Miss Fortune

Miss Fortune is the easiest marksman on the roster to understand and one of the hardest to play cleanly, because everything rides on where you place Double Up. The bullet passes through the target it hits to strike whatever stands behind, which means a badly positioned minion is your best friend and the enemy laner pays a tax every single time they walk up for a last hit.

Everything around that ability serves attrition. Impure Shots rewards repeated attacks on the same target and cuts healing when you activate it, Make It Rain slows a whole area, and Strut hands her free movement speed the moment she stays untouched for a few seconds. Her weakness is exactly the one everybody remembers: no dash, no leap, nothing whatsoever to survive someone landing on top of her.

She has one of the strongest early games available. Her poke doesn't depend on a hard skillshot: you just need a minion and the enemy roughly lined up, which happens on every wave. Add the healing reduction on Impure Shots, which blanks healing supports and regeneration champions, and an ultimate that erases a badly positioned team in a corridor or a bush entrance. Strut also gives her roaming and repositioning that few marksmen own.

The weaknesses define her ceiling. She has zero defensive mobility, and her passive vanishes on the first point of damage taken, precisely when you'd want it. Her ultimate demands that she stand perfectly still facing the danger, which is the worst place in the world for her. And her range is decent rather than exceptional: against a marksman who outranges her, she has no way of resetting the trade.

Max Double Up and play it like a metronome. Always look for the angle where the minion you're targeting has the enemy champion directly behind it. On caster minion waves that angle almost always exists if you take one step sideways. Never spend it on an isolated minion for a last hit while you're in an attrition war, it's your only pressure.

Save Impure Shots for committed trades rather than poke: the activation gives the attack speed that turns three autos into a won exchange, and the healing cut has to land before the enemy heal, never after. Make It Rain is not a damage tool, it's a wall. Drop it on the enemy's retreat path when your support engages, or in the bush entrance a jungler is coming through.

Your first real spike is level six paired with proper vision. Bullet Time isn't a duel ability, it's a positioning ability. It wins two versus two fights in enclosed space and it punishes a team walking single file through a corridor. If you don't set yourself up to cast it from somewhere safe, it's worth nothing.

The second spike is your first large critical damage item. Miss Fortune converts attack damage extremely well because Double Up applies it twice, on the target and on the body behind. From that point your lane poke stops being attrition and becomes a kill threat, and an activated Impure Shots settles most marksman duels in your favor.

You play at maximum range, behind everyone, and you wait. Your baseline contribution is that of any marksman: hit the nearest target and never step forward. What changes is the ultimate, which requires a full window of standing still. Only cast it once the enemy front line is busy elsewhere, or from an angle nobody can reach you from while it runs.

Make It Rain is your best self-peel tool, more than its damage suggests. Dropped on your own feet when someone dives you, it buys the seconds your support needs. And remember your passive before the fight starts: stay out of poke exchanges so you arrive at full movement speed, which is often what lets you find an angle nobody expected.