Grandmaster Freya ADC Guide

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Passive - Brisingamen's Blessing Freya's necklace grants her additional Magical Lifesteal -> 7% + 0.2% per Level which grants a total of 11% magical lifesteal at level 20. This is why you always should build Typhon's Fang because Brisingamen's Blessing fits perfectly with the item passive: Your Healing obtained from Magical Lifesteal is increased by 15%. Your Magical power is increased by twice the amount of Magical Lifesteal you have.

Ability 1 - Irradiate Main boost damage skill. Not generally used to farm waves or camps, but is used mostly for fighting the other hunter or doing big objectives like Fire Gigant, Pyromancer or Gold Fury. You should always look for combination with Freya's Pulse to do high range damage to enemies targets. In some scenarios you can use it for bursting objectives without using Pulse but you need to know the exact position of your enemies. I do not recommend it because it is always a risky play to fight melee as a hunter.

Ability 2 - Pulse Freya's main wave clear ability. Often can be used to slow enemies and help you hitting the next auto attacks, using the skill will help you avoiding chases from the enemy team or during an offensive situation, enabling you to chase the others. After hitting once or twice the skill, you should always look to use Irradiate to do more damage and DPS.

Ability 3 - Banish Freya's crowd crontrol skill. Offers a great killing potential and can also be used for peeling your own teammates or even yourself when you get ganked by the jungler. You can use it aggresively or passively depending on the situation. Most of times you will need to save it during wave pushes for avoiding getting killed during ganking situations.

Ultimate - Valkyrie's Discretion Freya's safer ability. You will instantly jump into the sky and be inmune to everything (crow controls, knockbacks, damage, roots, stuns...). You have 4 shots that can be used to do big damage to enemy carries but you will mainly use it over solo laners, supports and junglers which are the roles that will engage on you as ADC during teamfights. Must be really careful about when to use this skill because you won't have anything apart from actives to escape from enemies as much as your teammates peeling.

Main Ranged combo:

Banish > Pulse > Irradiate

Other combo:

In the case you miss the Banish, you should try to use Pulse for slowing the enemy and then chase him with Irradiate which is going to boost your DPS.

• 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 Purple buff, meanwhile the support leashes the exp camp to the purple and there you do all 3 camps.
  
  
• You should always do leash botch camps together, green and purple buff and then use Puse, you will burst them easily with the Bumba's Dagger passive so you will get level 2 quickly, leveling up your Banish and then go into the lanning phase where you will be 2 vs 2 with your support!
  
  
• 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 Pulse and your attack speed shard to do it as quick as possible. If someone comes to contest try to zone them with Banish and use Irradiate for securing the buff. After picking it up make your way back to the centre of the lane.
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• After reaching level 7 or 8 your support should leave the duo lane so you will be alone in lane. You will need to focus on farming before having Hastened Ring where you are going to look to fight the other hunter, there's your power spike.
  
  
• Try to tell all the information you can to your team like your own purple, shield and their purple timer (if possible) to make junglers an easy path to gank your lane and make you bigger and warding correctly with aggressive Sentry Wards will determine half of the game around the Gold Fury objective.

• 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.
  
  
• When it comes to Fire Giant opportunities, often there can be stalemates where both teams will try to force a teamfight or look for lone 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.