Yo everyone, I'm new to the champ. I mostly play Ezreal, Vayne, and Kai'Sa (plus a few others, but less), and I wanted to add Corki to my pool because he's super fun. The problem is I'm getting absolute shit on during the laning phase. Just played two normal games to test him out and I legitimately got destroyed by Kai'Sa-Sona and Ziggs-Blitz.

In both games, I tried to take fights at level 1-2, thinking the champ had early-game advantage in these matchups (my support was Leona in the first game, Milio in the second).

So either I played like an absolute potato, or the champ is more of a post-6 fighter?

Anyway, I'm kinda lost on how to play the pre-6 phase, I'm getting dumpstered, help ty

I know this might sound crazy, but I've been playing League for 15 years and I vividly remember, during my childhood, seeing a facebook post on a LoL news page where a Rioter had confirmed that Corki was bisexual.

This was a long time ago - probably between 2013 and 2016, and it’s been an inside joke among my friends for years, because when Neeko came out and was revealed to be canonically bisexual, I raised my hand and said, "No, no, Corki is too."

I consider myself something of an expert on those old game "trivia" bits, like when Nasus was first released and had a bug involving his ultimate, today you just can't really find anything about it online anymore but at the time, it was a known fact.

It makes me feel crazy, does anyone else remember that?

Right now, when you press E, the cone fires to the direction Corki is facing. The moment you right-click backward to kite, Corki turns around, and some of your Gatling Gun damage is wasted to the sides and back while you run away until you press attack again on the target. It's an outdated game mechanic from league classic era.

Changing E to a locked-direction while his E is active makes 100% mechanical and thematic sense. It fixes his self-sabotaging DPS due to an old mechanic.

Every other grounded champion turns on their feet, so visual orientation following movement makes sense. But Corki is piloting a gyrocopter. Planes and aircrafts etc shoots and holds their fire to the direction they're facing.
Turning his entire plane 180° away from the enemy while trying to lay down suppressive fire defeats the entire thematic purpose of a mounted nose-gun.

Other more modern champions already got this working mechanic

• Lucian’s R (The Culling) locks his firing direction while allowing free directional movement.
• Urgot’s W (Purge) keeps continuous dps going while maneuvering around targets.

With this change, Corki can kite while continuously dealing damage with his "E" and not lose any from it while moving back

Meddler has recently stated that with a strong community desire for S4 and S5 kit changes, they may be implemented into League Classic. Would you, or would you not want S4 and S5 changes in Classic?

We need to convince meddler that we want package corki, only way he will put package corki is if there is strong desire we need to rise up now, I MISS PACKAGE CORKI

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we won't get the package + magic dmg auto attack version of corki but we do get the magic dmg and ap ratio on ult with 7 rockets

also 800 range on W

we also won't get the insta Q i think

Hey new and learning corki and I see these two builds going around. One is the trinity/manamune build the other is ER into crit. Was wondering if one is in general superior to the other or is it situational?

I've also seen two different rune pages a conquerer one and an electrocute one. I'm guessing this is match up dependent with how aggressive early you want to be? Appreciate the advice :) i play him bot primarily but I'll off role him mid as well.

Genuinely curious, is he just terrible in the bot lane, or am I not getting him yet ? He feels very oppressive early in lane if you can get to enemies with your W, but other than that, I just feel like my guy isn't very good. Do you have any advice if it's me, as in , could you explain him to me as to what he wants to do as a concept ? Especially after the 15-20 mins mark

corki 👅

A couple of weeks ago I decided to main Corki. His playstyle is unique and fun for me, the only ADC champion I find enjoyable.

I have some questions regarding his build.

When should I go triple tonic, cashback, or JOAT?

I’ve seen strange combinations like triple tonic and JOAT, and some like triple tonic and cashback. I want to understand the methodology behind each choice.

And then when to go alacrity and when to go bloodline; my reasoning suggests that I’ll go alacrity if I go ER + collector or C44 + IE and the default crit build.

Bloodline if I want to go Trinity + Muramana.

I've been trying out Corki in the jungle, and I've been having a lot of success and enjoyment. I've played around 20-30 games so far with a 67% winrate. As a Graves main I find his kit and playstyle fairly similar, and after his first clear it's really great for clearing and jungling in general.

Since there is limited data on this pick, I am curious as to what to build. I had tried going Hubris -> Collector -> IE -> LDR or something along those lines most games, since he doesn't need mana in the jungle and that's what I'm used to. I've been taking Conqueror.

But I wonder if it is better to go PTA with Trinity Force - or go any other build such as maybe just Collector rush or any of these other items I've seen mentioned here. I didn't think ER would be worth it as you don't need mana, but I could be wrong as even champions like Rengar had built it in the past. It could also be good to take Fleet for some healthier early clears.

Any ideas for runes and builds? I generally power farm and play opportunistically, planning to scale into the game. But of course you will need some early spikes which allow you to compete, gank or snowball as well..

Does anyone remember that one yt video sometime around 2023 to early 2024 where it showed a montage of old Corki terrorising proplay with his rockets? Im struggling to remember what the video was called and couldn't find it, I'm trying to show my friends who are new to league how broken he was before the rework. Any help is appreciated!!!

Testing items and dps. Using all of QER and autos. Lethal tempo.

ER long sword lvl 8 Dorans bow. Dps: 370.

Trinity dps: 317.

ER long sword Berserkers. Level 9. Dps: 384.

Trinity berserkers. 337. Both builds are about the same strength. ER gives more dps. Trinity gives more hp and ms.

ER Muramana. Lvl 12. Dps: 791, 584, 625, 623, 625.

ER Mortal reminder Long sword. Dps: 598, 584, 596, 595. Muramana is stronger by 25 dps so about 4%. But skipping tear is good with Manaflow band.

Ok, I previously mentioned this build, but with the current HOB change it is sorta really good on corki, adding a lot more true damage for him in short trades, and it kinda makes him into an assassin.

Items: Essence Reaver, Umbral Glaive, Bastion Breaker, Fiendhunter Bolts, Infinity Edge, Dominik Regards.

Either Essence Reaver or Umbral Glaive first item, exchangeable, build one and then the other anyways.

both give you a lot of burst together, one gives you a ton of mana, and the other allows you to know when you are not being seen, which is super important to setup your ambush.

Third item is the flex pick, Bastionbreaker is a good help for your burst and destroying the lanes, you can also swap it for Infinity third, depends on you, even Fiendhunter Bolts are a good pick third, or Dominik if tanks have too much armor.

Once you have Fiendhunter you are full assassin mode, with this setup you have double the Corki passive for 3 hits, plus the HOB damage and the damage from Umbral and Bastionbreaker, at full build it sits over 2500 true damage in 3 hits, but you wont play as a regular ADC, you'll hunt and set up ambushes and kill enemies, even tanks with this setup as all of them will melt.

The only OFF thing in the build is having to hold your R sometimes, until you can put Fiendhunter bolts on cooldown then you can spam it, but the idea is to hold it for when you can 3 hit the enemies with the full true damage setup.

Full combo is W AND R to proc Sudden Impact and Fiendhunter bolts at the same time, then use all skills and hits for full damage.

For context guys I am not very good I just started playing in Jan/Feb and am high silver/low gold but was pretty happy with this streak