Vora Loadouts and Items Guide

Patch 3.3

Vora has a high skill cap, but will reward you and your team greatly when played correctly. Like (most) other champions Vora has multiple builds she can utilise, and each of them has a different playstyle and function. In this guide I will showcase my current Vora loadouts and the items you should buy when playing Vora.

Note that the attack, sustain and mobility rating I gave for the builds are relative to Vora; so 5/5 mobility is very fast in terms of Vora but not necessarily to other champions, like Maeve.

Loadouts

Build Section

Notes

Before we get into the loadouts there are a couple of cards you want to avoid using, even as fillers:

False Idol - Unlike Talus, Vora has better cards than this.

Broken Promises - Obliteration should only be used as a finisher or something to avoid CC, so the heal at the end of a duel doesn't really help.

Ruthless Elegance - Same reason as Broken Promises.

Inevitability - Outclassed by Elegant Pairing which does pretty much the same thing.

Deadly Dance - Unless you are memeing, don't.

Here are some filler cards you can use instead:

Elegant Pairing - One of the most commonly used filler cards for Vora, and for good reason. It reduces the cooldown of both Siphon and Obliteration every time you use a tendril.

New Purpose - I mean, health is good.

Unified in Purpose - the fact that level scaling with this card doesn't increase the DR is tragic, but it works just fine at level 1.

Otherworldly Tether - Gains a shield, which can be useful at some times. Mostly memes though.

Crimson Ascent - You will find yourself needing this card less when you start getting better at your aim, and hence it is a great choice for beginner Vora players.

Notes

Attack: 3/5

Sustain: 4/5

Mobility: 3/5

The safest loadout to use in my opinion, and is the one I pick most. Excels at duelling, and encourages diving in. Good against most squishier teams but struggles against more tanky teams.

Notes

Attack: 5/5

Sustain: 5/5

Mobility: 1/5

This is my second most used build, and covers most tankier teams with more heals. The playstyle with this build would be more backline-oriented. The talent will boost your damage output greatly while the cards will improve your survivability by giving you a lot more sustain. Do remember to keep using your stacks to heal yourself.

Notes

Attack: 3/5

Sustain: 2/5

Mobility: 5/5

A meme set that has been discovered to have a legitimate niche. The incredible amount of mobility with this build helps against matchups lacking a strong source of damage.

Notes

Attack: 4/5

Sustain: 1/5

Mobility: 5/5

This build is very difficult to pilot and generally fails unless you are being pocket healed or your opponents suck. When it works you will pop off spectacularly though. Mostly for memes.

Notes

Attack: 5/5

Sustain: 4/5

Mobility: 2/5

Another meme set that is fun to play. It is also beginner-friendly and is very forgiving. As like other UP builds you will stay backline a lot more to dish out consistent DPS and cauterise.

Items to Buy

Build Section

Notes

These cards are listed from the most to least useful.

Cauterise - Vora is one of the best cauterise spreaders in the entire game. The tick damage will effectively extend the duration of caut on your target. You should first buy only caut in most matchups, attempting to get it to level 2 or even max it out ASAP.

Chronos - A weird buy, but for the average tendril build it has a noticeable effect on the amount of tendrils being spammed. Usually my second or third buy.

Life Rip - The additional health gained stacks with the healing from Siphon and Darkness stacks. Increases your survivability.

Haven/Resilience - Usually my last buy, or second buy depending on the matchup. If you are playing against a whole team of CC, resilience would often be bought at the start alongside caut.

Nimble - If you are playing speed-oriented sets go ahead. probably even max it out after caut.

Notes

Caut is still important. Don't even have to talk about it.

Life Rip on UP builds are usually bought alongside caut because your fights will be more drawn-out if you are playing UP in the first place. Otherwise, max caut.

Haven and Resilience are just DR and CC reduction. Always useful, even when you are playing back.

Chronos you shouldn't buy as much with UP because it is only bought when you want to spam tendrils.

Wrecker - Situational. against lots of shielding like Ruckus and Torv you kinda need this, unless of course the rest of your team have enough of it.

Veteran - Memes. Do note that Haven in general is better as it provides more survivability.

Notes

Morale Boost - The ult really isn't strong enough that it needs you to buy Morale Boost as well. Of course, unless you are memeing.

Illuminate - the tick damage and fat projectiles should make it completely unnecessary to buy Illuminate.

Rejuvenate - Even when you are being pocket healed there are better items to buy. Life Rip is just better in general.

Kill to Heal - Has a similar problem to Broken Promises or Rejuvenate, being that Life Rip outclasses them.

Guardian and Deft Hands - You can't even buy them lol

Loadouts Build Section
Items to Buy Build Section

Vora Build Guide

Free Agent - EU

What May Come

Tendril

Level 4

Dance with Fate

Tendril

Level 4

A Change of Faith

Dark Siphon

Level 4

New Purpose

Armor

Level 2

Elegant Paring

Tendril

Level 1

Relentless Presence

Tendril

Level 1

Sharpened Resolve

Weapon

Level 5

A Broken Path

Dark Siphon

Level 4

New Purpose

Armor

Level 4

Unified in Purpose

Dark Siphon

Level 1

The Maw's Embrace

Weapon

Level 1

Unyielding Pressure

Level 1

The Maw's Embrace

Weapon

Level 5

Dance with Fate

Tendril

Level 4

A Change of Faith

Dark Siphon

Level 4

Elegant Paring

Tendril

Level 1

New Purpose

Armor

Level 1

Relentless Presence

Tendril

Level 1

Nimble

Armor

Level 1

A Change of Faith

Dark Siphon

Level 5

Dance with Fate

Tendril

Level 5

Elegant Paring

Tendril

Level 3

Unified in Purpose

Dark Siphon

Level 1

New Purpose

Armor

Level 1

Relentless Presence

Tendril

Level 1

A Broken Path

Dark Siphon

Level 5