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Hunter's Blessing for 
Deathbringer late game
Sell Hunter's Blessing for Deathbringer late game
Hunter's Blessing
Boots
Mana Potion
Purification Beads
Deathbringer
Ninja Tabi
Transcendence
Soul Eater
Rage
Titan's Bane
Asi can be swapped for Soul Eater
Odysseus' Bow can be swapped for 
Brawler's Beat Stick if anti-healing is needed
Asi can be swapped for Soul Eater
Odysseus' Bow can be swapped for Brawler's Beat Stick if anti-healing is needed
Odysseus' Bow
Ninja Tabi
Transcendence
Asi
The Executioner
Qin's Sais
Brawler's Beat Stick
Warrior Tabi
Transcendence
Jotunn's Wrath
Soul Eater
Titan's Bane
Phantom Veil if there's an 
Odin
Get Phantom Veil if there's an Odin
Purification Beads
Aegis Amulet
Phantom Veil
Late game this is the only consumable you'll need
Potion of Power
Y
B
A
X
This guide covers all modes except Siege.
If you see any errors, they're mostly likely from when I wrote the guide two years ago. please inform me of any, thanks.
Pros:
Flutter's passive
Heart Bomb it's best to build up stacks so when the stun kicks in, the enemy you targeted will be vulnerable to damage from you and you're alies. If you plan on using Share The Love that 16% more healing may help. "Healing" also includes Mana obtained from Share The Love. With Fields Of Love you can build it up if you want the duration of the mesmerize to be doubled. Since the mesmerize would be broken from you attacking them I wouldn't recommend building it up for that.
Cupid a lot of sustain. If you're low on mana give it to your allies. The total heal at full stacks of your passive is 156.25 per heart. Mana per heart when picked up by allies is 30. Drops 3 hearts. Cost is 50. So your profit is 40 mana. Remember how Share The Love effects mana obtained when allies pick the hearts up? At full stacks of your passive your profit would be 46.4 mana. Plus you also got to heal an ally or 3. Although if no allies pick the hearts up you would lose 50 mana. Ping on the location of the heart to tell them its there. You could also say "Take this jungle buff"
Hades were to use 
Pillar of Agony Flutter would be a life saver. If an enemy is trying to get away use Flutter + Heart Bomb. If you're leaving base with some allies you could use Flutter and your allies will benefit from the movment speed if they walk on the trail. If an 
Apollo or 
Thanatos (or both R.I.P) are chasing you with their ultimates, right before you think they'll land, activate Flutter there's a chance they'll miss and you could escape.
I'm a Monster. If Odin were to use 
Ring of Spears Fields Of Love would nicely fit inside. Try to position your target in the Center of the skill. As for the mesmerise, it'll often be broken by allies or you.
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Fields Of Love on the target Heart Bomb at the target
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Flutter Heart Bomb at the target
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Flutter Fields Of Love on the target(s) Heart Bomb at the targetCritical Chance Build: Ninja Tabi is to improve your DPS to help support Rage with its' high critical chance, and Deathbringer's increased critical strike damage. Soul Eater is for boxing and staying alive, while Titan's Bane keeps your damage up against tanks.
Qins's Sais Build: Since the focus of this build is Qin's Sais, attack speed is an important factor here. That's why I chose Asi over Soul Eater, and The Executioner over Titan's Bane; along with Odysseus' Bow.
Pure Ability Based Build: This build is made so that Cupid's abilities and combos are the core of the damage, as opposed to basic attacks. Transcendence is the obvious choice here over 
Devourer's Gauntlet due to the cooldown reduction, mana, and power. Jotunn's Wrath and Soul Eater are great due to the same reasons that Transcendence is. Titan's Bane and Brawler's Beat Stick are for the power and penetration.
Devourer's Gauntlet. The last tickets will be reduced soon. You have to be extra careful and stick with your team all the time. You can still take buff camps if you like.
Hydra's Lament. Devourer's Gauntlet by now. This is when Apophis spawns at the center of the map, at 10:00. Don't stand on it, or else you'll receive 1000 damage. Try to push Towers and Phoenixes when nobody's there. You could also group and and do it, it'll be faster and you'll deal more damage. Team fights will break out more often due to teams trying to push lanes. Ward in the center of the map and near the center mana camp to prevent ganks.
Kali are much stronger and can easily kill you. Work together to push objectives. If you get a decide don't go for Apophis, it's not worth it. You should be going for the remaining Phoenixes and the enemy Titan if you can. If at low health retreat.
Notes
Qin's Sais Based Build: I started with 
Heavy Mace (which will build into Jotunn's Wrath) due to the mana Jotunn's Wrath gives, along with the CDR, power, and penetration. 
Specialist's Blessing is great for the CDR buff. Stacks are easily built. The build overall is based on Qin's Sais due to that being cheaper than a critical chance based build. Tower pushing is key, that's why this build is high in penetration. Brawler's Beat Stick is for anti-heal; and remember that as of recent there will always be a healer unless a re-roll occurs.
Cupid when playing Assault. Flutter and Fields Of Love on them if it's ready. It'll kill the minions and mesmerise enemy gods so they could maybe take some damage from the towers. Hades and 
Ares are easy targets as long as you're not in their range.About
Geb and 
Hou Yi. transcendance has recently been sort of knocked-out of the meta due to the buff on Devourer's Gauntlet. I've added a build that implements devourer's gantlet rather than transcendance.
Heart Bomb it weak compared to other Hunter's wave clear and can't even hit the whole wave. Cupid is best paired with a support with good clear like 
Ymir. As of recent you start in duo lane. The jungler will make his rotations. When he makes it to the void camps clear it with him for the XP and gold. Don't take it, it's for the support. Play cautiously until Mid-Late game. Warding is key. Heart Bomb can probably kill minions instantly by now; depending if you're fed or not. You can be more aggressive now. Keep warding in-case there are ganks, for they'll set you back. Push the enemy Tower in your lane when he's gone or dead. If you've pushed both the T1 and T2 Tower rotate to other lanes to help. Just remember to watch your own lane as well as enemies will try to do the same. When pushing a Tower or Phoenix you'll be revealed on the minimap. Enemy Gods will come after you so be careful.
Cupid. She's also the voice actor for 
Artemis Cupid is Eros
Aphrodite and Ares Cupid Eros has a wife named Psyche, the goddess of the soul. Together they had a daughter named Hedone
Hercules has the smallest
Cupid
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Arena,clash joust:
Critical Chance Build (Has items that just do not work that well together, soul eater/trans and crit):
Qin's build (2 items with NO power + ninja tabi together) - you can go devourers or trans in a qins build but i'll stick to trans in my example:
Pure Ability Based Build (Could get a little attack speed since you have none) :
For Arena and clash I would start tier 2 trans. For joust I think attackers blessing and tier 1 trans.
Assault:
Start (specialists is a waste on cupid, and you only pick up mana pots for some reason): For start either:
Assault build: Build order depends on start but im thinking:
Conquest ADC (ok the start is fine but I would MUCH rather get tier 2 trans to save gold, and also change YOUR start to have multi-pots instead of mana pots):
Qins build (At this point you may as well just go an actual ability based build):
Crit build (PLEASE DO NOT build O-bow in a crit build): Devourer's Guantlet,
You say "Soul Eater is for boxing and staying alive" - yet it isn't for boxing, it's for sustain through ability usage, which Cupid makes **** use of. Without his ult he only procs the ability lifesteal on his 1, making Soul Eater a trash item on Cupid.
I'll change/update the guide when I have the time
Remember
Firstly, as I always say, build order is important, and a lot of others list builds as you have. I know that you're listing your last item in the 1st slot based on replacement of a blessing...but that's confusing. If you're showing a build, just show it in order of item purchase, not how it shows up end-game.
For the Arena/Clash/Joust Qin's build, if you're committing to Qin's, you're committing to basic attacks. So one of your options is to completely drop
For Assault, I'm in agreement with Myst. I always, always start Jotunn's on Cupid. The healing isn't huge but is always helpful, even with a healer teammate (especially if they're dead), and the CDR = more hearts, more mana (due to teammates picking up hearts), and more
For Conquest ADC...again,
I hope you find some free time to update this amazing guide!!!
Feedback incoming.
On to the writeup sections:
Thanks for the feedback! Also, I feel like there is always something "off" about this guide
There just some points I suggest you update:
Finally, nice to see a
At max rank, 110 base heal per heart + 25% scaling. 56.25 from power from items from the main build (25% of 225 power). 166.25 per heart, 498.75 from all 3 hearts.
You say though that you can reach 195 heal per heart with a less powerful build, and that's mathematically impossible. This would mean you'd need 85 contribution...that means you'd need 340 power, so it would have to be a MORE powerful build, and I don't know how you'd hit 340 power. Maybe with a significantly off-meta build...Warrior + Trans + Shifter's + Bloodforge + Malice + Deathbringer = 363 power, but holy **** stinky build.
Maybe I was too high about 195 but it's something around this with some less powerful build BUT, as I said, this number is only possible fully stacked (With fulluy stacked I was talking about the Cupid's passive)
Furthermore, the numbers with
So I hope my thoughts and ideas help so keep working on this guide and keep giving it love and dedication this could become a nice
Alrighty, I think you added to this guide with multiple builds...am I correct? Anyway, with 4.13, going to see if I have different feedback for the various builds as you currently have them.
Anyway, thoughts?
In arena, should I be stacking at all due to the lack of minions?
Jotunns sounds good, I'll add that.
How do you add another skill sequence chart?? Or do you mean just writing I'd down?
For
For defence against a team with 4 of the same type would
Does
Witchblade has lifesteal?? I've gotta try this. I'll add the relics too.
Thanks for the feedback!
Anyway, to answer some of your questions...Stacking is fine in Arena...as long as you have good wave-clear, and as long as you don't have 3 other people trying to build stacks at the same time, you should be okay.
When you change to a different build tab, you have the same option to suggest the skill leveling order. Check it out carefully, you'll see what I mean.
My whole thing with crit is that it takes 2 items. Qin's only takes one to be the main DPS focus of the build. W/ Trans, you need 2 crit, at least 1 strong pen, and boots. That's 5 of 6 item slots. So do you get lifesteal? Or pass on it to get something else?
I guess that's why I like Devo's. It's the initial focus of the build...early stacking...and then there's my lifesteal that I feel so dependent on (or maybe it's just like a security blanket). So now, if I want to go crit, I don't have to decide between lifesteal and something else...Boots, Devo's, Pen, 2x crit, and any utility I want without having to potentially sacrifice lifesteal (like getting Fatalis prior to this).
For Arena, crit can be a bit expensive, but
Protection reduction (e.g.
Anyway, sorry this was so long. Felt like rambling.
- Only his
Heart Bomb and his 
Fields Of Love deal direct damage. Granted, they have great scaling, and this is a solid reason to build high power, but 1 regular ability and 1 ult by themselves don't just make him ability-based.
- In other teamfight modes, I'd consider CDR from items like
Jotunn's Wrath. In Conquest, not so much.
- His
Share The Love heal does scale with power, but it's sort of a secondary thing, and at least late-game, 20 power difference (between Warrior & Ninja) only translates to 5 health per heart...pretty much nothing. Granted, we probably shouldn't be talking about just Warrior and Ninja...we should perhaps be discussing the larger picture of the build as a whole...meaning...is he a Trans god or is he a crit god?
In the end, it really depends on mode. Going with Conquest with an early emphasis on the need for wave-clear, I would absolutely start withHis
@Tlaloc1050: Things I would consider at this point...at least for Conq or standard ADC build...
I'm down with the crit
That said...combining
Your build, as the main example, is severely lacking in enough penetration. The answer to that? Probably not
And in actuality,
Other points...I think you're building
Also, you're building him hybrid...you've added
In any case, my suggestion is to drop
And just to clarify, why not Fatalis 2nd? It provides 0 power...the 10 flat pen is okay, and the attack speed is nice, but the increased price ($2600) means it'll take longer to build, and until you've got the added attack speed from your
Hope this helps!