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How to Play as Quillen

Quillen’s Stats and Abilities

Core Items

These items are necessary in order to play Quillen optimally. Only diverge from a core item if you are a very experienced player or you have a very good reason for doing so.

Soulreaver	As an assassin, Quillen is best suited to the jungle. As such, he will need a jungling weapon to minimise his clear times. Soulreaver is the no-brainer choice for him, the additional attack damage a huge plus and the on-engagement damage passive allowing for easier early kills.
Claves Sancti	Though Quillen always crits from the back, it doesn’t mean much when the damage is only 125% (a normal crit for other heroes is 200%). Claves Sancti is a quick and easy remedy for that, providing 62.5% critical damage (50% from the passive and 12.5% from the crit chance) to bring him up to a reasonable 187.5%. The 90 AD it provides is also very welcome.

Optional Items

Rankbreaker	Quillen can make use of everything that Rankbreaker offers. The armor pierce is great for cutting right to enemies’ health, the attack bonus is always welcome, and the out-of-combat movement speed will help him move between lanes faster. Because Quillen usually doesn’t want to waste his time with tanky heroes anyway, building Rankbreaker late can be a reasonable choice.
Omni Arms	Mutilate somewhat surprisingly acts as both an ability and attack when it comes to Elemental Power (without using another ability, the first strike of Mutilate will proc it), so it would be a waste to not build either Omni Arms or Frost Cape. All of the other stats on Omni Arms are useful on Quillen, so Omni Arms is the preferred choice.
Fenrir’s Tooth	Needing to ensure his target’s death in order to refresh his abilities, Quillen loves Fenrir’s Tooth. The damage to low health targets will help him finish them off and move on to the next victim.
Muramasa	Muramasa is an assassin’s answer to armor stacking. The more armor that an opponent has, the more effective the weapon is – though Quillen typically has enough damage that he can kill squishies with Muramasa and without Rankbreaker. The added cooldown reduction is a nice bonus as well.
Fafnir’s Talon	Fafnir’s Talon may seem like an odd choice until you consider that Mutilate procs the Dragon’s Breath passive – twice. Against HP-stacking heroes, this is your answer, as you’ll rip through their HP whether you’re positioned in front or behind.

Boots Upgrade

Gilded Greaves	Nothing stops an assassin’s rhythm like stuns or slows. Gilded Greaves helps to lessen their impact on the wearer, allowing them to get back to jolly murder as soon as possible. This can be the difference between glorious victory and embarrassing defeat for Quillen, so should be highly prioritized.
Sonic Boots	Perhaps the enemy team isn’t so heavy on crowd control. Perhaps instead they have a bunch of physical damage dealers with death in their eyes. Sonic Boots can take some of the edge off of their attacks through armor and damage reduction, allowing for happier times to the otherwise squishy Quillen.
Flashy Boots	Flashy Boots will allow Quillen to cast his abilities more regularly by reducing their cooldowns. This can be a huge boost to his lethality with how reliant the assassin is on his abilities.

Sample Item Builds

Silent Assassin

Soulreaver	Gilded Greaves	Claves Sancti	Omni Arms	Muramasa	Fenrir’s Tooth

This is about as lethal as it gets, and you should be killing squishies pretty easily by the time Claves Sancti is finished. Fenrir’s Tooth is a bit of a crutch if you want to take out beefier warriors or even tanks, though Blade of Eternity can be substituted in for those who want to hedge their bets.

Tank Buster

Soulreaver	Gilded Greaves	Claves Sancti	Fafnir’s Talon	Muramasa	Fenrir’s Tooth

For those times when you really want to kill the entire team and not just the squishies. Though it’s only one item change, the difference between Fafnir’s Talon and Omni Arms is pretty vast when it comes to who you’re targeting. The passive on Fafnir’s Talon does very little to squishies (though you can still kill them), but it will rip apart tanks provided you can stick around for a couple seconds.

Lane Quillen

Claves Sancti	Gilded Greaves	Omni Arms	Muramasa	Blade of Eternity	Fenrir’s Tooth

Sometimes there’s a dummy on your team who sees your Quillen and stubbornly wants to jungle anyway. In that case, we make do with this build. Claves Sancti is so important to Quillen that we forego Rankbreaker to build it first, then make our way down the build like normal. Blade of Eternity will provide tons of damage due to its passive, so it fits snugly into the build. Fenrir’s is last simply because it’s so expensive, but you can build it before Blade of Eternity if you so choose.

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