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Intro: This is just how I play Nyx. I like her a lot and I'm pretty darn good with her. She's become my highest level champ.

I will say, Nyx is INCREDIBLY team reliant. By that I mean she needs the support of her team to reach her full potential. With help from the damages and supports, she can STEAMROLL an enemy team. She's best at giving supporting damage/CC, not so much securing kills. I'm not the most experienced with Off-Tank Nyx, but I tried to give ya a guide. That's not my forte XD. I definitely feel more secure in my Point Tank advice.

SUPER IMPORTANT DAMAGE REDUCTION NOTE: (Thanks u/BartOseku on reddit!)

TLDR: Get Arcane Warding instead of Armor Plating in most cases.

When combined with Royal Presence, Damage Reduction activates TWICE.

Royal Presence applies DOT to Nyx. When you have Armor Plating or Arcane Warding (or any DR), DR is activated when the DMG is dealt to Royal Presence, and then AGAIN when Royal Presence deals the DMG to Nyx.

EVEN CRAZIER is that Royal Presence converts ALL damage absorbed into Ability Damage.

Here's an example scenario:

Nyx has 30% DR up with Arcane Warding. Nyx also has Royal Presence active.

Lian attacks Nyx with her inhand weapon for 100 DMG.
Royal Presence absorbs the DMG and converts it to Ability Damage.

DR activates, so Royal Presence absorbs 70 DMG
Royal Presence deals the DOT to Nyx.
DR activates AGAIN.
Nyx is dealt 49 DMG.

Because of this, Armor Plating is INSANE on Nyx. That's why she can live so long. With bigger numbers, you're reducing a LOT of DMG with Royal Presence, and even without it, you'll still have 30% DR with her massive healthpool.

Ability Notes: Nyx is similar to Inara in the sense that you need to time out and rotate your abilities.

Rift Slash should be spammed as much as possible. Having that CC and Damage on the field at all times is incredibly helpful. Also, this way you're being more efficient with the cooldown reduction card. If there's no Rift Slash cooldown to reduce, that card is useless. So use it.

After that, Royal Presence should be up. This lets you get damage out as well as preventing damage on yourself. Just keep in mind that Nyx is decently slow and has no mobility. You need to be proactive with your retreat/shield. The Chain Pull isn't worth ending the ability early 99% of the time. Every once in a while I'll give someone a yank, but for the most part I just let the ability run out. The pull is difficult to target and so weak it's not worth it.

Abyssal Fortress should really only be used as close to you as possible. Occasionally I'll shove a shield out to help a squishy, but that's only if my own position is secure. Use it once your health is low or if you have a lot of damage absorbed with Royal Presence. Be proactive so you can cleanse caut and get healed up faster.

Her ULT is a great counter-ult. Put up Royal Presence, absorb damage, then delete it and punish those nearby. Keep in mind the ULT affects enemies above you and through walls. You can use it to pull someone off of a vantage point or attack them from below.

Her Passive is amazing as a Point Tank, especially when combined with Bloodbath. Nyx gets TONS of eliminations, plus 20% healing intake while on the objective equals a solid 1200 True Heal mid-fight that can really save your ass.

General Item Buys:

Arcane Warding, Bloodbath, Chronos, then Veteran or Armor Plating depending on the comp.

If you ever need to convert to an off-tank mid match, just get Nimble and you're good to go!

Cards:

Forever Changed - Recently I've realized this is one of her best cards. Just more health on top of a giant healthpool is always fantastic. This also makes Veteran more viable of a choice, though it shouldn't be too prioritized. Try to give it some love in every build, even at 1 it's solid.

The Little Things - Reduces the cooldown of Rift Slash with every Inhand Weapon strike. This is one of her best cards because Rift Slash your only method of "burst" damage, if you could even call it that, and gives fantastic CC.
- Hitting shields/deployables activates this card

- The cooldown is reduced even while the Rift is still active. It just doesn't show it on the icon.
- It's not really worth having this card above 4. Keep in mind that AS you're punching the cooldown is going down as well, and there is a maximum amount of time you can take away. As long as you hit your shots reliably, you don't need it too high. And aiming with Nyx isn't too difficult.

- Chronos doesn't affect this card negatively, since it's a set number and not a percent. So that's good!

Center of Combat - Increase the percent of health Royal Presence damages. I think this card is either all or nothing. Have it at 5 or don't have it at all. At 5 it's great, at 1 it's negligible, and anything in between is meh. If you're gonna use Royal Presence to deal damage, go full throttle. With her Poison Damage no longer lingering, it's not that useful imo.

Unyielding Advance - Increase the health of Abyssal Fortress. Her shield at base is really lackluster, so you wanna buff it, right? But honestly it's more worth it to go Forever Changed (increase base health). If the enemy goes wrecker, this card is pretty much still useless. And it only works when you have your shield up. Forever Changed gives the same effect of more survivability while being more difficult to counter AND active at all times. Plus, Forever Changed can make Veteran more effective if you want to use it.

Nyx Guides

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Show Of Force

Level 1

Center Of Combat

Royal Presence

Level 4

Abyssal Authority

Level 3

Forever Changed

Level 3

Devastating Blows

Weapon

Level 3

The Little Things

Level 2

Selected God

Front Line - Queen of the Abyss