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Arcane Comet
Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a comet at their location, or, if Arcane Comet is on cooldown, reduces its remaining cooldown.
Adaptive Damage : 30 - 130 based on level (+0.05 AP and+0.1 bonus AD )
Cooldown: 20 - 8s
Cooldown Reduction:
Single Target: 20%.
Area of Effect: 10%.
Damage over Time: 5%.Why?
Comet's empowered poke damage is excellent in the early lane where you're able to land [E] and [Q] damage consistently.
Manaflow Band
Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana.
After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.
Cooldown: 15 secondsWhy?
Manaflow band massively helps your early to mid game mana sustain to keep your poke and harass damage relevant.
Absolute Focus
While above 70% health, gain an
adaptive bonus of up to 18 Attack Damage or 30 Ability Power (based on level).
Grants 1.8 Attack Damage or 3 Ability Power at level 1.Why?
Aboslute Focus's bonus AP is especially strong in lane when you're able to stay back and harass with abilities.
Scorch
Your next damaging ability hit sets champions on fire dealing 20 - 40 bonus magic damage based on level after 1s.
Cooldown: 10sWhy?
Scorch's early game damage sets you up for lane dominance and the opportunity for early kills.
Triple Tonic
Upon reaching level 3, gain an Elixir of Avarice.
Upon reaching level 6, gain an Elixir of Force.
Upon reaching level 9, gain an Elixir of Skill.Why?
Perfect Timing allows you to quickly and easily build Zhonya's for that teamfight winning [R] engage.
Cosmic Insight
+
18 Summoner Spell Haste
+10 Item HasteWhy?
Cosmic Insight's general utility is great for offensive damage as well as keeping your Flash on a lower cooldown for a winning [R].
Tricky tricky!
Electrocute
Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities within 3s deals bonus
adaptive damage .
Damage: 70 - 240 (+0.1 bonus AD, +0.05 AP) damage.
Cooldown: 20s
'We called them the Thunderlords, for to speak of their lightning was to invite disaster.'Why?
Electrocute's burst damage synergizes well with Neeko's trade pattern of [E]->[Q]->auto to set you up for major damage.
Taste of Blood
Heal when you damage an enemy champion.
Healing: 16-40 (+0.1 bonus AD, +0.05 AP) health (based on level)
Cooldown: 20sWhy?
Taste of Blood's lane sustain power is especially important when making early trades before you hit 6 for kill pressure.
Grisly Mementos
Collect 1 memento on champion
takedowns , up to 18 total.
Gain 6 Trinket Haste for each collected. In game modes where vision Trinkets do not exist, instead gain 3 Summoner Spell Haste.Why?
Grisly Mementoss snowball stacking nature is great for taking advantage of early kills and assists.
Ultimate Hunter
Your ultimate gains
6 Ability Haste, plus an additional5 Ability Haste per Bounty Hunter stack. Bounty Hunter stacks are earned the first time you get a takedown on each enemy champion.Why?
Neeko's devastating [R] has the potentially to single handedly win a teamfight. Keeping it on a low cooldown opens you up for more opportunities.
Manaflow Band
Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana.
After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.
Cooldown: 15 secondsWhy?
Manaflow Band is your primary source of mana regen during lane phase so you can keep you poke active.
Gathering Storm
Every 10 min gain AP or AD,
adaptive .
10 min: + 8 AP or 5 AD
20 min: + 24 AP or 14 AD
30 min: + 48 AP or 29 AD
40 min: + 80 AP or 48 AD
50 min: + 120 AP or 72 AD
60 min: + 168 AP or 101 AD
etc...Why?
Neeko's high AP ratios makes Gathering storm a great rune for carry 30+ minute games with a well-timed [R].