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Retro Pip helping you in close range fights by reducing

Being a support is about putting your self damage by 25%. Although the goal isn’t

enemies before yourself in your team’s best to be a long range DPS champion, it is best

interest. Sure, knowing your teammates to stay far enough away as to not take much

stayed alive because of your healing prowess self damage while also reliably hitting the

can feel great for a little bit. However, there enemy.

is going to come a time where you will lust

for your enemies’ blood to be on your hands. Your item choices are actually pretty similar

To satisfy this deep desire, you decide that with this loadout compared to traditional Pip,

you want to play Pip like he once was, like so see above for those. Most importantly

back when you had to destroy gates to (kappa), watch this video in order to

reach the enemy vault (shoutouts to 2015). understand Evil Mojo’s ability to make song. I

A key concept to maximizing damage on hope you enjoy Retro Pip as much as I enjoy

any champion is to always have ammo in the Pip Chicken song! Best of luck in the

your clip. Time that you’re using to reload Realm with your Fennec Fox friend!

is time you could be using to shoot people, By Jacob Russell

and I’ve never met someone who likes

downtime in the first person shooters. Guile

III will give you half of your clip (3 ammo) for

every enemy hit by Explosive Flask, which is

normally on an 8 second cooldown. To help

you get fill your ammo clip more often is Side

Tanks II, which will reduce the cooldown of

Explosive Flask by 25% (2 seconds). Another

obvious instance of downtime is when you’re

staring at that respawn timer, itching to get

back in the fray. Acumen III is here to avoid

that, as it gives you 30% lifesteal when you

attack enemies that are slowed by Explosive

Flask. The problem is that the slow on

Explosive Flask only lasts 2.5s, meaning that

you have a short window to use that precious

lifesteal. Luckily, you’re guaranteed to have

ammo during that time because of Guile III,

and Graviton III increases that window of

lifesteal so that you can stay alive longer to

deal more damage. Lastly, Sturdy I helps you

with the recoil on Pip’s Potion Launcher while

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