Unlocking Lillia’s Haiku – a quick guide

Lillia is going to be next skirmisher-type jungler in the Rift. Today’s post is a small guide on how to get Lillia’s Haiku, an item that saves you 7800 BE and unlocks the champion for you on the next patch.

But who is Lillia? Well,… I don’t really know too much about her. She’s a magical fawn that is shy, clumsy and self-conscious who is currently exploring the outside world after only ever seeing it through the dreams of others. She develops over time, steadily improving and eventually becoming one of the bravest champions that Riot ever made. Essentially, she’s got a lot of personality to her. Her spells revolve around her ability to see other people’s dreams.

Using her damaging spells, she’s able to apply Dream Dust to her enemies, damaging them for a percentage of their maximum health over time. Her spells essentially deal a lot of damage, provide her with a small movement speed bonus or they slow the enemy, with her ultimate putting everyone who’s affected by Dream Dust to sleep after a short while, enhancing the damage of the next damaging ability they get targeted with.

There are parts of her kit that I’m worried about but for the sake of owning every champion AND saving Blue Essence for the Blue Essence Emporium, I ventured into Bot Games to unlock Lillia’s Haiku.

What exactly do we have to do?

Well, first up: As a Jungler you need 350 Kills in matchmade games. As easy as that.

“Matchmade Games” are games that have other players in there that are not custom games. I guess that you could play the game with friends against the Beginner A.I. but I found that the best possible way is to just instantly lock in Master Yi while all alone in the Beginner Bot Games and to then farm up some early kills and jungle camps until you later can kill everyone in the enemy base.

Important note: To count as a Jungler you need the Smite Summoner Spell! As far as I know, you don’t need to jungle, but I feel like it’s easier to do if there is only one Jungler per Game – and that’s the case in Bot Games… After all, it’s just the Beginner Bots, right?

My Loadout for this game consists of the following runes:

Primary Tree:

Dark Harvest:
Essentially is easily stackable and provides you with one shot ability once you got 20+ kills. Late Game you’ll only need three auto-attacks to get rid of the enemy and also add another +5 damage to the ability – that paired with the fact that you have a 1.5-second cooldown on it after every kill… that’s essentially why I take it.

Sudden Impact:
It gets triggered every time you use your Q ability and essentially adds a little bit of damage. It’s not much but personally, I’d say that the other choices are just not worth it.

Eyeball Collection:
You will kill a lot of people. If possible 350 enemies in one game. Alas, you’re going to stack this quite rapidly. The other options would work, too, but since you’re not going to ward in a Bot Game (especially against the Beginner Bots), you’re not going to make use of these all that well. You gain a total of 18 AD after ten kills, so naturally, this is the best choice here.

Relentless Hunter:
My recommendation would be Relentless Hunter to move around the map faster and get to the different kills faster early on and to different camps faster when you’re still not equipped with enough items. You won’t need the other runes’ benefits.

Secondary Tree:

You can either go for Celerity and Water Walking (Sorcery Tree) to move around quicker… or you go for Triumph and Legend: Alacrity. Triumph awards you with a bit more healing after every takedown as well as more gold (20 per Kill – at 50 Kills that’s 1000 extra gold for free). Alacrity works well with your attack speed and the items that you build. Otherwise, you could also go for Coup de Grace to deal 8% more damage to champions that have less than 40% health. This works wonderfully well with your Dark Harvest as it’s going to just burst enemies away below 40% heath while harvesting more stacks.

As far as items go:

You build as much attack speed as possible and eventually can outheal and outdamage anyone while resetting tower-aggro in the enemy base and just bursting through the Enemies one after one. Everything with on-hit effects is great on Master Yi. Bloodrazor is a great and cheap first item that grants you bonus damage and lots of attack speed. Wit’s End also adds more on-hit damage, attack speed, some not-needed resistances as well as (quite important) Healing when you’re low. Essence Reaver grants you AD, CDR and Crit Chance (that works with your Q) but also grants you mana-recovery on your auto attacks, resulting in essentially infinite sustain. Just go into the enemy base with these three items and try to not fall asleep while right-clicking enemies.

Why would you play Master Yi over any other jungle champion?
Well, you can play Master Yi with one hand and one hand only while reading Manga on your phone and you still perform quite well. This is not meant as some form of BM or whatever but Master Yi isn’t the hardest champion. You can dodge spells, CC and even tower shots with your Q while resetting tower-aggro. Your W grants you damage reduction and healing while your E just adds bonus true damage on your auto attacks for free. Your ultimate is just another stat boost and grants you more movement speed and attack speed… the more attacks you get out, the faster you can Q again.

And you’re also a late-game hyper carry who doesn’t get punished early on because it’s literally Beginner Bots that you’re fighting against. Just farm your jungle, some enemy champions, and the enemy jungle and you get your three first items. Then you kill the enemies in their base and reset their gold value by occasionally giving kills to them. That way you also are able to go to your own base in the fastest way possible and buy more items.

And after you get a total of 350 Kills this way, you’ll be awarded Lillia’s Haiku which grants you access to Lillia on the 22nd of July (in 11 days) when Patch 10.15 drops. Games don’t usually tend to take too long if you do it like this. Since there are no enemy champions pushing the lanes, your team is coming to the enemy base quite fast and at some point, they’ll also try to farm kills. Since we’re min-maxing here, we usually end the game after 20 minutes unless we’re able to grind a lot more kills like in this 24-minute game where I got 90 kills in total.

After 10.15, you won’t be able to get Lillia’s Haiku and you’ll have to buy the champion using RP or BE, though she’s going to be picked or banned anyway based on her kit that is rather strong from what it looks like.