Chain Bomb's while a target is in minions and it also effects your damage in team fights. KT is still a strong pick, but I don't think he will be instant banned in higher levels of play.
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Ignite was removed from the game, whilc
Living Bomb and
Chain Bomb were buffed. They are now the go to build. Additionally, you have some insane early game roaming potential with
Gravity Lapse getting buffed. Instead of Kael having a huge power spike at level 16, you now are a feared hero start at level one!
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Verdant SpheresCooldown: 6 seconds Activate to make your next Basic Ability more powerful. Has a 6 second cooldown. |
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Flamestrike(Q)Mana: 70 Cooldown: 7 seconds After a short delay, deal 102 (+22 per level) damage in an area. Has a 7 second cool down. Verdant Spheres increases the radius by 50% and deals 153 (+33 per level) damage. |
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Living Bomb(W)Mana: 50 Cooldown: 10 seconds Deal 82 (+22 per level) damage over 3 seconds to an enemy, then they explode dealing 41 (+11 per level) damage to all nearby enemies. Casting a second Living Bomb on an enemy causes the previous Living Bomb to explode immediately. Has a 10 second cooldown. Verdant Spheres makes this Ability cost no Mana and have no cooldown. |
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Gravity Lapse(E)Mana: 85 Cooldown: 13 seconds Stun the first enemy hit for 1.5 seconds. Has a 13 second cooldown. Verdant Spheres causes Gravity Lapse to stun the first 3 enemies hit |
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Phoenix(R)Mana: 40 Cooldown: 40 seconds Launch a Phoenix to an area, dealing 10 (+8 per level) damage to enemies along the way. The Phoenix persists for 7 seconds, attacking enemies for 10 (+8 per level) damage and splashing for 50% . Has a 40 second cooldown. |
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Pyroblast(R)Mana: 80 Cooldown: 50 seconds After 2 seconds, cast a slow-moving fireball that deals 300 (+65 per level) damage to an enemy Hero and 150 (+32.5 per level) damage to enemies nearby. Has a 50 second cooldown. |
Verdant Spheres into two living bombs. But the list below, is more of a priority list. You sometimes do not want to use
Gravity Lapse as the opener and in a team fight, using the basic combo first will net you a ton of team damage! The combo isn't as devastating as flamestike +
Ignite, but you still have outstanding damage, but it requires you to be in much closer range now that
Flamethrower is no longer picked.
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Living Bomb - The more living bombs you apply to a target, the more times they will explode for fantastic amounts of damage. The basic idea behind this build is getting as many living bombs out on your target in the shortest amount of time. This is accomplished by using the Combo shown above.
Gravity Throw +
Verdant Spheres + Apply First
Living Bomb + Apply second
Living Bomb. With this combo, I nearly could kill any target as it has huge damage potential! Once you add
Chain Bomb into the mix, you can put a lot of pressure an entire team with a few explosions. Pick your targets carefully in Team fights! Try to pick someone who might retreat back into the group after your initial burst. This way you can get the chain bombs spreading to other targets. Chain Bomb on an enemy that is in a minion wave, you can have insane burst! Just ask this poor beetle tank Anub:
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Mana Addict - Oh the Mana woes that KT has - taking this talent seemed to help prevent my constant state of no mana. I have tested this and
Mana Addict, in my opinion is a mandatory talent. Without this talent, in the later game, I was going oom and couldn't apply the constant pressure that I normally could apply with an extra 300-400 mana from
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Nether Wind -
Gravity Lapse increased range and speed is fantastic and Nether Wind is now the BEST choice hands down. The range and speed of this ability make it insanely good for early roaming ganks. Try to set this up with your team and roam those lanes. Gathering Power - was gutted and nerfed into oblivion. It should never be taken, as the "quest" to level it up takes far to many kills. The bonus 5% was a great pick, but it now takes 5 kills just to get to that old base line.
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Living Bomb start to really hurt! See combo description for more details. I don't consider any other talent in this tier competitive with
Fission Bomb. This talent is mandatory for nearly all KT builds (other than a CC type build).
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Phoenix over
Pyroblast. I would recommend to evaluate the game and your team to make a decision. In some competitive games, I have taken Pyro blast to use as an opener in team fights. If you get a good position, you can take out their support or even a threat like Jaina or Valla from the team fight. Note that position is key in this approach and it can be extremely risky. When it does work out, you certainly tip the advantage in your teams favor. Pyroblast can be used as a great set-up for an ambush or initiation for a team fight. This can be used well with coordinated teams. Pyro looks good on paper, but the 2 second cast time can be interrupted and the travel time is quite slow. I did get quite a few finishers on Champions running away from a team fight using
Pyroblast, but I still feel that phoenix can pull ahead of pyro is most games. Pyroblast is a bit better and it did see a few picks on professional play, but pheonix still reigns supreme!
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Chain Bomb - After the recent patch,
Chain Bomb is back! This talent is extremely good now that fission bomb grants an additional 30% radius to the explosion. This makes it even easier to set up combos and blow up an entire team! Chain Bomb is too good to pass up.
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Arcane Barrier is a must. With the Kharazim patch,
Arcane Barrier was buffed to last 6 seconds and it gives you a 200% of your mana as a shield. Since this is comboed with Mana Addict the shield can get massive. It can help you survive some assassins like The Butcher, Nova or Zeratul. Backdraft is an outstanding pick as it is a 50% slow on your living bomb. With the increased radius of Living Bomb , this is one of the largest AoE slows in the game. This is great utility for your team.
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Bolt of the Storm Standard selection here - KT is no exception, he really can use the escape, especially if
Gravity Lapse is on cooldown. This is really the only viable pick, even with the increase cooldown, this is too good not to have!
Early Game Guide
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Your early game is now strong after the  Kharazim Patch changes. You can burst down heroes in a
Gravity Lapse combo with some help from a teammate. You now excel in is sustain, free poke, and early game ganks!!Your main goal for early game is to collect Regeneration Orbs. By level 10, I have seen an increase of 160-200 mana. This drastically helps keep you casting spells in the later game and keeps you in lane early. Making lane rotations for ganks can also add to your orb collection! One other key to early game is to abuse Verdant Spheres with
Living Bomb. The catch here is that you just want to use this combo to poke down the other champion. Do NOT cast two in a row early!With Verdant Spheres,
Living Bomb will no longer cost mana OR have a cooldown. You essentially get a free, 6 sec CD
Living Bomb.By Level 7, you can start your burst. Fission Bomb can be very bursty, abuse this! You can score easy kills in a CC chain, but watch your mana. You can empty it quick trying to go for ganks, be sure to be full by the time the objectives roll around.
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Welcome to the mid game! This is where it really gets to be fun and you become devastating to the other team. After you add
Fission Bomb, you can start putting out pressure on nearly any champion. While laning, be sure to still abuse your 6 second Living Bomb. When you see a window for a kill opportunity, dive into the full combo.When you hit level 13 and you pick up Chain Bomb - your team fighting capability increases drastically, Bombs Away!! As an assassin, your positioning is always important. You need to know where the other teams assassins are, especially if they are melee. Once a team fight is engaged, jump in with a double
Chain Bomb. Try to pick a target that is within range or others for explosions, this will spread more
Living Bomb's around to turn the tide of the fight in your team's favor. If the other team is not fully committing, try just using
Verdant Spheres +
Living Bomb one time. Again, this will give you great poke and you can really start the team fight with a hit point advantage.You will also gain your heroic ability Phoenix at level 10. The cooldown is only 40 seconds! Abuse this as much as possible and you can even add it to the beginning or end of your rotation.If you happen to choose pyroblast (in certain situations, it can be good). Watch your placement when you cast it. You can essentially take someone out of a team fight, but be sure you aren't targeting someone that can negate the damage (Iceblock other immunities etc..) |
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You are now enjoying some impressive 1v1 and area of effect burst. The other team might start focusing you and it is key that you keep your engage positioning in mind. I like to mount up, hit my Chain Bomb combo with (and I usually save
Gravity Lapse if things start to get sketchy) then back up to wait for CDs. Your auto attack isn't very strong and staying alive to get another chain bombo combo off on the enemy team is paramount!There is one option for more sustained damage over the course of a fight, it is similar to the early game in which you abuse Verdant Spheres with
Living Bomb. Now that you can also apply a
Living Bomb with
Chain Bomb, it can actually put quite a bit of damage out. You also now have a 6 second cool down on your
Living Bomb.Basically combo Verdant Spheres with
Living Bomb then, instead of jumping right into another
Living Bomb, cast a normal
Flamestrike. You can then wait until the timing is right to blow both
Living Bombs to get a kill.Additionally, with the buff to Nether Wind and
Gravity Lapse, you might see a window to catch the other team in an empowered
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Gravity Lapse and try to gtfo! His shielding, auto attacking and mobility are rough for any squishy to deal with, like Kael]Falstad has your number! Early, mid and late game are a challenge if you were to meet him 1v1. If you happen to be in a bad position,
Gravity Lapse and try to gtfo! His shielding, auto attacking and mobility are rough for any squishy to deal with, like Kael[/if] |
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Living Bomb may not be able to put much pressure on Tassadar. His damage is quite avoidable, but avoid getting hit by
 Psionic Storm If you do get the window of opportunity for a kill, he will simply dimensional shift to escape easily. In the later game, you slowly start to gain enough burst to kill him in a CC chain, but again, its difficult with dimensional shift.]Early on, your
Living Bomb may not be able to put much pressure on Tassadar. His damage is quite avoidable, but avoid getting hit by
Psionic Storm If you do get the window of opportunity for a kill, he will simply dimensional shift to escape easily. In the later game, you slowly start to gain enough burst to kill him in a CC chain, but again, its difficult with dimensional shift.[/if] |
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