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Lapu-Lapu: Great Chief
As the chief of a tribe residing on the Land of Dawn’s secluded islands, Lapu has served as a defender for his people against invaders from other lands.
He is his dual blades’ strength on the battlefield matches a brutal contender whose drive to push forward. Lapu is a skilled fighter, useful on the lanes where he can put his strong abilities to use in taking down the turrets, creeps, and enemies that stand in the way of the victory.
He’s also a talented assassin, capable of taking down singular heroes with imperceptible ease. He specializes in chase and burst, allowing him to follow escaping enemies and land powerful attacks to wipe them out. Lapu is a great leader with power that makes his foes fall before him and his teammates.
Skills
Passive: Hero’s Faith
The chief’s passive skill is Hero’s Faith, which allows him to gain a damage boost for his basic attack and a temporary shield. This takes effect after he collects five stacks of bravery blessing from landing a skill on an enemy or creep.
Skill 1: Justice Blade
Justice Blade is the first skill that allows Lapu to cast a boomerang from his blades. These will deal damage to any enemies in their path. The boomerangs can strike enemies traveling away from and back to Lapu. This skill gets a boost when Lapu’s ultimate is used to create a heavy blade. Instead of boomerangs, the sword will cast a large wheel that will increase the attack’s damage and slow down the affected enemy.
Skill 2: Brave Stance
Lapu-Lapu’s second skill, Brave Stance, is a charge attack that uses his dual blades to damage any enemies in his path. With it, he will move forward in a designated direction, spinning his blades in his hands and gaining a speed boost for each enemy he damages.
Skill 3: Chieftain’s Rage
The ultimate skill Chieftain’s Rage combines Lapu-Lapu’s dual blades into a single heavy sword. With this, he attacks in a chosen direction, dealing damage to the targeted enemy and stunning them. After this, his sword will stay in a heavy sword state for a short period, increasing his defensive and offensive statistics for the length that the skill remains activated.
Lapu-Lapu Build
Emblems
Items
For Lapu-Lapu’s build, a large focus will be on his defenses and further increasing his attack ability. This will include effects that increase his health and shield him. He will be more capable of attacking and evading with items that improve his movement and attack speed. He will also look for boosts in attack and penetration and items that decrease cool downtime for his skills.
Fighter Build
Assassin Build
- Bloodlust Axe
- Blade of Despair
- Magic Shoes
- Hunter Strike
- Immortality
- Endless Battle
Build Information
The Bloodlust Axe reduces cooldown and increases the damage to Lapu’s skills. With this, he will gain a passive of spell vamp, allowing any damage he deals to boost his defenses.
The item Blade of Despair gives a massive boost to physical attack and a slight increase to movement speed. If Lapu-Lapu attacks enemies with less than half health, then this will increase his physical attack further.
As with other movement items, the Magic Shoes increase movement speed. They also give a cooldown reduction for Lapu’s skills alongside his other items.
With the gear Hunter Strike, Lapu-Lapu’s cooldown will lower while increasing his physical attack and physical penetration. This item grants a new passive that allows him to deal damage to an opponent five times at once and increase his speed. There is a small cooldown for the passive effect.
Immortality is a defense item that gives Lapu additional health points. The real benefit of this item comes from it’s passive, which will allow him to resurrect with a temporary shield, and a small portion of his health regained. This can help him get himself and his team to safety without being slain.
Endless battle boasts a boost in physical attack, movement speed, mana regeneration, and health points for Lapu-Lapu. It also grants him lifesteal and cools down reduction. Whenever a skill is a cast, the next basic attack will deal with massive boosted damage after a small cooldown, increasing his movement speed.
This build is a perfect boost for Lapu’s weaker defenses and effectively makes him an even stronger attacker. He can master evasion, deflection, and destruction against opponents to deliver blows that assure his team reaches the enemy base.
Lapu-Lapu Informationon
Lapu’s defenses are slightly below average, however boosting these with emblems and gear is very simple, making him easy to master. His skill effects are above average, and his offensive abilities are phenomenal.
With this combination, Lapu-Lapu can do well jungling and laning; however, he is most useful to his team on the side lanes with his skills. In a team fight, he can offer short-range and close combat support for his allies to help slay as many enemies as possible, especially in the late game with his boosted defenses, which he can buffer with the right gear.
Gameplay
Lapu-Lapu will start the game in the side lanes. He may benefit from fighting monsters along the lane, but he will mostly focus on the creeps and any enemies he meets.
After gaining a few gear items and making all of his skills available, he can break off to offer forceful attacks to any allies that may need help. Ganking into battle may allow him to protect his teammates and reinforce the push forward, or he can defend any turrets that are attacked by the invading team.
By the end game, Lapu-Lapu should have a powerful defense through his item build that can support his intense attack power. With this, he can aim to destroy any remaining turrets and assist in bigger team fights.
He may join in attacks against the lord to give a forceful drive to the goal, or he might stick with teammates to increase the group’s attack power as they attempt to wipe out the enemy and clear a path for victory. Lapu will be a force of immense attack power in any team. With curiosity and magnificent blade skills to drive him on, he will surely knock back the enemy and gain their well-earned respect as a combatant.