Question for all you Conquest players; if you are playing in the solo lane as a Warrior (Amaterasu in both of my cases) and come up against a Mage on the other team (Ah Puch and Nu Wa), how do you deal with the situation if you are getting no help from the Jungler on your team?
Both times this has happened to me I have had a terrible time (especially with the Ah Puch) as they clear the lane quicker and I just can't really get into the match.
A lot of what gogo said above is good but there is some I disagree with.
Genji's is a fine item but personally I feel like it is outshined by bulwark. You won't have the early cd but 10% is so small that it's not going to make huge difference. You will be getting BoV afterwards anyway which will give you 20% cd so that's not a huge deal.
Also bulwark will give you health and a shield at low health both of which are always useful.
You shouldn't be taking too much poke, these are burst mages with long cds. You need to be aggressive and force them back, you have a huge upper hand until they get about 3 items online. You need to be a bully.
If they use their abilities to clear the wave then attack them, they wont be able to do any damage to you.
If they use their abilities to poke you then clear wave and push your wave under their tower, they lose gold and you can poke them back.
Make sure to get teleport as an active. If they don't get it then you have a huge advantage in terms of making sure you're there for more waves. If they get it then they're hurting themselves late game because they won't have either beads or aegis.
If they get, say, aegis first active and you get them to pop it, walk away, that's a win and will allow you to kill them next time if they don't play super safe. If they do play super safe then you can push minions under tower and they lose gold.
If it's a mage then then the blue buff is really important to them. Take it from them. You should know the first timer since they will kill it at the same time as you kill yours so when yours is up so is theirs. Invade.
Actually, if you can get the jungler to help, you want to invade first thing, dont take your buffs at the start take their blue. That way you'll have an xp/gold lead and they won't have a blue buff. Just make sure to get yours when you can so they don't take it.
The only other thing to think about is your starter item. Three choices, deaths toll, bluestone and mark of the vanguard.
Deaths toll for the auto attack wariors, bluestone for the ability based ones. Ama kind of falls inbetween but bluestone is best on her.
If you look at mark of the vanguard it has phys prots on it which aren't useful against a mage. However it does have extra health, always nice, and a little bit of hp5, also good. The main thing is that passive though. As a mage it won't be too long until they are out clearing you. The passive on this starter item basically means you won't take any damage from the back archers. That's a lot of early game damage that you will no longer take.
Also the phys prots will be useful if they have a phys jungler.
