Corki is a ranged marksman. He struggles a bit in the early game, mainly using this time to farm up and poke enemies with his abilities until he gets his core items. Once you get his core items, you become a late-game carry. With Corki, make sure you keep an eye on when your Package is up and available in base. Make sure when it is available that you go back to base and pick it up. This grants Corki bonus movement speed and an empowered cast of Valkyrie.
Corki can also be played in the mid-lane; check the alternative build at the top of the page! With mid Corki, the build and play style is very similar to Duo Lane Corki, play passive in the early game and wait for your core items.
Corki's attacks deal 20% physical damage and 80% magic damage. This means that even if Corki builds attack damage items, he will still deal mainly magic damage. Because of his passive, he is a good duo lane pick if most of your team has physical damage and he is very hard to itemize against.
Corki also has 'The Package'. After 4 minutes, the package is delivered to Corki's base. Corki can pick it up to gain the ability to cast Special Delivery, which grants him bonus movement speed while out of combat for a minute. This makes Corki one of the strongest champions in big objective fights (Baron, Dragon and Herald). Special Delivery does a lot of damage and can change a teamfight so keep that in mind before you pick up the Package in base.
Corki fires a bomb, dealing magic damage and granting vision of the area. This ability is great for the laning phase as it allows you to poke down the enemy and also play safe using it to farm.
Corki can also use Phosphorus Bomb to reveal invisible champions (e.g. Akali, Wukong) and to check bushes before walking into them to see if there are any hidden champions ready to ambush.
Corki dashes forward, leaving a flaming zone that deals magic damage over time for a few seconds. This ability is Corki's main mobility ability. Valkyrie should be used to escape and go over walls to keep your distance from the enemies. When you pick up The Package, Valkyrie will turn into Special Delivery.
Special Delivery knocks enemies aside and the zone does more damage for a longer time, slowing enemies that cross over it. As soon as you use Special Delivery, you can use Valkyrie straight after.
Corki fires his Gatling gun, dealing physical damage plus magic damage over time for a few seconds. This ability shreds armor and magic resist for a few seconds. This makes Corki a great pick against tanks and bruisers who tend to build defensive items.
When you use Gatling Gun, you can still auto attack and use other abilities which is important so you can deal more damage when you shred the armor and magic resistance.
Corki fires a missile dealing magic damage. Every third missile fired deals bonus magic damage and has increased range and blast radius.
Underneath Corki's mana bar you will see how many rockets you have and whether it is a big missile or a small one. Make sure to try and save the big missiles for team fights.
Corki has a great mix of ability power and attack damage in his kit, making him a great and challenging champion to itemize against. Manamune is a solid first item on Corki. You will be using your abilities a lot to deal damage in teamfights, and thanks to Manamune's bonus mana, Corki can use his abilities as much as he wants without worrying about running out of mana. Trinity Force is the perfect carry item for Corki. This item gives him some great stats, and the Spellblade passive means he can deal more damage after using an ability.
For runes:
Corki has many ways of stacking Conqueror with his auto attacks and abilities, giving him more damage and healing when he reaches maximum stacks.
Brutal gives Corki's auto attacks more damage giving him a lot of power in the early game to try and get an advantage to carry his team.
When enemy champions are low on health, Corki can deal bonus damage. This will help Corki use Valkyrie forward and kill low-heath enemies.
Even though Corki's passive Hextech Munitions turns a percentage of Corki's auto attacks into magic damage, Bloodline gives you omnivamp giving Corki healing from all sources of damage, which is very helpful. Legend: Tenacity is another great option when playing against champions that have Crowd Control.
As a marksman, Corki will always be the main focus for the enemy team to try and take down. However, Bone Plating will help Corki take reduced damage from the first three instances of damage which can save his life.
In the laning phase, Corki is not the strongest, however, he is a super safe champion. You can use Valkyrie to get out of a bad situation and go back to your tower. You also have Phosphorus Bomb to poke out the enemies and to last hit minions at range. At 4 minutes in the game, you will hear a sound! This will be your Package, make sure you go back to base and pick it up. This will give you a chance to roam and get some kills.
If Corki has reached this point of the game, you have your core items and a few kills under your belt, Corki really becomes a late-game carry. Make sure you always listen out and keep track of when your Package is up and available as this will help a lot. You want to make sure you are always grouped with your team, most of the time you are the main damage output, so if you get caught by yourself and die then your team is in trouble.
Corki is a fairly easy champion to pick up and play due to his kit being easy to understand with no crazy combos to learn. Although Corki doesn't have any crowd control, he makes up for it with his insane DPS potential.
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