Hi, I'm DaforLynx. I'm not all that good or experienced, but I've been playing Vox since at least December 2015. He's my favorite laner so far - he has above average mobility, amazing burst potential, and great at chasing down those fleeing opponents. Coming from (and still into) Smash Bros., I know a lot about movement. Stutter-stepping, Vox's core technique, is somewhat like dash-dancing. Anyway, in this guide I'll discuss what makes Vox really good, as well as some general strategy. Like Vainglory itself, this guide is a work in progress.
Pros and Cons Top
Item Explanations Top
This is what allows you to keep farming into the late game! With some more CP you can perfectly 2-hit the small minions. The extra firing speed also helps immensely in that early game farm!
Even though you have fast attack speed, doesn't mean you don't rely on abilities, like, 24/7! This will seriously step up your lane game since you don't have to bring 50
Halcyon Potions every time you report back. Later you can upgrade this to an
Eve of Harvest for increased damage and survivability.
This is where most of Vox's damage output comes from. The shield pierce will take care of foward-thinking opponnents. During fights that drag on, you can soon gain an edge through
Broken Myth stacks! In fact, a fully-stacked
Broken Myth can do more damage than a simple
Shatterglass! But what happens when you combine the two?
This increases damage output immensely, so getting this at any time will be beneficial. Combined with
Broken Myth and
Pulse, your attacks will be INSTANT DEATH to the entire enemy team! That is, if you can get there fast enough...
I feel like boots are one of the more underrated of items. The sprint is almost like a Flash from LoL, but the real benefit to
Vox comes from
Travel Boots. Getting these early will get you into and out of fights much quicker, plus insane juking ability early game as you weave in and out with movement speed and
Sonic Zoom. Just great. Plus, health regen is always nice!
What's an escape with out a
Reflex Block? Not an escape, of course! This is so useful for getting out of sticky situations, combined with
Travel Boots and
Sonic Zoom(which can also inflict pain on your pursuers). I recommend getting this as your first defense item and then upgrading it to an
Aegis. Leave the
Crucible to the roamer, they should know what to do. However, if you are facing a heavily WP comp, get some armor instead (
Atlas Pauldron). It'll help.
Abilities Top
Let's review
Vox's abilities:
This heroic perk is similar to Celseste's as it amplifies basic attack power with your CP, which makes CP Vox all the better! Additionally, enemies marked with Resonance (this includes monsters, minions, and miners) will have "Resonance bounces" bounce off them and onto nearby enemies, damaging them depending on CP. Apparently the song "Julia" is by the Beatles.
A very fast, cost-efficient juking move. Use it to escape and to cross over certain corners. Fancy!
Oh yeah, did I mention that enemies within range marked with Resonance will have two, not one but TWO basic attacks thrown at them as you move? You can escape AND attack AT THE SAME TIME! Is that cool or what. Other applications include chasing down enemies with little health, dealing IMMENSE BURST DAMAGE to groups, and just being an excellent juke. The overdrive ups the basic attacks' weapon damage by 20%, but we don't need that here.
This is the crux of
Vox's entire kit. A circle expands outwards, acting like a radar and marking enemies position briefly, just for you. You can check bushes this way, but it uses quite a bit of energy early game and flares are just more reliable. Additionally, enemies caught by the circle are slowed depending on how close they are to the center, and they are also marked with - you guessed it - Resonance. So you can slow them and then immediately fire two quick shots at them. If you have
Alternating Current you can fire four attacks in less than 2 seconds with this technique.
Vox's ultimate may not seem like much at first. It fires two shots, a long beam and then a sort of ki blast that damages a medium amount. OK...but get this: the beam silences enemies, so they can't react with abilities, AND marks them with Resonance, which means that the blast that follows will bounce between them, causing massive damage to groups! If you aim carefully (it's not that hard) you can silence all three enemy heroes, then damage them! Not only that, but, it being so quick, the silence is very hard to predict and
Reflex Block! While you may think that this is purely an initiating tool, think again! When chasing an enemy, you can quickly use it on them, so they can't use boots or any shenanigans, and then (if they didn't die from the blast) finish them off with
Sonic Zoom! Butt wait, there's more! Overdrived, this ability's cooldown is about 30 seconds - which means you can potentially use it twice in the same fight! Also, you'll have
Broken Myth stacks at that point - massive damage! gagjagjpogjaioasdfg
In conclusion, yeah, this guy's broken.
General Strategy Top
Laning
Vox is a laner. That means you start out in the wide-open lane, where minions perpetually try to get to the enemy Vain. Luckily for you, they all seem to have gold coming out of their ********s! which of course means when you kill them you get that gold. An important note to add is that YOU have to be the one to kill them. This will garner you Creep Score (CS) and lots of gold, and some XP. However this is not a complete general laning guide. This concerns
Vox only.
Last-hitting safely is tricky when you are the shortest-ranged sniper hero in the Fold. Position yourself northwards and on your turret's side, and almost never should you cross that center line. If that
Ringo tries to aggressively harass you right from the start, do you fight back? Heck, no!
Pulse to slow them and then run closer to your turret. If you feel confident, then, and they are slightly extending, go ahead and fire one or two shots at them. A great strategy is to
Pulse all the minions AND the enemy hero, then try to attack the minions closest to the hero. The resonance bounces should hit the hero, and if you have enough CP, they can deal a lot of damage. Once you hit level 2, you're much safer now that you have
Sonic Zoom. There's a slight power increase as well, so it's easier to last-hit minions.
Keep doing this until you've driven your own minions into the enemy turret. That should keep the other laner occupied, so go ahead and report back, buy items, and return to lane.
DO NOT LEAVE THE LANE! DO NOT LEAVE THE LANE! unless by some unforeseen chance you get the chance to land a snarky little kill steal. Hey, it's not your jungler's fault they can't chase properly! For the most part, stay in the lane, gradually earning gold, unless your team requires help with the Gold Mine. Once you get at least two tier 3 items,
Reflex Block, and
Travel Boots, you can afford to roam around a bit.
Late Game
By now you should have at least three tier 3 damage items,
Reflex Block & some shield, and your boots. Now is when you can support your team more! Remember that you're a "sniper"; stay somewhere in the back lines until someone tries to escape. Use your silence wisely, and keep attacking! Spam
Sonic Zoom! In the case that someone does attempt to escape, have your
Reflex Block ready and (here's an important bit)
Sonic Zoom,
Pulse, attack, THEN
Sonic Zoom again. This way you get them as close to the center of the
Pulse as possible, slowing them down for as long as possible, which then allows you to let loose! Of course, there are some subtle points to chasing, like flanking, getting assistance from your support, etc., but this is just an outline.
While Vox isn't THE best chaser, he excels most in group fights, where his
Wait for It and Resonance'd basic attacks deal the most damage. You can choose to initiate with
Wait for It or save it for later, but apply resonance on as many enemies as possible and groove away! 'cause you just swept them out.
Quick note: don't waste your B or A on the Kraken, turrets, or Vain crystal as it won't work with them for some reason. When you win, give them the ol' dance!
Other things Top
If you've just seen Kestrel's spotlight and want to get more in-depth on her (if you know what I mean), please visit my bro MorganField's guide,
Into the Shadows.
Also, although I'm not affiliated with this player,
Medic's Vox guide helped me a lot when discovering Vox. It deserves a read.
Apparently BenTimm's favorite laner is also Vox. Yay.
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