Item 1
Boots are an excellent starter item for
Awilix, giving her some early mobility. Once upgraded to
Warrior Tabi they also provide great power. I would recommend
Warrior Tabi over
Ninja Tabi since
Awilix is an ability based assassin and because this particular build has a good amount of attack speed built in.
Starter
Bumba's Mask is my go to starter item for most assassins. It's incredibly helpful to
Awilix due to her lack of lifesteal, but if you wish to build lifesteal early instead, you can skip this item entirely.
ALTERNATIVE
Death's Toll is a decent alternative to
Bumba's Mask. I personally like the early game stat boosts it provides that help me have an edge on enemy players, but it does limit your ability to take out jungle camps effectively. If choosing this you will need to purchase a lifesteal item early on.
Active 1
Purification Beads are essential for
Awilix so that she can escape. Because of her squishiness, she's very vulnerable to CC, and
Summon Suku is not a very quick escape to activate, making beads a necessity unless you invest in Magi's Blessing.
Active 2
Heavenly Agility will allow you to both pursue enemies and escape fights at lightning speed. Generally
Improved Sprint is good enough for the majority of the game since it does provide slow immunity, however
Heavenly Agility is an awesome boon to your team late game.
ALTERNATIVE
If the enemy team has many high burst ultimates and such that are bursting you down like
Release The Kraken! or
I'm a Monster, I would highly recommend grabbing
Aegis Pendant to avoid the damage. It's important to note however that
Feather Step does offer temporary immunity as well to avoid these attacks.
ALTERNATIVE
Achilles' Spear offers a great offensive item early game, but is very high-risk high-reward. If used well, this item can net you some very quick kills, but if used poorly, you'll be dying twice as fast. Use wisely.
ALTERNATIVE
Greater Blink can be a great initiation tool if you're worried about being able to get out of an engage safely, since it allows you to save your
Summon Suku for disengaging. However, it doesn't offer much defensive capabilities aside from that.
ALTERNATIVE
Wrath of the Gods can give you an early advantage in jungle clear as well as a way to secure jungle objectives late game. I would only advise getting this if you are in great need of clearing jungle camps quickly and your team lacks objective security, since other actives provide more benefits.
Item 2
Hastened Fatalis is my preferred choice as the beginning of my core build. Many people dislike this item because it provides no additional attack power or penetration, however every single part of this item is useful to
Awilix. The movement speed will allow you to roam the map at great speeds, the attack speed is excellent for early game jungle clear and kill potential letting you maximize your
Feather Step more quickly, and the passive allows you to stick to people without having to invest in sprint, and lets you stick to tankier foes for long periods of time.
The Executioner holds more damage potential, but it offers no extra movement buff and costs more. This item will allow you to begin focusing on players due to its passive much faster than if you purchase
The Executioner or even
Jotunn's Wrath. An additional advantage is that because of its passive,
Hastened Fatalis is excellent for boxing other basic attack users. Most other melee users have a shorter melee range than
Awilix (she has 15 units vs the normal 12). If done properly, you should be able to use
Hastened Fatalis' passive to stay outside of enemies' melee ranges while still attacking them with your increased range yourself.
Item 3
Jotunn's Wrath is a great CDR item and also provides good mana penetration and power. This allows you to spam your abilities more often, as well as penetrate better without S1's penetration boots.
Item 4
The Executioner is a good attack speed and penetration item, especially for its price. This item also plays into
Awilix's
Feather Step well by first reducing protections before its use. However, do note that this item will not reduce the protections on those initially hit by your
Summon Suku, so you will still want to build penetration.
Item 5
Brawler's Beat Stick is excellent at shutting down enemies with healing and also provides good penetration and physical power. Unlike
Titan's Bane this item's penetration is flat, working better with
The Executioner's protection reduction than
Titan's Bane's percent based penetration. I prefer this item to
Deathbringer because it can be used to shut down ADCs and other healers and provides flat penetration for your abilities. However, if going for basic attacks,
Deathbringer will give you more raw power when paired with
Rage.
Item 6
Rage is a great pickup which will make your basic attacks formidable when combined with the high attack speed in this build proc'ing its passive. This item will not only double the power of your basic attacks frequently, but also provides good power. If going for a full on power build,
Rage and
Deathbringer combined cannot be beaten.
Btw, will you update your guides for Season 3?
I'll be updating them once the S3 meta starts to form (a week or two after the main patch hits live) since I don't want to update all of them just to have to redo them in a couple weeks.
If you're having a lot of trouble with mana management you can go Transcendence, but it is a lot of trouble to stack. Usually once you get Jotunn's Wrath its mana is often enough to get by with (you can also grab some mana potions as well). If you do go with trans, I'd recommend something along the lines of the bruiser build since you'll be better off going ability based (eg: Warrior Tabi -> Transcendence -> Jotunn's Wrath -> Mail of Renewal -> Hide of the Urchin -> Titan's Bane/ The Executioner).
Thx a lot (I used to go switch Brawler's beatstick and Transcendence but i'll stop since it doesn't seem that effective.
Btw, will you update your guides for Season 3?
If you're interested my awilix build order is generally:
Warrior Tabi, Jotunn's Wrath, Mail of Renewal, The Executioner, Hide of the Urchin, Brawler's Beat Stick
Try out buying some potions, you might find it works for you.
Hope this helps!
Honestly this guide is kind of out of date (in terms of build, since I'm not updating it until S3), but Cake's build is pretty current with the meta rn if you want to go bruiser in any gametype. *why is hide so good X_X *
Hey Zilby. I love your builds and I find them to be super effective. I was just wonderking if transcendence may work on Awilix, cause I find her mana stat to be so ****ty, but I loose most of my games stacking it.
I mostly play Siege and Joust btv.
I play Awilix in conquest a bit, and I find that it's better just to buy 2 or 3 Mana Potions every time I go back to base, until I have Jotunn's Wrath and/or Mail of Renewal built.
Transcendence does give you a lot of power but, like you and Zilby said, it's a pain to stack, and she can do heaps of damage without it, so for the sake of 100 or so gold on a few of my trips back to base I find it better to get potions to alleviate mana issues.
If you're interested my awilix build order is generally:
Warrior Tabi, Jotunn's Wrath, Mail of Renewal, The Executioner, Hide of the Urchin, Brawler's Beat Stick
Try out buying some potions, you might find it works for you.
Hope this helps!
Hey Zilby. I love your builds and I find them to be super effective. I was just wonderking if transcendence may work on Awilix, cause I find her mana stat to be so ****ty, but I loose most of my games stacking it.
I mostly play Siege and Joust btv.
If you're having a lot of trouble with mana management you can go Transcendence, but it is a lot of trouble to stack. Usually once you get Jotunn's Wrath its mana is often enough to get by with (you can also grab some mana potions as well). If you do go with trans, I'd recommend something along the lines of the bruiser build since you'll be better off going ability based (eg: Warrior Tabi -> Transcendence -> Jotunn's Wrath -> Mail of Renewal -> Hide of the Urchin -> Titan's Bane/ The Executioner).
I mostly play Siege and Joust btv.
The meta changes so frequently in this game that I don't even bother unless something completely unique comes up that works better or counters what I normally do. Other than that, **** the meta.
Zilby pls Awilix can still use Fist of the Gods effectively >:(. Don't mind the fact that I haven't bought it on her in months, it's still viable. But like seriously it adds some incredible outplay potential to her kit if used properly. It used to be a core active for me on her.
When I wrote that it was under core actives, I hadn't changed it since the hog nerf :P
Regardless, I still don't find it worthwhile on her when she already has Feather Step and a knockup, the only time I'd want to spend an active spot on hog is if I need it for objective security which Wrath of the Gods is better for, if I want an offensive active I'd rather have Achilles' Spear or Greater Blink.
To be perfectly fair though, this is already the least popular in-depth Awilix guide on the site, so I'm not that inclined to sway to popular opinion with it to gain more views xD
I'd rather keep this as a more "my personal strategy" guide rather than a "this is the most meta build" kind of guide, (even though I do that to some degree with most of my guides anyway).
#leastAppreciatedZilbyGuide QQ
*although I should update the actives to not include Fist of the Gods*
I'd remove Brawler as for and replace it with Rage/Deathbringer. You got that attack speed with Fatalis, you need that damage.
I did note that as an option :P
I'm well aware that Rage and Deathbringer give you more damage output lategame than Brawler's Beat Stick and Bloodforge. However, I still like the amount of choice and flexibility you get when you don't go for a crit build, and the utility that you receive with extra lifesteal and healing cancellation.
That isn't to say that I don't use Rage and Deathbringer as my 5th and 6th item choices quite often, I just usually find that I use beatstick and bloodforge maybe 60% of the time versus their 40%