r/HweiMains

does anyone ever feel like their team overestimates what Hwei is capable of when making decisions? I had a Kayn in game who was in jungle wanting to contest Rift Herald, with vision on only one enemy across the map, a hyper mobile assassin whose identity i don’t remember but im fairly certain it was katarina or akali, and she was at Herald. But one could also reasonably assume that at least the enemy JG was on it as well. He pinged me for help and I came from mid to help from behind and He dove. It turned out to be a mistake because all 5 players were there and it turned out better than you would expect. I got a kill and lowered everyone else to a health point that they would have to back without taking herald. Unfortunately Kayn died in the process, and afterwards i received a barrage of ??? from him. to which i pinged all my CDs and my mana at 5% because i was laning beforehand without time to back. he entered the chat and started telling me that i should have chased katarina (i’m certain that’s who it was now) into the enemy jungle to try and kill her.
TERRIBLE idea, and i let him know that I, as an immobile mage with no escape methods, would not be chasing a full team including an assassin into THEIR jungle to attempt to get a kill on the most mobile mid lane assassin behind Zed, and he was adamant that i shouldve used my E more during the 7 second fight, and that i shouldve chased katarina, and that i could’ve saved him from dying.
I’m sure that partially this comes from just playing poorly and becoming tilted in the process, but needing to ping my mana and my CDs seems like a common theme between a lot of games. does anyone else deal with this?

I recently came back to Ranked and noticed a few bugs with Hwei, I'll put them down below but overall just make playing him a little frustrating.

1. If your final ability key (Q->W in this case) cast shares the button with an ability that's on cooldown, it might not cast.
   https://streamable.com/0lx6u4

2. Randomly didn't get my skill point for level 3, not sure what the case of this was.

https://preview.redd.it/c8u5ddkv8e2h1.png?width=343&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e5240db73a7f5bdc5ab260ef405faa9864bdf1f

https://streamable.com/ggbz35

3. Ability buffering bug, I made a video over 2 years ago about this bug, still exists with the QE->EE combo where if you are doing these four inputs too fast you may drop the last E input.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eduX_HrEIZM

Would be nice if these could get fixed, I tried reporting the 3rd one multiple times over the past 2 years but it seems to be the same as before in game.

Am I the only one who thinks that Hwei is PERFECT for this skin line theme? Like… Demons are attracted to emotions and see them in bright colours. All of Hwei’s story and background revolves around colours and intense emotions. I wonder why Riot didn’t think of that

so ive been trying to get into hwei recently and i thought it might be cute if i got his champie icon. i was running into some struggles getting it in the emporium so i decided to play a spspsps playlist as a joke

so um

https://preview.redd.it/ie6auz24b42h1.png?width=1420&format=png&auto=webp&s=e46d5fd8b0e1d8eb893334e3fc9395053ae3cbd1

https://preview.redd.it/krvgxug4b42h1.png?width=617&format=png&auto=webp&s=cd486f0e33fa6da5b84c9a6f9c396d02d5dd3dc2

Even after buffs and the addition of Deathfire Touch, Hwei still has an average win rate in most elos and a 49% win rate in Master+. I’m not saying that he’s weak right now, but I expected him to be stronger. Does he just have a bad matchup spread in the current meta or something?

I'm starting to main Hwei... i love the champ but I'm barely M4 cuz i'm just starting with him...so...How do you deal with Zed? I ask because everyone I face does the same thing, and I haven't been able to find a playstyle that counters them. They all stay back and spam W with Q to poke me, and if I use my abilities to recruit, they switch places with their shadow to stay behind me and become a bigger threat. And when they reach level 6, they use their ultimate the moment they see me (its cooldown seems nonexistent because they use it constantly). Even if I try to don't interact with them and just want to farm, they become a problem with their shadows and then spamming R at the slightest provocation...Even though I need to improve using EQ behind me when they ult, it's frustrating because sometimes, even if I do it right, they still end up killing me. The problem is almost resolved in team fights, but the laning phase is still very difficult for me.

Hello! I’m trying to figure out what would be the mathematically highest damage hwei build.
I’m unsure whether burn or pen would do the most damage. (Assuming sorc shoes)
Example:
Blackfire Torch -> liandrys -> shadowflame -> rabadons -> void staff

Malignance -> stormsurge -> shadowflame -> rabadons -> void staff

Or possibly max AP
Blackfire -> shadowflame-> rabadons -> mejais -> void staff

Is there any ways to calculate maximum dps or full combo burst? I know there will be nuance due to enemies being squishy, building HP or MR between games but hopefully there’s some general highest damage build.

Any help is appreciated, thank you :)

I’ve been running hwei support lately with a quite different setup I’d say but I won 12 consecutive ranked games with it. The setup is first strike: boots, elixirs, jack of all trades, precision: presence of mind, and cut down items: solstice sleigh, omnivamp boots, staff of flowing waters, imperial mandate, cryptbloom and last item is flexible. With first item and boots you trigger jack of all trades so you quite a strong spike very early on. I’d like more people to try the setup out and give me their opinion

Hi, I just started the game about 3 weeks ago. I'm level 28 and I got Hwei a few days ago. I was initially drawn to the concept of paint magic, I've seen it a few other types of media and have always enjoyed it.

I have been playing Hwei the last 2 days, mostly as support so I have lane help when trying to learn his abilities. The fact that he has 9 abilities is still intimidating to me, but i am determined to overcome that hurdle.

Is there any tips or tricks that you would recommend when playing Hwei Support?

I have also made a item set for him:

• Starting Items: Doran's Ring and 2 Potions
• Core Items: Zak'Zak's Realmspike, Blackfire Torch, Sorcerer's Shoes
• 4th Item options: Horizon Focus, Echoes of Helia
• 5th Item Options: Horizon Focus, Echoes of Helia, Rylai's Crystal Scepter
• 6th Item Options: Void Staff, Rabadon's Deathcap, Cryptbloom

The only problem with this is that Doran's Ring and Echoes of Helia do NOT show up in my item list in Summoner's Rift, but they do when searching for them.

Lately ive been using dft and bft but i feel like its under preforming.Any suggestions?