@Numeta have you seen this?
Anchor smash affects buildings might be a secret next-level talent
Also help me with an argument.
I'll always take gush level 1 because it gives you kill potential and I don't need help csing with level 1 smash. Level 1 anchor smash does very little for me, I don't start farming camps/clearing waves until I have arcanes (/falcons) for mana upkeep and usually at that point I'll try to have level 4 smash.
Before then it's gush and run at people and often I find if I'm brawling a lot in the lane an extra point in gush (or even max gush) wins the lane outright. People don't expect to get gushed on and run at.
Now I prefer also that my lane teammate skills for a brawler lane and I often find we kill a lot of people when this happens. I've laned with a rubick before (notoriously bad laner) but with gushes and lifts and running at them, killed lots of people.
Recently I played a game with a rubick who leveled bolt at 1. So I was like - wtf, this spell does very little for us in our brawl at runes and brawls in lane, if we had lift we would've killed them. I didn't say anything, I just asked him to level lift when I saw he put the second point into aura (? - lvl 2 support rubick - 1 point bolt, 1 point aura, no lift. Ofc the guy takes bolt at 3)
The funny thing was when I mentioned this he was like mad I had taken gush at 1 and had a chip on his shoulder the whole game about it. What I'm trying to understand is why any lane partner would ever be upset that you don't have anchor smash at level 1. (not a melee-only lane)
Even in the "most popular ability build" above, you can just take gush at 1 and anchor smash at 2 and have the same skills after the first few mins while also giving yourself some brawler potential for the minute 0 bounty runes.
And the rubick stats must be fucked up by people playing mid/low mmr rubicks, a fade bolt at 1 on a support is basically griefing to me.
But yeah maybe somebody would like to educate me here:
What I'm trying to understand is why any lane partner would ever be upset that you don't have anchor smash at level 1.
