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Hou Yi - Post Nerf 3.16

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by masterricu updated September 1, 2016

Smite God: Hou Yi

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Hou Yi Build

Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi
Build Item Asi Asi
Build Item The Executioner The Executioner
Build Item Qin's Sais Qin's Sais
Build Item Rage Rage
Build Item The Crusher The Crusher

Hou Yi's Skill Order

Ricochet

1 X Y
Ricochet
1 3 6 7 10

Mark of the Golden Crow

2 A B
Mark of the Golden Crow
4 8 11 12 14

Divebomb

3 B A
Divebomb
2 15 16 18 19

Sunbreaker

4 Y X
Sunbreaker
5 9 13 17 20
Ricochet
1 3 6 7 10

Ricochet

1 X
Hou Yi fires a powerful shot that can ricochet off of walls. After firing, if this arrow bounces off of a wall it will travel 70 units from that point and gain +40% bonus damage to gods per bounce up to a maximum of 2 bounces. This arrow will stun if the target has Mark of the Golden Crow.

Ability Type: Line, Damage
Damage: 95 / 145 / 195 / 245 / 295 (+70% of your Physical Power)
Stun Duration: 1s
Range: 70
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8s
Mark of the Golden Crow
4 8 11 12 14

Mark of the Golden Crow

2 A
Hou Yi marks an enemy with Mark of the Golden Crow. Marked enemies take extra damage for every 10% of their missing health from Hou Yi's abilities and basic attacks. Also, marked enemies, including stealthed gods, are visible to Hou Yi on the minimap. The mark lasts for 10s.

Ability: Target, Debuff
Damage Increase: 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6% for every 10% of missing health
Range: 55
Cost: 50
Cooldown: 14s
Divebomb
2 15 16 18 19

Divebomb

3 B
Hou Yi launches into the air, and for a short time may target some distance away to quickly dive towards the ground damaging any enemies in the immediate area. If the target has Mark of the Golden Crow they are knocked back.

Ability: Circle, Leap, Damage
Damage: 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+60% of your Physical Power)
Range/Radius: 55/20
Cost: 70
Cooldown: 15s
Sunbreaker
5 9 13 17 20

Sunbreaker

4 Y
Hou Yi shoots nine arrows into the sky, striking one sun with each arrow. The nine suns come crashing down one by one, slowing and dealing damage in a target area over time. A target with Mark of the Golden Crow will have their movement speed slowed by an additional 20%.

Ability: Circle, Slow, Damage
Damage: 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120 (+25% of your Physical Power) every 0.5s
Damage (Maximum): 720 / 810 / 900 / 990 / 1080 (+225% of your Physical Power)
Duration: 4.5s
Slow: 20%
Slow Duration: 0.5s per hit
Range/Radius: 55/30
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

Introduction

Hello again Smitefire, as you may know Hou Yi received some nerfs in most recent patch. Base damage to his Ricochet was increased, at the return of less damage if you only hit a bounce shot. And Most notably, pen was removed from Mark of the Golden Crow. In this build, I will be going over his new skill sequence and build accordingly.

Skills


This is the ability you max 1st. The good news is, he will have better clear if you go for a direct shot, however if you double or triple bounce without hitting the first shot, it will be doing less damage than normal now. Think of him being a more direct hunter now compared to people going for MLG trickshots previously.


Yes this is still the ability that you max 2nd. The 20% pen was removed from it, however it still has the % damage increase per missing health. Overall, that is more important than levelling your jump, because if you choose to initiate with his Divebomb instead for damage, you just blew your escape. Level this ability second instead and save your escape, it still works well on his autos, but in a less OP way than before.

Overall, I feel like this change still makes hou strong, but more in an A+ kind of way vs S.


Max this ability Last. This is your escape, and while it does have a knockback, its just not worth levelling this over your mark.


Low damage ult that does work well for zoning, or if you can combo cc inside of it. Pick this skill up whenever its available.

Items


Warrior boots over ninja boots for better early game clear. Ninja boots dont make too much of a difference late game, so dont worry about them.


Standard lifesteal item that works well with other attack speed.


This item is the reason I dont pick up trans on hou. Because of how Mark of the Golden Crow works, hou yi does more damage for how much the enemy health is missing. Meaning if you build attack speed, you take better advantage of that passive. If you go into jg practice and try it out, exec has a slightly better time to kill than trans does if the enemy is marked, which is good because exec is 350 gold cheaper than trans. And overall, I dont feel like hou is that mana hungry.


At this point, you will be shredding through tanks already, so doing more damage to their health isnt bad either. Again, attack speed works well with his mark, and this item capitalizes on that.


Because hou will have good attack speed from his other 3 items, this will be proccing rage passive constantly. Because hou already has % damage boost on his mark, you DONT want big crit items, you want consistent crit items instead.


At this point in the game, I tend to focus on towers, and because titans and exec dont work well together, this is the next best option. The extra pen and damage make your crits hit harder as well, but if you want more crit chance I could see a use for wind demon instead. Againt, you dont want big crit from DB or malice because they dont work well with mark, and theyre just expensive. So if you want to buy crit, buy the cheaper items instead.

Summary

Overall I feel like this is a decent balance change to hou. I never felt like he was OP before, but againt tanks, he absolutely shredded them which wasnt fair. The pen chance was well deserved, and I think this will make him fit more into an A+ tier compared to how he was earlier.

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Drakonasx | September 3, 2016 7:50am
Nice guide. I am an adc main and i generally try new adcs. Gonna try Hou Yi maybe some time because he is not op as hell like before with his 2's 25% pen (No need to even get much pen when that was used).

But i would generally buy Transcendence for the huge power spike and to keep his 1 and 2 combo as often as possible, but that's just my preference.

Anyway, nice guide. You get props from me.
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masterricu (12) | September 13, 2016 11:44am
I personally dont think hou is too mana hungry, and I prefer to get my lifesteal online faster than stacking trans. But thats just me.

Glad you liked the guide!
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