Miss Fortune

Few captains earn the regard Sarah Fortune gets in Bilgewater, and she does it by mixing charm and menace in roughly equal parts. A harbor full of pirates, monster hunters and smugglers notices her good looks first, but anyone who spends enough time around her eventually sees what she keeps hidden underneath. Her reputation began as a bounty hunter, and the harbor’s criminals have learned that mistaking her composure for softness usually ends with getting shot.

Grief is what hardened that composure. Sarah was a child when she watched the reaver king Gangplank murder her family, and from that night her entire life bent toward one aim. Years later she finally settled the debt: she wired his flagship with explosives and detonated them while he stood on deck. That single act earned her legendary status in Bilgewater on two counts, first as a survivor who would not remain a victim, and second as proof that a reaver king could fall to someone willing to wait for the right opening.

Fortune brings that same patience and precision into combat. Love Tap, her passive, pays out when she spreads damage across fresh targets instead of focusing one enemy again and again. Double Up fires a bullet through a target and into whoever stands directly behind it. Strut lets her accumulate speed while she stays out of harm’s way, then unleash a burst of extra attack speed when she chooses. Make It Rain blankets an area in slowing gunfire, and Bullet Time reshapes her signature barrage into a cone that can finish a fight in seconds.

Most often Fortune is an ADC, though she can also be played mid. All of her abilities draw from mana, unlike the shield-based or resourceless kits found on some other marksmen. Staying unhit is how she survives: Strut builds speed only while no damage lands on her, and once that streak breaks she loses mobility right away. That is why enemies who reach her quickly make her their first target in team fights. The habits that separate a Fortune in control of a fight from one who never gets an opening are small ones: firing Double Up at backline minions so it ricochets onto hidden enemies, and spacing Love Tap around Strut’s cooldowns.