About Crystal Lyra + How to use her skill effectively Top
Hello everyone, this is YamiEC speaking. As a new CP Lyra main, here is my current build for Lyra. She is very squishy in every game phases so always prepare to have 2 defenses items, but her early game and late game is very decent with CP, make up for her weak mid game
Perk:PRINCIPLE ARCANUM
Her heroic perk scale very well with
Alternating Current, that's why rushing that item really helps, especially since you will need to land her big missile on your enemy as quick as possible. Her stuttersteping is pretty tricky, but once you get used to her Heroic Perk, it's an easy-as-pie way to increase your Auto Attack
A: IMPERIAL SIGIL
Your main source of damage along with your heroic perk. As it has a decent range and it provides so many uses for CP Lyra. A CP Lyra main needs to understand the match much more than other heroes, so place this ability pretty wisely, because despite all the utility it got, this skill, unfortunately, cannot be spamable (8 second cooldown on
Imperial Sigil). You can use her A for instant damage, run(cast on yourself and then reactive so that you can have a speed boost), chasing, healing
B: BRIGHT BULWARK
Your free defense. It has a pretty slow casting by the way, so you might consider not wasting your energy in using it. Best way to use it is when you are in a teamfight, or you use it with your
Arcane Passage to make a combo of escape/kiting
Ultimate: ARCANE PASSAGE
For once i though this ultimate was a bit of a disapointment when she first released, but now, i realized, it's a very good way to make a trap for your enemy. You can trap 3 people inside that using your
Bright Bulwark +
Arcane Passage combo. Remember, enemies inside
Bright Bulwark CANNOT use Lyra's Portal to get out, so use this ability and you can certainly 1v2 almost everyone in the Halcyon Fold
About items Top
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Alternating Current: As i mentioned, this is the must-have item for CP Lyra, as it will make her has a faster attack speed as well as landing her big missile on
Principle Arcanum faster and stronger
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Broken Myth: A very good item to have with Lyra, as it will increase her
Imperial Sigil's damage dramatically
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Shatterglass: For a big raw CP power boost on your
Principle Arcanum and
Imperial Sigil, try to have a Shatterglass. Since her perk can apply slow,
Frostburn is pretty useless in this case
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Halcyon Chargers: CP Lyra is pretty energy demanding, so i would have to put another cooldown-energy regen item on her build. And thanks to SEMC for
Halcyon Chargers's introduction, we can have a boot that gives us the utility we need
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Metal Jacket and
Aegis:
Lyra is the most fragile hero, so in order for her to survive out there, she needs to have 2 defenses with her so she can survive longer
Don't pick these crystal items Top
For
Lyra, you don't want to be that player who build these items for CP
Lyra, cause if you do, it either a waste of money, or not effective on her
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Eve Of Harvest: A pretty huge mistake for players out there to build
Eve of Harvest. Her
Imperial Sigil's healing power is pretty good enough, beside, you need a better CP damage boost item like
Shatterglass, and you already have
Halcyon Chargers as your energy regen item, so it's worthless to have
Eve of Harvest
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Frostburn: Some players said
Frostburn is better item for
Lyra than
Shatterglass, but i'm telling you, her
Principle Arcanum's second missile strike already apply slow, so buying
Frostburn is a waste of 50 CP more power comparing to
Shatterglass. Sure you can use that to let your enemy stay in the
Imperial Sigil longer, but hey, you can use that slowing trick too by keep on casting your 2nd missile attack on your
Principle Arcanum
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Clockwork: Well her cooldown is 8 second for
Imperial Sigil, with
Clockwork she can cast her ability in 6.5 second, which is not worth it, and also a waste of money since
Clockwork doesn't give you extra CP power. If you want a good cooldown item on her, better get
Aftershock, but i recommend
Shatterglass over anymore cooldown CP items
UNLESS you are confident enough to only use your
Imperial Sigil as your main source of damage
Comp with Lyra Top
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Reim: A perfect setup.
Reim can tank for Lyra thanks to his Fortified health and Lyra also help Reim stick with the enemy team with the help of
Imperial Sigil's boost and a trap from
Bright Bulwark
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Krul:
Krul will be another formidable front line for
Lyra as well. A well placed
Bright Bulwark can help
Krul "communicate" with the enemy's mobile carry, thus deleting a very dangerous thread
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Lance: WP
Lance + CP
Lyra = too many CC.
Lance can stick enemies long enough for your
Imperial Sigil to deal full damage, both DOT while standing there and Detonate damage. She can help Lance's slow movement speed by using
Imperial Sigil or
Arcane Passage so that she won't be forever alone
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Phinn: Also a very good support for
Lyra.
Lyra can bunch enemies up with
Bright Bulwark and Phinn can stun all of them at once, let them take full damage from
Imperial Sigil. Much like
Lance,
Phinn can act like a magnet for keeping your target in the same place in order for you to unlease your
Principle Arcanum +
Imperial Sigil combo
Conclusion Top
Thank you for reading the official CP Lyra guide. Hope you have great success with her on the lane using my build. If you have any suggestions, just write down in the comments below. I will add another 2 parts about which hero she works best soon.
A bonus pic for people who visit my guide, as my appreciation
Guide Update history Top
22/6/2016 Guide released
23/6/2016 Added don't pick these crystal items chapter
24/6/2016 Added comp with Lyra chapter
30/6/2016 Added a second early game item build path, conclusion update with bonus pic
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