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Mark of the Vanguard
Shoes of Focus
Sovereignty
Bulwark of Hope
Magi's Cloak
Ethereal Staff
Mark of the Vanguard
Sovereignty
Bulwark of Hope
Pestilence
Magi's Cloak
Witchblade
Divine Ruin
Void Stone
Spear of the Magus
Shell of Absorption
Weakening Curse
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I have always enjoyed playing tanks that have the power to outlast the thickest of fight and be a great asset to the team. When I first saw 
Hades I recognized how much potential he had being a ranged tank with; an escape mechanism, fear, heal as well as a good amount of crowd control from his ultimate. I have been playing Hades in arena for a while trying to unlock his full potential as a valuable tank and support god. I hope this god guide for Hades helps you dominate as a champion of the gods.
This is a guide so you can play how you wish and any comments and/or suggestions on this build would be much appreciated.
MY FIRST BUILD SO ALL CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED!!
PROS
Purification Beads
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Mark of the Vanguard has bean under speculation for me that when it comes down to a starter item for Hades. But it all comes down to this simple but powerful passive that allows him to tank early game minions and jungle camps with little to no damage taken. That gives him his much needed early game tankiness and is a very plausible starter item for the undead tank of Arena... Hades. (And don't forget about the added health and protection) |
Shoes of Focus are great boots on Hades as they give him the extra edge on all of his strategy in game. One advantage to shoes of focus are there CDR which allow Hades to better support the team in fights and chases. Also these boots give a fair amount of MP giving his heals more effect and giving Hades higher sustain. This CDR and MP gives this ultimate tank a little edge on the enemy team and the ability to support your own. |
midas boots
 Watcher's Gift enables Hades to gain the gold as Hades job in arena is not to kill the minions, but to let the team get stacks this item lets Hades share the gold benefit from minions. midas boots gives Hades all the gold per 5 a god of riches could ask for, enabling him to get Sovereignty and Bulwark of Hope sooner. (The extra gold is very nice in Arena because your items will be completed sooner)Gold = God of Hidden Riches :) |
Sovereignty And Bulwark of Hope Sovereignty has a well balanced passive that provides an extra 20 protections to you and nearby allies. Bulwark of Hope is the perfect balance of magical protection and health, with the added passive that increases survive ability at low health. These two items are core to the build because they maximize your total effective health by increasing you protection and health so that you receive maximum damage mitigation.|
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magi's blessing
magi's blessing is the ultimate Crowd Control Elimination item! When you are sitting there listening for the right moment to strike and a  Ares blinks at you and ults magi's blessing will be there to save you. When you get frozen by  Ymir at low health magi's blessing will be there to set you free. So in summation this item will save you from being stunned or controlled because magi's blessing will always be there. |
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Ethereal Staff is the perfect end game item for Hades giving him loads of health and a passive that gives him more MP based on HP. Getting this item will allow you to tank and utilized your maximum effective health! Now just to make sure you understand what this item will do to Hades i will say it plane and simple.You will become the undead tank of Arena!!! |
After purchasing all of the items listed in this build you will need to sell Mark of the Vanguard and replace it with a more suitable items...
witch stone
witch stone Is a great item if you are facing fed physical carries, which tands to hapen a lot in casual arena matches. The passive will shut down most physicals fairly well giving your team the chance to get some payback them. I would recommend getting witches stone in two cases:
Mercury is destroying your team and being a nuisance.
Divine Ruin is an item that will shut down enemy healers like 
Aphrodite or 
Hel . I would suggest getting this item if the enemy has 1 or 2 designated healers that are getting lots of counter heals in. If your not satisfied with the healing reduction given by Pestilence than Divine Ruin is the perfect closing item for you.
Void Stone dose a great gob at getting mages exposed for your team to pummel. Good all around ending item with magical protections and power to give you a late game edge on the enemy team.
Spear of the Magus is a extremely fun item on Hades. This item and Pillar of Agony will allow your team to destroy all the unlucky souls that get trapped in it. This item is the knife that kits the enemies protections away so nothing can protect them any more. I suggest getting this item if you are feeling pretty confident about the enemy team and want to have a fun and killer end to the match.
Shell of Absorption is the perfect item for Hades the undead tank. 1st of all I would like to inform you on how I first came to discover the perfect active for this ultimate tank. After many hours of playing Hades in arena I was constantly being let down by the fact that I would always die after pulling my first ult of the game because everyone would plop there ability's on me and I was dead. Well this was very frustrating because that would result in more and more deaths and a loss for my team. But then my brother (Icy133) informed me of an item that he was wondering whether it would work under Hades ult or not. That item was the one and only Shell of Absorption. The significance of this shell that would mitigate 15% damage and grant me and my allies 45 protection was ground breaking. I had found an item that did indeed work under Hades ult granting him tremendous increase in protections and damage mitigation making him unkillable during his ultimate. Now also bare in mind that Hades also gains protections when activating his ult. The protections added from his ult and those of Shell of Absorption make him an unkillable Pillar of Agony. With Hades 90 second ult cool-down and Shell of Absorption's cool-down of 90 seconds they are a perfect match! Shell of Absorption just before I hit level 5 so that on my first ult, my protections can be TRIPLED with the use of this active and the passive of Hades ult Pillar of Agony.
Weakening Curse is the item that should be used to...
Hades wrath! Weakening Curse after finishing off my boots.
Blight
Hades passive is Blight, which is applied to enemies hit by his basic attack. When it comes down to basic attacking enemies in order to apply Blight, it is highly situationally, using this passive to maximize Hades effectiveness in arena is something that should be look at with each of his abilities as each complements his passive in a different way.
Death From Below Death From Below is Hades main utility ability, allowing him to blink into action and reek havoc on the enemy team. Now we can look situationally at Blight as it applies to Death From Below. If in some cases if you are not in the middle of a team and you and any number of people on your team are focusing an enemy, utilizing Hades passive by getting a basic attack on the enemy, applying blight, then use Death From Below to apply a slow. This HIGHLY effective slow should not be underestimated but should be only utilized when you are positive that you will be safe temporarily with-ought an escape. This slow should be utilized when harassing the enemy team, saving fleeing gods and focusing an individual god. Oh, by the way i forgot to mention that Death From Below applies Blight. So when you are initiating or harassing hit as many gads as possible with Death from bellow so that your abilities can dominate the battlefield.
Shroud of Darkness Hades bread and butter ability Shroud of Darkness. Silencing is nice but always try to get the FEAR. You can accomplish this three different ways:
Shroud of Darkness to get the FEAR. Death From Below on group of enemies, then use Shroud of Darkness and get a GROUP FEAR. Death From Below to slow, basic attack them wile they are slowed to apply Blight, them use Shroud of Darkness to get the ULTIMATE FEAR!
Devour Souls Hades main damage output ability that dose damage around you. If enemy's that are hit by this ability are blighted then enemy's heal you and surrounding allies. This is the ability that I max first because it is my main damaging and support ability. It is a great ability for clearing minion waves and getting a full heal in.
Pillar of Agony Hades ultimate is a very strong source of crowd control by pulling in enemy's closer to him. If enemy's are blighted than pillar of agony reduces their protections. I put levels on Pillar of Agonywhenever possible. Hades ult can also be used to initiate team fights as well as pull in enemy's who are chasing down allies low on health. Remember that Pillar of Agony can grant up to 80 protections making him an a GOD to which is unkillible by any!
Hades's Death From Below in order to initiate or escape is an art of combat in arena. Blight on loads of gods before bringing the hurt. Also when being chased try to use Death From Below in a way to loose or confuse by going through walls or pillars when possible. If the enemy team dose not see you they wont suspect an ult.Much of this core Hades build was based off of Grimskull's killer Bacchus build. The ability to work on getting the highest damage mitigation possible out of a tank is one that I strive to achieve with Hades in this build. So much thanks to all of the comments and support I have received helping me to achieve the all powerful arena Hades build.
Summery: My build is showing off Grimskull's amazing build for maximizing health as it applies to Hades. It is one lover of tanks spreading the ability for ultimate Damage Mitigation. And I am individualizing this build from others by demonstrating strategy, active ability use, and more item descriptions as it applies to Hades being an amazing tank in arena.
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I also just made a guide for Hades Arena and I gave you credit for the item build! ;D
I am wondering if you've ever built more damage for Hades? I haven't tried that and I am curious.
Upvote for this guide :)
Well thanks for the help and I will make those changes as soon as possible.
Thanks,
Rosart
Build
Very solid build. Too bad it isn't yours. But it has flexibility, which is good. The gold-gain one seems odd though, since in Arena every has a ****load of gold gain anyway.
Items
Very good. Extremely good. The best part of the guide.
Skills
Very poorly explained. You don't say how/when to use them. I would advise adding them.
Guiding
None. But it's a build only guide. Not sure what to expect here.
Details
Good BBC coding, nice images, easy to read.
Summary
I guess it's okay...? I mean, it's build only. I guess it's a good build-only guide, except for the lack of skill explanations. Do build-only guides require skill explanations? I'm confused.
I am hoping to make that more clear in my guide as well as better explanation of items, strategy and utilization of actives to individualized this guide.
When it comes down to building
Thank you all again for your continued constructive criticism and support this is my first guide so all the help is greatly appreciated :)
I don't see the problem with the build being similar to someone else's build for a tank, certain gods share similar builds. As an example, most people use Focused Voidblade on a Bruiser, therefore there is no reason to ''This is just a copy of *someonelsehere* build downvoted''.
Agree, if the build looks similar it's because it do work, if the guide author actually explained his items choices, i see no problem at all.
And something I really like on the guide is the way you explain the items and skills, similar to my way of.
Have you ever tried Pure Damage
Keep up the good work :)
https://www.smitefire.com/smite/guide/one-god-to-tank-them-all-3267
DownVote
I understand that this is a build only guide. In that respect, this guide is still incomplete, the items section conflicts with the presented build (reinforced greaves???), and there are a whole lot of things still unfinished.
Downvote, needs more polishing and needs to be completed, but I'll check in on this in a few days.