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Set Up King

Against the Grain

By Jacob Russell

YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT AGAINST THE GRAIN IS BY NOW, IT’S WHERE WE GET CRAZY AND

FLIP EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT A SPECIFIC CHAMPION ON ITS HEAD AND STILL WRECK

NOOBS! After starting this series with a Frontliner and a Healer, we now move to the role

your random teammates love to instalock: Damage! People instalock damage champions be-

cause they love to watch the enemy health bars go down quicker than your self-esteem after

missing a Cassie ult (It can’t miss, that’s why it is sad). Bomb King is no exception, as anyone

who has played Paladins has gotten one-shot by him and questioned the meaning of life af-

terwards. My goal, though, is to change up Bomb King to where he focuses less on one-shot-

ting and more on setting up kills for his squad! As a new addition to this series, we are includ-

ing the “Most Popular” loadout according to http://paladins.guru/builds.

Most Popular Bomb King King’s kit is centered around AoE damage,

The consensus among our community is that it is important not to get caught in your own

a Bomb King loadout should be centered barrage, or “shooting yourself in the foot”, as

around hitting your basic attacks, Sticky the saying goes. Writing that sentence made

Bombs, while keeping distance from your me think of this CS:GO highlight that is com-

opponents using your Poppy Bomb. If you had pletely unrelated, but it does reinforce my

to describe this “Most Popular” loadout with previous point: Link. So, Bomb Shelter I re-

one word, it would be “safety.” Since Bomb duces the damage you take from your Sticky
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