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Vampiric Shroud
Spellbook
Vampiric Shroud
Book of Thoth
Shoes of Focus
Rod of Tahuti
Breastplate of Valor
Book of Thoth
Shoes of Focus
Rod of Tahuti
Breastplate of Valor
Ethereal Staff
Bulwark of Hope
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My IGN is Hiromitsu and i mostly play Conquest with hades as MID or SOLO lane.
I can say as a conquest player i don't see many hades players out there (at least i have not met many) and most are just bad. BUT, the god itself is really good and it should be played more, especially with the right build and skill sequence.
I play hades mid mostly, because it's easier to kill other mages rather than warriors or assassins. ( They have more escapes :I )
Pros
[*] High sustain
[*] Amazing clear (blight + 3 - devour souls)
[*] High dmg (++ more dmg if more minions with blight around)
[*] Great crowd control
[*] Especially good at solo and team fights.
Cons
[*] Only one escape that is also one of his dmg abilities
[*] Highly dependant on skills
[*] Hunters/ADC - they are your worst enemies -late game (however with this build they don't prove to be very difficult to deal with,yet they are annoying anyway)
It's simple really as far as skills are concerned, for clear:
2 - 3 basic attacks into the minions to get them into a cluster then use 3(that's if you get blight on 3 minions but even 2 works)
OR
Use 2 on most of them and then 3 should do the job. Keep your escape unless you want to initiate or at lvl 2 when you have to use it for dmg.
For 1 v 1 fights
- Harass with autos! Yes, keep blight on him as much as you can. The passive is important!
It gives good boosts to skills EX: blight + 1 = 20% to a 40% slow for 2 sec at max lvl, that's quite alot. blight + 3 gives dmg, heals you and bonus dmg to enemy!
Other than this, try to get them to 75% life, and lure them into minions, use 3, more auto harass and finish with 1 or 1+ ultimate.
Try to avoid using the ult at start, unless you know it will really dmg them alot and you can finish.
Team fights: Pretty much the same as 1 v 1 but against more enemies - go for the squishy ones i recommend. Late you are tanky enough to get rid of most anyway.
I dont think there is a better item choice for Hades
Why this item choice? I'll go into detail below.
Vampiric - Magic power, gives life and mana so it's helpful as starter
Book of thoth - Gives you mana, alot of MP, and stacks well with Breastplace of Valor.
Rod of tahuti - If you complete this item and book stacks then your MP should be amazing for mid game, you can kill people with 1 + 3 and a few basics sometimes!
Breastplate of valor - It's now time to get tanky + CDR + MP with book
Ethereal staff - Life and mana which in turn gives you more MP ofc.
Bulward - This item isn't really necessary, i pick it for the magic def and life for some more MP and survival. It's your choice if you take it or choose something else.
BEADS - you will almost always need them + the cdr is good.
CURSE - situational against healers
TELEPORT - some more mobility as you teleport to wards
HEAVENLY AGILITY - helps you and your teammates, always useful against slows.
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As Hades needs to be real close to his targets to deal damages and/or tank, I would have first bought the
Also, the
For Joust 3vs3, it can still be interesting, especially if all enemies are magical or all physical damage dealers (because you can probably remove 1 defensive item).
When I play 5vs5, I first go with
Boots are not mandatory, but I know it's quite frustrating to be the slowest guy on the map, so you can probably afford to buy
Then I choose another defensive item according to which ennemy god(s) is(are) doing good in the game.
At this step, you should already have 3 defensive items. Then you can go for some damages. I prefer to start with Warlock's Sash in order to start stacking. Also you can go for
As it can save your life to go average fast (in addition to
For the sixth item, I usally go for the
Regarding actives,
To sum-up, in most cases I would go this way :
Actives :
If you don't need/want to tank, there is another interesting item set :
Actives :
In both cases I do not use boots (I trust my defense!), but you can remove an item to put boots instead if you feel more confortable with boots.
Anyway, that's just my point of view! :)
The guide could use some expanding, bit more about skills, possible combos. Maybe also add some situational items.
Also not the most beautiful guide out there, bit more work on coding.
Still looks like a good hades build, will vote up if it works in testing.