Olaf with the Blade of the Ruined King
Essentially, the Blade of the Ruined King is the strongest single-item damage dealer in League of Legends. Champions who choose this item aim to become powerful immediately upon acquisition and snowball the game. With a champion as dominant in the early game as Olaf, high-level players have experimented with the Blade of the Ruined King, and the results have shown that it interacts almost perfectly with this champion.
The core of Olaf’s playstyle is his lifesteal and ability to duel opponents, and the Blade of the Ruined King is perfectly suited to amplify this advantage. Furthermore, Olaf’s skill set already provides a significant amount of attack speed when he is low on health, meaning the more he attacks, the greater the bonus damage from this item becomes. In summary, a strong champion like Olaf combined with an incredibly powerful item like the Blade of the Ruined King has become the most destructive combo in the top lane.
Gragas with the Twin Shadows
If you remember the Olaf build with the Redemption a while back, the concept behind Gragas with Twin Shadows is similar, maximizing Gragas’s versatility rather than focusing on damage. Typically, Gragas players will take Predator to increase their speed while ganking, and when combined with Twin Shadows, you can slow down opponents and set up ganks much more easily.
Additionally, Gragas’s standard rune page includes the Hunter’s Tactics to reduce the cooldown of activated items, specifically Boots with Predator, and this stat is even more effective when using Twin Shadows. Basically, jungle champions don’t have many resources, so items that are both impactful and cheap like Twin Shadows are perfect for Gragas’s nature.
Kha’Zix with Sudden Impact
One of the key factors to snowballing in solo queue is invading the jungle and finding ways to take down the enemy jungler. Kha’Zix, with his high isolated damage from Q – Taste Their Fear, is among the best champions for this, but Kha’Zix’s critical weakness is that he finds it very difficult to take down opponents after using E – Leap and Flash to engage.
To mitigate this, some players have sought to significantly increase Kha’Zix’s movement speed by using the Sudden Impact rune, allowing this bug to chase down and eliminate enemies as quickly as possible. Moreover, with the enhanced movement speed from this rune, you can maneuver more flexibly, easily dodging enemy skills whether while invading the enemy jungle or during surprise gank attempts using E first.
Ekko with the Spellthief’s Edge
It may sound quite strange, but in reality, Ekko’s early game damage relies heavily on basic attacks to activate his passive as well as his W – Phase Dive to finish off enemies. However, Ekko is inherently an Assassin, so he only needs to explode his attack speed at a single moment, making the Spellthief’s Edge the most suitable for this little guy.
The basic idea is that you cast Q – Timewinder and E – Phase Shift to engage the opponent, then continuously auto-attack to activate the passive, dealing a large amount of magic damage with the passive of his W. With such a combo, Ekko’s burst damage will be much stronger instead of relying on the opponent’s mistakes with the usual Electrocute rune.
