u/Outrageous_One5885

Hi, yesterday I asked for builds and I've been enjoying bloodthirster into crit with pta. Not really a fan of hubris and first strike. I'm not knocking it and I got some crazy snowball games, but I like the crit playstyle more.

So first item is usually BT, then collector, then IE/pen, IE/pen, and if the game goes long enough, i get stormrazor.

My question is, since i'm not building lethality and my only pen is LDR, should I even go collector instead of a stormrazor for example? My understanding is that lethality stacks well with itself.

So a build like BT, stormrazor, then crit stuff be good? I bet kiting would be a lot easier.

What’s good on her? I personally like pta as a keystone over first strike and like getting a lot of crit. Unless lethality is definitely more damage. I also like the idea of BT rush but if it’s not enough damage I won’t do it.

is fleet good maybe?

I’ve been blinding Kayle and I want to try not doing that for a change. I plan on using her as a counterpick more.

What top laners (not riven, jayce, or gnar) are at least kind of blindable? This doesn’t mean they don’t have bad matchups, just better than kayle or Zaahen, which I recently tried. I don’t really want to play a tank. Preferably ad.

I know conq increases his ad which is nice with his passive, but wouldn’t attack speed be nice to stack his passive faster in an extended trade?

it would also be better early I think.

I tried it vs akali and I wasn't feeling her q damage irl like I normally do. Afterwards, playing the rest of the game with a non negative mr stat felt nice. Although next patch the resistances are being lowered to 8.

But going helm>>cull refill felt really nice.

I feel like even when I pop off or scale, my damage dealt stat after the game isn't that high. Is there a more useful metric? Of course no single number can determine game impact.

Or does it scale worse than full tank? Vs full damage? Maybe its good vs low armor comps? I'm scared I'll be too squishy and fall off if I build it. Talking about support.

I am a top main and I've been playing support for fun lately. I play poppy supp (never played her top). I'm not looking to pick up another champ right now, maybe something for if poppy is banned. But I'm not scared of support counterpicks as a kayle top blindpicker.

Any general support tips or Poppy specific tips are appreciated. I also have some questions.

Macro questions:

1. Right now the only times I roam are if i think my bot laner can safely farm. Is that correct?

2. How to lose gracefully? I want to be prepared for when my carry is having a bad game resource-wise and/or mentally. Surely I don't abandon bot every time we lose lane right?

Laning question:

3. I fight for bushes, I try to zone enemy off cs. I try to synchronize bases with adc. Good enough?

4. I often disagree with my adc's wave management from a top laner's perspective. Is bot lane wave management really different? Is slow pushing/freezing not a thing down here?

I would like to know what her role is. I have sort of figured out her early game role is killing people and she skirmishes well. But overall what is her role in the team and how does her power shift as a game goes on. Is her late game actually bad? (I thought adcs were the ones that scaled)

Some other things:

Some games we win bot lane and I'm doing well. Then at some point mid game I will run it down and die multiple times in a row. So I guess I should just get better but I don't do this on other roles.

I don't know how to use her R properly. It can do so many things but most of the time I just miss it point blank. I don't know how much advice can help me with that one either.

Finally, I'm not really interest in playing another support, is she terrible blind?

I love this game's variety and detail when it comes to builds but I think elemental blaster builds are not as interesting as they should be.

Obviously without ascendant element, nearly every elemental blaster build is not viable due to insane elemental resistances on basically every enemy in the game (on top of spell resistance). I think it would be much better if the enemy demon's resistances had some gaps in them instead of being resistant to everything. So some elements would work well on certain enemies, and you would have to figure something out for enemies strong against your element.

I think its cool, for example. if a fire sorcerer can deal exceptional damage to most enemies but when a fire resistant enemies like asbestos woman shows up, another member has to deal with those. Or maybe they prepared a second element as backup.

With ascendant it feels like every element does the same thing. Going lightning over fire doesn't feel that different imo, its just a numbers comparison.

That's my 1 complaint. I still think casters are done well in this game, although, I also think they should remove greater spell pen feat and make enemy spell resistance a little lower to compensate.

I am getting a mercenary. I never played a monk before nor have I had an oread in the party. Is student of stone decent or will it be useless?

I see that there is some debate about whether charisma max or strength max is best on paladin. I'm not here to discuss this, I'm to put all my level up attribute points into charisma.

Right now I am trying to figure out how much strength and constitution I should start with knowing that I will not be adding any more points into it. Is 16 strength and 16 con good enough? I've never played on core so maybe constitution is better than I think. And is cha starting at 19 actually worth it like it is for spell casters?

I am fine dumping wisdom since paladins have decent saving throws. I don't want to dump int because skills are nice.

edit: I'm fine struggling a bit more with trash mobs if it means I can randomly smite some demon that looked at me the wrong way.