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Nerds Dark Willow

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Dark Willow
Offlane Support
Hard Support
Updated: 3/28/23, 5:20 PMPatch 7.32e
Hero stats
2,355
52.10%
2,232
51.75%

Description

Dark Willow is an intelligence hero, who provides a lot of disables in fights and hard to bully out of lane. She has a great escape/zoning tool, as well as a lot of ways to setup kills, deal massive amounts of magic damage and provide utility in temfights.

Starting Items

Skill Build

Talents
Bedlam Pierces Magic Immunity
25
+100 Attack Speed
-7s Bramble Maze CD
20
+2s Shadow Realm Duration
+160 Cursed Crown AoE
15
+30 Bedlam Damage
-2s Shadow Realm Cooldown
10
+0.5s Cursed Crown Stun Duration
Skill Build Timeline
dark_willow_bramble_maze
dark_willow_shadow_realm
dark_willow_shadow_realm
dark_willow_cursed_crown
dark_willow_shadow_realm
dark_willow_bedlam
dark_willow_shadow_realm
dark_willow_bramble_maze
dark_willow_bramble_maze
talents_tree_full
dark_willow_bramble_maze
dark_willow_bedlam
dark_willow_cursed_crown
dark_willow_cursed_crown
talents_tree_full
dark_willow_cursed_crown
dark_willow_bedlam
talents_tree_full
talents_tree_full

Main Build

Core Transition
nullifier
Alternatives
There are no elements
Order swaps
There are no elements

Build Timeline

Lategame Items

Neutral Items

Tooltips

Spells Tooltips

Cursed Crown

It's incredibly strong ability, but we don't really need to max it early on: value point is enough. You main combo should be E+Q+charge W and attack with Bedlam.

Shadow Realm

Our surviveability and zoning tool. Charge it until exclamation mark appears and attack enemies.

Items Tooltips

Mobility and mana, additional save as well as setup for your Q or E (use E, wait for around 1.5 seconds, use eul).

Saves allies and works great in combo with your Q

You will have mana issues early, while also wanting to get Greaves, so Arcane boots seems like most optimal choice.

nullifier

Additional strong lockdown, while also giving armor and high damage (works great on lvl 25)

You're pretty slow hero anyway, so early Wind Lace will be really helpful. You can use it while upgrading Urn as well.

Natural upgrade for Force Staff

Armor, percentage base heal/damage, HP and movement speed. Pretty much all you may ask for.