Walking Fortress SAW (WEEKLY PICK!) by Skeletor

Walking Fortress SAW (WEEKLY PICK!)

By: Skeletor
Last Updated: Mar 12, 2015
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SAW

Build: A Team-based Lane SAW (WP WL HP)

Ability Path

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Heroic Perk
Roadie Run
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Suppressing Fire
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Mad Cannon
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Item Choices

Early Game

Sprint Boots
Weapon Blade
Book of Eulogies

Mid game (Kraken)

Heavy Steel
Energy Battery
Serpent Mask
Fountain of Renewal
Travel Boots

Endgame

Serpent Mask
Fountain of Renewal
Sorrowblade
Bonesaw
Travel Boots
Eve of Harvest

Other useful items

Serpent Mask
Tornado Trigger
Metal Jacket
Shatterglass

Threat Meter

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Threat Hero Notes
1
 Petal A weak opponent overpower her with deadly suppressive fire that counters her range and destroys her minions
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 Adagio Kill him before he heals and you'll have no problem
2
 Ringo Focus your early game energy on him to prevent him from getting off the ground and becoming a challenge
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   No Threat
4
 SAW All depends on the build but your high damage should kill him before he gets you then you can flee with boots or roadie and heal thanks to lifespring
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   No Threat
6
 Koshka Just as long as you face her head on and avoid ambushes you'll be fine
7
 Krul Also stuns at a range so be careful
8
 Catherine You will need team help to avoid her silence which could allow her to weaken you before you can get a hit on her
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   No Threat
10
   No Threat

WARNING Top

DON'T tell me that the late game items are too expensive, they are an IDEAL build. The Items are in order of importance.

Info Top

This SAW Focuses on insanely high damage outputs while staying strong and providing teamheal buffs (thanks to Fountain of Renewal) to destroy turrets with ease. This SAWS role is as a lane focused tank that stays strategically behind minions and dishes out damage against turrets.

Up vote if you like it and happy Crystal shattering!

The Abilities Top

Spin Up
This is SAW's heroic perk. It builds as you attack (one per hit) and stacks to 12. If you don't land a hit for some time, it will disappear. It is removed fully with Roadie Run, filled completely with Suppressing Fire and you gain two units per Mad Cannon hit. What it does is for every unit you have your attack speed increases by 30% your move speed decreases by 0.12 and you gain one armor point.

Roadie Run
SAW pulls out his Combat Knife and charges the targeted opponent dealing missing health damage making this an ideal ability for finishing off weak opponent. After burying his knife into the opponent, SAW preforms a tactical roll backward.
DETAILS:
Base Damage: 60/140/220/300/380 (+2.8 Crystal)
Missing Health %: 20%/23%/25%/28%/45%
Speed Boost: 2.5 (+0.015 Crystal)

Suppressing Fire
SAW Fires a spray of bullets in a straight line for 2.5 seconds. These bullets damage and slow opponents.
DETAILS:
Total Damage: 250/370/490/610/1030 (+4.0 Crystal)
Slow Duration: 1/2/2/2/3

MAD cannon
SAW loads a clip of explosive shells into his gun these shells are always crits and deal splash damage and missing health damage.
DETAILS:
Ammo: 5/6/7
Missing Health %: 15%
Attack Speed: -36%
Crystal Damage Per Shot: 150/225/300 (+1.2 Crystal)

The team Top

An experienced player should know that a good team is a huge part of this game. You can experiment and find your own players and characters to team queue with but I have a few characters I specifically recommend.

Adagio is a great complement to SAW and a must to any team. Being one of two major split players, he is a necessity for any team. His Gift of Fire heal and Agent of Wrath damage amplify abilities provide valuable boosts. As I mentioned before his Agent of Wrath damage increase can make very short work of an opponent. Also, Adagio has Gift of Fire which burns opponents. Wait for the enemy minions to crisp and weaken then spread the ashes with your suppressing fire. And the last ability that makes Adagio just PERFECT is his ult Verse of Judgement just when the lane starts getting gnarly and you feel a 3v1 coming get Adagio in there and deliver massive area of effect damage.

The other split player Catherine can be quite useful herself. Her chases Merciless Pursuit, stuns and silences Blast Tremor make her a lane BEAST and her shield stormgaurd can make her a full on jungler if you need support. Her ability to do direction area of effect damage with Blast Tremor makes her incredible ant ganking (as opposed to Adagio's circular Verse of Judgement, which is more defensive).

As your last player I recommend one of these five junglers in order of most useful to least Glaive Taka Krul Koshka Joule

Glaive is fast. Glaive is strong. Glaive has high health. And on top of all that Glaive sends opponents flying with afterburner, flying right into SAW's range. Glaive is a great meat shield for SAW. You can stay locked on to your target while Glaive knocks them around and prevents escape.

Taka, my personal favorite. Taka is an assassin. He can jump out of the brush, bury his switchblade in the opponent you have just weakened with either Kaiten or X-Retsu and disappear and run off with Kaku before the rest of the enemy even sees him. He can be a front-line lane fighter until he becomes weak then he takes off disappearing with Kaku and comes back to battle fully healed.

Krul isn't that special, he isn't a huge compliment to SAW, so why is he here? Answer, he can completely hold his own in a fight. Whether in the lane or jungle Krul can take a fight that's falling in the enemies favor and turn the tides rapidly with Spectral Smite, assassinate after hiding in the brush with Dead Man's Rush and Shadows Empower Me or stop an enemy flee with a flick of your sword using From Hell's Heart.

Koshka is a quick deadly assassin,although inferior in many ways to Taka she's still pretty impressive. While I have never myself played as her she can be a valuable team asset. She is excellent at Kraken steals, and her ult Yummy Catnip Frenzy can hold enemies down for quite some time, while you shred them with rapid fire. If you think stunners like Catherine are valuable teammates Koshka is another great teamate.

Last but not least, Joule. Joule in her abilities is like a jungle SAW her first ability Rocket Leap is sort of a chaser ability like Roadie Run. Her ult Big Red Button does linear damage like that of Suppressing Fire, her last ability Thunder Strike, however just confuses the heck out of me. since team diversity is sometimes important, I don't necessarily recommend her.

I'm mostly done now but I will add some more content later. tell me in the comments if somethings missing (i will add ability guide and item guide with explanations slowly). Plz leave a like or comment to show your support!

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