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Lil Nu Wa Guide

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by Bad0Luck0Charm updated September 17, 2020

Smite God: Nu Wa

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Nu Wa Build

Starting Build

Notes This build helps you get doom orb early. Since you don't have an escape, doom orb will be very helpful.

Notes

This build helps you get doom orb early. Since you don't have an escape, doom orb will be very helpful.

Build Item Mage's Blessing Mage's Blessing
Build Item Lost Artifact Lost Artifact
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion
2
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
3

Full Build

Notes Here is an example of a full build for Nu Wa mid. If you are up against healers or heavy lifesteal users, switch Spear of Desolation for Divine Ruin. If the enemies are building a lot of HP, switch Obsidian Shard for Soul Reaver.

Notes

Here is an example of a full build for Nu Wa mid. If you are up against healers or heavy lifesteal users, switch Spear of Desolation for Divine Ruin. If the enemies are building a lot of HP, switch Obsidian Shard for Soul Reaver.

Build Item Mage's Blessing Mage's Blessing
Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Doom Orb Doom Orb
Build Item Spear of Desolation Spear of Desolation
Build Item Soul Gem Soul Gem
Build Item Obsidian Shard Obsidian Shard
Build Item Rod of Tahuti Rod of Tahuti

Defensive options

Notes If you find yourself needing to build some defense, these are good choices. I would build this later on though, if you build defenses early it will throw off your power spike and give you a weak mid game.

Notes

If you find yourself needing to build some defense, these are good choices. I would build this later on though, if you build defenses early it will throw off your power spike and give you a weak mid game.

Build Item Breastplate of Valor Breastplate of Valor
Build Item Void Stone Void Stone
Build Item Mantle of Discord Mantle of Discord
Build Item Ethereal Staff Ethereal Staff

Relics

Notes You pretty much always want to get these two relics.

Notes

You pretty much always want to get these two relics.

Build Item Purification Beads Purification Beads
Build Item Aegis Amulet Aegis Amulet

Nu Wa's Skill Order Notes At level 1 you want to grab your 3. At level 2, pick your 1 for more clear or your 2 for PvP. At level 3 pick whichever one you haven't gotten yet.

The levelling priority is 3,4,2,1

Notes

At level 1 you want to grab your 3. At level 2, pick your 1 for more clear or your 2 for PvP. At level 3 pick whichever one you haven't gotten yet.

The levelling priority is 3,4,2,1

Mysterious Fog

1 X Y
Mysterious Fog
2

Clay Soldiers

2 A B
Clay Soldiers
3

Shining Metal

3 B A
Shining Metal
1 4

Fire Shards

4 Y X
Fire Shards
5
Mysterious Fog
2

Mysterious Fog

1 X
Nu Wa condenses moisture into fog at her location which then rolls forward away from her. She and all allies are Stealthed while inside the fog, and have increased movement speed. Attacking breaks the Stealth effect for 1s.

Enemies that run into the fog take damage, and continue to take additional damage again every second they are in the fog.

Ability Type: Ground Target
Damage: 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Damage Per Tick: 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 (+10% of your Magical Power)
Lifetime: 6s
Movement Speed: 10%
Radius: 20
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 13s
Clay Soldiers
3

Clay Soldiers

2 A
Nu Wa conjures Clay Soldiers from the Earth. If she marked a target while summoning them, they will pursue target until it dies. If she summoned them with no target, they will attack enemy gods who damage Nu Wa, or closest enemies.

Soldiers live for 10s. First they will dash at enemies within 30 units, applying a stack of protection reductions. Stacks up to 3 times, stacks last 2s. They will basic attack after that.

Ability Type: Summon Pet
Number Conjured: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 3 Soldiers
Soldier's Health: 200 (+20% of your Maximum Health)
Base Movement Speed: 365 / 380 / 395 / 410 / 425
Dash Magical Protection Reduction Per Stack: 4 / 7 / 10 / 13 / 16
Basic Attack Damage: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 Per Hit
Range: 40
Cost: 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100
Cooldown: 16s
Shining Metal
1 4

Shining Metal

3 B
Nu Wa launches a mass of shining metal, damaging all enemies it hits. If it hits one of her Clay Soldiers, it explodes, dealing additional damage and Stunning enemies.

Ability Type: Line
Damage: 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 / 250 (+75% of your Magical Power)
Minion Explode: 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 (+25% of your Magical Power)
Minion Stun: 1 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4s
Range: 65
Cost: 50
Cooldown: 9s
Fire Shards
5

Fire Shards

4 Y
Nu Wa flies up into the clouds, gaining visibility on all enemy gods, and summoning fire shards from the sky to damage each of them. As she lifts off the ground, she can pass through player-made deployables.

Ability Type: Global
Damage: 100 / 170 / 240 / 310 / 380 (+25% of your Magical Power)
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 120s

Nu Wa Threats

Tap each threat level to view Nu Wa’s threats

Max
2
Major
9
Even
4
Minor
0
Tiny
0

Tips

When using Nu Wa's fog, don't stand in the middle or the farthest edge away from the enemy. They'll expect that and can aim and hit you still. Stay to the sides and other less expected places so they truly won't know where you are.

With her 2-3 combo, hit the enemy with both the explosion AND the 3. If it's just the explosion they'll be stunned but only take a little bit of damage. If you hit them with the explosion AND the shard, they'll be stunned and take a hell of a lot damage.

Nu Wa's ultimate has many uses! The most obvious is to use it to pick low health enemies escaping. However, using it at the start of a battle can turn the tides in your team's favor, as it will make the enemy team start the fight on lower health and can apply item effects such as antiheal immediately. It's also a great ward, since it reveals the whole enemy team! If you're in danger, it can also be used as a CC immunity/escape tool. You'll move forwards a bit, but you go up into the air and become untargetable for a couple seconds, hopefully enough to get team assistance or to get to safety.

And her passive, oh boy. This is the big difference between good Nu Wa players and bad Nu Wa players. Her passive, while simple, should not be taken lightly. It's a root on (basically) every 6th basic attack, and is especially strong early game if your jungler is ganking. Learn to land this root, it will separate you from the bad Nu Wa players.

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Kriega1 (143) | September 29, 2020 2:36pm
How can you have a Nu Wa build without Reaver? Also no mention of Divine or Chronos' Pendant??
1
Branmuffin17 (401) | September 29, 2020 3:08pm
Agreed that those items should be shown as optional items.

That said, Kriega, note that both Divine and Reaver are mentioned in the notes for the full build example. They say basically to switch Deso for Divine if anti-heal needed, and switch Ob Shard for Reaver if enemies have lots of HP.

Bad Luck, IMO you would probably want to keep Ob Shard, instead switching out Tahuti for Reaver as an option. You don't have enough % pen otherwise as Ob Shard is your only % pen.
1
Kriega1 (143) | September 29, 2020 3:17pm
Reaver is core on Nu Wa. Divine is optional yes, but you're still likely going to build it almost every match on her.
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