This "forbidden" League of Legends build infinitely buffs almost every stat in the game, and it's probably going away forever next month
Dec. 13, 2023Senna is inevitable
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A League of Legends number cruncher has discovered an unstoppable build that keeps infinitely increasing every stat in the game, and they want you to try it out before it gets removed from the game forever.
Senna is part of a small group of League of Legends champions that keeps growing stronger throughout the entire game. While most characters stop improving once they’ve reached max level and filled their inventories, some of them have spells that keep increasing certain stats indefinitely. Senna, who collects souls from defeated enemy units, gains attack damage (AD) for every soul, with additional attack range, crit chance, and life steal for every 20 souls she gets.
At around 60-80 souls, Senna is widely thought to have ‘scaled’ - a League of Legends term for converting relative early-game weakness into late-game strength, and the opposite of ‘falling off.’ But she can go on collecting souls as long as the game itself continues to run, theoretically allowing her to grow in attack power forever. Normally, that strength is a counter to her squishiness and lack of mobility, but one player has managed to get around that particular issue, by coming up with a build that allows Senna to continually buff every important stat in the game.
In a post on Reddit, one player has created a Senna build that they claim scales harder than anything in the game. It starts with Senna’s own kit, which increases all of those aforementioned stats automatically. As her attack damage grows, so does the healing and shielding, and enemy slowing on some of her spells - the latter of which eventually reaches 100%, making it a root, not a slow. But it’s once Senna starts building items that things start to really synergize together.
The build starts with Heartsteel, traditionally a tank item that grants bonus health every time its user is able to stack it by auto-attacking a nearby enemy. That makes for infinitely scaling health, but it can also be used in tandem with another tank item, Demonic Embrace, which turns extra HP into magic damage. More magic damage applies to Senna’s healing and shielding, but also to the movement speed ability on her third spell, granting ever-increasing move speed as well.
From there, the build moves to Spear of Shojin, which offers scaling cooldown reduction based on extra AD. As I’ve already discussed, Senna’s AD scales forever, so now so do her ability cooldowns. It’s not long before the eight-second duration of that spell outlasts its cooldown. Shojin also synergizes with Runaan’s Hurricane, an item that fires extra attacking bolts that allow you to hit multiple targets with a single auto attack, which allows Senna’s primary healing ability to also have a negligible cooldown. That might cause mana issues, but those are circumvented by the fifth item, Essence Reaver, which also scales with AD, and eventually allows Senna to actually refill her mana bar by casting spells. The final item, Titanic Hydra, works alongside everything else to cast splash damage on every instance of attack damage that Senna deals, scaling off her also infinite base health, in a cascading effect that’s said to “melt” grouped enemies.
It does sound like an incredible time - if you can get it to work. There are a couple of tools to get around the obvious weaknesses - with no boots you’ll move extremely slowly, and without the warding tools that are a traditional part of Senna’s support role, you won’t have the vision you require, so you’d be best served by playing in a pair with a couple of actual supports.
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