Introduction Top
This is
AnakManis with my first guide in
VaingloryFire, and this is
Crystal Powered (CP)
Ringo on
Winter Season 2016-17.
CP Ringo is "
squishy" but a "
beast" in sniping, as long as you know your
placement,
range, and
health.
Map awareness and knowing your enemies'
hero's ability are also keys to winning in any MOBA game.
So if you're a beginner and wanting to have a guide on a CP
Ringo, then continue reading.
Map Game Awareness Top
Being aware to your surrounding is the key.
Having your captain placing
visions throughout the key places in the map is essential.
If your captain is not familiar in doing this, buy yourself a
Scout Trap or two just in case enemies' jungle heroes decide to make early ganks.
Place the
Scout Trap in the
bush nearest to your turret. And if there are
stealthy enemy heroes like
Flicker,
Taka, or even
Kestrel, it's wise to have another one where you most-likely be standing when you are last-hitting the minions.
Keep your eyes to the
map on the upper right of your screen and be
aware of the locations of your enemies at all time.
Know Your Enemies Top
Since you're a beginner, you may not know all the enemies abilities just yet. So what I would encourage you to do is to
get to know all the different heroes and their abilities. This will make your life easier in the game.
How to do that? Go to practice mode and try every kind of heroes available. Get the feel, and know what their abilities are. When practicing, think of ways on how you can dodge or block the abilities.
For instance, know that
Phinn's ultimate or C ability is
Forced Accord, which can pull you closer to him. So knowing that, you can keep your distance or buying a
Reflex Block to keep yourself from being pulled.
Playing on
Battle Royale mode is also a good way to know other heroes' abilities.
Early Game Top
Now that you know the keys to success in Vainglory, let's begin the guide with early game.
In winter season 2016-17 (v2.1.2), at early game, the Treant would spawn in the middle of the map before the jungle shop spawning in 4:00 minute mark.
Typically, your jungle teammates would ask you to assist them either to get the Treant, or help them from getting obliterated from the enemy's team.
So with that in mind, I would start out with buying 3 items from the shop:
These 3 are my typical starting items.
However, an alternate to this can also be:
To fool the enemies into thinking that you are building weapon powered (WP) Ringo instead of a CP Ringo you can start off with these three items:
Either way, these are my recommendation to the starting items.
Now Ringo needs gold in buying upper tiers items or his core items. Therefore,
last-hitting the minions is a key in early game toward the final build.
In early game, as you are accumulating gold, enemy heroes will tend to gank you from the bush. When you have the chance to head back to shop, head back and buy
Scout Trap and extra
Halcyon Potion to help you with your vision and staying alive.
Do not push too hard, or you will get ganked on. If you do get ganked, use your boots to run either back to your turret or to your teammates as fast as you can.
Purchasing extra
Halcyon Potions is needed to regenerate your health and your energy as you last hitting the minions, so buying 2 or 3 of
Halcyon Potion is a good thing to have in staying alive and being able to use your abilities when you need to.
CP
Ringo early game is squishy, so try
not to get in too much of a team fight, but if you are called in to a team fight,
stay back behind your jungler and captain and
do damage from the back.
Mid Game/Team Fights Top
Mid game typically is around 10-15 minutes (depends on how you and your team plays) or once you hit level 6. During this time, you may have seen plenty of team fights and you will see plenty more team fights happening at late game as well.
As I mentioned before, your role as a carry sniper is to stay safe at the back of your jungler and your captain, and hitting your enemies from the back of the line.
In team fights, it is essential to find the enemy's squishy target first. This is usually
their carry. He/she is the one that you have been facing off in the lane.
If you already hit level 5,
Hellfire Brew should be available at your disposal. When your team wants to start a team fight, it is best for a CP
Ringo to hide in the bush unseen in activating the
Hellfire Brew on your squishiest or most damaging enemy. This is typically your enemy's jungler or their carry. Once your ultimate have been disposed, use your
Twirling Silver to follow up on your ultimate. This is the "Shock and Awe" tactic.
If your target is running away, use your
Achilles Shot to slow them down.
During this time,
always remember to
keep your distance. After killing the squishiest enemy, focus on the 2nd squishiest target. Remember to ping that target to help your team to work together in eliminating that target. Communication is another key to winning.
If you find yourself
out of place and or if you are ahead of your team mates, use the boots to run back as soon as possible, because your captain cannot help you when you're too far and/or there's a greater chance for you in getting baited. I will write more about baiting in the DO NOT DO THIS section.
Remember the core items you should be focusing on buying in mid game:
If you're still far from achieving these items, then this means that you're not getting enough gold from last-hitting the minion, your team mate is stealing your minions/creeps or, you've been getting killed too many times and misses the chances to clear out the minion waves.
Defensive Items Top
With this CP
Ringo, your job is too stay behind your team mates. Therefore, defensive items is not needed.
However, when you are facing with enemy hero, usually a jungler (
Glaive,
Koshka,
Taka, etc...), who can jump over your team mates to kill you, or you find yourself being killed too many times then look at your enemies' builds to counter their attacks by clicking on the
scoreboard icon on the bottom right.
By seeing the scoreboard, it will help you to assess your enemy's builds and you may build defensive items to counter the damage items of the enemy's team.
When looking at scoreboard, you want to pay attention to the colors of the enemies' scoreboard. Here are basic principle to consider:
- If the high killing enemy is filled with red items, then you have to buy armor (orange) items like:
- If the enemy is filled with blue items, then buy shield (yellow) items like:
- If you feel like you need to have more health, buy green items like:
Reflex Block or
Crucible is best used when you're going against enemy heroes who uses high crowd control (CC) abilities like
slow from
Gwen's
Buckshot Bonanza,
silence from
Vox's
Wait for It, or
stuns from
Celeste's
Core Collapse.
This is the reason why knowing your enemy's abilities are essential.
Bubble Bursting Late Game Top
In late game, there are key points you need to consider in doing:
- Have your core items completed.
- Buy
Crystal Infusion before team fights.
- Buy defensive items if needed.
- Target your squishiest enemy first.
- Work behind your team mates (the captain & the jungler).
- Stay near your captain.
- Watch your placement.
- Secure the kills.
- Win the game.
Again, as a CP
Ringo your cp abilities are powerful and can burst down your enemies, however, cp Ringo is very squishy in this stage, so know your place and stay back. If needed, use those boots to run toward your captains so he can protect you. Also, target the right target. If you happen to miss on targeting those targets, like using your
Hellfire Brew on a minion or a jungle monster, then you may loose the game and gets a thumbs down from your team mates.
Another thing to note as a Bubble Bursting CP Ringo, if you noticed enemy's team with high shield items, please buy a
Broken Myth. This will allow you to put them out faster. Doubling on
Shatterglass can also benefit a CP Ringo.
DO NOT DO THIS!! Top
With that said, here are the list of DO NOTs:
- Do not get behind on your gold.
- Do not neglect on the
Crystal Infusion.
- Do not bush-checking.
- Do not miss targeting.
- Do not fall for the bait.
- Do not be far away from your captain.
- Do not get caught off by yourself.
- Do not think you can do all by yourself.
Please work on your last-hitting. By last-hitting the minions, you can earn the gold to buy your core items. Always use the 500 gold earned to buy
Crystal Infusion before a team fight. Remember to use the map to be aware of where the enemies are located, do not be the one to check the bush, and do not fall for the bait.
What do I mean by don't fall for the bait? I meant don't fall for enemy who is kiting you. This is usually happen when one of the enemy's team, typically their captain, is running low on health and he is running back. Your instinct will want to chase him and try to burst him down. However, you forgot to calculate that he still have his
Fountain of Renewal and a
Crucible. You also forget to look at the map to find where the rest of his team mate. Your enemy is kiting you and you will be destroyed once you are near the enemy's team.
So DO NOT DO THIS!.
Conclusion Top
In conclusion, I am pleased that you're able to get to this point of the CP
Ringo guide. I also hope that I have given you some tips on becoming the best
Bubble Bursting Crystal Powered Ringo in the
Halcyon Fold. I try to make the flow of the guide to be easily readable.
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