Hi, my name is Jensen from Cart9 and this is my go to set in the mid lane. So set us a champion in solo queue, can both be not the best and really good. The thing about set is he's really weak against certain team comps. There's not really that many specific champions that counter him that much anymore. He used to have a lot of hard mashups and stuff but he's been off the lot recently and he had a new mastery synergist as I would with him. So that's not really that many champions that he's bad against. You might struggle late on in the game if you play against something like KO or Lissandra but even those matchups as a one-reel aren't pretty good for him now. He's a champion that has a lot of snowball potential. So yeah, you just need to be careful though because he's also a champion whereas if you fall behind he's kind of weak so just play to your strength and set you be a really good pick for solo queue. So how you want to play to lane and set it early on is you just want to try to last it with your queue without taking too much damage. And honestly giving up a few CS early as set is not the worst level 1-2 because you don't want to get poked out of lane. That's kind of your weak point. Once you get level 3 you can start harassing the opponent. You just want to try to stay back and get as many CS as possible. If there's opportunities to let your queue on the opponent you should definitely go for it and avoid hitting the creeps first so damage. Obviously, yeah you just want to try to harass him and as lane progresses you can harass more and more. And yeah like I said, status is kind of a snowball champion so if you get ahead you just honestly want to try to like kill your laner over and over again and then you can also start split-rushing around level 8-10 somewhere like there. Preferably 11-3 once you get level 2 ultimate. That's a good way of things. I think one thing about status he's very underrated like his team fighting so don't think like you're forced to split-rush or anything because if you can't team fight you should definitely go for it once you get a few items like 3-3 items. But status in adjacent is much better if you have a lot of CC on your team. So keep in mind like if you guys have a weaker team comp you just want to look split-rush as well. And then team fights you definitely want to look to go for the squishy targets and say it's not really the type of champion that goes for frontline so you just want to primarily go for the AP carries and AP carries but also distract people in team fights. So don't over commit and get yourself killed. Make good use of your shadows and yeah just be a diary basically. Also a thing to keep in mind what I said is you don't want to like instantly go ahead and dive that back line. You want to be careful a bit, wait for them to use some cooldowns and stuff but not wait too long you know. For example if you play against something like a Lissandra you don't just want to like instantly dive in because that's just going to get you killed. But if you have something like a Mikuriel or QSS and you know your limits then it's fine to go in but it's unlikely that you can just straight up kill someone like that so you just want to like remember to play it's mod in team fights and not dive too hard. So there's a few things you can do with set. For example I think a lot of people don't know is that you can queue then flash on set so that the queue double time hits faster a lot of people don't know about this so you can like if a target is lower something and they have a flash up if you queue then flash it's very hard for them to react to it for example. And also like there's a lot of things you can do with your ultimate and your shadows for example like if you ultimate in before you use your spells you can like throw a W so you can like try to hit him with three juricans instead of just kill you know or more burst and yeah there's a lot of things there's a lot of stuff you can like play around with once you become more experienced with set like learning how to manage your shadows better. And for runes and set I go 9 armor pin in marks and scaling health in yellows and flat magic resist in blues. And then for quints I go 3 flat AD quints and also if you're learning against an AD as set you can go for armor runes instead of scaling health for level. You can also go scaling CDR or flat CDR and glist instead of the magic resist but it does make you a lot more vulnerable on lane and you typically want to win lane on set so I would just go for the lane dominant build. But then again if you're learning against an AD you can just take scaling or flat CDR. And for masteries on set I go 12, 18, 0. Also in rare cases you could go 6, 18, 6 which it's a very defensive build but typically 12, 18, 0 is the best since you want damage on set and strong lane as well. And I go for the feast over the double edged sword and bounty hunter over pressure both are kind of fine but I think this is probably the best to go for. And I go for the assassin master instead of secret stash because again you just want to be as dominant on lane as possible and the assassin also helps on minions and stuff which is I don't think a lot of people realize. So I don't know I just feel like assassin is better in general and it also just got buffed recently on the new patch. And everything else is pretty sound I guess. I'm precision over intelligence as well because I'm a pin helps a lot in set so I'll definitely go for that one. And for skill out of set you want to max Q and take Q level 1, W level 2 and E level 3 pretty standard. You can also take E level 2 but that's only if you're lane against Emile then it can be fine. Also in rare cases you can take E level 1 if you're against Emile where you feel like you don't want to let. Where you can't hit the Q then it can be okay to do but Q is definitely the most common thing to do. And for the starting item you always want to go long sword, restandard and if you lane against an AP you want to build more first item generally or actually just go like hex rinker into Yomuz and if you lane versus an AD you just want to get like Yomuz first item. And for the shoes, the boots. Typically I started running a lot of what are they called? boots of swiftness now since it's very cost efficient and cheap item but you can also go ninja tabai have heavy AD or my threat still. But generally I prefer to go for the boots of swiftness even if they have a lot of CC because I like to build QSS like third item or full fight item on set and then upgrade it as well so don't really need to nasibit that much. And death dance is also a pretty viable buy on set nowadays but I wouldn't go early if anything. I would probably get it last item. Generally you don't want to go blood first as the last item on set it's not the worst but on set right now there's a lot of better options in my opinion. Like I would personally prefer going Mercurial similar in most situations or even like getting a lot domic if there's nothing else to buy but yeah I mean blood first is not bad but generally you'd rather get like a Mercurial similar on your build So with the recent addition of the new item Duskblade it's pretty up your item for set though I'm still not 100% sure when to build it I'll probably build it like third item or fourth maybe because on set there's like so many good items for example I'll probably go like on set Yomu's into like Duskblade or Yomu's into like more of my modiers into Duskblade into like Black Cleaver or something like that there's like I'm still not 100% sure when to build the item but something like an item that has a lot of good stats that you want for assassins Thanks for watching this basic champion guide make sure to check out the rest of the guides over at LowClass.com