Introduction to Post-Nerf Taka Top
Hello everyone, I'm Horseinapool and I'm currently in Decent-ish skill tier(I understand the game and other MOBAs) In update 1.11 we have Taka's
Kaiten damage lowered. This means he has a little bit of reduced burst with his faster charging A ability. In my opinion after playing with this build I wasn't effected or notice too big of a difference compared to past versions of him. The only time that you will truly feel a little underpowered in early game.
Strategies for Playing 1.11 Taka Top
If you have played Taka before this update, the strategy is the same. The key to being a good
Taka is continue to move.
1. Don't waste to much time waiting to gank someone in lane by sitting in the mid lane bushes.
2. While in jungle, keep your pathing between minions consistent to show up about the time that they spawn, if you know that you have some time before the first minion you killed will spawn, go up to lane and see if you can get a kill that can give you a gold bonus and help your laner push the minion wave up to do some damage on their turret early.
3. In 1.11, like recent updates of
Taka, I like running around jungle with an
Ironguard Contract roamer. This allows Taka to stay in jungle even if the roamer heads up to lane to offer some support if needed.
4. I haven't tried it yet in this update, but I loved trying out a 2 lane Taka jungle combo. This allows Taka to level quickly by himself, but with
Ironguard Contract being much better since the early days of 1.0+ updates, it seems pointless. Me and my friends are still trying to see if there's a possible way to perfect this strategy.
5. Late game Taka is a true assassin, he goes in, gets a kill, repositions and comes back for the next kill. Typically I lead in with Kaku in order to be undetected, however a good laner will but flares in order to keep and eye on you. With
Aftershock, Kaku should be up by the time you use it to lead in and need to escape.
4. Don't be afraid to use
X-Retsu on the Kraken or Gold/Minion Mine, your cooldowns will be fast enough to not worry about having abilities to use quickly after an objective kill.
The Core Items to these Builds Top
For
Takas Post-Nerf Builds, we always use three core items in order to help increase crit chance and attack speed, while also lowering cooldowns and adding energy and regen in order to keep him in the fight. These core items are
Tension Bow,
Tornado Trigger, and
Aftershock.
Tension Bow: Tension Bow is a weapon item that adds crit chance, damage, and a chance to have a quick burst of extra damage which can be helpful after the nerf of
X-Retsu.
Tornado Trigger: By adding another weapon item with crit,
House Kamuha has a higher chance of procing, which will sustain Taka. It will also increase Takas attack speed more than any other item.
Aftershock: I like adding Aftershock to all my builds because it allows Taka the ability to close distances sooner with
X-Retsu or
Kaiten, and also have an escape/chase option more often with
Kaku. It also allows to remain in jungle for longer due to the increase in energy and slow recharge. It also will be a great pair with
Broken Myth to do more damage to jungle camps/Kraken and also to burst down enemy heroes
The 1.11 Weapon Power Taka Top
Now we get into the different variations of styles for new
Taka builds. Weapon Power is typically the build I use while playing him so I'll start off with it. As usual I start by building my core items in order. Later in the game around the time of the Kraken spawn, you should start building your next items
Frostburn and
Breaking Point or
Bonesaw. Finally, we end this build with
Alternating Current or
Shatterglass.
Frostburn gives you more crystal power as well as slow enemy's upon the use of your abilities, which you'll be using quite often
Breaking Point or
Bonesaw are used in order to bring down tankier enemies or those that are building armor a lot quicker. Once you get to this point just check what the enemy is building.
Alternating Current or
Shatterglass are a choice that changes the build for the end of the game if we make it this far. By now you should know if you could use more straight crystal damage for your abilities or attack speed to help you melt enemies that are tankier. In my opinion I typically build
Shatterglass because I don't like keeping Taka in fights for too long due to his health.
1.11 Crystal Power Taka Top
Now onto CP Taka. The only change that we have compared to WP is instead of
Breaking Point or
Bonesaw we build both
Shatterglass and
Alternating Current to burst with more crystal damage to
X-Retsu and
Kaiten. I like to build
Shatterglass before
Alternating Current because you typically don't need insane attack speed until you need a bit more WP with this build.
Conclusion Top
Thanks for checking out my guide and reading at least this part of my build. Hope your results are as good as mine have been! Let me know down below if you liked the build and if there's anything that you think should be changed or suggestions for other builds from your experiences playing
Taka!
Also, check out my YouTube Channel Horseinapool. I'm trying to find a way that I can continue to upload even after my computer broke. See Ya!
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