Starting items



Solid starting item, all of the stats you need for laning a 1v2: hp, hp regen, and armor.

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Pretty standard because of the fact that it gives you 50 hp and around 2 hp/5 regen with Strength of Spirit. but if you go this route for level 1 fights you will be very squishy so keep that in mind.

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Used to be really solid, except HoG no longer uses cloth armor, so you are basically wasting 300g which could be better spent towards an early catalyst.

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Sacrifice early game tankiness for extreme mobility. Use this is if you expect to be roaming to their blue (IE your roam is planning on warding it), or you plan on doing some extreme level 1-2 ganking. For laning, however, I would not recommend this route because you will be too squishy.

First shop

By the time you have healed you need your .

If you are not at catalyst you are behind, so keep that in mind. If you can also buy boots, then you are ahead.

I have catalyst, so now what?

At this point you are building to counter the enemy team. This is the tricky part as you are going to want to pay attention to who is getting the most CS, who is getting fed off of stupid laning decisions by your allies, and your lane as well.

If your team is doing well and you are doing well then I would recommend .

Because of your strong base regeneration with Strength of Spirit and your ult, you shouldn't need the catalyst procs anymore. Also, if you do get RoA keep extra HP pots in your inventory.

Next I would upgrade boots depending on what their team comp consists of. Alot of stuns/slows?

Mercury's Treads

A must. Singed relies on being able to move freely to fling and slow.

Little-no stuns, slows?

Ninja Tabi

Very effective against a strong AD team with low CC, as it gives you a constant 10% movement buff when you are always dodging minions combined with nimbleness talent, and allows you to fully negate damage.

Boots of Swiftness (NO)

Should never be used because it offers no cc reduction, and no damage mitigation. I would always, always take tabi over swiftness in any scenario.

[SCENARIO: YOUR TEAM IS FAILING HARDER THAN USUAL]

If your team is not doing well, I would start itemizing towards stats you need to survive. Chain mail or negatron is a safe bet depending what kind of damage the enemy is putting out, and upgrading either chain mail to sunfire or negatron to Force of Nature would be the way to go. You also have your catalyst that you can upgrade to banshees at any time.

The reason I would not turn catalyst into RoA in a situation like this is because the enemy team is strong in this scenario. That means that the AP from RoA is being wasted because you cannot survive long enough anyways, as sunfire or banshees would give you extra survivability allowing you to get more flings, goos, and Q damage in.

Essentially you want your build to depend on what kind of damage the enemy is doing:

HEAVY MAGICAL DAMAGE

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Mercury's Treads

CC reduction and MR, a must versus magical teams.

Rod of Ages

Gives solid damage, health, and alot of regen. Synergizes nicely with Spirit Visage also.

Force of Nature

Gives movement speed, health regen, and MR, and also synergizes with spirit visage and basically any health items you have acquired.

Banshees Veil

Health, mana, health regen through strength of spirit, magic resist, and blocks a spell. Not much more to say about this item.

Spirit Visage

Great versus caster teams as it synergizes with your other items and your ult, and offers some extra MR at a low cost.

Sunfire Cape

Aoe damage is great, as well as some extra armor because obviously not all 5 of the enemy team will be magical. Can change this out for warmogs, but I dont think a game will last this long anyways usually.

HEAVY PHYSICAL DAMAGE

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Heart of Gold

Rush heart of gold if you are planning on getting Randuins late game. Though its nerfed, the extra gp/5 and HP shouldnt be understimated.

Mercury's Treads

CC reduction for teams that even though they are heavily physical based, they still have alot of CC. If they don't have alot of CC, turn boots into Ninja Tabi (See below).

Ninja Tabi

If you can dodge their CC and you want to basically just not get hit by their physical at all because you will be dodging hard and you will have a bunch of armor as well.

Rod of Ages

Gives solid damage, health, and alot of regen.

Sunfire Cape

Gives armor, HP, and aoe damage. Destroys melee. Basically if you are farming hard enough to afford RoA and sunfire you should be pretty god mode at this point. With bonuses to poison tick from RoA and constant aoe damage going out from sunfire, the only thing that can stop you is CC and hard magical damage.

At this point you are going to build randuins if you are just not tanking hard enough, or banshees for some MR. But against a heavy physical team you should be destroying anyways, and the game should be over before you can even finish your build. For the sake of it, however, ill finish the build.

Banshees Veil

Offers a little extra MR even if the team is really light on magic. Also, the shield makes the other team not want to focus you, which can be a good or bad thing. Personally I don't like having banshees on because I want to make the other team attack me in a teamfight. I would probably opt for a Force of Nature over banshee's but banshees does offer a ton of health as well so idk.

Frozen Heart

Slows enemy attack speed, adds armor, and some health. The CDR is negligable, and is a completely wasted stat imo. But alot of people like this item so ill just include it for the sake of it. Personally I would much rather have a randuins over frozen heart if the other team is strong on physical, but thats just me.