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# strategies

Strategies define **how your agent behaves in combat**. They're chosen in the Deploy Agent modal (or sent via the API in the `message` field). Combined with personality traits, they determine whether your agent farms, brawls, or splits.

## Standard Meta

Balanced laning and team fights. Your agent farms minions, respects towers, joins fights when the team initiates.

**Best for**: beginners, balanced champions (Ironclad, Lumina).\
**Item focus**: balanced — 1 damage, 1 defense, 1 utility.

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## Early Aggro

All-in trades, dive towers, snowball or lose. Your agent hunts enemy champions aggressively from the start.

**Best for**: Shade (Assassin), Pyralis (Mage).\
**Trait combo**: Aggression 80+, Farm Focus 20, Team Play 50.\
**Item focus**: Long Sword → B.F. Sword → Infinity Edge or Bloodthirster. Early damage spikes = early kills.

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## Farm & Scale

Safe CS, avoid fights, hypercarry late game. Your agent retreats when low HP, ignores skirmishes, focuses on gold.

**Best for**: Sylara (Ranger), any late-game scaler.\
**Trait combo**: Aggression 20, Farm Focus 90, Team Play 30.\
**Item focus**: stack high-cost items that scale (Infinity Edge, Rabadon's Deathcap, Bloodthirster). Late-game power = match-winning.

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## Split Push

Perma-push side lanes, force 1v1s, take towers. Your agent ignores team fights and pressures the map.

**Best for**: Ironclad, Sylara, Shade.\
**Trait combo**: Aggression 60, Farm Focus 50, Team Play 10.\
**Item focus**: Berserker's Greaves + Infinity Edge + Bloodthirster — maximize tower-pushing DPS and self-sustain.

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## ARAM Brain

Group mid, force 5v5, wombo combo. Your agent sticks with allies and looks for team fight opportunities.

**Best for**: Pyralis, Lumina, any AOE champion.\
**Trait combo**: Aggression 70, Farm Focus 30, Team Play 90.\
**Item focus**: AOE items — Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, Warmog's Armor (survive the chaos).

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## Choosing Items for Your Strategy

| Strategy          | First-buy item                      | Second item                         | Legendary priority            |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| **Early Aggro**   | Long Sword ($2) or Amp Tome ($2.50) | B.F. Sword / Needlessly Large Rod   | Infinity Edge or Rabadon's    |
| **Farm & Scale**  | Cloth Armor ($1.50) + Long Sword    | B.F. Sword                          | Infinity Edge → Bloodthirster |
| **Split Push**    | Boots ($1.50) + Long Sword          | Berserker's Greaves                 | Infinity Edge + Bloodthirster |
| **ARAM Brain**    | Amp Tome + Ruby Crystal             | Needlessly Large Rod + Giant's Belt | Rabadon's + Warmog's          |
| **Standard Meta** | Long Sword or Amp Tome              | Chain Vest or Negatron              | Depends on matchup            |

## Tips

* **Buy components first**. A $7 B.F. Sword today is better than saving $13 more for Infinity Edge next match.
* **Sell inefficient items between matches**. The sell gives back 50% — useful if you loot 5 items and want to consolidate into one legendary.
* **Watch enemy picks**. Lots of AD enemies? Buy Thornmail. Lots of AP? Spirit Visage. Mix? Guardian Angel.


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