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Horus Viable Solo Build

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Smite God: Horus

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Horus Build

Starter

Notes Horus's clear isn't very good, but I don't see much of a point in building items like Bluestone or Manikin. Your main purpose in solo isn't the same as many other solo laners. You're purely meant as a second support. Warrior's Axe will give you a little more sustain and help keep you alive, plus you'll want the upgrade in the late game. Chalice/pots for more sustain. Blink for engage, beads for safety, shell for team relic. Make your choice depending on the comp you're against.

Warrior's Axe

Chalice of Healing

Healing Potion

Blink Rune

Purification Beads

Magic Shell

First Back(If Possible)

Notes Warrior Tabi is to help your clear. Tank boots is an option here, but your clear will be atrocious and though you're technically a second support you'll still want a little damage so you're not doing potato damage. More pots for sustain or wards for vision and safety.

Warrior's Axe

Warrior Tabi

Healing Potion

Ward

Defense

Notes Listen, I know this isn't a support item but bear with me here. We'll just keep it moving and you'll see this all come together soon enough. Mystical makes you a little threatening and helps your clear. How are you supposed to help others if you can't even help yourself? You're a bit tankier, but now you do some more damage making you a little more viable.

Warrior's Axe

Warrior Tabi

Mystical Mail

Defense Again

Notes Hide of the Urchin will make you very tanky by increasing your all prots and health. You also gain a some mana which can help you in the early game.

Warrior's Axe

Warrior Tabi

Mystical Mail

Hide of the Urchin

Team-fense

Notes I actually suggest Caduceus Shield on Horus because of the AoE heal on his 3. It's nuts and sometimes as a support Horus I max his 3 for the massive heal and I buy Caduceus second item to further increase that heal. But as a solo laner do not do all of this. Instead just buy Caduceus Shield later on when teamfights are more relevant.

Warrior's Axe

Warrior Tabi

Mystical Mail

Hide of the Urchin

Caduceus Club

More Defense

Notes Genji's Guard will give you the CDR that you're lacking in the build currently. Now that it's late game, you'll need your abilities up more often, this item will help you wuth that. It's passive decreases you cooldowns by a few seconds when hit by a magical ability. The item also gives intial CDR, health, mp5 and some good magical defense.

Warrior's Axe

Warrior Tabi

Mystical Mail

Hide of the Urchin

Caduceus Club

Genji's Guard

Upgrading Starter

Notes Hero's Axe is kind of a cool thing with Horus because you are almost a second support so you're here to peel and save lives. The shield given to one of your carries will be really impactful in a teamfight and this happens every 8 seconds which sounds insane. Hopefully the shield doesn't glitch with your ult shield though. Just keep that in mind.

Axe of Animosity

Warrior Tabi

Mystical Mail

Hide of the Urchin

Caduceus Club

Genji's Guard

Selling Boots

Notes Void Shield is a great way to finish the build, with it giving you power pen and protections on top of a little bit of health making your shield a little bigger too.

Axe of Animosity

Void Shield

Mystical Mail

Hide of the Urchin

Caduceus Club

Genji's Guard

Selling Mystical

Notes Mystical Mail in combination with Hero's Axe will over cap you on CCR, not to mention the stacks of CCR you gain from using your heal. Mantle of Discord is a great way to round out this build as it gives you all prots and CDR, as well as a passive that can protect in a couple of scenarios. One, being when you're ulting and you get to the health threshold, the one second stun can give you a little bit of a head start to possibly ult out safely.

Axe of Animosity

Void Shield

Mantle of Discord

Hide of the Urchin

Caduceus Club

Genji's Guard

Notes Since you are role playing as a support, there's no true damage options I would recommend.
Spirit Robe is a great item, it gives you all prots, CDR and CCR. The passive will make you take less damage for a few seconds too.
Hide of the Nemean is good against high AA team comps.
Sovereignty is good is your real support chose a more aggressive build route. You are a second support so this item is good.
Gauntlet of Thebes is the same way, helping your team out if your support when more damage oriented. I suggest building this later on though.
Pestilence is great against high healing team comps.
Magi's Cloack is good into high cc comps. It can ensure that you dash to your teammates for the heal. Or even ensure you nail the stun. You also gain health and some all prots.

Spirit Robe

Hide of the Nemean Lion

Sovereignty

Gauntlet of Thebes

Pestilence

Magi's Cloak

Horus's Skill Order Notes I'm sure you're all thinking about how this may look confusing. But trust me. Your 1 and 2 are your main sources of clearing aside from Mystical Mail. your 3 is good for teamfights and so is your ult, but your aren't really in teamfights till mid game, right? So ignoring your ult and point saving can get your 1 and 2 maxed before level 13 drastically increasing your damage. You can level your abilities however you want, but I suggest giving this a shot in solo.

Notes

I'm sure you're all thinking about how this may look confusing. But trust me. Your 1 and 2 are your main sources of clearing aside from Mystical Mail. your 3 is good for teamfights and so is your ult, but your aren't really in teamfights till mid game, right? So ignoring your ult and point saving can get your 1 and 2 maxed before level 13 drastically increasing your damage. You can level your abilities however you want, but I suggest giving this a shot in solo.

Updraft

1 X

1 3 6 7 10

Fracture

2 A

2 4 8 9 11

Protector's Surge

3 B

5 14 15 16 18

To The Skies!

4 Y

12 13 17 19 20

1 3 6 7 10

Updraft

1 X

Horus uses his wings to create an updraft around himself, knocking nearby enemies into the air.

Using the currents from the updraft, Horus' next Basic Attack within 5s will create a gust of wind that travels forward, damaging enemies and slowing them for 2.5s. This attack cannot crit. Enemies that are knocked up when hit take bonus damage.

Ability Type: Circle, Knockup, Damage
Damage: 50 / 95 / 140 / 185 / 230 (+75% of your Physical Power)
Gust Damage: 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 + 100% of your Basic Attack Damage
Gust Bonus Damage: 1.5x
Gust Slow: 25%
Radius: 12
Cost: 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75
Cooldown: 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12s

2 4 8 9 11

Fracture

2 A

Horus dashes forward a short distance, ready to strike with his weapon. If Horus hits a god he stops and stuns the god for 1.25s. He will then wind up a heavy cleave. Enemies hit have their Protections reduced for 3s.

Ability Type: Line, Dash, Damage
Dash Damage: 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170 (+30% of your Physical Power)
Cleave Damage: 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 (+50% of your Physical Power)
Protection Reduction: 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25
Range: 40
Cost: 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75
Cooldown: 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12s

5 14 15 16 18

Protector's Surge

3 B

Horus rushes to the aid of an ally. After selecting an ally, Horus will leap to their location before descending. Upon landing, the selected ally and all nearby allies have their health restored and gain protections for 5s.

Ability Type: Leap
Heal: 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160
Protection Buff: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30
Range: 60
Cost: 45
Cooldown: 13s

12 13 17 19 20

To The Skies!

4 Y

Horus sends a mirror image of himself into the sky that scouts for a location to fly to. Upon selecting a ground location, Horus will begin to channel for 2s. Allies near Horus after these 2 seconds are flown to the location Horus' image chose. Horus and his allies land with such force, enemies take damage and are knocked away from the landing location. Horus and his allies at the landing location gain a protective shield for 4s.

Ability Type: Circle, Buff, Damage
Damage: 150 / 250 / 350 / 450 / 550 (+80% of your Physical Power)
Shield: 160 / 240 / 320 / 400 / 480
Radius: 20
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

Horus Threats

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Even

Minor

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(15) |

What about instead of ? Mail gives more health and better sustain and has a better passive than Hide and it does not need to be stacked either.
So why hide over mail?

(1) |

So, all of my guides haven’t been updated for a little while. I plan on coming back and changin all of them with this next patch since so much is being changed. Mail is possibly better than Hide in some builds/situations but Hide gives more in my opinion. Mail is definitely a team oriented item when as a frontline you don’t really want to be around your team as your diving the back line. Hide gives more prots, health/mana making you a little more tanky and Mail requires an enemy to die or a tower/Phoenix to fall for it to be valuable.

this is by FAR the best build i have had with horus i have won lane every game and ever game has been a surrender i haven’t even been able to build Genjis in a game yet

(1) |

That’s awesome to hear. Thank you for trying it out and all. I’m glad it’s been working out for you. If you end up trying my other builds let me know how they feel. I’m still working out the kinks as of right now, but I wouldn’t mind a little bit of input either way.

(3) |

Hello! interesting build but I see one problem - you build over cap Crowd Control Reduction

With , , , and Hero's Axe. Do not forget about his passive . There is no big reason to build even 40$ of CCR (only if enemy have to much Cc, okay)

Probably you can used only one Hero's Axe, it may be enough for Horus. for damage in that case, i dont know.
Another one is Hero's Axe passive and 15% of your HP, it can be better to get even more HP.

is good item instead of or both of them if you need cap of CCR. In this build you dint need it, is better and gives extra HP to work with Hero's Axe

And pridven passive just not works with horus. This is a feature

(1) |

I have made the necessary changes and I hope this build is a little better. Thank you for the advice.

(1) |

Hey, thank you for your input. I appreciate that. I realize now my mistake with the overcap on CCR. There are other items that I could have used instead. I guess I didn’t want The Sledge to die, you know? Spirit is such an underrated item as well. Mystical Mail was 100% to help for wave clear and a little for early pressure since that’s kinda what Horus struggles with in solo, but once late game comes around you could potential sell Mystical for another item if you preferred. As for Sledge, skipping the item overall wouldn’t hurt. Thank you again for your comment.

(3) |

Your welcome. Also, In that build you could focus not at combined items. Like get full defence item and then more offensive items instead offence+defence

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I was going for a more team-oriented build. Which is why there’s not a single full damage item but instead hybrid items, and even the hybrid items help your team.

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