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Shoes of Focus with 
Pridwen after you bought 
Elixir of Speed.
Replace Shoes of Focus with Pridwen after you bought Elixir of Speed.
Shoes of Focus
Gauntlet of Thebes
Sovereignty
Heartward Amulet
Relic Dagger
Spirit Robe
Pridwen
Guardian's Blessing
Shoes
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Shoes of Focus is the option you'll get 90% of the time. 
Reinforced Shoes is only good against a high pressure match-up (Say 
Izanami and 
Sylvanus), and 
Traveler's Shoes will help with early rotations and MP5.
Shoes of Focus is the option you'll get 90% of the time. Reinforced Shoes is only good against a high pressure match-up (Say Izanami and Sylvanus), and Traveler's Shoes will help with early rotations and MP5.
Shoes of Focus
Reinforced Shoes
Traveler's Shoes
Sovereignty
Contagion
Jade Emperor's Crown
Hide of the Nemean Lion
Spectral Armor
Midgardian Mail
Breastplate of Valor
Emperor's Armor
Heartward Amulet
Pestilence
Void Stone
Oni Hunter's Garb
Shogun's Kusari
Genji's Guard
Bulwark of Hope
Gauntlet of Thebes
Spirit Robe
Mantle of Discord
Pridwen
Relic Dagger
Gem of Isolation
Stone of Binding
Winged Blade
Witchblade
Magic Shell
Heavenly Wings
Horrific Emblem
Shield of Thorns
Cursed Ankh
Sentry Ward
Ward
Elixir of Speed
Elixir of Defense
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Khepri, The Dawn Bringer, because this big beetle in my favorite guardian for the support role, and I hope that this guide encourage you to play him in some way. I guarantee that once you get the feeling of playing everyone's favorite bug, you're never going back!|
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Khepri as a support, going through his strengths, weaknesses, abilities, combos, builds, goals as a support and general tips.|
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Khepri is a backline defensive support that specializes on protecting his team and punishing those who try to dive his allies. His playstyle is very defensive and reactive - sure, he can be an initiator, but his focus is on reacting to the enemy team's actions, so he can try to shut them down - so he's best served building full defense items, since his damage output isn't that high. Keep in mind that Khepri isn't a bully or a highly aggressive support like 
Ares, 
Bacchus or 
Jormungandr, but more like Sylvanus and 
Ganesha.|
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• Super tanky. • Lots of CC with Abduct and Solar Flare;• Can save allies from death with Scarab's Blessing;• Rising Dawn can help with clear and protect allies;• Can shield allies with  Fortitude;. |
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• Useless if behind; • Mana hungry and long cooldowns; • Scarab's Blessing is hard to master and can be countered by executes;• Abduct makes you vunerable to basic attacks;• Big hitbox, easier to get hit; • Low damage, very reliant on his team. |
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•23/02/2020 - Version 1.0 - Guide published and updated for Patch 7.2, "The Ascendant Warrior". |
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Description: Every 5s, Khepri applies a shield to himself and nearby allied gods for 2% of the target's Maximum Health for 15s. The rate is slowed to every 10s while in combat. (Max 10%). Overview: Fortitude is an AOE shield that affects all allies nearby and scales with the target's health. It's great during the laning phase to protect your ADC, and good to apply to all allies before a big teamfight. Just remember that you have to stay close to your allies, otherwise the shield fades away |
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Description: Khepri lunges forward, dealing damage to enemies he passes through. If he connects with an enemy god he stops, grabs them, and starts pulling them backwards while gaining increased Protections. Enemies are silenced for the duration of the pull. Overview: The best CC in Khepri's kit, Abduct can basically grant a kill in later stages of the game, if your team respond accodngly to it. However, you have to be VERY careful when using it, because it doesn't stop basic attacks, so even with increased protections, be ready to take a few hits if you use it on the enemy ADC or Assassin.You also don't want to use this ability without being CERTAIN that you'll grab someone, otherwise you'll end up out of position. |
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Description: Khepri rolls the sun forward, setting ablaze all enemies it touches, reducing physical protections, and dealing damage over time. Allies that are hit take reduced damage from enemies for the duration. Overview: At first, this ability might look like just a clear ability, but it's much more than that! Aside from helping with clear, Rising Dawn can reduce physical protections and increase your own allies protections overall. It also works on minions, so try to hit both waves (allies and enemies) when casting this ability. |
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Description: Khepri calls down the sun's ire at the target location, dealing damage and rooting all targets in the area. Overview: A big AOE root that can be used to iniciate onto a target or to peel for your allies. Be sure to use it accordingly, since the cooldown is high. |
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Description: Khepri blesses an allied god, immediately cleansing them of all crowd control as well as granting them Movement Speed, and immunity to slow effects. If the marked ally would die while blessed, they are instead revived with a percentage of their maximum Health at Khepri's location. Executed allies do not revive. Overview: His ultimate is the reason I like Khepri so much! If timed correctly, you can save allies from certain death, either by cleasing them from CC or by reviving them on your location. Just keep 2 things in mind:1. If they die, they'll respawn on your location, so be sure to stay away from danger when doing so; 2. Executed allies DO NOT come back. So if  Achilles,  Ao Kuang or  Thanatos execute your allies, there's nothing you can do to save them. |
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Khepri doesn't really have a lot of combos, but I'll list two that I use the most.|
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Nike guide. I'll talk about the core items (Items that I consider you should buy ALL THE TIME) and then I'll discuss about all the situationals that we have to consider.
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Khepri's playstyle. In my opinion, and on the way that I play him, I always go to a defensive and reactive playstyle. In that sense, I only rotate when the other support does it, I only engage if my team is secure about it (I'm not an initiator, I'm a follower) and I'm not super aggressive going-for-kills in lane. I like to play it safe, and this is the playstyle that I'm going to cover in this section.| Early Game |
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Belt of Frenzy
Hel
Chang'e
Guan Yu
Horus
Vamana
Erlang Shen
Comments bellow are from before the guide was published. Builds got changed since then.
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As always, feedback is appreciated.
Also, on your credits in the end of your guide, my name is now green, not yellow ;p
I always considered Breastplate of Valor a selfish item, I avoid building it on supports (even at solos, actually) because there are better options when you're thinking about protecting your team.
As Kriega, Bran and Devampi discussed bellow, Pridwen is a better option than BoV, although Khepri doesn't use it very well.
I've sent you a PM on Discord about this.
(Then again, maybe I call BS because he hates playing Support LOL)
I can agree with Chunk that early CDR can be very nice. He can be a bit mana hungry because you can very easily use all 3 of your main abilities when you're playing more aggressively, and it's also nice that all 3 have the ability to deal damage and have secondary use besides just damage.
But as a Support, I also feel that getting an item without some outside effect (depending on point of view) isn't as preferable. IMO, my normal build direction would be very similar to Vini's here.
And if you go that route, that's 20% CDR right there.
So in the end, although I feel Prid is functional, I prefer other options.
The second point is that it's also slightly a more selfish item just like BoV. While IMO a support will see the most value with items that provide some effects for their team (aka aura items or debuff/buff items lotus crown,
Looking good. You've got most things covered, just like Papps with his new Faf guide.
Some of the same comments I applied to Papps' guide apply with this build list:
- Rather than 3 health and 3 mana, I think you can probably replace the mana with
Multi Potions. Depends on how annoying you want to be, I guess. He can be a bit more aggressive and not worry about health as much as some other Guardians, once he's built up some stacks of his passive shield, so you can really dive the enemy if you so choose. Being able to really keep your health up with continued punishment from the enemy by having a health AND multi going at the same time can be really threatening, IMO. Depends also on your ADC clearing the minions well and both of you not being zoned, in which case Mana might be better.
- Further to that idea, one of our old members, Estidien (Salad) is a great Support, and he actually likes going aggressive on Khep, by starting at level 1 with
Abduct, and focusing on that first. It's obviously weaker on minions at first, as you're unlikely to hit the entire wave, but it WILL do more damage by level 4. That's a different playstyle than what a normal Khep would probably do, but it's something to consider depending on matchups. If they can't interrupt your pull with like a 
Bacchus knockup or 
Athena taunt, it'll be better.
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Khepri is a quintessential passive Support and thus does very well with auras, I still feel that 
Heartward Amulet is a bit lackluster overall. I don't have a problem having it as an item option, but listing as "core" is something I wouldn't suggest. I think 
Void Stone, depending on your team comp, is a good alternative in the early/mid game, and of course you've got other options such as 
Oni Hunter's Garb, 
Pestilence, 
Genji's Guard, etc.
- It's perhaps less preferred than before, but depending on what else you build, you might be pretty low on CDR, and
Breastplate of Valor is your single largest CDR buff item (of those Khep would choose, as 
Chronos' Pendant is obviously not a good choice for him). It should be a listed option.
Anyway, good overall. +1