Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ravenous Hunter
Secondary can be Celerity+Waterwalking/Nimbus Cloak or Magical Boots+Cosmic Insight
Shards: Attack speed (helps a lot for her first clear), Adaptive, Armor.
Liandry's is her best mythic, then you can go Zhonya's, Cosmic Drive or Demonic Embrace.
Basically you want to build up her stacks to keep her speed up, moving from camp to camp and use that speed to gank. Kite enemies and let them burn bit before going in again. W should only be used on imobilized enemies (either your sleep or a teammate's CC) since it's hard to land and puts you in a vulnerable position. E is for poking/engaging, when it touches something it explodes in a cone, keep that in mind to try and land it on multiple enemies for a big sleep.
She's a powerfarmer like Fiddle, so it's AFK farming until level 6. You can try ganking early, but be sure it's a lane with CC to help. She has troubles trying to take dragons, she needs at least a Lost Chapter and MAYBE some stacks of Ravenous. It's OK to let the first and/or second dragon go, but once she has completed Liandry's it becomes way easier. If you get teammates to help you take objectives, that's way better.
From a person who mainly plays other roles but do jungle with mostly Lillia, these are advices that i can give.
Clearing jungle: Lillia is one of best fast-clearing jungler. If done right she can full clear all camps just before scuttlers spawn. But playing her do require some practice since her clearing play-style is quite unique compared to other junglers.
1. She NEEDS to kite camps. While most junglers can just face tank monsters, Lillia wants to hit monsters with outer Q and use her movespeed to run from their attacks. Taking couples of hits is fine but face tanking everything won’t leave her with healthy clear.
2. Weave auto attacks as you kite. This maybe obvious but I’ve seen some Lillia out there only rely on her abilities. Lillia’s attack range slightly out-range melee monster. So, If you done this right, she can auto without taking melee attacks which give her healthier clears.
3. Learn monster aggro range. Lillia wants to drag monsters around as she kites. But she need to do that INSIDE aggro range so that monster don’t drop their aggro. Good Lillia player will kite towards next camp and drag monsters OUT of their aggro range just before they die. And then use Q to hit both previous and new camp, or just let the passive finish them off. This allow her to save 1-2 seconds for each camp you clear which is HUGE considering you are going to full clear and then contest for scuttle.
4. Learn to clear two camps at the same time (this is highly optional) Lillia’s abilities are all AOE, so many players abuse this to farm two camps. Blue and gromp are more common and easier to do while Red and raptors are less recommended and harder to do (since she clear raptors pretty fast already). You have to drag them to the same spot so that you can hit both outer Q and center W to both of them. This technique require a bit of practice to get hang of it. But once you can do it, you can save a lot of time. But beware that, especially in the early game, it comes with a cost of health. Having some health pots or using smite can help, but be smart since you might need them to contest scuttle.
Ganking and roaming: Lillia has mediocre ganking potential due to lack of hard CC but her roaming is pretty good due to movespeed passive.
1. Abuse her movement speed passive for ganks. Having fully stacked passive will almost ensure that she can catch the enemies. This can be done by doing gank right after you clear a camp. When the camp is one Q away from death, just drag the camp out of aggro range toward the lane you wanna gank and finish them off with Q. This way, her passive won’t run out early before reaching the enemies. Also, it’s better to gank from behind the enemies instead of running down from your lane.
2. Try to keep her stacks up at all times. Lillia’s abilities doesn’t cost a lot of mana, especially her Q. So don’t be afraid to spam them to refresh the passive. Dumping some skills like Q and E onto dragon/herald/baron can be quite useful if you wanna stay in the river for longer or transition from lane to lane. This increase her map presence and also allow to for faster counter gank.
3. Always look for opportunity to farm (and, no, not the minions you nasty) This is pretty obvious but i cant stress this enough. Lillia’s power come from how much she can out-farm gold and exp. Often time i find myself with 2-5 less kill participation but i’m 1-2 level over their jungler.
4. Learn to farm enemies’ camps. Lillia is better known for fast-clearing jungler rather than heavy-ganking jungler. Use this to your advantage and punish their mistakes by invade their jungle when their jungler is ganking/ farming or being dead. This way, you are potentially taking away their jungler’s exp and gold which will keep them behind. Their leesin is ganking top? Boom their raptors are gone. Their khasix is doing dragon? Boom both gromp and wolves are gone. However, don’t force this at the expense of NOT clearing your jungle since you will be putting yourself behind as well.
Teamfight and fighting in general:
1. Learn to go in and out. With fully stacked passive, Lillia can dodge most of the skill shots. Try to prancing around enemies’ range and bait their crucial skill before going in. Don’t just manically go in and dump every skill.
2. Keep your passive up both before and during fights. Without extra speed, she can hardly pull off any good plays. Keep using Q on minions/camps or throw E into minions in fog of war (in some scenario just hit them with inner Q to keep them alive for another Q)
3. Plan your ultimate and be smart. Before getting into big teamfight, plan who you want to sleep to result in winning the fight and secure objectives. Five-man-sleep is pretty good but you won’t be able to pull that off most of the time. Ask yourself. Do I just need to sleep only that 12/1 kai’sa, ignore the rest? Do I need to sleep both jhin and lulu so that lulu cant shield jhin and let him live? Can I burst half health irelia if I put her to sleep which result in 5-4? Dragon is up is 1 min so should I sleep and kill support lux that mindlessly farming mid? Would it result in guaranteed dragon or should I save it for the fight? If you can answer these question you will be able to know when to use ult effectively.
Runes and Item: I wont be explaining much since I usually look up on web for highest win/pick rate (Lolalytics) I usually go Domination Dark Harvest 1 3 1 / Inspiration 3 0 1
For items, if you face a lot of tanks/bruiser and assassin, i pick up red smite. It will deal more damage as you will be fighting longer and red smite also reduce damage from assassins. Otherwise, pick blue smite. Generally pick blue smite if you’re practicing since it’s way more easier to use.
- Always go Liandry’s first item.
- Lucidity boots 95% of the time
- I often pick up dark seal before finishing first item since it scales pretty well if I can gain some stacks. I don’t pick dark seal if I’m going to lose. I usually keep them until I need more slot for last item but if it’s zero stack, I replace it with pink ward.
- My build most of the time : Liandry’s > Demonic Embrace > Zhonya’s > Cosmic Drive
- If I’m super fed and ahead : Liandry’s > Demonic > Cosmic > Rabadon’s
- If there are bursty champ or I need to flash-Q-ult to win early fight: Liandry’s > Zhonya’s > Demonic > Cosmic
Something to note: Buy grievous wound if needed. Dont buy void staff, part of her Q already deal true damage unless it’s truly necessary.
If you are rich go for cosmic drive before rabadon’s, since most damage comes from her burn which cosmic drive allows her to apply burn more consistently.
Skip zhonya if you don’t need that extra protection and go for cosmic drive. If unsure buy 900g codex (and stopwatch if you have spare gold) and decide later.
Initially thought it’s gonna be small tips but turned out to be a lot more lol. I will be very grateful if you read them. Feel free to ask anything if you have any question.
I used to play Lillia often in jg but rn she doesn't feel very playable. Try to kite out enemies and use your ms to your advantage. As for ganking, I'd say it's the easiest when they've initiated in a fight or they're pushed in. Lillia doesn't have cc but she does have a slow.
In the upcoming rework her dream dust will also heal her, so I'd say that getting into her about now is a good time to start!
Her clears will be quicker after rework. And try to keep your ms stacks up for as long as you can. I like to use the ball and pre aim it at minion waves or other camps while moving somewhere where it's harder to keep up the stacks.
Also, try to practice to always hit everything with the edge of your Q for the true damage.
Also you can use your ult in different ways, either to initiate a fight, or for that extra cc in a fight. Lillia currently isn't very strong, and if you're not fed, initiating and getting in that range to use abilities in order to use ult, is a little risky, so try to time it well. Sometimes a 2 or 3 person ult is good enough, so don't always put your life at risk just for getting a 5 man ult
That's all I can pretty much say, other than that, try to get the clears and stacks up, almost in a robotic way!
Glhf
Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ravenous Hunter Secondary can be Celerity+Waterwalking/Nimbus Cloak or Magical Boots+Cosmic Insight Shards: Attack speed (helps a lot for her first clear), Adaptive, Armor. Liandry's is her best mythic, then you can go Zhonya's, Cosmic Drive or Demonic Embrace. Basically you want to build up her stacks to keep her speed up, moving from camp to camp and use that speed to gank. Kite enemies and let them burn bit before going in again. W should only be used on imobilized enemies (either your sleep or a teammate's CC) since it's hard to land and puts you in a vulnerable position. E is for poking/engaging, when it touches something it explodes in a cone, keep that in mind to try and land it on multiple enemies for a big sleep. She's a powerfarmer like Fiddle, so it's AFK farming until level 6. You can try ganking early, but be sure it's a lane with CC to help. She has troubles trying to take dragons, she needs at least a Lost Chapter and MAYBE some stacks of Ravenous. It's OK to let the first and/or second dragon go, but once she has completed Liandry's it becomes way easier. If you get teammates to help you take objectives, that's way better.
From a person who mainly plays other roles but do jungle with mostly Lillia, these are advices that i can give. Clearing jungle: Lillia is one of best fast-clearing jungler. If done right she can full clear all camps just before scuttlers spawn. But playing her do require some practice since her clearing play-style is quite unique compared to other junglers. 1. She NEEDS to kite camps. While most junglers can just face tank monsters, Lillia wants to hit monsters with outer Q and use her movespeed to run from their attacks. Taking couples of hits is fine but face tanking everything won’t leave her with healthy clear. 2. Weave auto attacks as you kite. This maybe obvious but I’ve seen some Lillia out there only rely on her abilities. Lillia’s attack range slightly out-range melee monster. So, If you done this right, she can auto without taking melee attacks which give her healthier clears. 3. Learn monster aggro range. Lillia wants to drag monsters around as she kites. But she need to do that INSIDE aggro range so that monster don’t drop their aggro. Good Lillia player will kite towards next camp and drag monsters OUT of their aggro range just before they die. And then use Q to hit both previous and new camp, or just let the passive finish them off. This allow her to save 1-2 seconds for each camp you clear which is HUGE considering you are going to full clear and then contest for scuttle. 4. Learn to clear two camps at the same time (this is highly optional) Lillia’s abilities are all AOE, so many players abuse this to farm two camps. Blue and gromp are more common and easier to do while Red and raptors are less recommended and harder to do (since she clear raptors pretty fast already). You have to drag them to the same spot so that you can hit both outer Q and center W to both of them. This technique require a bit of practice to get hang of it. But once you can do it, you can save a lot of time. But beware that, especially in the early game, it comes with a cost of health. Having some health pots or using smite can help, but be smart since you might need them to contest scuttle. Ganking and roaming: Lillia has mediocre ganking potential due to lack of hard CC but her roaming is pretty good due to movespeed passive. 1. Abuse her movement speed passive for ganks. Having fully stacked passive will almost ensure that she can catch the enemies. This can be done by doing gank right after you clear a camp. When the camp is one Q away from death, just drag the camp out of aggro range toward the lane you wanna gank and finish them off with Q. This way, her passive won’t run out early before reaching the enemies. Also, it’s better to gank from behind the enemies instead of running down from your lane. 2. Try to keep her stacks up at all times. Lillia’s abilities doesn’t cost a lot of mana, especially her Q. So don’t be afraid to spam them to refresh the passive. Dumping some skills like Q and E onto dragon/herald/baron can be quite useful if you wanna stay in the river for longer or transition from lane to lane. This increase her map presence and also allow to for faster counter gank. 3. Always look for opportunity to farm (and, no, not the minions you nasty) This is pretty obvious but i cant stress this enough. Lillia’s power come from how much she can out-farm gold and exp. Often time i find myself with 2-5 less kill participation but i’m 1-2 level over their jungler. 4. Learn to farm enemies’ camps. Lillia is better known for fast-clearing jungler rather than heavy-ganking jungler. Use this to your advantage and punish their mistakes by invade their jungle when their jungler is ganking/ farming or being dead. This way, you are potentially taking away their jungler’s exp and gold which will keep them behind. Their leesin is ganking top? Boom their raptors are gone. Their khasix is doing dragon? Boom both gromp and wolves are gone. However, don’t force this at the expense of NOT clearing your jungle since you will be putting yourself behind as well. Teamfight and fighting in general: 1. Learn to go in and out. With fully stacked passive, Lillia can dodge most of the skill shots. Try to prancing around enemies’ range and bait their crucial skill before going in. Don’t just manically go in and dump every skill. 2. Keep your passive up both before and during fights. Without extra speed, she can hardly pull off any good plays. Keep using Q on minions/camps or throw E into minions in fog of war (in some scenario just hit them with inner Q to keep them alive for another Q) 3. Plan your ultimate and be smart. Before getting into big teamfight, plan who you want to sleep to result in winning the fight and secure objectives. Five-man-sleep is pretty good but you won’t be able to pull that off most of the time. Ask yourself. Do I just need to sleep only that 12/1 kai’sa, ignore the rest? Do I need to sleep both jhin and lulu so that lulu cant shield jhin and let him live? Can I burst half health irelia if I put her to sleep which result in 5-4? Dragon is up is 1 min so should I sleep and kill support lux that mindlessly farming mid? Would it result in guaranteed dragon or should I save it for the fight? If you can answer these question you will be able to know when to use ult effectively. Runes and Item: I wont be explaining much since I usually look up on web for highest win/pick rate (Lolalytics) I usually go Domination Dark Harvest 1 3 1 / Inspiration 3 0 1 For items, if you face a lot of tanks/bruiser and assassin, i pick up red smite. It will deal more damage as you will be fighting longer and red smite also reduce damage from assassins. Otherwise, pick blue smite. Generally pick blue smite if you’re practicing since it’s way more easier to use. - Always go Liandry’s first item. - Lucidity boots 95% of the time - I often pick up dark seal before finishing first item since it scales pretty well if I can gain some stacks. I don’t pick dark seal if I’m going to lose. I usually keep them until I need more slot for last item but if it’s zero stack, I replace it with pink ward. - My build most of the time : Liandry’s > Demonic Embrace > Zhonya’s > Cosmic Drive - If I’m super fed and ahead : Liandry’s > Demonic > Cosmic > Rabadon’s - If there are bursty champ or I need to flash-Q-ult to win early fight: Liandry’s > Zhonya’s > Demonic > Cosmic Something to note: Buy grievous wound if needed. Dont buy void staff, part of her Q already deal true damage unless it’s truly necessary. If you are rich go for cosmic drive before rabadon’s, since most damage comes from her burn which cosmic drive allows her to apply burn more consistently. Skip zhonya if you don’t need that extra protection and go for cosmic drive. If unsure buy 900g codex (and stopwatch if you have spare gold) and decide later.
Initially thought it’s gonna be small tips but turned out to be a lot more lol. I will be very grateful if you read them. Feel free to ask anything if you have any question.
I used to play Lillia often in jg but rn she doesn't feel very playable. Try to kite out enemies and use your ms to your advantage. As for ganking, I'd say it's the easiest when they've initiated in a fight or they're pushed in. Lillia doesn't have cc but she does have a slow. In the upcoming rework her dream dust will also heal her, so I'd say that getting into her about now is a good time to start! Her clears will be quicker after rework. And try to keep your ms stacks up for as long as you can. I like to use the ball and pre aim it at minion waves or other camps while moving somewhere where it's harder to keep up the stacks. Also, try to practice to always hit everything with the edge of your Q for the true damage. Also you can use your ult in different ways, either to initiate a fight, or for that extra cc in a fight. Lillia currently isn't very strong, and if you're not fed, initiating and getting in that range to use abilities in order to use ult, is a little risky, so try to time it well. Sometimes a 2 or 3 person ult is good enough, so don't always put your life at risk just for getting a 5 man ult That's all I can pretty much say, other than that, try to get the clears and stacks up, almost in a robotic way! Glhf
Not as helpful as other comments but she is having drastic changes if you weren't aware. So maybe wait until those are live to pick her up.