Carmilla — Tank / Roamer

Status: Player guide only. Base stats / skill numbers not yet pulled from in-client. Fill from screenshots on next ADB pull. Specialty: Soul-link AOE / Stat-stealing teamfight tank

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Player Guide — Hajun (300+ stars, ex-pro roamer)

Source: YouTube UsacHOibdkg (Hajun, "Solo Rank Carmilla Mastery — Stealing DPS & Defense"), ingested 2026-04-29. Caveat: Transcript looped after the macro section; build, emblem, and opening rotations are fully captured — late-game gameplay specifics weren't recoverable.

Honest framing

Carmilla is one of the few tank-roamers who scales meaningfully into mid-game: her ult steals defense and DPS from linked enemies. She's terrifying when teams follow up on the link AOE, useless when teammates ignore it.

Build & Emblem

• Spell: Petrify — extra CC chains with ult. Combo: ult-link → S2 stun → Petrify stun = ~2.5s lockdown across a cluster.
• Emblem: Tank — Vitality → Tenacity → Concussive Blast.
• Boots: Tough Boots / Cooldown Boots + Encourage.

Item path

1. Cooldown Boots + Encourage.
2. Oracle — heals harder via S1 in early game.
3. Clock of Destiny — HP regen utility (Hajun's offbeat pick: helps her stay in fights without recalling).
4. Brute Force Breastplate — CDR + MS stack passive.
5. Glowing Wand — anti-heal (preferred over Dominance Ice when team already has phys defense).
6. Chastise Pauldron — 50%+ HP regen at <30% HP + AS reduction.

"It's solo rank. Build doesn't matter that much if you're snowballing — don't sweat it."

Macro — predict enemy jungler's start

Don't blindly check EXP-side buff — predict based on enemy jungler hero.

• Fanny / Hayabusa / Lancelot junglers → ALMOST ALWAYS start blue buff. Vision blue, not red.
• Standard junglers → vision EXP (red) side first.

VOD example: enemy was Fanny → Hajun visioned blue at start → spotted Florin and Fanny immediately → +XP/gold.

Macro — turtle setup with EXP laner

"Roamers and EXP laners make the turtle play. If both work in synergy, turtle is yours 90% of the time."

Concrete: 30s before turtle spawn, rotate to EXP lane briefly. Help your EXP laner clear a wave or zone enemy laner. They WILL show up to turtle when you do because you helped them.

Don't babysit your marksman early

"What is the marksman going to do in the early game? Their gold doesn't matter. They're for the late game. Help your jungler. Help your EXP laner. They can change the early game."

The marksman's value is exponential — gold spent peeling them at min 4 returns at min 20. Gold spent peeling jungler/exp at min 4 returns at min 8 (turtle, lord setup, kill snowball).

Zoning the enemy jungler at turtle

If your jungler misses red-tree at turtle, don't blame them — that's your fault for not zoning the enemy jungler properly.

• Stand in the bushes adjacent to turtle (river-side bushes).
• When enemy jungler enters the turtle pit, walk up + S2 stun + Petrify before they can red-tree.
• A confirmed zone = guaranteed turtle. A 50/50 red-tree contest = lottery.

Bait-the-overcommit gank

When your carry is low HP and enemy assassin/marksman is committing for the kill: don't pull carry back, let them stay as bait. Then ult-stun-petrify the diver. Trade: enemy carry + assassin gets bursted; your carry survives.

VOD: Hajun used Karrie as bait to bait Beatrix into committing → ult lined up → would have killed Beatrix if Karrie hadn't walked forward at the wrong moment. Cancel the play if your bait moves wrong.

Tempo — minion-clash gank rule

Like all Hajun guides: gank only when minions are clashing in the lane. No clashing minions = enemy laner is recalling/rotating, no gank target.

When to pick Carmilla

Pick into comps where you have multiple AoE/burst follow-ups to capitalize on the soul-link ult:

• Valir mid (chain explosions).
• Vale mid (tornado).
• Aurora mid (frost AOE).
• Yu Zhong / Lapu-Lapu (AoE skills).

Don't pick into single-target burst comps (Gusion, Karina) — link ult is wasted because they only burst one target anyway.

Counter notes

• Diggie — his ult cleanses your Soul Link. Track Diggie ult cooldown; only ult when his ult is down.
• Wind of Nature on the linked carry voids your S2 stun chain.