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Conqueror

Conqueror

Keystone · Cross-path keystone · 7.1e

Mechanics

Basic attacks and abilities generate stacks of Conqueror on enemy champions hit, up to one per attack or cast. Each stack of Conqueror lasts 6 seconds and grants 3 - 7 (based on level) bonus (Adaptive) Attack Damage 4 - 12 (based on level) or Ability Power 4 - 11 (based on level), stacking up to 6 times, for a maximum of 12 - 36 (based on level) bonus Attack Damage or 18 - 54 (based on level) Ability Power (Adaptive). While fully stacked, gain 8 % melle ( 5% ranged) Physical Vamp and Magical Vamp. Adaptive Damage: Deals either physical or magic damage depending on your bonus stats, defaulting based on the origin of the effect.

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Commentary (7.1e)

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  • "If you're pay playing poke champions, you might go for Arcane Comet or Ary based on your champion. If you're playing like bruisers excel on skirmishes, you might go conqueror like lein like a viego or something. But if you want to go full burst viego, then you can go something like empowerment, which is more of a burst rune than conqueror, which likes longer fights. If you're playing something that's snowballs heavy and resets, maybe you want to go dark harvest, right?" (04:41)
  • "She doesn't have a lot of attack speed, so empowerment doesn't make sense. She's not great at long fights, so conqueror doesn't make sense. Uh comet, you can actually proc very easy with her third ability, so it's one of the top choices, right? your first and third ability and proc from a huge range." (06:57)
  • "So, electrocute is a very clear burst rune that you're going to take on burst champions. So, you might think of assassins for the most part, and it's currently competing against dark harvest, which is another rune you go on assassins, conqueror, which you go on like assassins that like longer fights, and first strike, which is also a burst rune that amplifies your burst damage, right? Who likes So, when you're think of electrocute, you're not thinking of it in a vacuum, right?" (14:48)
  • "It used to be taken on pretty much every assassin jungler, every jungler in general because it used to be 9% damage and you get a lot more gold. So champs like Zed, champs like Lein was a big user of First Strike, now he likes to go conqueror, but they did nerf it. So now that it's a little more balanced, right? so first strike is the rune that will give you gold." (22:54)
  • "And then when you nerf lethal tempo gazillion times, they're like, "Okay, fine. I'm going to go fleet footwork or I'm even going to go conqueror, right? I'm not going to go le I'm not going to go empowerment because empowerment is super hard to proc. Uh another I guess example of a champ that can go empowerment even though he usually goes conqueror is Ezreal, right? Because his first ability works with it." (26:08)
  • "And he kind of allows you to have an easier time in laning phase, right? Even though Conqueror in theory should be great on Smolder because he has good AD scalings. He he does excel in like longer fights." (33:18)
  • "I know it sounds funny, but straight up. Next up, we have Conqueror, which has been extremely popular for the last couple of years, and for a good reason. It's OP in terms of stats." (33:43)
  • "So Fleetwork is an incredible item on the Young Timothy. So next up, we have Conqueror, who again like Lethal Tempo, gives you a crazy amount of stats. Three to seven." (34:29)
  • "Okay, so Concord gains um we already read the effect 3 to 78 bonus attack damage or 4 to 11 ability power and then for mele champions you get 9% omnivamp while for range you only get 5% omnivamp. So the goal of conqueror is I want to be strong and I want to be strong for a long time, right? I want to stack it up and then have a crazy amount of bonus AD and omnivamp. So bruisers really like conqueror champions like Jarvin Vice and Zin, right? Viego loves the omnivamp as he as he gets his resets, right? In terms of stats, it gives you good stats in the late game, right? Um think of a long sword. The long sword gives you 12 AD. Um, conqueror gives you 7 time 6. 42, right? Yeah. 42 or no?" (36:48)
  • "You think of her like Karina kind of, she stacks conquor very easy. loves the omnivamp and makes great use of the bonus AD, right? So, while she is a burst champion, she loves that longer fight and she stacks conqueror very easily. Stacking it quickly is super super important for champions, right? Like Jax is a champion that in theory loves Conqueror, but has a hard time fully stacking it because he uses like his Q to engage, O attack W for the reset, and then your E, which you have going on. That's only four stacks. You still need two more, right? So, he will usually go grasp. While a champion like Samira can do power attack, EQ all attack W attack and then your alt and you already have like your conqueror stacks like you've already overcaped the stacks, right? So, these are the types of champions that go and that's the idea behind conqueror. Grasp of the undying." (38:41)
  • "So, it scales great into the late late game as well. So, what's awesome about grasp in particular is it's very interesting when you look at grasp versus conqueror like trades in the baron lane, right? the the keystone rune kind of defines how you want to trade. If I'm playing Jax versus Darius, I'm playing with Graphs, he's playing with Conqueror. His goal is to get his five stacks passive with Conqueror while my goal is to just progress as many times as I can. So with Jax, I want to do quick trade, get out, quick trade, get out, quick trade, get out. While Darius is trying his best to do long trades, right? When you play Garen, a lot of people will play Garen with grasp or with conqueror. Or people play Renekton will play Renekton with grasp or conqueror. And that kind of changes your trading patterns, too. When you're playing Renekton with conqueror, your goal is not to do short trades, is to look for deeper allins where you can quickly start your conqueror and continue to do damage. While if you're playing with grasp, your goal is to just do in-n-out trades, right?" (40:59)
  • "No. He highly prefers conqueror or fleet food work for jungle. Using basic attacks or abilities on enemy champion three times within 4 seconds grants movement speed and reduces the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%." (53:02)
  • "She might be the only one. And that's because she doesn't really like the problem with Lilia is she can't really stack conqueror as effectively. right. Gragas stop can sometimes use it. Okay, let's talk for let's talk about Riion and Synindra for for now, which is like mages. Darius, even Darius usually prefers Conqueror, but can use phase rust depending on the matchup. Hagarium." (55:08)
  • "So the real the only option that they have is electrocute or conquor. Rides can stack conqueror quite So you do see some conqueror rides especially in the baron lane. Uh but Vlimir doesn't really sack concore fast." (56:46)
  • "Uh and with Hecarim because obviously the um the movement speed becomes damage for him. So you will often see phase draws on Hecar, especially versus um squish your champions, but he can also go conqueror a lot of the time, I think. Uh it obviously depends on how strong Conqueror and Fas are at the time without buffs or nerfs, but his kit can work with Conqueror, too. So FAS is Swain. Swain is another shout. That's a good shout. The problem with Swain is that he would love to go conqueror but kind of can't. And he has the same issues of being a short range mage." (57:19)

Champions where creators recommend this rune (6)

DariusDarius×2ViegoViego×2EzrealEzreal×1GragasGragas×1HecarimHecarim×1ZedZed×1