GOLDEN CROW (2) - CLICK FOR INFODIVEBOMB (3) - CLICK FOR INFOSUNBREAKER (ULTIMATE) - CLICK FOR INFOI don’t recommend using this aspect because it removes 
Ricochet’s stun and automatic bouncing, which lowers your crowd control and burst damage. The damage now relies heavily on hitting marked enemies with basic attacks, making it less reliable in fast fights. Additionally, bounced attacks can’t damage structures, limiting your objective control. Overall, this change reduces your ability to control team fights and deal quick, impactful damage.
Mark of the Golden Crow > Ricochet > Sunbreaker > Auto Attacks Mark of the Golden Crow > 
Divebomb > Ricochet > Sunbreaker > Auto Attacks Mark of the Golden Crow > Sunbreaker > Ricochet > Auto Attacks Hou Yi but it's essential to ALWAYS start a fight or a duel against the other ADC with Mark of the Golden Crow because it will decrease the enemies defense stats and will play a psychological paper in the enemies, they will know they can be in danger if you hit your Ricochet and stun them, this situation will make you have some free basic attacks over them.
Mark of the Golden Crow in the enemy hunter and then trying to hit the Ricochet this will poke him out and easily convert him into an easy kill for your teammates. I need to clarify that if you don't wave any wards spotted on the map remember you should always take care of it. Just be confident during laning phase, your confidence will play a really good paper on succeeding, so just try it out. If you don't risk you will never achieve :p. Purification Beads, Aegis of Acceleration or Phantom Shell before going into the Fire Giant. I really good advice is to use actives as soon as the solo laner, support or jungler engages on you to try to avoid as much damage and crowd control as possible, if you stay safe as an ADC on a late game teamfight, your team will have enough DPS to do Fire Giant or if you kill all your enemies, you can even finish the game. Mark of the Golden Crow on him, this will decrease his defenses and help you killing him, then use your ultimate Sunbreaker to slow him out and facilitate hitting Ricochet stunning him and costing most of his HP or actives. THIS HAS A LOT OF VALUE FOR YOUR TEAM OVER THE LATE GAME TEAMFIGHTS AROUND OBJECTIVES OR STRUCTURES!
Sentry Ward (GREEN COLOUR CIRCLE) your purple buff and make sure to call your teammates at least 1 minute before spawning.
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