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Assassin's Blessing
Boots
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Warrior Tabi
The Crusher
Malice
Jotunn's Wrath
Heartseeker
Brawler's Beat Stick
Titan's Bane
Transcendence
Masamune
Shifter's Shield
Mantle of Discord
Magi's Cloak
Ancile
Void Shield
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Ne Zha is a fairly challenging god with a very high skill ceiling that punishes falling behind. If you can get good with this god, he can be extremely rewarding.
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Passive - Righteous Spirit 
Righteous Spirit is a simple enough passive. The meter fills up as you deal damage, increasing your Crit Chance (up to 10%) and the heal from Flaming Spear. The tricky part is the meter empties completely if you are out of combat for a few seconds. If you have this built up and are moving to gank, hitting a jungle camp with just a single basic attack can keep it active long enough for you to get to lane.
1 - Universe Ring Toss Universe Ring Toss is Ne Zha's main poke / camp clear. It also shreds armor, slows, and gives you a speed buff! Level this first since it makes it both hit harder and hit more. The Crusher is built.
2 - Flaming Spear Flaming Spear is Ne Zha's steroid, and its one of the best in the game. Extra Crit Chance, Attack Speed, and a nice heal, this ability has a lot going on. Early game this will mostly be used for the sustain since it only lasts 4 seconds. Late game, this ability gives you a base 25% crit chance and a massive attack speed boost for 6 seconds. Armillary Sash so you can go straight into auto attacks after landing (as well as boosting its crit chance).
3 - Armillary Sash Armillary Sash is Ne Zha's simplest ability. A ranged stun that does good damage and can crit, this ability gets you right where you need to be, if you can land it. Wind Fire Wheels, or even just lock them in place for a 
Crush or 
Spirit of the Nine Winds. Ne Zha is immune to most everything while in the air with this ability. If a big burst is coming like Scylla's Crush, sashing just whoever is in front of you can save your life. Ne Zha is frozen in place while throwing the Sash, so you are vulnerable to CC and damage at that time, especially if you miss. Be careful using it in risky situations. Wind Fire Wheels the farther god. If you can pull it off you can get some excellent kills.
4 - Wind Fire Wheels Wind Fire Wheels is Ne Zha's best and hardest ability. Capable of one-shotting squishy targets late game, actually using it can run into some complications. Armillary Sash is the easiest and adds more damage into the combo, however it also means you will land in that exact spot and gives the enemy team plenty of time to be waiting for you. Wind Fire Wheels from range is much safer if you hit, but it is easy to miss and then be stuck in the middle of the enemy team. I suggest practicing landing this ultimate from a distance as much as possible. Universe Ring Toss -> Flaming Spear -> Armillary Sash -> Basics Universe Ring Toss -> Armillary Sash -> Wind Fire Wheels Armillary Sash -> Wind Fire Wheels -> Basics Ne Zha are: Wind Fire Wheels Armillary Sash being used appropriately Universe Ring Toss
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Ne Zha. Helps he clear and sustain, and eventually gives Pen. However, his clear is pretty good, and he has healing built into his kit, so he doesn’t need it as much as most.
Mage's Blessing. Still helps his ability-based clear and mana sustain, but gives better poke and grants Cooldown Reduction instead of penetration. Assassin's Blessing is better, but if you really like CDR this is an option.
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Item 1
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Ne Zha, Warrior Tabi gives you movement speed and increases your early poke. Preferred over 
Talaria Boots for the power, but Talaria is an option for the rotation speed and sustain. Ne Zha immediately has a few choice to make fitting your playstyle. You want: The Crusher and Jotunn's Wrath, usually flat pen as you will be targeting the backline. Malice. Ne Zha doesn’t need more with his passive and guarenteed crits.|
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The Crusher fits Ne Zha so well it deserves mention separate from the rest of the penetration items. You can make use of the pen and attack speed extremely well, and the passive will turn your Universe Ring Toss from annoying to terrifying. It even adds another hit worth of damage to your ultimate.I feel supercharged!|
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Item 4-5
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Malice's newest form is tailor-made for Ne Zha. With this item alone, Ne Zha increases his ultimate damage by 25% or more. Even support Ne Zha should build this as a single damage item. It fits him that well. Ne Zha in its current state that building this 4th is completely viable. Just be aware of how squishy you are until you get your 5th item online. Transcendence or Heartseeker) if you want to, this options just tend to work better in the late game.This should keep them off my back!
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Ne Zha is one of my top 3 favorite gods in the game (thank god for skins with different voice acting), and you can absolutely shred with him with some practice.
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Aegis Amulet
Poseidon
Discordia
Kali
Purification Beads
Tyr
Fenrir
Ares
Heavenly Wings
Blink Rune
Sol
Hel
Guan Yu
Spirit Robe
Build:
Love the talaria pickup if this was season 4, not so sure without the gold proc. The mp5 is not needed due to his fast vlear with ring toss and the attack chain (and chalice) IMO, but the MS might be worth it on the map.
Jotunn's should be your second item 90% of the time especially if you are going talaris. The MS and burst from HS is nice but you need that extra damage from Warrior's at least in that chase and only if you are really fed (like 3-0 when you finish boots).
DB is really tempting to get on Ne Zaa for sure because of his passive, 2 and ultimate. But it is not as good as it seems, unless you are super fed and are able to constantly get your ult off on the enemy carries. But it is good if you combo it with some lifesteal and attack speed. The reduced cost might make it viable again though. But get it as your third or even second item to make some use of it before defence is online on the enemy team.
Don't like Crusher, if you know you are going DB get DB instead and as your third item and get Asi or BF instead of Crusher.
Shifter's is OP. 70 power and 15 pen like holy ****. This should be your second or third item, Jotunn's second if you aredoing well.
Winged wand is great for defence (and offence) should be your forth item and trade it for Discord later.
Also relics should be blink and beads/aegis. I prefer blink first to make some plays early and mid game. But you definitely need it lategame to get to the carries.
My normal build: Warror's, Jotunn's, Shifter's, Wingend wand, Void and Titan's/Brawler's (trading wand for discord). That way you get good defence and damage.
My dream build: Warrior's, HS, DB, Asi, Stone cutting and fatalis. Yes I like crit..
Gameplay:
Try and ult without 3 first so that you dont telegraph your abilities to much.
Use ring toss and 2 for AA cancelling.
Use 3 to interrupt stuff and to immune stuff.
Use 3-AA-ult, this will keep you from ulting into beads and gives you extra damage if they don't have beads.
My favourite combo is: 3 onto one enemy then (360 noscope) someone else with your ult. This is great in teamfights you will most of the time get the beads (if the have it) on the enemy you 3d and get a free ult on the enemy you ulted.
Ring toss is insane early so try and force 2v2s in the jungle or 2v1s (you will win most of them).
Get fed early by forcing fights where you can get good ring tosses off (mid camps and enemy jungle camps), invade and gank when you got ult as long as you have someone to set up for.
When you get to end game you are pretty much just an ult bot, ult the enemy adc or mid. Take them out off the fight and kill them or set up an easy kill. And do some protection shredding with ring toss.
This ended up being a lot of text. But hope some of it is usefull :p
Also cant wait to play some season 5 Ne Zha now ^_^
The rest of your reply is really confusing to me:
Ne Zha really needs a single crit item to take advantage of his 3 and ult, and Deathbringer is brokenly good right now, to the point that even Neith can pick it up. Getting it second item is too expensive and delays the rest of the build.
Crusher is probably the best item in the game for assassins with good poke like Ne Zha, and he likes the attack speed too. That new passive hurts.
Shifters doesn't have any penetration on it?
Winged Wand isn't an item, maybe you mean Winged Blade? but that item doesnt help with offense at all.
Stone cutting and fatalis both are pretty bad on Ne Zha as well since he opens with abilities.
Your gameplay tips are good, I will try to add those in.
Not sure what I was thinking when i typed pen on shifers, either a type or brain malfunction. But still 70 power is insane and the protections are great.
I still don't think DB is worth it (havent played Ne Zha in season 5). In season 4 and before that you did like 50 more damage on targets with no prot with it and like 100 less on ppl with one prot item with your ult. And you end up dying for every ult you use because you have no prot.
Fatalis is great, dont hate!
The attack chain on NeZha is just insane, when you get to late game it is actually pretty good to sell Jotunn's etc and build fatalis, DB, BF and Stone cutting. And just roleplay Kali, but it is best to win before you get to that stage of the game. 2K crits are pretty fun with fatalis effect though..
Winged blade makes your engage better because of the slow immunity and MS and the health lets you live longer. All of which helps you do your stuff, set up for a kill, get out and engage again without dying. So I would call that offense you can have all the damage in the world but it's not much use for your team if you are dead. :)
Let me know what you think of those options!
And i like your guide as well, also feel free to pick up some stuff from my terribly outdated guide if you feel like it. Ne Zaha needs an updated guide, and i can't be arsed to update mine..
I still think you are slightly over valuating DB though. Wasn't it just nerfed for Ne Zha?
Reduced cost from 3000 to 2800.
Increased Critical Strike Chance from 20% to 35%.
Reduced Passive Critical Strike Damage Buff from 40% to 25%.
I get that it is great on hunters because crit build is the new ****, but as your single crit item it just seems worse to me.
My goto build would be:
Warrior/talaria -> jotunns -> crusher -> shifters -> void -> Titan's/brawlers
It is actually insane.
On Ne Zha it is worse for his ultimate, but it actually really helps your auto attack dps (60% crit chance when his 2 is active)
With the changes coming in 5.2, it shifts back to being better for your ult, and worse for your autos again, so it will probably get pushed back to 5th item (which makes some build choices easier)
I can see why you wouldn't get crit on him, but personally it just synergizes too much with his passive, 2, 3, and 4 not to get it.
Late S4 DB was 3,000 gold, providing 20% crit chance and 50 power with a 40% boost to crit damage.
DB is currently 3,000 gold in 5.1 (current patch...it did start at 2,800 gold for the original PTS notes but got a hotfix). It provides 35% crit chance and 50 power, with a 25% boost to crit damage.
Next Tuesday's 5.2 patch for PC will see a drop of power from 50 to 40. All other stats will stay the same.
Cyber, going to speak for Marki here. Although DB was always considered a core item for him (due to the additional crit chance when using
Anyway, so in current form, the drop in crit damage hurts his ult damage, but the increase in crit chance greatly helps his
In 5.2, the item will see a 10 power drop, but no other change. To me, this just makes it slightly weaker in all aspects, but I don't see how it shifts it in function at all. Slightly weaker for his ult, slightly weaker for his basics, but still retaining the same overall use. Curious as to why you think that 10 power drop changes priority back to function for his ult, Cyber?
In any case, I do feel that with that crazy 35% crit chance, it's still a core item for most users of
in 5.2, Deathbringer will have: 40 power, 25% crit chance, +30% crit damage
this brings it to a half way point between the season 4 and 5.1 versions.
with it only bringing him to 40-50% crit w/
overall, I feel like this de-prioritizes it a bit from 5.1, but still leaves it a core pick up for the boost to his ult damage.
Personally, I will probably be building Boots->Jottun->Crusher->Defense->DB->Pen/Defense
So...okay, crit chance is backed down by 10%, and crit damage upped by 5% again, but still 10% lower than S4. Geez...gotta get this in my head, not sure what that really means...but yeah, your assessment of better for ult and less for basics is right. Still think 40% crit chance with his 2 makes it generally worthwhile, and the damage boost is still functional...
Trying to figure out if they got DB to the general balance I personally wanted or not, lol. Well, at least this shifts it back from being a mid-build item for hunters too. Back to my preference of
Yeah, that build looks solid.
Because he does get a bit of a MS buff with Ring Toss, and the fact that you often would get
I think he suggests
Finally, I'm in agreement with Marki on
Looks like a solid guide and build to me. +1
Jotunn's vs Heartseeker 2nd item is probably the hardest choice to make when building Ne Zha, especially since Heartseeker kind of falls off late game since you cant use the MS as much. I would say you 100% need Talaria if you are picking Jotunn's. I will update the pen item section to reflect that choice.
If the enemy team has that much CC,
I honestly completely forgot about
But the extra damage from Warrior's is nasty for invades and mid camp fights.
Just get a chalice of mana or w.e. if you pick up talaria mainly for the mana. I have never seen Ne Zha as mana hungry, your clear is just so efficient.
I know you like being very aggressive with
I play most of my junglers as mid-game aggressors lol
Didn't even consider the early pressure playstyle on someone like Ne Zha, I'll add some comments on that in.
But that definitely depends on your playstyle :)