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Skill usage
Poison Trail is very effective for farming and harassing, allowing 
Singed to dominate the lane he's in. Waiting for minions to die against the tower, then gassing the opposing minions as they advance is a simple, yet effective strategy for farming lanes, and keeping enemies far away.- When facing melee champions you are capable of zone controlling them by gassing the area nearby your own minions so their farming capabilities are hindered severely.
- When gassing the area do not run in a straight line if enemies are chasing you. Try to run in a serpentine like pattern so they will at least get poisoned once.
Mega Adhesive is one of the best slows in the game, and Rank 1 should be chosen at least before level 5. The upper ranks simply increase the amount of slow, so that is usually best to leave to mid- to late- game. 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.
- For even better results, toggle on Poison Trail to reduce mobility and possibly gain a few ticks of damage from poison while your opponent is stuck in the Mega Adhesive Pool
- Fling is your most versatile ability and can be used to toss enemies into your tower, isolate them from their teammates to set up an allied ambush, and save lives by tossing enemies away from weak or fleeing allies. It can also interrupt channeled 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 for an ultimate, so don't worry about wasting it to run away from a gank gone wrong.
- Singed is very susceptible to ranged harassment early game, so if laning against ranged-DPS, take it easy for the first few minutes. Once you hit level 6 and have leveled up your , start pulling off your Ghost- Poison Trail- Fling- Ignite combo.
- Using Fling to throw an enemy into your Poison Trail is a very simple but effective harrassment combo.
- Although not a caster in the true sense, Singed benefits greatly from magic penetration runes to make sure your opponents get a full dose of your 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.
Build usage
- Empowered Bulwark is very helpful when building a lot of mana.
- If you are finding yourself running out of mana quickly during laning, buying a Chalice of Harmony could help, as well as providing MR.
- Because Singed's gameplay is so dependent on location, Boots of Speed should be one of your first major item purchases. However, the next stage of boots is best determined by the abilities present on the other team.
- One of the best advanced items for early-to-mid-game Singed is Catalyst the Protector. Grabbing the Sapphire Crystal first also gives Singed an early 50 health due to Singed's Innate, and alleviates early mana problems. This can then build offensively into an early Rod of Ages, the cheapest HP & AP source if purchased early , or defensively into an even cheaper Banshee's Veil.
- 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 gives Singed a total of 812 extra HP when maxed.
- When playing utility Singed, CDR is possibly the most effective stat to stack as it allows you to Fling, Mega Adhesive, and pop Insanity Potion more often. A utility Singed's focus is on surviving and disrupting as often and effectively as possible. Frozen Heart (by itself for a disruption/utility) or Randuin's Omen (if a Tank-like build with items such as Sunfire Cape and Force of Nature) are either very good items to have.
- Rylai's Crystal Scepter procs on Poison Trail with 15% slow, useful for hindering enemies while fleeing. The full effect (35%) is applied to Fling, but the animation time consumes most of the duration.
- Get Lich Bane to buff Movement Speed and Ability Power to make Fling much more powerful if you choose to build AP Singed. A harrassment/tank Singed would probably pick up a Force of Nature early on for Hp5, MR, and added movement speed, although it doesn't give Singed any health.
- A single Zhonya's Hourglass provides a significant AP boost as well as defensive CD for any build of Singed.
- Getting Tear of the Goddess Early to mid game can net you a nice mana upkeep, using this in conjunction with Chalice of Harmony gives you the ability to keep up Poison Trail nearly indefinitely, it also gives you 1 extra health per spellcast due to Empowered Bulwark. Do note that turning Poison Trail on and off does not add stacks.
- Going with an early Philosopher's Stone can help overcome the mana-cost of Singed's abilities. As he is an excellent farmer, the gold per time is just extra icing on the delicious farming-cake Singed already has access to. Late game, this can be turned into a Shurelya's Reverie for a boost to his mp/5 and hp/5, as well as adding flat hp bonus. Finally, enemies often do not expect the AoE speed-boost from the Shurelya's Reverie. Remember to use this defensively as well as offensively, as any nearby teammates will benefit from it as well.
- When planning a gank on someone with a Banshee's Veil , ask a teammate with a spammable ability to remove it before you attack.
Recommended builds
Countering
- A champion with Banshee's Veil greatly reduces Singed's effectiveness. The counterspell makes them effectively Fling-proof, an important quality as Singed can take a solo laner with a Ghost- Poison Trail- Fling- Ignite combo very quickly, as he can simply appear through a wall of minions.
- Singed's threatening abilities are location-based, so harassment is doubly effective if it involves a slow, such as Wither or Lucent Singularity.
- Singed has no baseline health or mana regen abilities, allowing fairly easy harassment by ranged champions. His Poison Trail is fairly weak against players early game, but doesn't stop him from being excellent at lane-control. Because Poison Trail is a toggle, players new to Singed may forget to turn it off, draining mana quickly.
- Do not chase Singed. He has great mobility with his ult and has a great escape ability in his Mega Adhesive. Poison will cause significant damage to people who continue chasing Singed and may even turn the tide for Singed allowing him to turn around and pick up an easy kill.
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