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Smite God: Ganesha

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Ganesha Build

Starter

Notes Benevolence's xp and gold helps you keep up or even get ahead of the opposing support. Make sure to always be by an ally because the xp and gold you give your teammates can help them catchup or snowball.

Benevolence

Boots

Chalice of Healing

Multi Potion

Full Build

Notes Replace boots late with Elixir of Speed and Spirit Robe. If the other team has a double physical duo lane make sure to build Sovereignty right after Shoes of Focus. Same goes for Heartward Amulet if they have a double magical duo lane.

Compassion

Shoes of Focus

Gauntlet of Thebes

Sovereignty

Relic Dagger

Pridwen

Elixir of Speed

Spirit Robe

Relics

Notes Magic Shell is almost always the best first relic option. Get Heavenly Wings to help chase down kills in team fights. Buy Cursed Ankh if the other team has multiple healers. Get Belt of Frenzy if your team needs more shred during team fights or for towers and objectives.

Magic Shell

Heavenly Wings

Cursed Ankh

Belt of Frenzy

First Back

Notes Try to get to 1200 gold so you can finish Shoes of Focus and buy a couple wards on your first back.

Shoes of Focus

Ward

Situational Items

Notes Contagion or Pestilence for anti-heal. Spectral Armor against crit heavy teams or one really strong carry using crits. Witchblade against an auto attack heavy team. If you don't want to stack Gauntlet of Thebes, though it's easiest to stack on Ganesha with his passive, you can opt for Mail of Renewal. Spirit Robe against teams with a lot of Crowd Control. Gem of Isolation if you just want to add a little power and it still has health and CCR.

Contagion

Pestilence

Spectral Armor

Witchblade

Mail of Renewal

Spirit Robe

Gem of Isolation

Ganesha's Skill Order Notes 1. Turn of Fate for the damage on your clear. 2. Ohm for the protections on the Ohm as well as some cooldown. 3. Dharmic Pillars as the damage isn't as important as the zoning it provides. 4. Remove Obstacles as once again the damage isn't nearly as important as the CC.

Notes

1. Turn of Fate for the damage on your clear. 2. Ohm for the protections on the Ohm as well as some cooldown. 3. Dharmic Pillars as the damage isn't as important as the zoning it provides. 4. Remove Obstacles as once again the damage isn't nearly as important as the CC.

Turn of Fate

1 X

1 4 6 7 9

Ohm

2 A

3 8 10 11 12

Remove Obstacles

3 B

2 15 16 18 19

Dharmic Pillars

4 Y

5 13 14 17 20

1 4 6 7 9

Turn of Fate

1 X

Ganesha curses his Enemies with his considerable willpower, damaging them. For each Enemy he hits (up to a maximum of 4), all Allied Gods within 55 units of Ganesha gain bonus Damage.

Minions give 1 stack, enemy Gods give 2 stacks.

Ability Type: Line
Damage: 90 / 150 / 210 / 270 / 330 (+55% of your Magical Power)
Bonus Damage Per Stack: 3%
Duration: 4s
Range: 55
Cost: 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85
Cooldown: 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12s

3 8 10 11 12

Ohm

2 A

Ganesha begins chanting and rises into the lotus position, where he is slowed slightly but may travel freely in all directions. While chanting, he silences Enemy gods in a cone in front of him, increasing Physical and Magical Protections for all nearby Allied Gods. He gains an additional 50% of the Protections he provides, and he is knockback immune while channeling this ability.

Ability Type: Cone, Silence
Duration: 1.8s
Protections: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60
Radius: 35
Cost: 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75
Cooldown: 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10s

2 15 16 18 19

Remove Obstacles

3 B

Ganesha charges forward, hooking an enemy with his goad, holding them in place and damaging the enemy before knocking them up. While dashing, Ganesha passes through player-made deployables.

Ability Type: Dash
Damage: 90 / 135 / 180 / 225 / 270 (+45% of your Magical Power)
Cost: 70
Cooldown: 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12s

5 13 14 17 20

Dharmic Pillars

4 Y

Ganesha summons the Four Great Pillars of Righteousness to imprison his Enemies. Between each pair of pillars a magical field is created, and Enemies who pass through the field take Damage, are Slowed, and have their Protections reduced for 3s.

The first tick of this damage does an additional 60%, and Enemy Minions and Jungle Monsters take 40% of this Damage.

Ability Type: Ground Target
Damage Per Hit: 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 / 250 (+40% of your Magical Power)
Slow: 30%
Protection Reduction: 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50
Debuff Duration: 3s
Radius: 20
Cost: 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120
Cooldown: 75s

Ganesha Threats

Tap each threat level to view Ganesha’s threats

Max

Major

Even

Minor

Tiny

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(143) |

Your build needs more prots (a bit more magic prot especially) if you're going compassion. I'd swap cdr boots for tank boots, and possibly Relic Dagger for Heartward. Also always go HoG in support unless you're Ares or Ymir who don't need it to clear purple quick.

Before replacing boots, this build has 120 magical protections and 125 physical protections. That's not including his base protections and will add another 40 of each if you do get that far. Personally, I think the utility in team fights you get from something like a vastly outweighs any benefit from another protection item which gives diminishing returns the more protections you get.

(37) |

I don't recommend building > > . This is because you will only get protections once you start stacking Thebes which is way too late. Ganesha has decent CC in his kit, so maybe another option could be:

> > >

This would give you decent early protections before you went into your Thebes plus some nice damage application from to help your team get some early kills.

Also, ideally your start is fine except you should be getting instead of s. This will help you and your ADC get to lane much quicker.

Thanks for the feedback as this is my first guide.
To your first point, I don't necessarily recommend this build on any other guardian as he can stack Gauntlet quicker than anyone else. Ganesha is better at staying back some to protect his carry early game anyway. I'd also say you'd have enough health to wait until Gauntlet because the opponent ADC is probably stacking as well to get their damage online which takes much longer than stacking Gauntlet with Ganesha.
Hand of the Gods is definitely viable, but I find myself running out of mana before I want to back. I'll put that as another start option.

(37) |

In that case though, you can still get over to get some tankiness early.

Also yes you do stay further back but you're still using the CC in your 2, 3 and ult around your team which will be impactful, whether you're backline or frontline doesn't really make a difference.

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Makes sense and by backline at the beginning I just meant being more defensive and reserved early game. If you were to build stone of binding after boots, what would remove, Relic Dagger?

(37) |

Yeah is nice if you have the space but it's not really core so give that a try.

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Smite God: Ganesha