Talk:Quinn/@comment-5266525-20130407033815

In the... two... times I played as her during her free week a while back I really enjoyed her. She's similar to Ashe in that she's a very back-to-basics champion without needing many very complex things to be successful with her. That being said, I reasoned that playing her safe was the best way to go seeing as she has two disengage mechanisms and a strong deterrent against enemy autoattackers.

Things I intuitively did as her in those two matches (and probably still would do now):


 * Did not use Q to harass in lane. I focused on using it to farm.


 * Did not use Vault offensively unless it was a killing attempt.


 * Did not go out of my way to set off Harrier on enemy champions if they get targeted. If they make themselves vulnerable, sure, shoot him, but it's not an excuse to go pants-on-head stupid with murder frenzy on them.


 * Used E either to scout the lane brush to prevent facechecking ambushes or periodically after a champion was declared missing in another lane to watch for ganks, provided there were no wards available.


 * Used ult for three things - to escape a sticky situation, particularly if I have advance warning of enemy approach, to catch up to a fleeing opponent who is still some ways away to let the passive kick in or to duel another champion (between Val's massive attack speed boost, 1.5 second blind and a gapcloser with a huge slow attached it's ridiculously hard to beat her in a 1v1 midgame onwards). I do not consider her ult her teamfighting form in any way whatsoever. I'm amazed people could even think of it in that way.


 * I did not use her ult for the execute. Ever. It is clunky and hard to justify using over just bashing them to pieces with Valor in the first place.


 * Handled teamfights basically the same as any other AD carry - stood outside the fray of it and shot the most valuable target I could. I couldn't've cared less if that was the tank or not. I DEFINITELY did not blow Vault and Blinding Assault at the beginning of the fight just to get some extra inconsequential damage. If a bruiser managed to get in my face somehow THEN I would use Vault and get some distance between us. If that still didn't work, then I blasted his face in with Q and tried to facetank his damage while shooting him.

In both cases my team lost, but also in both cases I had a positive K/D/A ratio, so I must have been doing something right. She might honestly be one of my favourite AD carries, though I hope I can buy her at some point in the near future so I can codify that.