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Smite God: Guan Yu

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Guan Yu Build

Starter Items

Warrior's Blessing

Cudgel

Mana Potion

Healing Potion

Midgame, before item swap

Notes Note: add boots whenever you want or need it, doesn't change much, better as 2nd or 3rd item, replace them in late game.

Warrior's Blessing

Blackthorn Hammer

Breastplate of Regrowth

Pridwen

Caduceus Club

Stone of Gaia

Late game

Notes Remember the elexir of speed ;)

Blackthorn Hammer

Breastplate of Regrowth

Pridwen

Caduceus Club

Stone of Gaia

Spirit Robe

Guan Yu's Skill Order

Conviction

1 X

2 8 11 12 15

Warrior's Will

2 A

4 13 16 17 19

Taolu Assault

3 B

1 3 6 7 9

Cavalry Charge

4 Y

5 10 14 18 20

2 8 11 12 15

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: 2x Normal Healing
Radius: 30
Cost: 45
Cooldown: 14s

4 13 16 17 19

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 3 6 7 9

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: 6s
Boosted Protections Stolen: 3 / 6 / 9 / 12 / 15 (Max. 3 Stacks)
Cost: 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75
Cooldown: 13s

5 10 14 18 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

Quick notes on the build

Incredible sustain, great defense, you're here to last in team fights. Dish out constant poke while healing your team as often as possible, pick off fleeing targets with the ult (pridwen + ult makes for a safe tower dive and great burst) or just the 1 (shield of regrowth passive is very handy).

For boots do as you like, you don't really need speed in joust and the ult and shield of regrowth makes you very fast already. But in conquest boots are recommended.

Also this is a joust build, it may work in solo lane, but you should focus on counter building when in solo.

Have fun with this Guan build!

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(46) |

Stone of Gaia isn't good. You need boots in there for conquest

It's stated in notes! And stone of gaia sustain isn't something to forget about.

(46) |

Ah sorry, I glanced over the notes. However, I will stick by my comment, and the comments everyone else below made.

(81) |

18% increased movement speed is hugh and does change quite a bit in the early game. Good luck trying to chase someone down or retreat from someone who has boots online when you don't. Sure Guan has movement options and shield of regrowth has situational movement speed, but they aren't enough.

(105) |

thing with sustain is that it is going to get hit by anti heal, since people will be building that (if they are smart) to reduce the effect of your

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(401) |

You already have pretty good teamfight heal in , and you're doing what you can to enhance it with Caduceus Shield. If you build too much into a reliance on healing and sustain, it just makes anti-heal affect you that much more, rendering multiple items less effective.

I can understand the appeal of high health, and between your choices of Shield of Regrowth and , you've got plenty of that. What you're lacking (quite a bit of in fact) is protection. You've included , and late game you also have , but that's not really making you as tanky as you probably should be. Keep in mind, both the shield and the following damage from it are based on the protections you have.

If anything, you should consider replacing with an item providing protections...you can consider for a huge boost of overall protections, or you can target the higher damage threat (physical or magical) with other specific items like , , etc.

One other thought...at late-game, you've got 50% CDR. Depending on what you've chosen in the rest of your build, you might consider dropping .

In actuality, you might also consider a revamp of your build order too, and possibly even replace Blackthorn, Pridwen, etc. is often picked up (and is a good earlier CDR alternative to Prid if you get it early-game), and you might consider delaying Shield of Regrowth a bit later as well, so you can build more protections earlier.

I'm gonna take all those advice and make it into a separate build, a serious one this time.
As you might've guessed this is nothing more than a meemy build that sticks to my weird playstyle.

I was really hoping no one would notice the 50% CDR tho xD

Thebes replacing Gaia was a good option but I really don't know how you're gonna stack that item in conquest. It's perfect for joust tho.

I also thought runeforged instead of blackthorn lategame, to stick to the "items I rarely use" theme.

PS: it might be worth noting I randomly built this yesterday while in online classes and stone of gaia came because I was looking for the whackiest thing to put on Guan. I did good.

(105) |

if you pick thebes on solo you get it late game. at this point you will usually be grouping with your team and the mage and adc clear the waves so it stacks on it's own.

that's true so it works better than Gaia

(143) |

Gaia is only situationally ok if the enemy team proc's the passive and they haven't built antiheal.

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Guan Yu, the undying

Smite God: Guan Yu

Guan Yu Build

Starter Items

Midgame, before item swap

Late game

Guan Yu's Skill Order

Conviction

Warrior's Will

Taolu Assault

Cavalry Charge

Quick notes on the build

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