CHANO

"Every part of Chano's kit feeds off one thing: the brush.

While he's in a bush, Chano gains movement speed and builds Concealment, which caps after about a second. Leaving the bush spends that Concealment on a leap — the more he banked, the farther he jumps. Entering a bush also charges his next basic into a double shot that counts as a single attack, on a short cooldown. And he deals extra damage to monsters while he's in the grass. The brush isn't cover for Chano — it's ammunition.

Chano leaps into the air, speeds up, and flies clean over terrain. While airborne, his basic becomes a powerful long-range arrow that knocks enemies back — no stun, just distance — and extends his air time. The more attack speed you have, the harder that arrow hits. If you don't fire it in the air, you store a normal-range enhanced shot for a few seconds on landing. And if you loose it while dragging the move-wheel away from your target, Chano back-dashes a short distance. Your engage, your execute, and your escape — all in one button.

Throw a wolf-spirit trap at a spot. When an enemy trips it, they're exposed, take damage, and a wolf spirit spawns to hunt them. Traps cloak a couple of seconds after landing, and you can have up to four out at once. The spirits borrow a slice of your stats and your crit, and every hit they land slows the target — stacking. It's vision, chip damage, and a leash, all on a tiny cooldown.

Chano calls the pack: he summons two wolf spirits plus one for every Skill 2 charge he's banked, sending them charging in a direction and triggering every nearby trap at once. He gains Mounted Archery — he can move while attacking, with bonus movement speed, attack, and attack speed for the duration. And every basic he fires pulls idle wolves into the attack. This is the lone archer becoming a whole pack."

"Here's the first thing that separates a beginner Chano from a feared one: Concealment is the engine, and most players never feed it.

Beginners walk through a bush. Good Chanos live in them. Every time you weave through the grass you bank two things at once — a leap on the way out, and a refreshed double shot on the way in. So the rule is simple: never fight in a straight line. Fight in and out of the brush.

That single habit is what makes the difference between an archer who runs out of steam and one who reloads mid-fight. The double shot counts as one basic, so it slots straight into your attack rhythm — bush, double-shot, keep firing.

For skill priority: max your Ultimate first, then Soaring Signal (Skill 1), and leave Lupine Trap (Skill 2) for last — though you'll often take a point in the trap at level one for the lane control. For your Summoner Spell, Flash is the safe default — the extra repositioning is gold on a hero this fragile.

Build-wise, Chano lives and dies on three stats: attack speed, crit, and movement speed. Prioritize those when you pick emblems and items.

Chano is also a genuine jungler, and his kit explains why. His passive already deals bonus damage to monsters while he's in the brush — the same mechanic that fuels his lane game makes his camps faster. And Skill 2 throws over terrain, letting him drop a trap onto a camp from the safe side of a wall and let the wolf chip it down before he even steps in.

If you're taking him jungle, swap Flash for Smite and pick up Rapacious Bite as your jungle item — it's the physical jungling item, boosts your attack as you stack monster kills, and has the Hunter passive that stacks monster damage over time. Clear style stays the same as his lane habits: seed a trap at the camp entrance, step into the bush beside the camp, and farm from inside the grass for the passive damage bonus and the double shot. The camp dies faster and you leave with more ammo than you came with.

For ganks, use the super-jump — brush leap into Soaring Signal — to clear a wall into a lane bush unseen, then burst with your standard trap-and-pack combo. The arrival is invisible. The pack is not."

"This is where most guides stop. We're just getting warmed up.

Chano's whole skill ceiling is movement, and it starts here. In a fight, don't stand and trade. Fire, cut into the nearest bush, pop out the other side — leap plus a fresh double shot — then re-engage, and back to the grass. You're building Concealment, refreshing your double shots, and you're almost impossible to pin down. The rule: always keep one foot in the grass. This is exactly how top players turn a losing duel around — they drag the fight through brush after brush until the diver gives up or dies chasing.

Leave a bush with full Concealment for the passive leap, then immediately chain Soaring Signal — the two stack into a long double-jump. It's your fastest gap-close and your best escape, and Skill 1 can clear almost any wall on the map. One catch: start the jump tucked tight against the wall, or you'll clip it and stall.

Soaring Signal's airborne arrow is a long-range, high-damage execute — the cleanest way to finish a runner from a screen away. Fire it with the move-wheel pulled away from your target and you back-dash on release, so the same button that lands the kill also pulls you out of danger. It's also an objective tool: from the brush behind Lord or the Tyrant pit you can leap and snipe a steal — and if it fails, the back-dash carries you clear. Scout the pit brush with a trap first so you don't get jumped mid-cast.

Here's the one that looks like a misclick and isn't. Chano's wolves spawn from the far end of the ult indicator and run inward, which takes time. Cast the ult reversed — indicator pointed behind you — and the wolves spawn right in front of you, landing on a pinned target instantly with no run-up. So:

• Reverse it when the enemy is in front of you and already locked down by your team — the wolves hit immediately.
• Cast it forward, toward them, when enemies are closing on you — they collide with the incoming pack as they approach. Direction is read off where the danger is, not habit.

Lupine Trap is your early-warning system. The moment you hit lane, seed traps at the river choke and the dangerous bushes — dragon brush, mid brush, buff back-brush — before you ever rotate through them. A tripped trap exposes the enemy and buys you time to leave. It's why Chano bullies flank mages like Mai Shiranui, and why stealth threats like Arke and Prince of Lanling can't sneak up on him. When you scout a bush yourself, curve your approach — don't eat a gank during the throw animation.

Skill 2 throws over terrain, so you can drop it onto a neutral camp from the safe side of a wall and let the wolf spirit chip or steal it. Stack traps and triggering them spawns a small pack — a mini-ult on demand. And because wolf spirits have health and attack structures, they tank turret shots like Milady's robots: you can dive a tower or push with no minion wave behind the pack. One caution — the enemy gets gold for killing your wolves, so don't fling them away and become their piggy bank.

• Early (1–4): open with a trap to clear and zone, grab lane priority, then use the timing window while the enemy marksman is stuck clearing to slip away and steal a camp. The brush damage bonus helps you contest neutrals.
• Mid (4–10): once your ult is up you have a real burst. Trade health as you near level four, then all-in for a solo kill — and even a failed one zones them off farm and opens a tower or an invade. Snowball with rotations and tower pushes; your wolves tank the turret.
• Late (10+): secure brush vision, weave the grass for constant double shots, glue yourself to your frontline, and delete the backline once your engage lands.

• Traps before you're caught. River and choke-point traps tell you a gank is coming before it lands — that warning is the whole reason fragile Chano survives the laning phase.
• Brush-weave and back-dash out. When an assassin like Han Xin, Lam, or Jing lands on you, kite through grass and use the Skill 1 back-dash to break the chase.
• Don't group for a losing fight. Behind? Farm a side lane and push instead. Play the edge of every teamfight and let your range do the work — you only deal damage if you're alive.

• Wait for the CC. Don't be first in from the river. Sit in the tower-side brush, let their lockdown — a Guiguzi, a Sun Ce, a Jing — get spent, then step in for a clean, full-damage window.
• The two-trap setup. Before a fight, drop one trap on the enemy's likely flank route to stop a backline pick on you, and a second on your own path for vision so you don't walk into an ambush. Two traps, two different jobs.
• Avoid the danger target. Don't tunnel the first enemy you see. Focus the one with skills down — a Jing with no escape — and stay away from a threat mid-ult like Diaochan. When the danger shifts onto you, jump a wall and reset.

The wolf tower-tank plus Soaring Signal's mobility make Chano a strong side-laner. With a lead, shove a lane, let the pack soak tower shots while you melt it, and bail with Skill 1 and a brush leap the moment the enemy collapses on you. You stretch the map and choke their farm without risking a 5-v-5.

Step through a bush to bank your double shot → drop Lupine Trap at their feet to trigger it instantly and summon a wolf → fire the double shot → Soaring Signal up for the long-range power arrow. Land to chase, or back-dash to disengage on their state.

Bush double shot to close → trap at their feet → Ultimate to call the full pack and trigger the trap → basics while the wolves slow them → Soaring Signal power arrow to finish from range. Your bread-and-butter pickup once your ult is online.

This one's a setup, not a poke. From the brush, pre-place traps along their path and bank a double shot. When they walk in, drop a fresh trap at their feet to leash them, fire the double shot, then Ultimate to detonate every trap at once — maxing the wolf count — and chase with Mounted Archery into the Soaring Signal power arrow for the burst. Lay the trap, then close it."

• Lock-them-down partners — Chano has burst and mobility but no hard lockdown of his own, so he wants teammates who hold the enemy still for him. Heavy-engage and CC heroes like Guiguzi, Lapu Lapu, Ziya, and Princess Frost pin targets so his pack and arrows can't miss.
• Enablers & sustain — Ming accelerates his scaling and adds burst; Sakeer hands him bushes and healing — perfect fuel for a brush-dependent hero; Dolia and Cai Yan add the sustain to keep him fighting.
• He preys on — immobile, stand-still marksmen like Lu Ban and Hou Yi (his mobility runs circles on them), and flank/stealth threats like Mai Shiranui, Arke, and Prince of Lanling, whose ganks his traps reveal.
• Tough matchups — high-burst mobile assassins like Han Xin, Lam, and Jing can blow up his fragile frame before he reacts; durable bruisers like Kaiser and Dian Wei survive his first burst and punish him during the cooldown gap. Don't duel these — kite, poke, and let the fight come to you.