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¬Hi! I  am SirLazybones and I decided to make a guide of another  of the champions I've enjoyed the most since I started playing league 5 years ago. I love his carry potential, as well as his mechanics, you'll see in this guide.¬

¬Finally before starting for real, I decided to keep up with the  GIFs and videos, it makes this guide more enjoyable and easier to read, I hope they are useful and entertaining enough for you, as well as trying to resume as much as I can so you don’t get too much to read, as it can get boring.¬

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Kled is a champion designed to go ham on their opponents, and not back off from a fight (unless it is too difficult, in that case it is ok, you’ll kill that opponent later).

As such, all his abilities are designed in that purpose, and although he has some amazing survivability with his health regain   passive, 2 dashes on his E and a semi-global R that gives him an immense shield, if all this isn’t used properly, and you play him as a tank, it won’t work.

High risk, high reward

That’s why, besides knowing all what this guide will teach you, if you don’t get the handle of not backing off once you get low, you won’t succeed, his passive will require you to stay there, and show your courage.

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First of all, there’s something to clarify;  Kled as a champion has 2 HP bars, one for  Kled himself, and one that soaks the damage for the first one as much as it can, Skaarl’s :

-Kled’s HP bar is the lowest one from all champions in league, and stays like that, only growing with every level.

-Skaarl’s HP bar however, is greater, and as the game goes on grows with every level and gains all the bonus HP items would grant Kled.

As an example, if you were to buy an item that gives Kled 80 HP it would work this way:


This also means that the combination between Kled’s and Skaarl’s HP bars make them  the single champion with the most HP in the game.

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When Skaarl’s HP bar depletes, she will run away cowardly, leaving Kled by himself.
This not only means he won’t have Skaarl to protect him; all the Abilities that are performed with the help of Skaarl (all but W) are unavailable and his Q switches into a Shotgun.

The moment Kled dismounts he becomes briefly untargetable; just as Fizz’s E, meaning you can reset a tower’s aggro, and aboid certain damage that would have killed you instead:
-If a bad Veigar Ults you right before you dismount, his ult will disappear. If he  Ults Skaarl with 1 HP, and the ult would do 800 Magic damage, Skaarl will receive 1 Dmg and run away, Kled will receive 0 Damage.

Kled is also tremendously slow, as he is the champion with the lowest movement speed when on its own, only gaining a ton of movespeed when running toward enemy champions, meaning that fleeing from battle is always a difficult and harsh choice.

However, He will be able to call Skaarl back, recovering part of her HP on the process.

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If you’ve played as Kled a couple of times you’ll have heard him say loudly:

Well, he is wrong, Courage, the resource bar when dismounted as Kled, is truly predictable:

You’ll need 5 AAs and a Q (shotgun) to an enemy champion to gain the 100 courage Skaarl will need to come back and help Kled out.

This happens as:

-Kled gains 15 Courage per AutoAttack

As you may have seen, Titanic hydra is one of the Core items in any Kled build, this isn’t just because of the stats he gains from it, neither the passive that utilizes his immense HP bar, it is because of the great use he can give to its active:

After his 4 quick autoattacks thanks to W, you can rapidly activate  Titanic H to reset the AA timer.
Doing so while dismounted will let you remount in three seconds if performed correctly with W up.

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You don’t recover Skaarl’s Courage exclusively by hitting enemy champions, you can recover it by AA Turrets and Inhibitors, damaging Epic Monsters (Drakes, Rift Herald, Baron, Vilemaw) as well as killing lane minions; you it isn’t even close to the rate you can recover the courage with champions:

-4 Courage per minion kill
-5 Courage per AA on Tower/Inhibitor/Epic Monster

This means that if you just killed your enemy laner, he already wasted his Tp/ doesn’t have one, and you’ve seen the enemy jungler AND midlaner in the map, you can always try your best to push and regain Skaarl’s HP instead of backing if you feel you can stay longer to farm, or poke the enemy laner before backing or even killing him again if you have enough experience.

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Just remember another fact about this passive:

It has a cooldown, 30 seconds to be exact at all levels (it starts to count the instant Kled leaps into Skaarl's safety), this cooldown is avoided if Kled remounts while in the fountain (so you will remount without penalties if you back).

Meaning that if you dismount, you won’t be able to gain courage until that 30 seconds have passed.

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After talking about Kled’s passive, let’s go through his abilities, I’ll not explain what they do as stated in the tooltips of the abilities, as I think a guide should be more of an addition to all that, so basically I’ll go into some information you couldn’t know unless you played Kled a lot, giving you an advantage I didn’t have when starting to play this amazing duo:

 Skaarl, the Cowardly Lizard (Passive)

Yes, I just talked about his passive, but there’s something any Kled player should know, all his basic abilities (Q & E) reset the moment Skaarl returns to Kled!!!
This means you should always try to use your spells before being dismounted, for maximum damage output and utility. As you’ll have them again after remounting.

 Bear Trap on a Rope

-If you land your Q then get dismounted the rope will still be on your enemy, and with your buffed movespeed you will be able to hit the second part of it, slowing the enemy to guarantee more hits than usual.

-Q’s projectile has a lot of range but is really thin, depending on the enemy champion’s hitbox it can be really hard to land it (think of Teemo for example, tiny little deemon), a great way to guarantee you’ll hit it is to use it in conjunction with your E:

This also will guarantee you’ll get the second part of the Q’s damage, as you will have a second E to follow the enemy if he has a dash to flee.

Pocket Pistol (Dismounted Q)

-Kled won’t regain Skaarl immediately after gaining 100 courage, that’s why you should try to use Q’s knockback to your advantage to create some extra distance between you and the enemy to give Skaarl the 0,75 seconds she needs to return, as you can still be killed with 100 courage, which may result really tilting sometimes.

-You can have up to 2 charges of projectiles, but this doesn’t mean you get to shoot them instantly one after another, Q(dismounted has a cooldown of 3 seconds that won’t be lowered even with CDR) choose wisely when to use it.

-The knockback will enable you to go through walls, really useful!

 Violent Tendencies (passive)

-Keep in mind that, since W is a passive, meaning that even if you cannot activate it when you want, you will be able to see its cooldown, knowing when to bait the enemy to dismount you right before the cooldown on W ends is something you should try to get used to, as this will greatly increase your chances to remount.

-*Remember that you can only use this once per game* In adition to the last tip, you can use this trick: No-one forces you to level up your abilities as soon as you lvl up; as soon as you level up and get 2, do not immediately take W, as I’ve seen a lot of Kleds do, instead keep that ability lvl. with you; this allows you to do 4 things, all of the important:

-You’ll have your W as an active once a game (early) as you do not need it to farm.

-You pressure the enemy, as he will be going for a bad trade if he fights you with W up, he will know that as he won’t see you use W on the minions.

-You can avoid an early cheese-gank by taking E and running to safety.

-You can trade with the enemy, bait them into thinking they are winning as you’ll get dismounted, then lvl up W to have your 4 AAs and remount suddenly, making them lose the trade, maybe killing them, but for sure being in your favor.

-There's currently a bug that makes your 4rth AA not deal bonus damage if you level up your W while using it, be careful

 Jousting

• Kled is really sticky in general thanks to all his abilities, but this is what makes him great to deal with champions that have an escape tool such as Ezreal Tristana Ahri etc. Using it properly before they use it means you will be able to follow their escapes, killing them in the process.

• Remember to use it in a smart way, you can use it to dodge many abilities!

• gives you a few seconds before it goes on cooldown if you manage to hit the enemy with it, giving you a second charge, if the enemy has an escape tool wait for it then reactivate , this second cast can even go through walls. 

• If you hit it, the enemy marked will be affected by true sight, meaning that unless he is Akali, you'll be able to hit him with AA even if he enters a bush/goes invisible: , , .

• The same way as it happens with a lot of champions, Kled can Flash ---- > E to surprise enemies as you’ll cover an unexpected great distance with it, when paired with R it makes Kled unbearable for the enemy.

   

Chaaaaaaaarge!!!

Has a ton of utility, but not only by moving you and your team around the map:

• It will grant you a shield that even if lower when just charging for a milisecond can give you enough extra time with Skaarl to use another Q/E/AA before dismounting.

• It knocks back the enemy champion hit and deals some damage ( just not as much as when you’ve charged for a while).

• It makes you unstoppable, meaning you won’t be stopped by anything but a champion: if Veigar puts his wall to stop you from going into him, he will be unable to do so, meaning you will be able to outplay a ton of enemies if you have a great timing with your R.

• When you stop the Charge and Skaarl starts jumping toward the selected enemy, you can use your Q and E in the jump, meaning you’ll have an almost guaranteed E + Q on the target.

• It follows the target no matter what, meaning you can time it well to go through walls if an enemy you have sigh of is on the other side.

• Beware as Kled’s R won’t select a target if you do not have sight of him (for example if Veigar enters a Bush, if Kled’s Charge passes a little bit to the right and doesn’t grant vision you won’t go to him.

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Now let’s talk just briefly about Kled and his stats, as well as the priorities any Kled should have.

First of all, Kled is a champion that benefits from having as much HP as possible, as it will allow Skaarl to keep protecting Kled’s HP bar as much as possible, as well as gaining more the moment Kled remounts, additionally, Kled has some incredible bonus AD scalings, not total, requiring as much bonus AD from items as possible. He also lacks any AP scaling meaning he shouldn’t buy  AP items ever, mana items should be evaded as well, as his only resource is Skaarl’s Courage.

Even if he’s not a tank, it would be beneficial to support all that HP he has with some Armor and Magic Resist; if you didn’t know, HP is more valuable the more it can resist enemy damage, for example 100 HP and no Armor can be less valuable than 60 HP and 50 Armor, depending on the enemy, of course.

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Following the stated previously, here’s some items you should get, apart from the Core ones, that are practically required, and some you should avoid, although they may seem great at first glance:

Boots: either Merc. treds or  Ninja Tabi are great for any champion, the choice between them fall into the question of whether the enemy team has got more danger of Crowd Control, or some auto attack champions that may be a problem to Kled.

Titanic Hydra: Talked about this item before, in the passive’s explanation, don’t want to bore you that much.

Black Cleaver: Some AD, a lot of HP, 20% CDR that results key as cooldown is the only thing that limits Kled to use his abilities (no mana costs).
Its movement speed passive is great, and the Armor reduction is magnificent as all Kled’s abilities do physical damage.

Death’s Dance: since it was changed to heal off all the damage you dealt and not only from physical, it can heal you from the true damage you deal, making it a great item, even more paired with the fact that some of the damage you would take gets stored into a bleed, meaning you get some extra time to remount thanks to it. The AD this item gives you as well as the last 10% CDR you’ll need since Transcendence gives you 10% for free at lvl 10.

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For the last two items you would want something to make you extra difficult to kill, such as any of the following:

  Any Heal get increased,

 Grievous Wounds, reflecting damage from AA and slowing the attacker's Att.Speed

 Anti-Crit passive, decent active

Adaptive Helm: Anti-Dot, excelent against:

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All this champions have some kind of Magic Damage over Time (DoT) or a magic Spam/Repetitive ability that will get reduced by Adaptative Helm. Pretty strong item if you face any of the listed champions.

Sterak's Gage:  Great item if you can afford picking it over the others in this list, it also gives a lot of AD, that counts a 50% of Kled's base AD toward the bonus AD.

Knight's Vow: Sometimes you'll have a great ADC in your game that isn't protected enough by your support, if said Mr. Support didn't get this item for your good ADC, and you know he is your win condition go for it link him and be his frontline.

My prefered choices against a damage balanced team are:   & though.

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In case you do not pick any of the latter items stated, here’s some you should avoid:

Any AP item: Trolling isn't fun, nor competitive.

Guardian Angel:  would be a good item for Kled, and I could see it working somehow as it would let you recover some Courage, then “die”, and complete the Courage before Kled’s bar is depleted. The Problem with this item is that it restores only the 50% of the BASE HP of the champion, in Kled’s case, remember that he has the lowest base HP (only counting Kled) in the game, would be great if it counted also Skaarl’s base HP, but that would make him recover to full (Kled) HP.

If you build the standard that I’ve proposed at the start of this guide, you would be getting (not counting rune stats):

Items: +160  Bonus AD +1550 Bonus HP (for Skaarl) +80   Bonus Armor +80   Bonus Magic Resist + Greatest Active in the whole game () + Every passive of every item is Super Useful on Kled  ()

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Kled should try to end the game at this stage if possible, as the enemy carries can be difficult to get to in the Endgame.

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