Scorch

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• "Empowered attack is a very early game focused rune, right? Um, in the sorcery tree, scorch is a very early game focused rune, right? And then there's clear late game focused runes like gathering storm, right? So, this you will get based on matchup more than anything. The sound's a little messed up, so let me just kind of fix that really quick. Sorry for Oh, so the the runes will be based on early game and late game. So your rune choices will change like should I take gathering storm or should I take scorch? This is like a very common uh issue for mages." (08:50)
• "I'm going to gathering storm, right? A lot of the times you want to go scorch so you can have a better laning phase so you can get to your late game, right? The you have to think about it like that as well. like you're not taking uh you're not taking for example let's say that you're playing I don't know Ziggs or something and you're going these runes probably not u actually manarchus and you're thinking oh I'm playing against the zed I'm not going to beat him early but I'm still going to go bone plating even though it doesn't give me value early instead of going I don't know you could go domination and go for zombie ward to get more AP for the late game or eyeball collector get more AP for the late game, but your late game is going to be worse if you go this rune because you're going to fall behind in gold and XP because you're playing in Zed and you don't have bone plating." (09:47)
• "Even though I do think absolute focus does have its place on a lot of like mages that are always like high HP. Next up we have scorch and scorch one of the strongest early game runes. Every 8 seconds right damaging an enemy champion with an ability burns them dealing for 21 to 49 bonus damage." (01:48:19)
• "Okay. So you have Scorch dealing uh damage to enemy champion with an ability burns them dealing 21 to 49 bonus damage. It's really good on those like poke champions and it's a very strong in the early game, right?" (01:49:25)
• "At 21 you're going to get 52, but 21 minutes the game should be over in like 90% of cases or the winner has already been decided and that 12 AP won't make a big difference. So I'm not a big believer in Gathering Storm because it's kind of u I I feel like in most cases Scorch will actually be better for most laners. However, for junglers obviously where you're not really proing scorch, gathering storm is the answer. But on Ziggs, for example, or like even on Oriana or other champs, I might go sorcery on, I think Scorch might be more beneficial nowadays. However, if you're playing for the scaling and you have an easy matchup, you're playing against like a Morgana or something that's kind of like an AFK matchup, then gathering storm can be useful." (01:51:23)
• "So you don't need the additional ejar. It can help with the vision granted but the value you get from this rune will never be as high as scorch, nimbus cloak or gathering storm. So it can be okay for some champions don't really care about the other three runes, but I think Excel seedure after Sweet Tooth was changed to Pollenist has no real place uh as a rune unfortunately." (01:53:18)