Grandmaster Artemis ADC GUIDE

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Passive - Still Target To show you in a simply way, Artemis passive will come in handy for teamfights where your teammate gods can get off a lot of CC over your enemies, providing increased basic attack damage to enemy gods and to minions that are affected by any type of CC. Overall, it is a great passive ability to have, but is purely situational when it comes down to it. (not going to help if there isn't much CC)

Ability 1 - Transgressor's Fate This ability matches well with Vengeful Assault for Artemis's low mobility to get out of rough situations, however it is a single target CC skill that doesn't last very long. It has tick damage after the initial damage. Transgressor's Fate doesn't have much for setup, as it relies on timing or baiting to use it effectively.

Ability 2 - Vengeful Assault Artemis's second ability provides bonus attack speed and movement speed boost, making her immune to slows after activating. This as previously mentioned pairs really well to get away from hard situations but it is also a great engagement for chasing enemies once your team has the enemy CD'S or during a 1vs1 situation during laning phase.

Ability 3 - Suppress The Insolent Artemis's engagement ability! Something she can zone enemies with, do her own engage, and causes a lot of slow and damage to enemies! This is her go to damage dealing ability paired with Vengeful Assault making Artemis do pretty good burst damage on team fights and making her able to confirm kills, this is why the Bluestone Pendant build fits perfectly in this set of skills.

Ultimate - Calydonian Boar Calydonian Boar is Artemis's ultimate skill. This fourth skill is for sure the make or break for Artemis, basically giving her another immunity like the Purification Beads. It is also a huge stun to combo with Vengeful Assault, teamfight CC and big damage that scales pretty easily and great into lategame fights.

Suppress The Insolent > Vengeful Assault > Calydonian Boar > Transgressor's Fate

Calydonian Boar > Transgressor's Fate > Vengeful Assault > Suppress The Insolent ---> This last skill will make you chase the enemy if he hasn't die yet.

Suppress The Insolent (After slowing the enemy your chance of hitting the trap will be highly increased) > Transgressor's Fate > Vengeful Assault > Calydonian Boar

Artemis is a god that has a lot of combos because she has a really crowd control set of skills so depending on the situation, you will have a lot of choices about what skill you should use for 1vs1 or even teamfighting.

• Start at the Gold Fury side Green buff. When it spawns, hit it with an auto attack to leash/aggro the camp and pull it towards the exp camp, meanwhile the support do damage to the camp, after doing both things, you two will go to the purple buff, do it and then come to lane to push the minions.
  
  
• After these camps are cleared you will be level 1 so will need to take 1 minion of the first wave to get level 2 and level up your Transgressor's Fate and you will have higher chances of killing the enemy duo with the root of the trap.
  
  
• After pushing 3 wave, shield buff will spawn so your support and you will go for it depending of the pressure wave; if you have no wave pressure you will need to ask your jungler for coming to fight it or just leave it, but if you have hardly won the push of the wave you will use Vengeful Assault and Suppress The Insolent to secure the shield buff, also remember to pop your attack speed shard to do it as quick as possible. If someone comes to contest, you should always try to poke them instead of securing the buff. After picking it up make your way back to the centre of the lane. If you think it's going to be hardly difficult to secure the buff, just run back into the lane and pressure the enemies by pushing the wave quickly.
  
  
• From here you will usually fight the enemy ADC and support during wave pushes in lane with your own support. Most of the fights you should take are around shield buff and depending on yours and their early pressure/clear around your own purple buff or theirs (remember you can pull the Purple buff wherever you want so if you have no pressure / you are low hp ask your support to be in the pit before it spawns and tell him to leash it as far as needed to not get invaded by the other duo lane)
  
  
• This type of hunter's build is use to focus on farming and scaling power buying items for the late game. You should always try to poke the other ADC and farm. 1vs1 without any early poke will always be negative for you because the DPS build will burst you before you are able to kill him. Make sure to not use your ultimate just for finishing a kill, you can always use it for starting an engage or a duel 1vs1 against the other hunter, he will get hardly damaged and stun so if he doesn't use Temporal Beads he will be 100% death from the combination of your skills and basic attacks. In case you miss it, just try to run and keep poking the enemy using your Suppress The Insolent from the distance.
  
  
• An important advice as an ADC main is to be active in communication, always try to tell all the information you can to your team like your own purple, shield and their purple timer (if possible), if there is any one spotted in the wards you placed, if someone is trying to dive you, if they are doing Gold Fury... This type of information will make your jungler and support pathing to gank your lane easier and make you having bigger chances of getting a lead over the other hunter.
  
  
• REMEMBER to always buy wards, warding correctly with aggressive Sentry Wards will determine half of the game around the Gold Fury objective and warding defensively will make you be more aware about possible ganks so you will be safer in lane.

• As the match goes towards the mid game, other than the usual farm opportunities you'll be looking to rotate over the Stygian Beacon for your team and try attempt, contest and steal (if the enemy is attempting to kill them) the Gold Fury.
  
  
• Remember to rotate when there is no duo jungle remain like purple or shield buff and to have the wave pushed before rotating because you will fall much behind in farm compared to your enemy ADC. (DO NOT ROTATE IF YOU ARE 2 OR MORE LEVELS BEHIND THE OTHER HUNTER!)
  
  
• When the Beacon spawns often both teams will try rotate over to control it, especially the mid, support and jungle. You will need to think about who is more likely to have their teammates to rotate over first to impact your decision if contesting the beacon will be worth it and if there is any kill potential around the objective.
  
  
• As for Gold Fury opportunity they will vary on factors such as: your team's overall objective shred, your ADC's current objective shred / build, your team's map pressure, how strong each team's teamfight is, where on the map everyone is (i.e. if one team is doing Gold, the other may decide to do Pyro as a smaller trade), if any members of the enemy team are on a respawn timer, etc...
  
  
• It is so important to have warded (with Sentry Wards if possible) the Gold Fury during the Mid Game because it is the principal objective between minute 10 to 20 with the Pyromancer.
  
  
• Stay aware of rotations (jungle and support) during this minutes because your death as ADC will be a really good factor over pulling Gold Fury or even burst it. So your team won't have any chance of contest.
  
  
• Not dying over rotations, map awareness and warding are highly important over the games. You will always need to position yourself beside de midlaner for peeling each other over team fights (call who is doing engage on you, relics and this type of stuff that is going to make an easier way to make your team win the team fight)

• As for late game teamfights, most often you will be positioned in the "backline" (behind your team's solo and support - who generally are the "frontline") and will play around your midlaner to deal with the enemy frontline and jungler, while making sure to put out as much damage as possible to the highest threats on the enemy team.
  
  
• Make sure you have upgraded Temporal Beads and Aegis of Judgement before going into the Fire Giant. I really good advice is to use actives as soon as the solo laner, support or jungler engages on you to try to avoid as much damage and crowd control as possible, if you stay safe as an ADC on a late game teamfight, your team will have enough DPS to do Fire Gigant or if you kill all your enemies, you can even finish the game.
  
  
• As Artemis you can always look for do engage with your ultimate, rooting the enemies and forcing them to use Temporal Beads or other actives before start fighting, it is in fact a really good way to bait the enemies and do teamfights with an advantage that will make higher chances of winning the entirely game.
  
  
• When it comes to Fire Giant opportunities, often there can be stalemates where both teams will try to force a teamfight or look for alone picks in order to gain an advantage, sometimes involving one team going for a non fully committing attempt at doing the objective to bait the other team to step up.
  
  
• BE CONSTANTLY CALLING ALL THE INFORMATION: WHEN THEY ARE ENGAGING ON YOU, BE ALWAYS SURE ABOUT YOUR DECISION MAKING, IF YOU DOUBT YOURSELF OR EVEN YOUR TEAMMATES YOU WILL NEVER SUCCED!

Here are warding spots for ADCs if you are behind with gold or experience compared to the other hunter. If the enemy team has your purple timer you should always try to Sentry Wards your purple buff and make sure to call your teammates at least 1 minute before spawning.


In case you have low pressure god but none is invading purple you can also ward like in the photo below. You will always know when someone is coming and you won't have to outposition yourself to ward so you will be safe.



Over here is shown the ideal normal pressure warding spots around duo lane, you should always look to Sentry Wards defensively and use a normal ward on the offensive position. Enemies could Sentry Wards your normal ward so you should call your support for warding there.



In case you have a high pressure duo set up (hunter with good clear and fighting capability and a support with crowd control, push and mobility) you should look to invade purple buffs. This type of wards will make an easier way for you and your teammates to come over purple pit before spawning and being ready for stealing it [you will always know who is coming to gank you so you must be prepared for getting ganked over duo] .



When you start fighting around Fire Giant, you should always look to ward in the same places as a midlaner because you two (ADC and Mid) form what we call as "backliners" (the roles who are supposed to deal DPS and damage to enemies), you will be sharing the responsibility for this rather than handling it alone, especially when it's not safe for you to step up to place deeper wards. Any wards placed closer to the objective within the Fire Giant pit tend to get destroyed by Sentries more often than not, so they tend to not be reliable.

Remember, minions act as moving wards in the lanes, and are able to spot nearby gods. If your towers are down, keep your minions pushed up as much as possible to provide an extra set of eyes and pressure.

• White Circles: These are all offensive locations that allow you to spot enemies near to or approaching objectives, and are helpful in covering multiple approaches. The closer you get to the Fire Giant, the more contested those spots will be and the more likely enemies will try to counter-ward. The ones closest to the enemy base can give you very early notice.
  
  
• Red Circles: Fairly obvious, but it's always good to have vision on the main jungle objectives, especially the Fire Giant. Sentry Wards are key here, as they allow you to spot and remove enemy wards. You can place wards directly on top of the objectives, or put them slightly to one side to try to spot enemy wards or protect yours from being detected.

Counter-Warding: Enemies may drop wards on your defensive side in similar (opposite) spots to where you would place yours. If the Fire Giant is already covered and you have a spare Sentry Ward, place them in these spots to limit the enemy's vision on your team.

Defensive Warding: If you're pushed back to your phoenixes or inside your base, locate your wards in the nearby jungle and general approaches.