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Arena Ao Kuang (High Damage Tank)

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8.8
by Iscarious updated March 30, 2024

Smite God: Ao Kuang

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Build Summary

Starting Items

Build Item Sentinel's Gift Sentinel's Gift
Build Item Cloak Cloak
Build Item Blink Rune Blink Rune
Build Item Golden Shard Golden Shard

Full Build

Build Item Sentinel's Boon Sentinel's Boon
Build Item Prophetic Cloak Prophetic Cloak
Build Item Berserker's Shield Berserker's Shield
Build Item Cyclopean Ring Cyclopean Ring
Build Item Shogun's Kusari Shogun's Kusari
Build Item Archdruid's Fury Archdruid's Fury
Build Item Scorching Blink Rune Scorching Blink Rune
Build Item Greater Shield of Thorns Greater Shield of Thorns

Ao Kuang's Skill Order

Water Illusion

1 X Y
Water Illusion
3 15 16 18 19

Dragon Call

2 A B
Dragon Call
1 4 6 7 10

Wild Storm

3 B A
Wild Storm
2 8 11 12 14

King of the Eastern Seas

4 Y X
King of the Eastern Seas
5 9 13 17 20
Water Illusion
3 15 16 18 19

Water Illusion

1 X
Ao Kuang Teleports forward into Stealth, leaving behind a watery form of himself. He remains in Stealth for 5s or until he attacks or takes damage.

Ao Kuang may activate this ability again to detonate the watery form, dealing damage to nearby enemies.

Ability Type: Circle, Teleport, Damage
Damage: 70 / 120 / 170 / 220 / 270 (+70% of your Magical Power)
Range: 30
Radius: 20
Cost: 70
Cooldown: 16s
Dragon Call
1 4 6 7 10

Dragon Call

2 A
Ao Kuang summons 6 dragons to his side. For every successful basic attack Ao Kuang makes, a dragon will dive to the target dealing additional damage. This ability ends after all dragons are used, or after 10s.

Ao Kuang may activate this ability again to send forward any remaining dragons in a ranged attack. The dragons damage and Slow the first enemy they hit.

Ability Type: Line, Buff, Damage
Attack Damage: 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 (+30% of your Magical Power) per hit
Ranged Damage: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 (+13% of your Magical Power) per remaining dragon
Slow: 30%, for 1s + 0.25s per remaining dragon
Range: 55
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 15 / 14.5 / 14 / 13.5 / 13s
Wild Storm
2 8 11 12 14

Wild Storm

3 B
Ao Kuang unleashes a storm of lightning from his sword, damaging all enemies in front of him. This will send a Dragon from Dragon's Call forth, dealing damage to hit targets.

Ability Type: Cone, Damage
Damage: 90 / 135 / 180 / 225 / 270 (+35% of your Magical Power)
Range: 30
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 7s
King of the Eastern Seas
5 9 13 17 20

King of the Eastern Seas

4 Y
Ao Kuang grabs a single target, damaging and knocking them into the air. If the target is below a Health threshold, Ao Kuang will also reveal his true form, becoming an airborne Dragon and executing them restoring Health. After transforming Ao Kuang then picks a new location to land, dealing damage to enemies within 20 units.

Ability Type: Target, Knockup, Damage
Damage: 90 / 140 / 190 / 240 / 290 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Execute Threshold: 30%
Heal: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30% of maximum Health
Landing Damage: 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Landing Range: 200
Cost: 90 / 100 / 110 / 120 / 130
Cooldown: 100s

Ao Kuang Threats

Tap each threat level to view Ao Kuang’s threats

Max
0
Major
1
Even
0
Minor
0
Tiny
0

Extended Build

Core

Build Item Prophetic Cloak Prophetic Cloak
Build Item Berserker's Shield Berserker's Shield
Build Item Cyclopean Ring Cyclopean Ring

Optional

Build Item Toxic Blade Toxic Blade
Build Item Pestilence Pestilence

Play Style

This build requires a semi-aggressive playstyle. If you play correctly, you will be able to snowball early game and finish your Cyclopean Ring very quickly. You should use your 1 and pick off their backline and people retreating.

Your secondary but another very important goal is to evolve your prophetic cloak. With this build, you'll get an additional 15% damage mitigation by doing so. Late game when you're team fighting (or solo fighting), your attacks are so fast that your Cyclopean Ring is popping every second. You can pop the Greater Shield of Thorns, granting 30% total damage mitigation (with evolved prophetic cloak), on top of 600+ protections.

I have consistently been getting 15-20 kills per game, with only a few deaths during Arena matches with this build. End screen typically has me at 30-50k damage dealt, 30-50k damage taken, and 60-100k damage mitigated.

You shred assassins, hunters, and mages, and if tanks and warriors aren't build too well you shred them too.

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