Cypher Draven

Gameplan:

With Cypher you generate Intel by winnng or Losing. You get more Intel from Losing especially from consecutive losses. At 3-3, 3-7, 4-3, 4-7 or 5-5 you can cashout your Intel. The higher the Intel the better the cashout.

If you do NOT have an good opener you can streak with and you get dropped Draven or Galio from the Orb you should be considering playing Cypher. Everytime you start to losestreak you should be holding Cypher Units. The cashout no matter how low or how high it is it will help you to cap out any Board even higher. Certain Augments like Patient Virtue, Good for Something or Calculated Loss will help you to spike even more.

You want to have pick prio on caroussel because you can hit Cypher Units from the Caroussel on 2-4 or 3-5. Always scout enemys to understand enemy board strength to understand when you need to position or remove Items from your Units. If you see other players going for losestreak you can put your Ranged Units in Front or corner your Melee. You should always aim to kill as many Enemy Units WITHOUT giving up your Losestreak. You can also slam Items late into the figh to kill 1 or even 2 Units. You want to use Focus Fire to kill 1-2 Units every fight. You scout to know where you want your Units to be to target the weakest enemy Frontline-Unit. This Skill is super important to play Cypher effectiv. SCOUT, SCOUT, SCOUT. Most of the time dont Level, try to get to 50gold as fast as possible. When your playing around Draven3 and Galio3 you want to slowroll on 7 til you have atleast 2 Lives (~16hp). Zed2 needs to be itemized aswell since his spell works well with Dravens. Both can hit backline. You most of the time cashout at 3-7 but when your not pivoting away from Cypher you can cashout on 4-2 if you have enough lives. (for example with Titanic Titan). You can also roll your gold on 4-1 to win/lose and cashout at 4-3.The 290 cashout is easy to hit and can offer an Radiant Item which makes it a very strong cashout. The 250 Intel breakpoint can offer 4 duplicator which is good for reroll but it might be a to weak cashout to winout even when hitting Draven3 and Galio3 in some high resource Lobbys. You can pivot into other Reroll comps with the 250 cashout too. Usually you want to have higher cashouts than 290 to stay in Cypher. For example A.M.P can still beat 290 cashouts with you not having 3* 3 Costs. Many cashouts are designed to play Vertical Cypher which got buffed 2x already. Cashout 450, 500, 550 and 600 Intel are very strong in Vertical Cypher. You can also pivot with Cypher into many strong Comps. You want to pivot into comps which are Strong in Stage 4 and can cap high with 5 Costs units. You can use Cypher to play into Rapidfire Renekton if you hit an Rapidfire Emblem from the Cypher cashout 250. Your winouts are always Draven3 & Galio 3* or LeBlanc3 with Galio3.

One of the best Comps to play into with Cypher are 6 Rapidfire Renekton, AMP Annie, Vexotech or Vertical Cypher.

Draven wants AD Caster Items Shojin for Manaregeneration, Infinity Edge for Abilitycrit and Last-Whisper for Armorpen which helps Zed too. Zed wants also IE, Hand of Justice and Bloodthirster which means you need many Swords and Gloves. Cypher alone provides alot AD.

Positioning is important, you want Zed to target the enemy backliner this means you want him to be in A3 or A5 since he jumps 4 hexes. Draven wants to be opposite side of the enemy carrys. You want him to target the same enemys with his Ulti aswell as Zed. Sejuani does an AOE stun. She wants to be same side as Enemy carry to be able to stun them (A2 or A6).

Component Prio: BF, Crit, Bow.

Encounter:

Triple Gold Tier Encounter is great for Cypher since it has many good Gold Augments like Calculated Loss, Spirit Link, Forward Thinking, Heroic Grab Bag or Last Stand for example. Since you want Draven, Galio and Zed itemized Component Anvil or Scuddle Puddle/Crab Rave are good too. Reroll Subscription helps you to 3* Galio & Draven, (LeBlanc) while it also allows you to roll for Cypher units for higher Intel early to midgame without losing eco.

Augment:

Losestreak Augments which help you to generate more gold/XP or Combat Augments which makes your Board later stronger are good. Augments which increase your Tactians Health like Titanic,Tiniest Titan or Upward Mobility are fine too.

You can use Forward Thinking at Level 7 or Rigged Shop to roll for Draven3 & Galio3.

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