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Classic builds

Era-accurate Season 3 (2013) builds.In-game values and the live meta may differ before the July 29 launch.Why?

League Classic is a curated recreation of old League and is still being balanced ahead of the July 29 launch, so in-game values and the live meta may differ. We’ll update builds as the mode settles.

AD Crit Bot

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Items

Starting

Doran's Blade
Health Potion

Boots

Berserker's Greavesattack speed: more autos, more poison
Mercury's Treadsvs heavy CC

Core build path

Infinity Edge
Phantom Dancerwith IE, the crit spike
The Bloodthirsterlifesteal and raw AD
Blade of the Ruined Kingon-hit %HP and a steroid
Last Whisperarmor shred for piercing bolts

Situational

Buy these only when the game calls for it. They are not part of the core path.

waveclear and kiting

Statikk Shiv

vs assassins, or to survive focus

Guardian Angel

vs hard CC or single-target lockdown

Mercurial Scimitarthe QSS upgrade

Summoner spells

Flash
HealorBarrierorCleanse

Max order

R at 6/11/16. Early Q point at 3 for the stealth; Q maxed last.

Ability leveling order from level 1 to 18
Ability	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q			1											2	3		4	5
W		1							2	3		4	5
E	1			2	3		4	5
R						1					2					3

Runes

Marks

9/9

8× Greater Mark of Attack Damage
1× Greater Mark of Critical Chance

Seals

9/9

9× Greater Seal of Armor

Glyphs

9/9

9× Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist

Quintessences

3/3

3× Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage

Masteries

21/9/0

Offense / Defense / Utility

Offense

4/4
4/4
3/31/1
2/22/2
1/13/3
1/1

Defense

4/4
3/31/3
1/1

Utility

Notes

The late-game terror. Twitch does nothing flashy for 20 minutes, then one Spray and Pray in a teamfight deletes the enemy backline through their own frontline, because piercing crits ignore everything in the way. Ambush lets him flank from stealth or peel off after the fight. He is the definition of a hypercarry: uniquely weak early, uniquely lethal late, and completely dependent on peel and positioning since he melts the instant anyone touches him.

Not hand-checked yet, so treat these values as provisional. Source: Season 3 MOBAFire community guides (2012-2013), AD crit hypercarry build.

AP Poison Jungle

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Items

Starting

Hunter's Machete
Health Potionx5

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoesdefault: magic penetration
Berserker's Greavesviable alt: faster poison stacking
Mercury's Treadsvs heavy CC

Core build path

Spirit of the Spectral Wraithera AP jungle item: vamp, CDR
Nashor's Toothattack speed stacks poison fast
Rabadon's Deathcapamplifies the Expunge nuke
Liandry's Tormentburn stacks with the poison DoT

Situational

Buy these only when the game calls for it. They are not part of the core path.

vs magic resist stacking

Void Staff

to keep targets in range

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

vs heavy AD, or to survive

Zhonya's Hourglass

sustain and slow through skirmishes

Hextech Gunblade

vs heavy AP, or for on-hit

Wit's End

Summoner spells

Smite
Flash

Max order

R at 6/11/16. Early Q point at 3 for gank stealth; Q maxed last.

Ability leveling order from level 1 to 18
Ability	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q			1											2	3		4	5
W		1							2	3		4	5
E	1			2	3		4	5
R						1					2					3

Runes

Marks

9/9

9× Greater Mark of Magic Penetration

Seals

9/9

9× Greater Seal of Armor

Glyphs

9/9

9× Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist

Quintessences

3/3

3× Greater Quintessence of Ability Power

Masteries

21/0/9

Offense / Defense / Utility

Offense

4/4
4/4
3/31/1
3/31/1
4/4
1/1

Defense

Utility

1/13/33/3
1/3
1/1

Notes

Pure cheese, and it worked in Season 3 because nobody itemized for a rat doing magic damage. Auto a couple of times, Venom Cask for the extra stacks and slow, then Expunge for a burst that can chunk half a health bar out of a squishy. Ambush ganks from stealth. It falls off harder than the AD build and folds to any magic resist, so it is a snowball-or-bust pick, but a genuinely nasty surprise early.

Not hand-checked yet, so treat these values as provisional. Source: Season 3 MOBAFire community guides (2012-2013), off-meta AP Expunge build.

Abilities

Passive
Deadly Venom
Twitch's basic attacks infect the target with poison, dealing true damage each second and stacking up to 6 times. Everything in his kit keys off these stacks: Expunge's damage scales per stack, and the true damage ignores resistances entirely.
Q
Ambush
Cooldown 16sCost 60 ManaRange Self
After a short channel Twitch becomes invisible and gains move speed while stealthed. On leaving stealth he gains a burst of attack speed. This is his only mobility: repositioning in fights, escaping, and setting up ganks and flanks.
W
Venom Cask
Cooldown 13/12/11/10/9sCost 50 ManaRange 950
Twitch hurls a cask that bursts in an area, slowing enemies and applying stacks of Deadly Venom to everything hit. His poke, his catch tool, and the fastest way to put stacks on a group before an Expunge.
E
Expunge
Cooldown 12/11/10/9/8sCost 50/60/70/80/90 ManaRange 1200
Detonates the poison on every nearby afflicted enemy, dealing physical damage: a base amount plus a bonus per stack, scaling with both bonus attack damage and ability power per stack. It does not consume the stacks, so the poison keeps ticking afterwards. The dual ratio is why he has both an AD and an AP build.
R
Spray and Pray
Cooldown 120/110/100sCost 100/125/150 ManaRange Self
For several seconds Twitch gains bonus attack damage and roughly 300 bonus attack range, and his attacks become piercing bolts that hit every enemy in a line. The hypercarry teamfight ultimate: with crit and Last Whisper a single bolt can crit through an entire team.

Base data from Data Dragon 3.13.24, not yet hand-checked. Old-patch ddragon values are unreliable and League Classic may differ.

Base stats

Health: 389; +81 / lvl
Health regen: 5; +0.6 / lvl
Mana: 220; +40 / lvl
Mana regen: 6.5; +0.45 / lvl
Attack damage: 49; +3 / lvl
Attack speed: 0.679; +3.38% / lvl
Armor: 14; +3 / lvl
Magic resist: 30
Move speed: 330
Attack range: 550