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Smite God: Mercury

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Mercury Build

Full Build aka One Punch Man

Warrior Tabi

Demon Blade

Titan's Bane

Deathbringer

Bloodforge

Hydra's Lament

Relics(Self-explanatory)

Purification Beads

Aegis Amulet

Heavenly Wings

Sundering Spear

Belt of Frenzy

Starter Items

Bumba's Mask

Death's Toll

Consumables

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Chalice of the Oracle

Potion of Power

Elixir of Power

Mercury's Skill Order

Made You Look

1 X

1 4 6 7 10

Maximum Velocity

2 A

3 8 11 12 14

Special Delivery

3 B

2 15 16 18 19

Sonic Boom

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

1 4 6 7 10

Made You Look

1 X

Mercury moves in the blink of an eye, dealing one melee attack to every enemy within the target area. This ability can Critically Hit, and triggers Ability related Item effects, not Basic Attack related Item effects.

Ability Type: Ground Target
Damage: 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220 (+70% of your Basic Attack Power)
Radius: 7.5 / 9 / 10.5 / 12 / 13.5
Cost: 50
Cooldown: 9s

3 8 11 12 14

Maximum Velocity

2 A

Mercury passively gains movement speed. When this ability is activated, Mercury increases his attack speed and is immune to slows for the duration.

Ability Type: Buff
Movement Speed: 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10%
Attack Speed: 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70%
Duration: 5s
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12s

2 15 16 18 19

Special Delivery

3 B

Mercury dashes forward, knocking aside minions, grabbing the first enemy god he encounters and spinning them. The enemy god takes damage until the effect ends, and Mercury throws the god in the direction of his choice.

Ability Type: Dash
Minion Damage: 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+80% of your Physical Power)
Damage per Tick: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 (+20% of your Physical Power) every 0.25s
Damage (Total): 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 (+64% of your Physical Power)
Duration: 1s
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 15s

5 9 13 17 20

Sonic Boom

4 Y

Mercury gathers energy for a powerful dash, with the range extending as he does so. He travels the distance faster than the speed of sound, dealing damage to all enemies, stunning them and spinning them around in a random direction.

Ability Type: Dash
Damage: 200 / 275 / 350 / 425 / 500 (100% of your Physical Power)
Disorient Duration: 1.5s
Cost: 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100
Cooldown: 90 / 85 / 80 / 75 / 70s

Introduction

Hey guys, I'm finally back after a long break and now I'm entering the rank scene and I wanted to make a guide for 1 of my most played diamonds, Mercury. A Thanatos guide will come later as he's my primary pick for jungle even though all you people say he's a poor choice against many of the other picks.

Many people already know that Mercury is a late game jungler that will snowball the hell out of you if you allow him to, but people forget Mercury plays such a big role in early game to set up kills for his allies so he can snowball later.

This will be updated every once in a while when big changes come and when better ways to build him comes to light.

Lets get started.

Pros / Cons

Pros:

[*] Insanely high single target damage when built properly
[*] Good kill setup/secure potential with his 3
[*] Passive helps make him the One Punch Man
[*] Great mobility and escapes
[*] Has one of the best ultimate to engage or disengage a fight

Cons:

[*] Very squishy
[*] No Sustain unless you build life steal
[*] Easily countered with , , or etc
[*] counters the hell out of and she's a common pick.

Abilities

Passive - Fastest God Alive

The passive works well especially early game if you can manage to get it to stack up to 100. Every jungler will run away after that first basic to their face if you manage to crit it.

1 - Made You Look

Your most annoying poke ever. You will max this first as it is your best range poke and will act like a free crit from afar if it crits. You will not engage fights with this though. I highly suggest you engage with your 3 so you can secure them into a wall then toss your 1, or the other way around if you prefer. You can even dodge abilities if you can't get away in time, just aim your 1 somewhere out of the enemy ability's area and you will be able to dodge it if the timing is right. Either way, max this first.

2 - Maximum Velocity

Your bread and butter made to chase down every single god in the game and make them fear your mighty fist. Done right, you won't even need 2 seconds to 100-0 a squishy. Tanks will even run away fearing you. Max this 2nd.

3 - Special Delivery

You see something trying to run away? Go get em. This can be used either to engage a fight or disengage. Be careful on how you use it as it has a high cool down especially during a fight, 15 seconds will feel like a while if your team begins to die. That's why you have that 2 to 100-0 all those squishes to end a fight just when it begins. You can use this as well to dodge skill shot.

Ultimate(4) - Sonic Boom

The best ultimate you can find to engage any single god. It packs a wallop too. Use it to either engage or escape, preferably engage though. Single out the squishy and aim for them.

Items

Before we start this section, there are other ways to build Mercury but as of right now(8/8/17) I find this build to work out extremely well in rank and casual.

STARTING ITEMS:
These are the best starting items for Mercury. I highly suggest getting 3 Healing Potions and 1 Mana potion because Mercury doesn't really use a lot of mana given you don't spam his abilities 24/7, because you have no need to, it's Conquest, not arena. Everything is self-explanatory after that.

First Back:
Warrior Tabi

Your first back item, by the time you back to fountain for the first time, you should have more than enough for a Warrior Tabi, if you don't then you are doing something wrong. Mercury's passive allows further increase in power due to any item that increases movement speed, Mercury gets a 25% total increase of all MS items or abilities. You should be able to duel people with this boot, you won't shut them down right away but definitely will pack a wallop.

Second Back:
Wind DemonWind Demon

Why the heck are you rushing crits so quickly, Poly? Well my friend, Mercury works the best with crit because he's a auto-attack oriented god. No other way will produce enough dps for you to 100-0 someone in a fraction of a second, and obviously that's the goal here. Wind Demon provides the necessary crit, attack speed, power, and not to mention that additional 20% MS and AS if you happen to get a crit. It builds the foundation for when you get .

Some Pen:
Titan's Bane

The 33% Pen works amazingly well against tanks, you don't need it for fighting squishes, but it's preferred to have at least 1 pen item on to kill Tanks and of course squishes easier.

The God Items:
Deathbringer

Oh holy mother of all sh*tickles. Ever noticed that 1 assassin that keeps on snowballing even though his team is behind? Yeah that one, that's because they have . The crit, power, and crit damage this thing gives makes a deadly foe to face in the battlefield.

Bloodforge

Why are you getting this late in the game? Because crit is more important than this. This will keep you snowballing late game after people are more grouped up and ready to CC anyone who gets near the squishy. The health shield this thing gives with its power is just impossible to pass up. Not to mention lifesteal.

Hydra's Lament

The final item you get on this dude because it turns you into One Punch Man indefinitely. Just engage with your 3 and you will smack anyone down. I don't need to explain why you would get Hydra on Mercury, unless you completely don't understand what Hydra does...

Team Matchups

Mercury works extremely well with a lot of support gods, but I find Ymir to be the best even though there are much, much, much better picks. He has a wall that can last forever to someone who wants to run away and that wall is like the Great Wall of China, Mercury will just 100-0 anyone that gets cornered.

She works well with Mercury as well with all the CCs she has and ability to increase your movement speed with her ultimate which increases your damage further.

There are many other gods that works well with Mercury but then there's also a lot of counters to him, just Kuzenbo with his 2 that will stop you in your tracks.

This thing makes Mercury cry like a little girl so avoid fighting anyone with it unless you are with a team.

If you see anyone pop this relic, then wait til it finishes before you re-engage them because you will die to it.

Final Words

Mercury is a very interactive and agile jungler so you need to be on the look for possible picks when enemy invade your camps. Remember to ward your speed buff because someone is going to invade it eventually. He has a somewhat bad clear when you start out but once you get in a little further he becomes much easier to use and gank. During a team-fight, you shouldn't always focus on being present in the middle of it. If it's a 5v5 fight then you should disappear and go around it to take down their back line, don't run up to them when the frontliners sees you, it's stupid and will get you killed. Go around and take out the back line quickly. They won't know what hit them til it's too late.

Warding is key in Conquest so keep warding objectives. Merc can solo the Gold Fury after you get Deathbringer so just try to take down the Gold Fury every chance you get alone after purchasing DB of course. He can also solo the Fire Giant after full build or after getting Bloodforge but I suggest you do the Fire Giant with your team just in case they decide to dive you.

Good luck my boys. Happy Mercing.

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Why can't we replace Hydras with Rage? If you want consistent dmg? More crits... and if you want more crit? well, more crit xD

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Good stuff, but I have a few recommendations.

For the build, if you're going to rush crit, I would pick over Wind Demon. It'll give you 30% crit at max stacks. I also prefer 3 crit items over two because it's more consistent, even if it means I'm two punch man instead of one punch man.

The build I've been using, for comparison, is , , , Wind Demon, , situational item.

For formatting, you should look into using columns, and maybe add a little color.

Otherwise you did a good job

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Note that at full stacks provides 35%, not 30%. You count the 5 stacking %, plus the 10% additional once you hit max stacks.

Also, is a better option in that 2nd crit slot. If you really do go 3x crit, get Wind Demon 3rd. With WD passive not active, DB greatly out DPSs WD...and with WD passive active, it still outdamages, though to a smaller margin. Individual hits will also be higher on average with DB.

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Huh, I have been counting passive wrong this whole time. I blame Hirez and their confusing passives.

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It's totally confusing, and they really should hire someone to provide better explanations, tooltips...and also to edit their patch notes, which are so awfully mistyped, incorrect, or missing information to help understand what changes were made.

I use the Wiki page sometimes to check... https://smite.gamepedia.com/Rage

Confirms 35% at full stacks there.

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Thanks, I'm noticing that 2 crit items is a pretty good thing already. Being more consistent with merc on crit isn't as important in my opinion as the 40% crit has done the job for me countless times, never failed me. I find adding a extra crit item doesn't affect the amount of burst I dish out. It's a Mercury afterall. The SCS isn't a bad idea at all, provides tons of pen specifically against tanks, but then thats just 30 pen, if a tank has 150+ which they usually do then and even a lot more if they just build more physical protection. gives you 33% pen. Given that it's your only pen item, it works so much better than a SCS. You burst anyone down late game with Bane better then SCS. SCS works better against squishy, but you're practically deleting them left to right so squishy become irrelevant in your late game. I'd go with over anyday because I play extremely aggressive and I want to get deicides so it helps the entire team.

I prefer this build as it gives the sustain for late game engagement with passive and the power it provides. really does its job late game to delete squishes instantly so my team can win fights easier.

Sure I'd love to see a higher crit chance but that's not always the best route or generally isn't the route I'd take since a trade off of 35% more crit for a higher instant burst is what I'd like to see. I'm sure your way works very well, but Wind Demon and gives me enough crit chance and the rest I want to have a higher base damage so I don't need to just rely on getting crits to actually do my job. Obviously a higher crit chance yields much better consistent results, but my makes up for it substantially since Mercury has a insanely high basic attack damage already.

I didn't add this in the build as it wasn't a preference of mine since having the extra base power and higher basic attack damage will yield a more consistent result. It raises the burst potential and dps overall with more power then just preferably higher crit. It is after all RNG so higher crit chance doesn't always yield higher damages. Just more chance to crit, while having more power yields consistent damage and still having the ability to crit with 40% isn't a bad trade off at all in my opinion.

Thanks for giving me advices though, it's noted. This is only my 2nd guide and I didn't really read the coding guide for this yet. Just wanted to get my perspective out there to help other people who are struggling.

I'll be making the guide a lot more colorful later on as I put more finishing touches on my build.

Thanks again for looking at my guide.

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You make good points, and your build isn't bad, but I would still consider replacing Wind Demon with . You'll get 10% extra crit chance from 2 crit items, and you should consider that Wind Demon's passive isn't super great when you're just one shotting everyone. I think you would get more out of .

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That's a very valid point there. However for late game, I'm not only one punching squishes, but I'm also trying to melt down Tanks as fast as possible and doing objectives. Getting kills are nice but objectives are priority. There are certain situations where killing the Tank is more important especially when it comes to them ulting, like .

However, if you compare to Wind Demon you will see that the only benefit offers is a additional 15% crit chance when Wind Demon offers 10% Attack speed and a additional 20% attack speed and movement speed for when you crit for 5s it refreshes everytime you crit as well. I have a preference for some attack speed. doesn't always have his ability up and ready to use. I like to have some attack speed to duel people if my 2 is on cooldown. However, statistically speaking, offers 35% crit chance compared to Wind Demon giving 20% only. I find that the difference in that doesn't affect me at all. Sure I can crit a bit more often, but to be able to land more hits quicker increases the chances of me critting again. I'm not talking about crit chance increase, but simply being able to try and get more crits in a quicker fashion. Don't forget that Wind Demon offers 20% Attack speed AND Movement speed. passive increases his power with additional movement speed from items and abilities.

So in essence, Wind Demon provides a better overall, bang for your buck in early game and prolongs it til the end of the match. That 15% crit chance difference between these 2 items shouldn't always be the reason to get . It is after all just a difference of 15% crit chance when Wind Demon offers so much more for just a extra 400 gold. In your early to mid game phase as , you need a way to attack without sacraficing your 2 all the time for the sake of a kill. What if your 2 is down by then but you didn't kill the enemy? Wind Demon offers you that movement speed and attack speed to secure the kill in a shorter amount of time and still do more damage. Crit chance doesn't increase your damage, just gives you a higher chance for each hit to crit. I usually don't find that as important as having the ability to attack quicker which increases the amount of times you can crit.

I believe that with a higher increase in attack speed, it also increases how often you may crit and how much damage you can dish out at the same time. is by no means a bad item, but from my experience, doesn't offer what requires. Its works for other gods but I don't think it's a better choice than Wind Demon by far.

can one punch people, but you have 5s on your 2 to make use of it. After that you're simply attacking with no increase in attack speed for the next 7.6 seconds due to the 10% CDR on or 9 seconds without it. Late game becomes team fights mostly all the time. can work against 1v1s but in a teamfight, doesn't play a bigger role than Wind Demon. Mercury] revolves around being able to get from Point A to Point B quickly and finishing the target ASAP before your enemy team realizes whats going on. Those crucial split second decisions affects every single fight. The added bonus of power from [[Wind Demon passive due to adds onto his success in eliminating the enemy team. Not just the squishes but Tanks.

In conclusion?
-Wind Demon offers more power due to Merc's passive.
-More Attack Speed to increase the amount of time he crits and a higher consistent DPS overall.
-The 20% extra movement speed helps chase targets that are able to get away, but not for long.

The only downside to going Wind Demon is you don't get the extra 15% crit chance that offers with its passive. But is that really why you need crit chance? Why get 15% more crit chance when you can get so so much more attack speed, movement speed, power, and higher sustained DPS. Compared to that 15% crit chance, Wind Demon is the go to for instead of .

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is still better than wind demon for more reasons than just stats. I do not think you fully understand how works with critical strike chance.

is a one-shot god, very much so that in the late game he becomes a hyper-carry. Critical strike chance is simply that, chance. With giving you more chances to hit those critical strikes and keep on carrying is better than the small beneficial stats that wind demon gives. While wind demon CAN provide more DPS, is more of a one shot god than a sustained dps god. And simply because is at a 400 gold difference than wind demon its gets further into his build and quicker to become that hyper-carry.

does not need that much attack speed, sometimes even none at all. The only attack speed item I would ever build is and with the new patch coming out, . He benefits from more power than attack speed.

(2) |

That's a interesting way to put it, but I've tested both and Wind Demon and I find that I do much better with Wind Demon then . I do understand that with a higher crit strike chance, I'm able to have a higher chance to crit more often.

It's just the fact that with Wind Demon I'm able to fully utilize the way I play . Sure he hardly needs attack speed as his already provides substantial attack speed, but I've played quite a few matches with both items and found that Wind Demon just fulfills my niche much better then . I do admit though that during matches that I used it has helped me tremendously get further into my build but with wind Demon I feel much more comfortable engaging opponents as every second counts in a fight and with that added attack speed, I can land more hits which means I could crit more as I dish out more attacks. Crit chance is simply chance as you said. But I've found that with the added attack speed from Wind Demon I see myself landing more crits in a quicker succession then

When the time comes for a full power and crit build comes then I'll adjust my build, but as of now I prefer the Wind Demon over .

I hope I'm not starting to sound like a ignorant person. I just have a very particular play style with and I prefer to have some attack speed to help me mow down the enemy team quickly.

(400) |

No way, dude...if you've given both a chance, but WD just works better for you...like GGF says, on paper doesn't always translate to live situations. Definitely not ignorant, and you've definitely got your points. If it works better (or gives you more confidence, or whatever else it might be doing for you), then stick with it.

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nah that is ok. Not everything that works on paper works in game for sure. All depends on situations etc.

But as such, both points still stand for their own reason. If you do find yourself however on the back foot against some good able teams that can handle a I would vouch for every-time. Would help delete squishies quickly. Happy smiting.

(400) |

Agreed here. at full stacks is a bit better than WD.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Pros / Cons

Abilities

Items

Team Matchups

Final Words

Mercury, Messenger of the Gods

Smite God: Mercury

Mercury Build

Full Build aka One Punch Man

Relics(Self-explanatory)

Starter Items

Consumables

Mercury's Skill Order

Made You Look

Maximum Velocity

Special Delivery

Sonic Boom

Introduction

Pros / Cons

Abilities

Items

Team Matchups

Final Words

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