Singed/Strategy

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Skill usage

• Poison Trail is very effective for farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate his lane. Poisoning the opposing minions as they advance is an effective strategy for farming lanes.
  • A good strategy for farming is to push your minions to the enemy turret, then run past it to poison the next wave as it comes. However, this puts you behind the enemy tower, so be wary of ganks.
• When facing melee champions, you are capable of zoning them by poisoning the area near your own minions so their farming capabilities are hindered severely.
• Turn off Poison Trail when unnecessary as it drains mana quickly.
• Poison Trail goes invisible to opponents when you enter brush. It is also possible to create a very faint poison cloud by quickly double tapping your Poison Trail.
• When poisoning the area while being chased, consider how close the enemies are to you, taking gap closers into account, as well as your health. If you can afford to run in a zig-zag pattern, do so to make sure your opponents will be poisoned at least once.
• Mega Adhesive is one of the best slows in the game, and it should have at least one rank before level 5. The upper ranks simply increase the slows percentage. A well-played Singed can lead a target with the glue, catch up to the target, then Fling him back in to the glue for maximum effect. This may take some practice, as all ranks have only a 5 second duration.
• Fling is your most versatile ability and can be used to toss enemies into your turret, isolate them from their teammates to set up an allied ambush, and save lives by tossing enemies away from weak or fleeing allies. Be sure to use it at the extent of its range, the further you are from a target when you Fling it, the further they will get tossed behind you.
  • Near thin walls, this can be used to throw an enemy across, repositioning them in an unfavorable location.
• Fling can be used to interrupt channeled abilities/ultimates such as Absolute Zero, Infinite Duress, Nether Grasp, or knock away champions with strong non-channeled point-blank AoE like Crowstorm, Slicing Maelstrom and Soul Shackles.
• Insanity Potion is useful for chasing enemies and is a useful asset in any major team battle for its all-round bonuses. It has an incredibly short cooldown considering its bonuses, so don't worry about wasting it to run away from a gank gone wrong. Its short cooldown also means it can be used in lane to simply regenerate mana and hp.
• Using Fling to throw an enemy into your Poison Trail is a very simple but an effective harassment combo.
• Although not a caster in the true sense, Singed benefits greatly from magic penetration runes to make sure your opponents get full damage from Poison Trail. A full caster setup will allow him to deal quite heavy damage with the capability of tanking.
• Consider leveling Mega Adhesive before Fling, as this spell grants you better zone control and CC, granting you high value of 75% slow, instead of Fling, which grants you only 50 bonus damage per level and increases its mana cost.
• Fling must be used wisely when diving a turret, if you are low level and the enemy is on the side of the turret facing your base you can E + W easily to attack, however take into consideration that if you toss the enemy when he moves on the other side of the turret you could possibly land him near to the turret and take lots of damage or land him further into the enemy lane and force your ally/partner to have to walk through the jungle or make his escape easier.
• When you use  Fling, you can autoattack him at the same time. This is done by clicking on the enemy champion while he is in mid-air. The damage of  Singed autoattack can, in early game at least, be just that little bit of damage which forces your opponent to play passive or maybe even recall.
• Singed is one of the only champions who can proxy, which is running behind enemy lines to kill off their minions before they reach the person who's pushing the lane, due to  Poison Trail.  Lissandra can do this with her W and E skills as well.

Build usage

• Building mana as Singed is a good idea because of Empowered Bulwark, it is sometimes more cost effective to buy health directly because 100 gold invested in mana will also give you health worth 33 gold.
• An early  Tear of the Goddess will not only help with mana issues, but will also grant health through  Empowered Bulwark. With  Poison Trail, Tear of the Goddess will constantly accumulate stacks.
  • Note, however, that quickly toggling Poison Trail is the best way to gain stacks, and he will eventually have mana problems (3-5 minutes with a "blank" tear), simply by poisoning as little as possible to farm his lane. Catalyst, overall, provides more mana.
  • Later upgrading to a Archangel's Staff will grant quite a bit of AP. If he manages to gain enough charges he will gain a  Seraph's Embrace, offering up additional durability in the shield.
• Because Singed's gameplay is very dependent on positioning, consider starting with Boots of Speed and picking up other  speed items as you play.
• Rylai's Crystal Scepter is great, slowing enemies by 15% through Poison Trail, and synergizing for an extremely powerful slow with Mega Adhesive.
• One of the better advanced items for early/mid-game is Catalyst the Protector. This can then build offensively into an early Rod of Ages.
  • Rod of Ages is useful to buy as early as possible for any general build. It provides significant mana, HP and AP. By itself it grants Singed a total of 812 extra HP when maxed.
  • ROA is a more consistant item than Seraphs, because the health gained through ROA is always there, whereas seraphs provides a smaller health boost.  With full mana, the shield active it gives will enable you to absorb more damage than you could with ROA.  However, situational use requires use at the proper point in a fight.  So, if you are not used to activating items or often forget, a ROA may be more efficient. 
• Cooldown reduction is probably the most effective stat to build, because it allows you to Fling, apply Mega Adhesive, and pop Insanity Potion more often, an Elixir of Brilliance can help substantially with cooldowns and a nice ability power boost. A utility Singed's focus is on surviving and disrupting as often and effectively as possible. For this, items like Frozen Heart are a great choice.
• An early Ancient Coin can help overcome the mana cost of Singed's abilities. Late game, this can be built into a Talisman of Ascension for additional stats/the movespeed boost. Remember to use it defensively as well as offensively, as nearby teammates will benefit from it as well.
• A Zhonya's Hourglass is a possible item for its armor and ability power.
• Consider a Will of the Ancients on Singed later on, as the AP/spell vamp aura also affects nearby allies. During team fights, the massive amount of poison can heal a deceptively large amount on Singed, and a late-game Fling can also restore a portion of your health. And you can also restore a lot of health when escaping with Poison Trail.
• It is possible (although usually not encouraged) to build somewhat tanky hybrid on Singed using Muramana, Seraph's Embrace, Rod of Ages, Atma's Impaler and Warmog's Armor.
• Lich Bane is a very powerful item to increase  Singed's burst damage. It allows you to deal some extra damage with your guaranteed auto attack after  flinging the enemy backwards. On top of that, the extra movement speed will synergize with the flat movement speed buff from  Insanity Potion and the mana will give some health with  Empowered Bulwark.

Recommended builds

Countering

• Singed can be zoned early game to prevent him from becoming farmed. His Poison Trail is fairly weak against players early game, but doesn't stop him from being excellent at lane-control.
• It is often not best to chase Singed. He has great mobility with Insanity Potion and a great escape ability with Mega Adhesive.
  • Keep in mind that while chasing Singed, Poison Trail will slowly drain your health away while Insanity Potion will regenerate his health back and due to its long duration, Singed can run back and deal the finishing blow on you with Fling.
• Singed's threatening abilities are position-based, so harassment is doubly effective if it involves a slow, such as Wither or Lucent Singularity.
• Singed has to be very close to your team to do damage, so ranged champions are effective at taking him out. However, be wary of his Fling as it will easily pull you into danger.
  • Buying a Banshee's Veil will make Singed think twice before using his Fling on you as it is his only single-targeted spell that breaks the spell shield.
  • Buying a  Frozen Mallet on a ranged champion can reduce the risk an enemy  Singed poses to the team, the slow can severely hamper the effect of  Singed due to his reliance on mobility.

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