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Assassin's Blessing
Shoes
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Shoes of Focus over 
Shoes of the Magi for the extra mana and CDR. Though that's just preference. You can build Shoes of the Magi if you want, I can see that for early game pen. Also I build shoes first because a jungler needs to be able to get around quick. Also I would definately get 
Chronos' Pendant for the CDR.
I personally choose Shoes of Focus over Shoes of the Magi for the extra mana and CDR. Though that's just preference. You can build Shoes of the Magi if you want, I can see that for early game pen. Also I build shoes first because a jungler needs to be able to get around quick. Also I would definately get Chronos' Pendant for the CDR.
Shoes of Focus
Bancroft's Talon
Chronos' Pendant
Spear of Desolation and 
Spear of the Magus for the magic pen. Doom Orb is an overall good item for 
Merlin because of the MP5, magic power, and mana. Finally, 
Shaman's Ring should be used for movement and the magic power.
All of these items are all REALLY good for magic power. These are here for choice of what you want. Obviously you'd want Spear of Desolation and Spear of the Magus for the magic pen. Doom Orb is an overall good item for Merlin because of the MP5, magic power, and mana. Finally, Shaman's Ring should be used for movement and the magic power.
Spear of Desolation
Shaman's Ring
Doom Orb
Spear of the Magus
Da Ji or 
Ne Zha. 
Stone of Fal is also really for early game power and CDR, and as an added bonus it gives you 40 magic protections. Finally I recommend the 
Void Stone if you feel that you're dying too much throughout the game. It gives you +60 magic protection and +150 Health. 
Divine Ruin is anti-heal. Best used against healers like 
Sylvanus. 
Obsidian Shard is tank shredder. 
Soul Gem and 
Pythagorem's Piece are both extra lifesteal.
These items should be used depending on the enemy team comp. I highly recommend Gem of Iso for its CCR if you're going against someone like Da Ji or Ne Zha. Stone of Fal is also really for early game power and CDR, and as an added bonus it gives you 40 magic protections. Finally I recommend the Void Stone if you feel that you're dying too much throughout the game. It gives you +60 magic protection and +150 Health. Divine Ruin is anti-heal. Best used against healers like Sylvanus. Obsidian Shard is tank shredder. Soul Gem and Pythagorem's Piece are both extra lifesteal.
Pythagorem's Piece
Soul Gem
Void Stone
Obsidian Shard
Divine Ruin
Rod of Tahuti
Shoes of Focus and Chronos' Pendant should be all you need in terms of CDR. Spear of Desolation is just an added bonus to max out your CDR, +100 Magic power, and the +15 magic pen. Bancroft's Talon is really good for early game power and lifesteal. 
Gem of Isolation is really good for CCR and the extra health. You want to be able to do as much damage as possible. Finally, replace blessing with Doom Orb.
This is my personal Merlin build. I try to build CDR as all of his abilities have pretty long cooldowns. Shoes of Focus and Chronos' Pendant should be all you need in terms of CDR. Spear of Desolation is just an added bonus to max out your CDR, +100 Magic power, and the +15 magic pen. Bancroft's Talon is really good for early game power and lifesteal. Gem of Isolation is really good for CCR and the extra health. You want to be able to do as much damage as possible. Finally, replace blessing with Doom Orb.
Shoes of Focus
Bancroft's Talon
Chronos' Pendant
Spear of Desolation
Gem of Isolation
Doom Orb
Shoes of the Magi
Bancroft's Talon
Chronos' Pendant
Spear of Desolation
Divine Ruin
Obsidian Shard
Purification Beads is for getting out of stuns like 
Hun Batz or Da Ji ults. Blink Rune is the one I'm kind of iffy on since Merlin has his escape 
Flicker. I'd say only use Blink Rune if you aren't building CDR.
I know that you can't have 3 relics equipped but these are the ones that I find to be really useful. Meditation Cloak should be used to regain health and mana, though I think it's more useful for getting mana back. Purification Beads is for getting out of stuns like Hun Batz or Da Ji ults. Blink Rune is the one I'm kind of iffy on since Merlin has his escape Flicker. I'd say only use Blink Rune if you aren't building CDR.
Purification Beads
Blink Rune
Shoes of Focus
Bancroft's Talon
Spear of the Magus
Chronos' Pendant
Shaman's Ring
Gem of Isolation
Shoes of the Magi
Bancroft's Talon
Spear of Desolation
Rod of Tahuti
Chronos' Pendant
Gem of Isolation
Shoes of Focus
Spear of the Magus
Bancroft's Talon
Spear of Desolation
Gem of Isolation
Rod of Tahuti
Chronos' Pendant went, the Shoes, Piece, and Spear of Deso all give you +10% CDR. You wouldn't need the pendant at that point. Soul Gem finishes off the CDR and gives you +150 health, +65 magic power, and of course, lifesteal.
If anyone is wondering where Chronos' Pendant went, the Shoes, Piece, and Spear of Deso all give you +10% CDR. You wouldn't need the pendant at that point. Soul Gem finishes off the CDR and gives you +150 health, +65 magic power, and of course, lifesteal.
Shoes of Focus
Bancroft's Talon
Spear of the Magus
Pythagorem's Piece
Spear of Desolation
Soul Gem
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Welcome to my first SmiteFire Build/Guide. I've this site a lot in the past and now I would like to help newcomers to Smite. So let's get into my Jungle build for Merlin
I believe that Merlin is one of the most underatted junglers in Smite. People seem to think that because he's a mage that he must be played either in Mid or Solo Lane. This couldn't be farther from the truth, and my proof is 
Ao Kuang (Who is my main jungler btw.) All of his abilities do really good damage and has good range for crowd control. He's one of the few junglers who can fend for himself late game, and he's really good when teaming up for a team gank late game. So let's get into to everything else and I hope this helps everyone out there that wants to try out Merlin in the jungle!
Pros:
Merlin is a Stance Changer, so he technically doesn't have an ult. There are 3 stances that Merlin can use... Fire,Ice,and Arcane (Magic)
Fire Stance does the most damage out of the stances and is the stance I recommend if you're ganking a lane. However, this comes at a cost as you need to get slightly get closer to an enemy if you use 
Radiate. This shouldn't be too much of an issue because you should be doing a ton of damage. Recommended combo in this stance is 
Dragonfire quickly followed by Radiate for max damage potential.
Ice Stance is best for clearing jungle camps and minion waves if you're in lane. If you hit enemy gods with the combo Blizard then 
Frostbolt, they will be slowed and damaged.
Arcane Stance is best for dealing with multiple gods at once. The combo of 
Vortex then 
Eclipse can devastate multiple gods. This combo is especially in Duo Lane.
Flicker is Merlin's escape, it basically speaks for itself.
Elemental Mastery is Merlin's stance change. Merlin has this at the start of the game, albeit all it can do is change the stance. Once you reach level 5 his "ult" will evolve. In your stance change, an explosion AND implosion will occur. Here's how it works... let's say you're in Arcane Stance and you switch stances. When you use the stance change an explosion will occur with differing effects depending on what stance you're in. If you're in Arcane stance you will knock the enemy up, and if you change to Fire Stance, the following implosion will burn enemies caught in the AOE. Switching to Ice Stance will slow enemies in the AOE. Ans that's it for Merlin's abilities.
So what do y'all think? Please leave comments and let me know if this build helped you out or if there are any changes I need to make. Again, this is my first build so let me know how I did. Thanks!
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You also have yet to fix some of the builds.
Spear of the Magus should be listed in all the builds. Not having it shows a massive failure in understanding Merlin's kit.
Also, you really need a different avatar for your account. Here are some suggestions:
In terms of damage dealer item listing,
With regard to the additional builds:
- Build 4: Don't like Fal in there at all. Major damage should probably drop Fal and additionally involve
Rod of Tahuti. However, I just don't like this build at all. Not nearly enough CDR, and Merlin IMO really wants more CDR.
- Build 5:
Typhon's Fang should NEVERNEVERNEVER be the first - OR the ONLY - lifesteal item. It is strictly a secondary situational lifesteal item. I also don't think Merlin will get as much out of it as some other magical gods, though it can work...but you want either 
Bancroft's Talon or 
Pythagorem's Piece as the first lifesteal. Typhon's should also not be prioritized over some pen (Magus) or control (Gem) or CDR (Chronos).
- Build 6: Same situation with Typhon's, but at least in this build it's after Bancroft's. However, it's again one of those things where the other items are just more important. Still think
Spear of the Magus is a core item, and just having 
Spear of Desolation is insufficient.
These builds should NOT just be thrown out there. There really, really needs to be better thought going into these, before being published.Alright, I'm going to explain a bit of the other questions you had above.
Two other considerations here. 1) An enemy that builds 0 protection items, at level 20, is going to have 48 magical protection. This means you will deal TRUE damage to those enemies with this item. 2) Outside of
And in any case, you don't ever HAVE to max CDR. Every item has some form of inefficiency, or way to counter. In the case of CDR, you're not getting the most out of that stat unless you're casting immediately as it comes off CD. When you disengage from a fight you won, maybe you want to push a tower. Lifesteal on minions in these cases might get your health back up a bit, making it safer for you to stay out, or engage in another fight that might be happening. That's just one example. But you see where I'm going.
The stats on Deso are fine, but they're not necessarily more important at that stage of a game, compared to other item options. If you want to build it, that's fine, but other items are also very functional. And if you're comparing to
Second, I said "I would give" and not "I gave", there's such a big difference between the phrases.
And for last, I don't have alternative accounts. I don't even know which account you're talking about, but if it isn't xmysterionz, it is not mine.
Now my question: how about instead attack people (with wrong information) you don't go give some feedback away or just take care of your (and only your) life?
Isn't this guy the 4