New Player Builds/DandTayj

# Dandra/Ta'yji

## Retainer and Vessel

### Summary

By leaning into her healing, Dandra can be a formidable supporting force in her team using a utility Vessel such as Ta'yji.

### Roles

Healer - Uses spells to heal themself and allies.

Support - Focuses on utility items to help their team.

Dispel - Can dismiss buffs and debuffs.

Nuker - Has the capacity to deal bursts of damage as area of effect.

## Pros and Cons

### Pros

* Strong against Junglers with early game vision
* Innate sustain with Blood Crystal Collector means more healing for Dandra's lane partner.
* Strong base healing allows for flexibility into non-scaling options when desired.
* Natural and Physical Dispels

### Cons

* Low damage means relying on the team to supplement damage
* No innate CC means focusing on items to make the difference
* Ultimate is a channeled effect, and thus susceptible to disruption
* Extraordinarily mana-hungry if not careful

## Ability max priority

  Dandra E

## Talents

### Capstones

Benevolence grants a hearty resistance bonus to allies who receive Dandra's healing, which is especially helpful for helping them survive burst damage.

Pacifists Blessing grants stacking  Ethereal Power when not last-hitting. This is especially powerful when forgoing farm for even more healing, but risky due to Dandra's tendency to accidentally damage enemies with Thirsty Thorns and her Bleeds.

## Items

### Starting Items

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Boots are cheap- allowing for more consumables such as Summoner Scrolls, Cleansing Potions, Wards or even Healing Potions for a particularly difficult match-up. In addition, extra movement speed can help Dandra catch up to (or escape from) an enemy during an early skirmish.

 **River Charm**

River Charm gives a considerable increase to  Health Regeneration, and allows a larger budget for active items that can be shared to a lane partner. This is especially useful for when a laning partner gets a stacking item or a dead-end item to start.

 **Seed of the World Tree**

The Seed of the World Tree is helpful both because it grants a massive amount of   Resource  as the Branch of the World Tree and because of its potent active, Blessing of the World Tree.

 **The First Coin**

The First Coin is great for a duo lane, and builds into The First Bribe. The First Bribe refunds gold when using active items, which helps for maintaining utility.

### Early-game Items

 **Soul of Gold**

Soul of Gold increases gold generation by a respectable amount, which can supplement purchases of active items throughout the game. Its extra  Health Regeneration is also helpful for increasing Dandra's survivability.

### Mid-game Items

 **Springwater Staff**

Springwater Staff grants a modest  Ethereal Power bonus, with plenty of  Resource Regeneration and  Cooldown Reduction to supplement more casts of Life Shaping. Compared to Springwater Medallion, which trades  Ethereal Power and  Resource Regeneration for   Resource  and more  Cooldown Reduction, the Staff is much better for Dandra's constant stream of healing.

 **The First Bribe**

Although the additional stats are less than ideal- save for the  Cooldown Reduction- for scaling, the gold refunded by Bribe's passive is helpful for maintaining a budget during later phases of the game.

### Team Utility Items

 **Depiction of Nature and Society**

Depiction of Nature and Society has a respectable amount of  Ethereal Power and  Cooldown Reduction, but its most potent utility is in Illustrated Nature, which grants healing in an area.

 **The Morning Star**

The Morning Star Light of the Morning, which grants area of effect healing to allies based on the amount of damage the Star takes.

 **Steelvine Armaments**

Steelvine Armaments are a strong defensive option, granting  Armor and unlocking Steelvine Protection, which grants a damage shield to nearby allies. The strength of the shield is complemented by Dandra's passive, which grants bonus  Health Regeneration.

 **Branch of the World Tree**

If Seed of the World Tree was purchased early, the utility of Blessing of the World Tree can assist Rage users before a fight, or Energy users during an extended fight.

### Enemy Counters

 **Trapper's Toolkit**

Trapper's Toolkit provides a variety of traps that can limit enemy movement by creating zones of hazard. In addition, traps can be placed mid-combat to disrupt enemy coordination.

 **Bell of Dancing Shadows**

The Bell of Dancing Shadows can shut down enemy CC chains or DoTs using Dancing Shadow.

### Consumables

 **Health Potion**

Helpful for early game sustain, but eventually Dandra can nigh forgo healing herself due to her passive, and focus on aiding her teammates instead.

 **Cleansing Potion**

Great for dismissing either Ethereal debuffs or large chains of debuffs affecting an ally.

 **Sight Ward**

Helps with maintaining vision, especially if the enemy has a roamer.

 **Watcher's Ward**

Can be used to deny enemy vision, as well as detecting stealthed enemies, such as Synestra.