Lissandra is a powerful and consistent mid-lane champion who can mesh with many different team compositions. She is mostly distinguished by her high degree of CC and the safety her ult provides. Here is the build that will help you excel with this champion!
Best Lissandra Items
Malignance
A great first buy on Lissandra is Malignance. This item will give us plenty of early mana, which will allow us to poke and trade more consistently. A great perk of this item is that it will grant us great bonus damage on our ultimate. The damage will come from its passive “hatefog” ; hate fog is an area of damage circle that will be created each time we use our ultimate.
Shadowflame
A great second item for Lissandra will be Shadoflame. The item has one of the greatest AP ratios out of all items in the game, which will significantly help our trading. Shadowflame will also give us a 20% damage increase on abilities when attacking enemies below 40% HP. This increase is especially powerful on Lissandra, as pretty much all of her damage comes through abilities.
Zhonya’s Hourglass
Another fantastic item for Lissandra is the Zhonya’s Hourglass. The item is primarily bought for its “Statis” passive. The passive will freeze us, making us unable to move or cast anything, but it will also make us untargetable during its duration. This passive is incredibly powerful as it will give us safety after engages that get us too close to the enemies. Using the passive is beneficial when we want to create time for our allies to come and save us, or when we want to get extra time to refresh our escape cooldowns.
Rabbadon’s Deathcap
The next must buy item for Lissandra is Rabbadon’s Deathcap. This item is the official highest AP ratios item in the game. It will grant us 130 flat AP, as well as a 30% bonus AP boost on our total AP. The purchase is a must, since it will increase the value of all our previously bought items due to its total AP increase. Building this item will mark a major milestone in our build, which will allow us to have much easier time fighting enemies.
Void Staff
As is the case with most builds including the Deathcap, the last item we will be building is Void Staff. The item will give us 40% magic penetration, which is the most penetration any item in the game will give us. This is a major increase since it will, well, pretty much cancel out 40% of the enemy’s magic penetration. The item can even be bought earlier in the game, depending on the amount of magic pen our enemies will be building.
Boots
Sorcerer’s Shoes are pretty much the go-to for this build. All the other boots will give us some minor things that won’t have that much utility on Lissandra, while Sorc’s will give us a pretty nice amount of magic pen.
Best Lissandra Runes
- Electrocute
- Cheap Shot
- Eyeball Collection
- Ultimate Hunter
- Manaflow Band
- Transcendence
Final Thoughts
Lissandra is one of the greatest mid-lane picks in League of Legends. She is not extremely hard to play, but a good Lissandra can pull off some sick moves. The champ also has very nice safety mechanisms as well as really great offensive ones. All in all it’s one of the picks that every midlaner should consider, and she is best played full AP.