Arcane Comet or Aery

[foggy heart]

Which is better for poking in general? I have a new poke build i wanna try but they look the sameish

[hardy pagoda]

it depends of your champ and what do u mean by poke

[fallow elk]

aery if you poke with autos and abilities comet if you only poke with abilities

[hardy pagoda]

but generally speaking it's comet

[foggy heart]

for example

i love playing ap nasus only, ive gotten m7 on him with very minimal normal nasus games

[fallow elk]

someone like orianna prefers aery whereas veigar would prefer comet

comet for ap nasus since hes melee and his cd is long

[neat pagoda]

if your champ poke with a spell that as a slow take comet else take Aery

[bold gate]

If you doubt which is better, if you can shield an ally it’s 100% aery that’s all tho

[hardy pagoda]

Karma is played with comet

your take is basically not true

[clever trout]

nah she is played with komet or aery, 63% take comet, 33% take aery, aery has a bit higher wr. Guess it depends on matchup what rune is better but both are great

[hardy pagoda]

With the classic support build

Not with the poke one

But anyway his take reminds not true

[clever trout]

not 100% so I suggest taking a look on lolalytics what to take

Also its not limited to ally shields, Champs like viktor shield themselfes and take aery

[hardy pagoda]

Aery is basically for the laning phase and comet is for what WE called "poke" normally

[clever trout]

agreed on that, aery has a better early but worse scaling than comet

[bold gate]

All right you two have more understanding it’s the rule I follow

[bold gate]

Also cause of this in my mind it makes more sense

[clever trout]

agreed and imo going by that logic you will always have a very good option, but not always the best

[barren light]

Outside of like Orianna Vlad Viktor and Karma, go comet

Mages with low cost spammable abilities want aery

[proven yoke]

imo, comet is just better for damage since it's CD is lowered by spell hits, having low CD spells is not a reason to take it over Aery. What Aery does well that Comet doesn't do at all, is provide additional shielding (so it's great for enchanters who want to provide more protection to allies, but not for mages that want to do damage).

[clever trout]

aery also has way lower cd, more early game power compared to comet and is undodgable. Which suits all these champs well as it allows for an oppressive early; all 4 have low cd spells with no cc that would allow comet to hit (karma mantra q for sure, but in many lanes u can also poke with just q

[proven yoke]

the lower CD doesn't matter much considering how much more damage comet does and how quickly champions with short CD spells can cycle it. Aery is also somewhat slow to return early on (base speed 200, +10 per 51 units travelled) comet's CD is 20-8 scaling w/ level and it's remaining CD is reduced by 20% for single target spell hits, 10% for AoE per enemy, and 5% per tick of DoT. It comes up fast with spammable spells it has 30 base dmg v. 10 at level 1, and twice the AP ratio too.

[opal sail]

it also has to do with whether you have a way to guarantee comet hitting sometimes

cuz otherwise it can sometimes be walked out of

[clever trout]

bro comet does 0 dmg for champs like viktor

[hardy pagoda]

You should define first what you call "poke"