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Hercules, the hero of Olympus!

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by TheAmazingComicBookGuy updated June 14, 2013

Smite God: Hercules

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Hercules Build

1st task! Buying starting items!

Build Item Mark of the Vanguard Mark of the Vanguard
Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion

2nd task! Slaying the enemies with these items!

Build Item Voidblade Voidblade
Build Item Bulwark of Hope Bulwark of Hope
Build Item Shifter's Shield Shifter's Shield
Build Item Runeforged Hammer Runeforged Hammer
Build Item Ankh of the Golem Ankh of the Golem
Build Item Titan's Bane Titan's Bane

Third task! Situational items (If needed)

Build Item Hide of the Nemean Lion Hide of the Nemean Lion
Build Item Magi's Cloak Magi's Cloak
Build Item Deathbringer Deathbringer
Build Item Rage Rage
Build Item Frostbound Hammer Frostbound Hammer

4th task! Controlling the map!

Build Item Ward Ward
8

5th task! Powering up!

Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
2
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion
2
Build Item Elixir of Power Elixir of Power
Build Item Elixir of Defense Elixir of Defense

6th task! Sell the Markt!

Build Item Sovereignty Sovereignty
Build Item Bracer of Replenishment Bracer of Replenishment

7th task! Abilities of doom and destruction!

Build Item Aegis Amulet (Old) Aegis Amulet (Old)
Build Item Purification Beads (Old) Purification Beads (Old)
Build Item Girdle of Might Girdle of Might
Build Item Heavenly Wings Heavenly Wings

Hercules's Skill Order

Driving Strike

1 X Y
Driving Strike
1 4 6 7 10

Earthbreaker

2 A B
Earthbreaker
3 15 16 18 19

Mitigate Wounds

3 B A
Mitigate Wounds
2 8 11 12 14

Excavate

4 Y X
Excavate
5 9 13 17 20
Driving Strike
1 4 6 7 10

Driving Strike

1 X
Hercules delivers a mighty strike, driving all enemies back, damaging and Stunning them. Hercules is immune to knockback during the dash.

Ability Type: Line, Dash, Damage
Damage: 100 / 170 / 240 / 310 / 380 (+90% of your Physical Power)
Stun: 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4 / 1.5s
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 12s
Earthbreaker
3 15 16 18 19

Earthbreaker

2 A
Hercules smashes the ground, sending a shockwave forward that does damage to all enemies in the path. Enemies at the end of the shockwave are thrown into the air towards Hercules.

Ability Type: Line, Knockback, Damage
Damage: 90 / 145 / 200 / 255 / 310 (+70% of your Physical Power)
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 12s
Mitigate Wounds
2 8 11 12 14

Mitigate Wounds

3 B
Hercules heals himself instantly and gains increased Attack Speed, Magical and Physical Protections for the next 4s. A percentage of the damage taken during this time is returned to him as an additional heal that at the end of the duration.

Ability Type: Buff
Initial Heal: 45 / 75 / 105 / 135 / 165
Damage Returned as Healing: 20 / 26 / 32 / 38 / 44%
Protections Buff: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60
Attack Speed: 25%
Cost: 60
Cooldown: 15s
Excavate
5 9 13 17 20

Excavate

4 Y
Hercules rips a huge boulder from the ground. Throwing the boulder does damage where the boulder lands. The boulder continues rolling, doing the same damage to all enemies in its path. Subsequent hits on the same enemy do 50% less damage per hit. Hercules is immune to crowd control while casting.

Ability Type: Circle, Damage
Damage: 300 / 425 / 550 / 675 / 800 (+100% of your Physical Power)
Radius: 15
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90 / 85 / 80 / 75 / 70s

Introduction!

Hello, and welcome to my third Smite guide! This time it's about everyone's favorite demigod, Hercules!!!

Gameplay video

Dawn Z's vid, make sure to check him out sometime ;)

Pros and Cons!

Pros!
- Great sustain
- Hard to kill
- Can screw over enemies at all stages of the game
- Great bruiser (tanky, but hits hard)
- Firs the roles of a bruiser, tank and an assassin
- If you survive the first burst from a teamfight you are gonna heal a lot and they won't be able to deal with you
- Great skillset		 Cons!
- Can screw over both himself or teammates
- Driving Strike pushes people away, which can be a pain when trying to chase someone down
- Abilities can be hard to hit
- Can be outshined by other bruisers
Thoughts on our dear Hercules!
- Overall, I think that our dear friend Hercules's pros outshine his cons and is a worthy god to take a look at

Ἡρακλῆς' skillset!

With this passive it is a pain to duel you, it also helps with some items and with your Mitigate Wounds. If you are in a duel take the benefits of being low health in consideration.

This is a very damaging ability, and part of your combo to kill someone with or just hand them to your team with. The aditional stun is a nice adition, and should be used smart. This is a very nica ability, but also your only means of escape.

This is your most important ability. It can pull your enemy towards your teammates and you. This is very dangerus for the enemy, and can also prevent them from escaping. Try to pull them into tower range and you almost got a kill secured

This gives you great survivability. Later in the game people might even try to ignore you if you activate it. If you survive the first burst in a teamfight with this, than you are gonna dominate the teamfight, but look out and don't take to much damage

This ultimate can hit very hard, but the dubble hit is what makes it even better. This can be tricky to aim, but very rewarding but look out, because the animation can be cancelled. Try to use it when the enemy is easy to hit (walking in a straight line or in the jungle)

extra tasks! Itemization

  • Starting items
    Mark of the Vanguard: This item gives you some great early game tankyness, but falls of lategame. Get it first to survive your lane.
    Warrior Tabi: These are the best boots for you, because they provide you some great early game power next to your Mark of the Vanguard's tankyness
    Healing Potion: I really love to start with one, even on Hercules with his heal, because you can maintain the lane with it.
  • Core items
    Voidblade: This neat item is great for any bruiser, gives you some defense, offensive power and a great extra passive!
    Bulwark of Hope: This item is made for Hercules' passive and heal, if you are not getting this on him you probably should think about some decisions in your life ;)
    Soul Eater: Gives you some nice attack speed, health AND lifesteal, the aura on it makes this a great item!
    Ankh of the bear/ Ankh of the Golem: Both of these are well suited for a bruiser, it just depends on the situation in which you are ;)
    Titan's Bane: When the enemy team has a tank who's got some great protections use this to cut trough their armor!
  • Situational items
    Hide of the Nemean Lion: If you have slain that lion why not put it on ;) This item is great for bruisers, but also for when the enemy has a snowballing carry or someone like that.
    Magi's blessing: Some people won't even try to attack you with this one on, because you just got invincible do to your passive, heal, bulwark and this!
    Deathbringer/ Rage: These are some wonderful items, but are very expensive and should only be picked up when you have a great gold lead
    Frostbound Hammer: Again, a nice chunk of health, power and a great passive which makes you an even more fearsome opponent
  • Abilities and potions
    Aegis Amulet/ Purification Beads: These are for when the enemy team has a big cc/damage ability that you might want to skip. Examples are Hades' ult and Ao Kuang's ult
    sprint: This is very neat for when you need to escape, but I would get beads or amulet over this one
    Girdle of Might: This item is for when you kinda fall into a support role, but feel free to use it on yourself. Try to use it when someone like Anhur uses his ult
    the potions should be pretty obvious imo

Gameplay


Laning: You can totally dominate this stage of the game with your Earthbreaker and Driving Strike combo, play aggressive and try to get fed as fast as possible. Hercules is one of the strongest snowball gods!

Mid game: Go ahead and roam, kill the carries as many times as you can, and prepare yourself for teamfights!
Late game: Try to win by pushing the towers and killing everyone who tries to get in your way, you can stomp every single squishy god at the enemy team at ONCE!

Teammates and Enemies!

  • Partners
    Everyone who needs some good inditation can be part of his good laning partners, but also gods that do have great inditation themselve and maybe even good cc can preform well with Hercules
  • Teamfights
    first off let your tanks inditate, than separate someone and score a kill, and finally crush the enemy with your ult. Don't forget to activate your mitigate wounds tho ;)
  • Enemies
    You do not wanna face anyone who can separate and cc you like Sobek can do the same to you like you can do to enemies. Also gods with great poke like Eset can be a pain in the ***

Summary

I hope you liked my Hercules guide and check him out sometime soon, have fun in Smite and thanks for reading!

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HiGHFiVE (1) | July 8, 2013 6:53am
Its a great Guide, but i would recommend to take out Bracers of Replenishment (:
Since it is just a early Game lane Item and there are better Options for late game IMO
And use more BBCoding to make the Guide look even better

Never used Eye of Retaliation, but it seems to be really good on him.

I would suggest you to put Stone of Gaia and Witch Stone in your Guide, both are awesome Items for Hercules.

+1 for this Guide.
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TheAmazingComicBookGuy (47) | June 20, 2013 3:53am
Downvote :'(
Feel free to tell me what I need to improve and give me some constructive feedback
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TheAmazingComicBookGuy (47) | June 17, 2013 10:27am
loopyman wrote:

great guide love the look of it +1
also nice Disney Hercules pic

thanks for the feedback man ;) I unfortunately missed this post xD
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loopyman (6) | June 14, 2013 9:27am
great guide love the look of it +1
also nice Disney Hercules pic
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Table of Contents
Introduction!
Gameplay video
Pros and Cons!
Ἡρακλῆς' skillset!
extra tasks! Itemization
Gameplay
Teammates and Enemies!
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