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Hercules Bonks His Enemy To Death

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by AnoxToxxic updated April 22, 2023

Smite God: Hercules

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Build Summary

Start With Some Basic Starters For Herc.

Build Item Warrior's Axe Warrior's Axe
Build Item Breastplate Breastplate
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion

Example Build

Build Item Axe of Animosity Axe of Animosity
Build Item Breastplate of Regrowth Breastplate of Regrowth
Build Item Caduceus Club Caduceus Club
Build Item Vital Amplifier Vital Amplifier
Build Item Shogun's Kusari Shogun's Kusari
Build Item Bladed Boomerang Bladed Boomerang

Hercules's Skill Order

Driving Strike

1 X Y
Driving Strike
1 4 7 10 12

Earthbreaker

2 A B
Earthbreaker
3 15 16 18 19

Mitigate Wounds

3 B A
Mitigate Wounds
2 6 8 11 14

Excavate

4 Y X
Excavate
5 9 13 17 20
Driving Strike
1 4 7 10 12

Driving Strike

1 X
Hercules delivers a mighty strike, driving all enemies back, damaging and Stunning them. Hercules is immune to knockback during the dash.

Ability Type: Line, Dash, Damage
Damage: 100 / 170 / 240 / 310 / 380 (+90% of your Physical Power)
Stun: 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4 / 1.5s
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 12s
Earthbreaker
3 15 16 18 19

Earthbreaker

2 A
Hercules smashes the ground, sending a shockwave forward that does damage to all enemies in the path. Enemies at the end of the shockwave are thrown into the air towards Hercules.

Ability Type: Line, Knockback, Damage
Damage: 90 / 145 / 200 / 255 / 310 (+70% of your Physical Power)
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 12s
Mitigate Wounds
2 6 8 11 14

Mitigate Wounds

3 B
Hercules heals himself instantly and gains increased Attack Speed, Magical and Physical Protections for the next 4s. A percentage of the damage taken during this time is returned to him as an additional heal that at the end of the duration.

Ability Type: Buff
Initial Heal: 45 / 75 / 105 / 135 / 165
Damage Returned as Healing: 20 / 26 / 32 / 38 / 44%
Protections Buff: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60
Attack Speed: 25%
Cost: 60
Cooldown: 15s
Excavate
5 9 13 17 20

Excavate

4 Y
Hercules rips a huge boulder from the ground. Throwing the boulder does damage where the boulder lands. The boulder continues rolling, doing the same damage to all enemies in its path. Subsequent hits on the same enemy do 50% less damage per hit. Hercules is immune to crowd control while casting.

Ability Type: Circle, Damage
Damage: 300 / 425 / 550 / 675 / 800 (+100% of your Physical Power)
Radius: 15
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90 / 85 / 80 / 75 / 70s

Hercules Threats

Tap each threat level to view Hercules’s threats

Max
0
Major
2
Even
0
Minor
1
Tiny
0

Hercules Synergies

Tap each synergy level to view Hercules’s synergies

Ideal
1
Strong
1
OK
0
Low
0
None
0

Extended Build

Now This is Where You Get The Evasiveness So You Can Hunt The Enemy Effectively

Build Item Breastplate of Regrowth Breastplate of Regrowth
Build Item Caduceus Club Caduceus Club

Now You'll Get a Bit Jiggy With it.

Build Item Vital Amplifier Vital Amplifier
Build Item Shogun's Kusari Shogun's Kusari

Optional Items Depending On Opponent.

Build Item Qin's Sais Qin's Sais
Build Item Stone of Binding Stone of Binding
Build Item Bladed Boomerang Bladed Boomerang
Build Item Winged Blade Winged Blade

As Hercules your biggest Flex (pun entirely intended) is your healing ability. Use this to your advantage in the first full item to give yourself a massive speed boost. Split levels between the first and third skills in his arsenal until full. Use second full item to boost your healing and more move speed. Thirdly you will need to get some attack speed because if you think this will be an ability based build you are just dead wrong. Use the third full item in the guide to severely boost your attack speed. Then your next item will be Shoguns Kusari to again severely increase attack speed and boost your team as well. Lastly your final item will be entirely up to you but I have found much use in Bladed Boomerang for the squishies plus move speed increase. Next optional item will be Qin Sais for the beefy enemies you will encounter, if your team is having issues with the support or tank take this item. Another is Stone of Binding for getting rid of the protections on the squishies brought on by the support and pummeling them six foot deep. This would be a better option for you if you happen to enjoy his abilities more, of course if you did why have you gotten this far? Last option that I personally enjoy greatly is Winged Blade. This item will get rid of the threat of those nasty slows the enemy gods put on you to stop you from ramming your club directly into their teeth or beak (I don't judge). It will also allow you to be EVEN faster when your third ability is on cooldown. Next I wouldn't mind addressing direct threats to Hercules. Stay away from tanks with large or long stuns, the Axe of Animosity item will help with this but enemies like ***ba while paired with a skillful or high damage carry will most likely get you killed. Another threat can be found in high lifesteal or anti-lifesteal. For obvious reasons either target them directly if they are squishies or let the team deal with them if they are more tanky foe. Finally is high burst enemies such as He Bo or Pele. You WILL NOT out-heal them and they will destroy you. Last to address is strategy with Herc and it tend to be fairly simple. Use your first ability to knock through the tanks and directly into the squishies. Once you are at the squishies basic attack them until the begin running away. As Herc you have something called a second ability, this ability will allow you to knock them back to you while they are running away in fear of your godly build (muscles and items both). Once you've done this use your first ability to knock them back to your damagers and quite possibly kill them. I suggest using the Horrific Emblem relic to slow them so they are not to get away and use the upgraded version to tremble them as well. By this time move on to your next prey and simply slaughter. Finally I would like to say that this is a meme build and use to your own discretion, however it is FUN!

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