What Not to Pair with Tormentor

Avoid Tormentor + Back to Basics: Avoid this pairing because Back to Basics permanently seals your ultimate ability, which severely limits your champion's capacity to immobilize or ground enemies if their ultimate contains crowd control. Tormentor requires immobilizing or grounding to trigger its burn effect, so losing access to a major CC tool directly reduces the frequency and reliability of Tormentor's damage application. Avoid Tormentor + Slow and Steady: Avoid this pairing because Slow and Steady sets your base attack speed to a static value and prevents all attack speed bonuses from providing any benefit. Tormentor triggers on immobilizing or grounding, which many champions achieve through abilities that scale better with attack speed for weaving autos between casts, creating a fundamental stat mismatch. Avoid Tormentor + Firebrand: Avoid this pairing because Firebrand applies burn on basic attacks while Tormentor applies burn on immobilizing or grounding enemies. Both burns deal percent maximum health damage and stack infinitely, but they trigger from completely different conditions. Champions built for crowd control to enable Tormentor typically do not optimize for sustained basic attacking, making Firebrand's trigger condition difficult to consistently utilize alongside Tormentor's crowd control requirement. Avoid Tormentor + Scopier Weapons: Avoid this pairing because Scopier Weapons grants massive bonus attack range, which typically benefits poke and siege playstyles that stay at long distance. Tormentor requires you to immobilize or ground enemies, which often means being in closer proximity to apply crowd control effects. The range advantage can actually make it harder to consistently land the CC needed to trigger Tormentor's burn.