Grock — Tank / Roamer

Status: Player guide only. Base stats / skill numbers not yet pulled from in-client. Fill from screenshots on next ADB pull. Specialty: Wall control / Peel / Comeback tank

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

Source: YouTube i9gH0rkCjkg (Hajun, "How to Comeback With Grock When Your Team Is Losing"), ingested 2026-04-29.

Honest framing

This is a comeback game guide — base at 10% HP, Suyou snowballing, teammates throwing. The thesis: when behind on Grock, you don't engage. You peel, wall, and stall until your late-game carry comes online.

Build & Emblem

• Spell: Flicker.
• Emblem: Tank — Firmness (early phys def vs Suyou/Brody) → Wilderness Blessing (river rotation speed) → Concussive Blast.
• Roam item: Encourage + Speed Boots early. Sell Encourage at 8 min, swap to Conceal for the late-game wipeout setup.

Item path (comeback build)

1. Speed Boots + Encourage.
2. Dominance Ice — anti-heal vs Floryn + hybrid def. Mandatory.
3. Antique Cuirass vs phys-skill damage (Suyou, Brody).
4. Radiant Armor vs sustained mage poke (Edith, Cyclops).
5. Chastise Pauldron — drops enemy AS + the passive heals 20% HP at <30% HP, lets you stay in fights without recalling.
6. Immortality — second life for the base defense phase.

When to pick Grock

Pick into late-game-scaling team comps (e.g. Natan jungle, Moskov gold, Yu Zhong) where the win condition is reaching minute 20 with all carries farmed. Don't pick Grock if your team's strength is early-game pickoff — better engagers exist.

Wall placement — buff delay trick

"I always put the wall in between the buff and the jungler himself — that resets the buff most and delays it the most."

When invading enemy buff in lethal phase, drop S2 (wall) between the buff camp and where the enemy jungler will path back to it. Forces them to either path around (delay) or break the wall (delay + cooldown spent). Both outcomes cost their L4 timing.

Macro — counter-engage ONLY when behind

"When you are very far behind, do NOT engage or initiate fights. Worst thing you can do. Play passive — let them dive your tower, get greedy, then counter-engage."

This is the load-bearing rule for the whole game state. Concrete tells:

• Suyou is fed → never start a fight in open river vs him.
• Wait for the dive: enemy tower-dives → that's your engage window because their positioning is committed and your team has tower help.
• Counter-engage only. First-engaging with no follow-up = you die in 2 sec, team wipes.

Macro — protect-the-Natan plan

Late-game Natan = stand-and-shoot win condition. Grock's job: peel the front line off Natan, not chase kills.

• Wall behind enemy frontline (Edith, Suyou) so they can't disengage when low.
• Stun any diver who reaches Natan's position.
• Don't chase a fleeing Brody/Cyclops — return to Natan's bubble.

Wave-state when behind (no inhibitor)

If your inhibitor is down: mid + bot lanes will keep super-pushing. Accept it. Don't force a base-defend team-fight every wave — let one teammate clear the cannon, sit on tower with everyone else, and wait for cooldowns. Trying to clear AND fight loses both.

Hero priorities (shutdown rule)

Heroes on killing spree (3+ kills in a row) carry a high-bounty shutdown tag. They're your #1 ult target — even if it's a "wasted" 1-for-1, the shutdown gold is multiplied. In this VOD: Suyou had killing spree → Hajun pre-saved S3 to ult him specifically when Suyou tried to red-tree turtle.

When NOT to ult

Don't ult through a wall just to stun one enemy — Grock's ult is your team's biggest engage. Save it for:

• A multi-target stun on 2+ enemies during base defense.
• Locking down a diver (Edith ult, Suyou backline pressure).
• Confirming a shutdown.

Turtle defense vs lost team-fight

If you're going to lose the turtle team-fight anyway, save ult for the steal:

• Wait until turtle HP is low (~20%).
• S1 stun the enemy jungler attacking it.
• Ult immediately to chain-stun → your auto-attacks finish the turtle while they're CC'd.

VOD example: secured turtle from Suyou red-tree by ulting at the steal window despite losing the surrounding fight.

Mental note — solo rank reality

"In solo, your teammates won't always be smart. You have to prioritize yourself and stay alive — if you'd die for a strong teammate that's correct, but don't die FOR a senseless teammate. They won't capitalize."

Practical: if your carry is good → die-for-them is +EV. If your carry is the one who walked into a 1v3 with Flicker still up → save yourself, you're the only thing keeping the base alive.