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Guan Yu stronger than you think (S6)

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Smite God: Guan Yu

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Guan Yu Build

Start

Warrior's Blessing

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Cudgel

Core

Warrior Tabi

Blackthorn Hammer

Void Shield

Full normal enemy team comp

Warrior Tabi

Blackthorn Hammer

Breastplate of Valor

Pestilence

Void Shield

Breastplate of Regrowth

Item alternatives

Reinforced Greaves

Runeforged Hammer

Sovereignty

Oni Hunter's Garb

Brawler's Beat Stick

Mantle of Discord

Recommended Actives

Magic Shell

Heavenly Wings

Teleport Fragment

ADC counter items

Hide of the Nemean Lion

Midgardian Mail

Slow counter item

Winged Blade

Crowd Control counter item

Magi's Cloak

Guan Yu's Skill Order

Conviction

1 X

3 8 14 15 19

Warrior's Will

2 A

2 7 11 16 18

Taolu Assault

3 B

1 4 6 10 12

Cavalry Charge

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

3 8 14 15 19

Conviction

1 X

Guan Yu's courageous leadership is infectious and, when focused, heals himself and his allies. Healing friendly gods reduces all Cooldowns by 2s for Guan Yu and 1s for his allies.

Ability Type: Circle, Heal
Healing: 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120
Boosted Healing: 1.7x Normal Healing
Radius: 30
Cost: 45
Cooldown: 14s

2 7 11 16 18

Warrior's Will

2 A

Guan Yu charges forward, his Green Dragon Crescent Blade extended in front of him. All enemies in his path take damage and are Slowed. Hitting enemy gods lowers all of Guan Yu's Cooldowns by 2s. Guan Yu is immune to Roots, Cripples, and Knockups while dashing.

Ability Type: Dash, Slow, Damage
Damage: 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 300 (+60% of your Physical Power)
Slow: 20%
Slow Duration: 2s
Boosted Slow: 40%
Cost: 50
Cooldown: 13s

1 4 6 10 12

Taolu Assault

3 B

Guan Yu spins his blade in a controlled but furious display, slicing enemies for damage every .3s for 3s. Each hit steals enemy Protections, giving them to Guan Yu. Guan Yu is immune to Knockback for the duration.

Ability Type: Line, Debuff, Damage
Damage per Hit: 17 / 27 / 37 / 47 / 57 (+20% of your Physical Power)
Protections Stolen: 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 (Max. 3 Stacks)
Protection Duration: 5s
Boosted Protections Stolen: 3 / 6 / 9 / 12 / 15 (Max. 3 Stacks)
Cost: 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75
Cooldown: 13s

5 9 13 17 20

Cavalry Charge

4 Y

Guan Yu mounts his warhorse and charges for 4s. While mounted, he can steer and attack and is immune to Crowd Control. Enemies hit take damage and are Slowed. Each hit increases damage from consecutive hits against that target by 20%. Enemies hit on the dismount are Stunned. You can dismount at any time by canceling.

Ability Type: Circle, Stun, Damage
Damage: 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 / 185 (+30% of your Physical Power)
Damage Escalation: 20% per hit
Slow: 25% for 2s
Stun: 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4 / 1.5s
Boosted CC: 40% Slow and 2s Stun
Cost: 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120
Cooldown: 90s

Guan Yu Threats

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Max

Major

Even

Minor

Tiny

How to Guan Yu

Guan Yu is a brawler that thrives on being in the fray. Healing your allies and hitting your dash is the most important part of playing Guan Yu. I recommend 30-40 % cool down on him. This high amount of cool down will allow you to sustain you and your team, harass your enemies and use your ult to burn actives and set up your DPS' for the kill. By using your protection shred, dashing and then ulting in conjunction with blackthorn, boots and void shield, you should do plenty of damage while still being difficult to kill.

It is important to remember that the team heal and dash will reduce your ability cool downs by 2 sec each time they are used properly. I recommend using the shred ability first then your dash and ending with your heal. By using the abilities in this order, your shred (which is your strongest ability) will be up quickly after you use your combo.

One point on your shred, this is your main damage and clear ability. Therefore, you should be careful when to use it around god that can easily interrupt it. Make sure to push the wave as much as possible with this ability so that you can catch the archers in addition to the the melee minions.

Another important point is your ult can be canceled early anytime to stun the enemy. An early cancel is often necessary because the enemy can try to juke the last hit due to your restricted movement in his ult.

Lastly, Guan Yu passive is activated upon taking and giving damage. By having your passive activated, your abilities will all have additional effects. The heal will have a higher multiplier if active. The dash will apply a slow if active. The shred will reduce enemy protections and give them to you. The Ult will increase the stun and slow enemies.

Your primary target should be bullying the immobile enemy DPS. The reason for this is you can block DPS damage from hitting your squishy allies, you are extremely safe with this build and your only strong CC is your ult so peeling is not Guan Yu's strongest role. Guan Yu is very effective against high immobile DPS gods like Au Puch and Zeus because he has great damage and chase down potential while still being very hard to kill. With these immobile but high DPS gods, either use your ult to engage between the use of thier abilities or use it as soon as your shred, dash, heal combo is completed. I recommend saving your ult when dealing with mobile DPS so that after they use thier mobility ability you can chase down and stun the enemy.

Notes:
Guan Yu is not the strongest Solo lane god right now. Try him as a support if your carry is willing to have a physical support.
Guan Yu is a very strong pick in joust. Paired well with a mage and a hunter.
Guan Yu is fun in Arena and Clash with shield of regrowth.
Blackthorn may be getting nerfed and so it may become non-core upon a change.
Quin's Sias and Soul Reaver are effective against this build since it has high health.

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Addressing both Branmuffin and Gulfwulf. I personally don’t like winged blade I just think there are far better items. I don’t recommend mystical mail because it is a really expensive item that fall off hard late game and I think Guan Yu passive is easy to keep up if you play him aggressively. As for item choices to counter such as midgardian or nemien those are so situational I didn’t think it was appropriate to put them in a guide which by definition is for beginners. I agree that a warrior shouldn’t have to build anti heal but I find that people don’t build it enough so I recommend building it. Anti heal is so strong that not having it is a huge mistake. The first row of items is my preferred build (switch out pestilence for ohni hunters if your allies build anti heal). The reason I pick warriors blessing is because I go strait into blackthorn which gives heath but no sustain and no defense. I have found warriors blessing pairs very nicely with it. As for Urchin, it iS a great item but it can be risky to build if your team is getting stomped (I play a lot of joust so it doesn’t make sense for me to build it). I rarely build brawlers and that is only if way ahead of the enemy team (Guan Ult makes applying it to the entire team very easy).
Thanks for the feedback I’ll edit the page to reflex some recommendations for counter building.

(81) |

You might want to clarify what modes this is for because different roles in Conquest build differently. For example, a solo would build mostly personal defense items like breast plate of valor, , etc., while a support one would build more aura items like , (though solo sometimes picks this up as well), , etc. I'd label the build non-conquest if you want to keep it simple.

Yeah if I had to chose this would be my ranked joust build 8w and 2L right now with him. I may just add support pick up item category. I value a little more damage then some Guan Yus I’ve seen.

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I'm down with a bit more damage, especially when he can do a lot with his 3 when he's not interrupted. When you only have 2 of one damage type and 1 of the other, you can mostly back away from Sov/Heart type builds and have a bit more flexibility in the build options.

In Joust, I wouldn't call core though. It might be where you have 2 magical and you being the only phys, and Void won't necessarily be the best in that case, other than for yourself, and that's really meant to be more of a team-oriented item. I know you specifically mention a preferred comp of Guan + mage + hunter, but I don't think you'll always get that comp.

But Midgard is always worth a mention. It's less situational than I think you believe. Or rather, if you feel is worth the mention, it's in a similar boat. With Guan wanting to be in the thick of a fight, and with at least 1 basic attacking enemy, he can really help control an engagement.

I do see you've added the extra items though. I think overall this is solid.

I see your point, I just value the flat protection reduction form void shield over the passives of Midgard or Nemean unless there are two or more basic attach focused gods.

(81) |

It's a pretty solid non-conquest guide. Conquest needs more situational items and builds, though. Another example would be building in support instead of warrior. It's up to you as to what you want to do, though. If you don't feel comfortable writing up a Conquest build, then don't; not every build has to be Conquest worthy.

I play plenty of conquest its just a matter of how much time I can/want to spend. I actually think that support is the right place to play him in the current meta. Unless your doing the annoying level 1 warrior invade strategy.

(400) |

You mention multiple modes and I wouldn't really suggest Warriors blessing outside of conquest (and maybe Joust or something).

Your build example seems fine as a partially niche build. Regrowth is fun on him and I agree with high CDR. That said, like Gulf, I think you're missing quite a few situational items. Besides those Gulf mentioned, where's your other counter items like Midgardian and Witchblade? Where is Urchin? Spirit Robe? Oni? Shogun's?

(81) |

Oni's is in there and I've already mentioned mid, spirit, and witchblade. :P

(81) |

This seems pretty solid, though I probably wouldn't bother with because your ADC should be picking up anti-heal and is generally enough. I'd also list as an option because its passive helps build up stacks. Then there's + for anti-basic attacking gods like , , etc. and for gods that build crit.

As for your build, I'd probably go , (against a physical opponent; get against a magical one), , , /mid/etc., shield of regrowth. In conquest, I'd sell boots for or depending upon what I needed. I'd also would only buy pestilence outside of conquest if the enemy team had strong healers like Hell or and nobody else on my team picked it up first.

Please feel free to vote and give feed back on Guan Yu or my build. My Xbox Gametag is Desman333 willing to teach or just play.

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Guan Yu stronger than you think (S6)

Smite God: Guan Yu

Guan Yu Build

Start

Core

Full normal enemy team comp

Item alternatives

Recommended Actives

ADC counter items

Slow counter item

Crowd Control counter item

Guan Yu's Skill Order

Conviction

Warrior's Will

Taolu Assault

Cavalry Charge

Guan Yu Threats

Ares | Major

Artio | Major

Ganesha | Major

How to Guan Yu

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