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The Importance of Getting Agh's Shard ASAP

Added 2022-01-10 13:54:54 +0000 UTC

Not only by my own feelings but statistically approved that getting Aghanim's Shard as soon as possible is crucial in terms of winning. Below is the screenshot of a Russian stats site similar to stratz.com - there are 405 Chen games played above Immortal rank.

Yelow box is the winrate boost of 5.84% if you get shard early on: 20:00-21:05 as the earliest timings.
Red box shows the decreased winrate by 1.11% over every minute after 20:00. I.e the more you wait the less efficient it becomes.

It doesn't mean you should discard the quick buy and buy the shard as soon as 20:00 hits but getting it at ~23:00 min. mark would be still good even if you are level 7 Chen by that minute. Nobody can answer why it's efficient to take shard ASAP but I assume that your ancient creep is much stronger (hence will survive in a teamfight) and provides good auras/skills. A mere Granite Golem gives more than 300 HP at this minute to every teammate with its 15% HP increase aura - compare it with an additional Mek or a Vitality Booster.

If you look at Drums slightly below the shard you will notice that it's quite the contrary - the sooner you get it the worse it is. Don't go for early Drums (10 mins or earlier). The perfect timing would be 5 minutes later, for instance.