Welcome Top
Hello, my name is Klew both here and in game. I have been playing vainglory for a little over a year now with a group of friends. Currently, my team and I are Credible Threat (I know only tier 6 but lets face it, life is a thing that exists and we cant always meet up when we want to progress). I always play the jungle and therefore have come to play
Taka more than my fair share of times. Taka is actually one hero who I am forbidden to play privately, due to the fact my friends would rather 1v5 than have me playing
Taka into them. Anyway, lets be honest you do not care about my gameplay. So lets get into this.
Early Game to Mid Game Top
Taka is fairly weak in the early game. This is due to him needing levels to get
X-Retsu and overdrive
Kaiten. Do not get me wrong,
Taka can certainly hold his own, but compared to someone like
Koshka his early game is weak. This is why you get the
Tension Bow. Anyone who knows
Tension Bow will tell you it is a very powerfull early game item. Use this to harass the enemy laner because a Carry will usually not have too much (if any) defense early on. Now
Stormcrown you will use to harass the enemy jungler or take objectives. Preferably both. This item allows you to effortlessly take camps from the enemy jungle with little consequence. Also, with the crystal sentry being a thing now, you can solo this objective if given the opportunity. Slowly eliminating it from the match. You may notice we sell our
Swift Shooter as well. This is because we are using that item solely for farm purposes and do not need it by the end because we will do so much on-hit burst.
Wait, wasn't there an Aftershock in there? This is a weapon taka isnt it?!?! Top
Yes.... good observation. It is no secret weapon
Taka has insane farm speed. This is why we focus weapon first. Also no secret, crystal
Taka can be the bane of your existence in terms of hero damage. The beautiful thing about
Aftershock is it is a "stand alone" item. Meaning, it does not matter if you have four
Shatterglass and a
Clockwork, your crystal power WILL NOT affect the damage of a
Aftershock proc.
Aftershock solely scales off of you opponent's max health and therefore is unaffected by other crystal items. Due to this, weapon
Taka gets just as much use out of
Aftershock as a crystal
Taka. This will give your
X-Retsu and
Kaiten a little more punch, as well as improve healing on
Kaku.
One more thing I want to bring up about
Aftershock.
Aftershock HAS A COOLDOWN! This is a commonly overlooked mechanic of
Aftershock. Once you proc
Aftershock, there is about a 2-3 sec cooldown before it can proc again. So basically, spamming abilities will not help you here. You are loosing out on alot of damage potential if you just go crazy with abilities. I will touch more on this later.
Holy Defense.... Top
Taka is hated as much as he is loved. Many people have such a burning hatred for
Taka, they will focus you down before your carry. This is usually fine, because your carry should be doing most of the damage anyway. However, you are no use if you are dead. Both
Atlas Pauldron and
Aegis will greatly improve your survivability as well as give your carry more time to build up either
Breaking Point or
Broken Myth stacks. This is a pretty basic point, but an important one. You are a melee hero. If you can not disengage to wait for cooldowns, you are not going to be much help.
Adapability Top
Unfortunatly, you can not buy both infusions anymore (RIP old infusion buffs) so you have to choose. My personal favorite infusion is
Crystal Infusion. This REALLY helps your burst damage against heroes. However, if everyone on their team has
Aegis a
Weapon Infusion may benefit you more. In this case, you would be relying more on
Tension Bow procs than
X-Retsu for damage.
Also, boots are entirly up to you. With some disipline, you can sustain your energy without energy items once you overdrive
Kaiten. This is because, if you do not know,
Kaiten no longer costs energy once overdriven. So it is entirely possible to use
Journey Boots and this is also my prefered pick. However,
Halcyon Chargers are better if you feel you need the energy to sustain a fight.
Fighting Style Top
Obviously, everyone is going to want to fight in different ways. Also, a players ability and skill determine how well a playstyle will perform. However, just to provide a basic idea, I am going to describe the ideal fight for me. Lets say
Ringo is shopping in his bush and his team is nowhere to be found. Wishful thinking, right? First things first,
X-Retsu in on
Ringo. This will allow you to start your KI stacks and reduce cooldowns as well as apply bleeding. Immediatly hit him with
Aftershock and
Tension Bow proc afterwards. DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT immediatly
Kaiten after hiting
Ringo. (Unless, of course, you absolutly have to
Kaiten. For example, if you jump in and you see
Joule trying to
Rocket Leap on you to save
Ringo. In this case,
Kaiten immediatly to save yourself.) Instead, kite him for a couple seconds to let
Aftershock cooldown. Then, you can either
Kaiten over him, or depending on his health, finish him with a
Tension Bow procs when it comes back.
The reason you may opt to not use
Kaiten for damage is if
Ringo has help on the way. If the enemy
Adagio is coming and your team is inbound, you may want to save
Kaiten to avoid a probable
Verse of Judgement. Of course, if your
Reflex Block is ready, you could safely use
Kaiten or even rely on a
Crucible from your Captain.
It is hard to predict what exactly will transpire in a team fight, but hopefully this painted some sort of picture in your minds.
Closing Thoughts Top
Well I am just about out of things to talk about. Chances are I will think of something else eventually and update as necessary. If you guys have any questions, be sure to leave a comment and I will get to it as soon as possible. Thank you guys and have fun being hated by your enemies.
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