CP Skye, what is that damages ? Patch 1.21 by G2esports

CP Skye, what is that damages ? Patch 1.21

By: G2esports
Last Updated: Aug 28, 2016
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Skye

Build: Build #1

Ability Path

Target Lock
Heroic Perk
Forward Barrage
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Suri Strike
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Death From Above
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Item Choices

Starter Jungle

Crystal Bit
Halcyon Potion

Starter Lane

Weapon Blade
Halcyon Potion

Itemisation Order

Frostburn
Reflex Block
Broken Myth
Eve of Harvest

Last Item (Metal Jacket OR Shatterglass)

Metal Jacket
Shatterglass

Choose your boots

Halcyon Chargers
Journey Boots

optimal build

Shatterglass
Broken Myth
Eve of Harvest
Journey Boots
Halcyon Chargers
Frostburn
Aegis

alternative for frostburn

Metal Jacket
Clockwork

Threat Meter

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Threat Hero Notes
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3
 Adagio Adagio seems to be weak this patch. You will simply outdamage him while he will not be able to sustain and deal you damages.
3
 Alpha Her spell are too linear for you. She will just eat your forward barrage all the time.
3
 Skaarf Skaarf is really easy to shutdown as Skye. While Celesete can zone with her A, Skaarf can simply hope that Skye doesn't come to him. Try to cast your ultimate while Skaarf is casting his Fire Breath.
3
 Joule Melee hero + skillshot. This matchup is really easy.
3
 Reim Melee hero + skillshot. This matchup is really easy.
4
 Celeste Skillshot hero are paper against Skye, don't be scared to dive BUT also be carefull of brokenmyth + heliogenesis.
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 Blackfeather Early game he is easy to face but once he get mobility and damages, the better duo/the most skilled will win the jungle.
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 Petal She can't really kill you. But you can't really kill her if she play right.
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 Fortress Even Fortress is weak this patch, his ultimate will body block a part of your damages or at least will delay your damages output. But early game you should be fine.
6
 Kestrel A skilled matchup, this one mostly depend of the players. Be carefull, don't facecheck any bushes. Her damage output is pretty high !
6
 Krul Due to Skye nerf, Krul don't struggle that much, this is totaly an even matchup. But only for the early game to midgame. When Skye have 1 CP Item + Broken myth the game is pretty much over for Krul. So you can choose to play safe jungle and you will clear faster which on time will give you more gold and experience or invade.
6
 Ozo A skilled matchup, this one mostly depend of the players. CP Ozo have a really good burst as WP Ozo does. Just be carefull. If you don't feel confident farm and overlevel him.
7
 Glaive A skilled matchup, this one mostly depend of the players.
8
 Ringo Direct damage and a nice range. High damage output. Let your tanks go in first and find opportunity to come and kill him. If you don't wait be prepared to be out of the fight really fast.
8
 SAW Saw alone is not a threat to Skye. But put a Phinn with him and you will insta die. But if you play it right. You can devastate him. Use forward barrage without being in range of his auto attacks. If there is a target near him just use this to ulti him and do the same thing as above.
9
 Lyra She avoid your mobility, give mobility to her team and heal them up. Perma ban this.
9
 Taka A really hard matchup. He can evade easily. He can DODGE your skillshot easily. I think you should better go farm instead of trying to kill Taka.
9
 Vox WP Vox is really good against Skye. Nice mobility and damage output. Same for Ringo let your mates enter the fight first !
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   No Threat

Table of contents Top

1. Introduction

2. Abilities
2.1 Heroic Perk, Target Lock
2.2 Forward Barrage
2.3 Suri Strike
2.4 Death from Above

3. Gameplay & Strategy
3.1 Early Game
3.2 Mid Game
3.3 Late Game
3.4 Build & Skill Explanation
3.5 Composition that fits well with Skye

4. More Guides

Introduction Top


Hello, I'm REDemption and in this guide, I'm gonna show you the strength of Skye

Skye is a mobility mage. She have one of the highest damages potential and her mobility make her frustrating to play against. With 6 Broken Myth stacks she can destroy any ennemies with 1 Forward Barrage

She is probably one of the most skillcaped hero in Vainglory. If you want to have some fun and win games, Skye is the hero you need.

Abilities Top

Target Lock Top

Target Lock is the heroic perc of Skye. All the gameplay of Skye is based on this heroic perc. You will deal a LOT of damages to the locked target with Forward Barrage. You will DANCE arround the locked target with Suri Strike and your ultimate Death From Above will be placed ON the target OR arround her.

Forward Barrage Top

Forward Barrage is the main DPS (Damage per Second) spell of Skye.

PRO TIPS : When you use a skillshot hero, ALWAYS TRY TO PLACE YOURSELF in a way that your ennemy is parallel to the closest wall. This is really important if you wanna hit all the Forward Barrage ticks.

Suri Strike Top

Suri Strike is the spell that make her really boring to play against her. This spell also make your Forward Barrage cooldown lower (and 0CD when Suri Strike is overdrived]]) It have a 5.5 seconds cooldown and it deal a good ammount of damages. With this spell, you can replace yourself in a 360° degree around the locked target. Even better, you can jump some walls if your target is near a wall !
But don't be greedy, Skye is also really squeeshy and you should be really carefull of your positioning.

Death From Above Top

Death From Above is such a skilled spell. This spell have a short stun and turn into a slow with some damages per seconds. The cooldown for an ultimate is really short so you can really abuse of it. For exemple if you are laning, use this to clear the wave if you feel like it.

Gameplay & strategy Top

Early game Top

In early game as Skye, you should take your first rotation. When you are at the shop IF :
- You and your support are doing a good job at poking or even killing, you will can try to steal the ennemy jungle. If you do this there is almost no way to the ennemy to comeback. You will be overleveled all the game and you will be almost unkillable.
- You don't feel confident at killing the ennemies, tell your support to go lane if possible. Skye have no problems at farming alone. So this is a way to become overleveled and invade when you got some level/money.

If you are in lane, focus in farm. It's really easy to get tier 3 item really fast.

Mid game Top

When you have 1 tier 3 item you can start to be agressive if you didn't started yet. As I said before Skye have one of the highest damage output in the game.
The Skye "combo" is :
Target Lock to increase your damage of Forward Barrage, when your forward barrage is finished, use [suri strike]] or wait all your cooldowns if you don't want to force the fight anymore.

Late game Top

In late game, the gameplay doesn't change as the midgame. The only think that changed is that now you have the Broken Myth and you will pretty much kill them in 2 or 3 seconds.

Also now you can zone them without the Target Lock to stack the Broken Myth. Don't be scared to focus the support if the fight isn't engaged.

Build and spell Explanation Top

So there is 3 way of playing Skye in my opinion.

First way : Is the one that was played 80% of the time.
You start building Frostburn for that amazing slow that you Skye so much utility in teamfights.

Second way :
You start building Shatterglass if you feel that you can touch every Forward Barrage ticks. Frostburn is completed as last item.

Third way :
When you face a big tank and you want to shut him down the fastest way, you build Broken Myth. He will give you free stacks and you will deal a big ammount of damages.


For the boots, take the one you prefer. I think the Journey boots are really great for poking. Use boots, Forward Barrage go back and your boots CD are at 12seconds. Easy poke.
Otherwhise take Halcyon charger for the utility stats.

I choosed to overdrive Suri Strike first and then Forward Barrage because of the mobility that give Suri Strike and the CD reduction he will give to the Forward Barrage.

There is also the possibility to overdrive Forward Barrage first when you play against a Krul or something with low mobility. When Forward Barrage is overdrive, the damages will become insane that he will not be able to sustain so much damages.

Composition that fits well with Skye Top

Skye is one of the highest damage output in the game. But to do that, you need 2 things. Survive and touch with your Forward Barrage.

So in jungle you can play her with an Ardan that will give you speed to touch with your abilities and it will save you from taking too much damages.
She can be played with a Phinn that can combo with you for even more damages. He will slow, give you fortified health and keep them close to you.
And she can be played with a Lance, he can root so it's pretty much free damages for your Forward Barrage. He can peel for you by kicking ennemy away but this need a bit of coordination since he can also denie you from doing damages.

Now the comps that are strong in my opinion :

Phinn SAW & Skye, but in this comp it's a different gameplay. Since Saw have also a big damage output you will do everything to keep him alive. If the ennemies have a melee jungler, place Death From Above on Saw so it will give him a breath.

Lance Krul or Glaive and Skye lane. This comp have a lot of CC and the jungle can help Skye to survive.

Ringo Fortress Skye here the damage output is also insane but Ringo is more safe in term of mmobility so you can deploy all your potential.

Vox Phinn Skye since Taka is really good against Skye (not impossible), having a Phinn will help you so much against his invisibility.

More guides Top

Check out our other hero guides:



- WP Jungle Lance

- WP Jungle Carry Ardan

- CP Jungle Reim

- WP Blackfeather ; CP Lane Blackfeather

- WP Jungle Alpha ; Terminator Alpha CP

- Jungle CP Petal

- Bloody Crit Rona

- Armorshredder Krul

- Crit Queen Joule

- Dirty Paws Burst Glaive





Also don't miss our video guides about gameplay and strategies:

- Vision Guide

- Support Guide Part 1

- Support Guide Part 2

- Support Guide Part 3

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