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Merlin 100-0 Build

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Smite God: Merlin

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Merlin Build

Start

Notes

Mage's Blessing

Magic Focus

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Main Build (Start Lost Artifact but build Boots before Chronos')

Notes Start lost artifact but buy boots before finishing Chronos'

Shoes of the Magi

Spear of the Magus

Bancroft's Talon

Chronos' Pendant

Charon's Coin

Soul Reaver

Anti heal- If needed

Divine Ruin

Boots Replacement- Take Your Pick

Gem of Isolation

Staff of Myrddin

Spear of Desolation

Elixir of Speed

Merlin's Skill Order

Eclipse / Radiate / Frostbolt

1 X

1 3 6 7 9

Vortex / Dragonfire / Blizzard

2 A

2 8 10 11 12

Flicker

3 B

4 15 16 18 19

Elemental Mastery

4 Y

5 13 14 17 20

1 3 6 7 9

Eclipse / Radiate / Frostbolt

1 X

Eclipse (Arcane): Merlin conjures an orb of condensed celestial energy that grows in size as it travels, dealing damage every 0.4s and marking Enemies hit.
Enemies marked take additional damage if they stay within the outer range of Eclipse.

Ability Type: Circle, Damage
Initial Arcane Damage: 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 (+55% of your Magical Power)
Arcane Damage Per Tick: 5 / 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 (+8% of your Magical Power)
Arcane Range/Radius: 60/15,25)
Arcane Duration: 3s
Arcane Cooldown: 14s

Radiate (Fire): Merlin channels a beam of intense fire for 2s that deals damage every 0.25s. Each time Radiate hits an Enemy, it also applies a Burn, dealing additional damage over time.

Ability Type: Line, Damage
Fire Damage Per Tick: 8 / 14 / 20 / 26 / 32 (+18% of your Magical Power)
Fire Burn Damage: 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 (+5% of your Magical Power)
Fire Duration: 2s
Fire Range: 45
Fire Cooldown: 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12s

Frostbolt (Ice): Merlin hurls a Frostbolt that explodes if it hits an Enemy, dealing an additional 15% damage if they are slowed.

Ability Type: Line, Damage
Ice Damage: 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 (+55% of your Magical Power)
Ice Range/Radius: 70 / 15
Ice Cooldown: 6s

Cost: 60

2 8 10 11 12

Vortex / Dragonfire / Blizzard

2 A

Vortex (Arcane): Merlin deploys a field of arcane energy at a location. After a delay, the Vortex deals damage and pulls Enemies towards the center.

Ability Type: Circle, Knockup, Damage
Arcane Damage: 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 (+60% of your Magical Power)
Range/Radius: 60 / 20
Cooldown: 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12s

Dragonfire (Fire): Merlin summons forth two ethereal dragons that spout flames towards each other, dealing damage to Enemies every 0.25s. If caught in the center of the area, Enemy gods have their protections reduced. The dragons last for 3s.

Ability Type: Area, Debuff, Damage
Fire Damage Per Tick: 8 / 11 / 14 / 17 / 20 (+20% of your Magical Power)
Fire Protection Reduction: 4%
Fire Max Stacks: 4
Fire Duration: 4s
Range: 50
Cooldown: 16 / 15.5 / 15 / 14.5 / 14s

Blizzard (Ice): Merlin creates a Blizzard at a target location that lasts for 4s. After a brief delay, shards of ice start hurling down every 0.5s. Enemies hit take damage and progressively get more slowed while they stay within the area. Enemies hit take damage and progressively get more slowed while they stay within the area.

Ability Type: Circle, Slow, Damage
Ice Damage Per Tick: 10 / 25 / 40 / 55 / 70 (+15% of your Magical Power)
Ice Slow Per Stack: 8%
Ice Max Stacks: 5
Ice Duration: 2s
Range/Radius: 65 / 20
Cooldown (Vortex / Blizzard): 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12s

Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80

4 15 16 18 19

Flicker

3 B

Merlin quickly teleports a short distance in front of him.

Ability Type: Teleport
Range: 30
Cost: 70
Cooldown: 24 / 23 / 22 / 21 / 20s

5 13 14 17 20

Elemental Mastery

4 Y

Merlin taps into his inner potential, exploding with energy in the stance he is currently attuned to. During this time Merlin can choose which stance to enter into next.

After the explosion reaches its apex, it collapses in on itself. Enemies are dealt damage from the both the explosion and the implosion and suffer different effects depending on which stance's energy they are being hit by.

Ability Type: Circle, Crowd Control, Damage
Damage: 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 210 (+15% of your Magical Power)
Arcane: Knockup
Fire Damage Per Tick: 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 (+5% of your Magical Power)
Ice Slow: 20%
Slow Duration: 2s
Radius: 25
Cost: 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80
Cooldown: 30 / 27.5 / 25 / 22.5 / 20s

Introduction

-This is just the build I like to play.

General Talk

Merlin has a pretty solid kit. I use the Arcane stance and Fire stance mainly. I don't think Ice is that useful. If you really want cooldown to build Chronos after magus.

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Shaman's Ring is not gonna be as viable for merlin in next patch

(143) |

Why not? You lose movement speed sure, but the passive lasts longer, you get 10% cdr and it has 10 extra power. The tier 1 ring is also being buffed to have 5 extra power which makes it slightly better for early clear, and similar to tier 1 spear which also has 25 power. With mage’s blessing, cdr boots, and shaman’s Ring you will have 30% CDR in your build early to mid game. Lategame you can sell cdr boots for Myrddin, and get the 10% missing from mage’s blessing from power pot.

Who wants to create build first with ? I tried and did not like it...

(143) |

I would probably consider it only as a boots replacement. The stats are just too mediocre for the price. It’s a very lategame luxury item.

Just watched streamers - they collected it as 3rd item in conquest... And it is unclear whether the advantage to throw a skill with 70% dmg, when Merlin get reduction damage in this patch... I did not feel that this one skill decides something.

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(143) |

Who? And which gods?

Remember not all casual streamers are that good at Smite, and some might just be testing the item.

fineokay xD He okay? On Merlin.

(143) |

Ok so you're talking about this: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/457622581

Well, don't see how this 1 arena match means it's a good early option. Besides Arena gives Gold easily and you don't need the mp5/mana sustain from mage's blessing or Chronos' Pendant.

As for the other matches.... we shall see. Janus game he got it early, Morrigan game he got it late.

Im not sure. Im not sure about this item as much as I like and .

(143) |

Im gonna check this gameplay out.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/457622581 - arena and conquest

(56) |

Mostly because they're testing out how the item works. After people are done having their fun, they'll put the item in the proper spot (6th-7th item) as it is extremely luxury with its price point, 3000 gold.

(143) |

You should mention what to replace for lategame when you get . I suggest or .

(143) |

Start should be mage's blessing, tier 1 chronos' pendant (not tier 1 boots) for the better early clear and mp5.

Should be getting spear of magus before shaman's ring, especially since your first 2 items don't have any pen and spear of magus is core on Merlin.

I updated the start for the build.

I haven't found the pen to be necessary early on in most games. Merlin can typically do much better with the power and MS. The tanky characters aren't really that big of a focus for Merlin as early on. And, both items are relatively cheap so both get up fairly quick. By the time Merlin actually needs spear he should have it if you haven't got far behind.

(143) |

wrote:

Merlin can typically do much better with the power and MS. The tanky characters aren't really that big of a focus for Merlin as early on.

You have no idea what base protections are, do you? All characters, squishy or tank, have base magical protections. Take Ra for instance, he has 30 magical protections at level 1 (+0.9 per level until level 20), you increase your damage massively by having Spear of Magus, which is why I suggested Shaman's ring later in the build. By having Spear of Magus after getting a few ticks of from one of his DoT abilities your next abilities that hit with the passive of magus active will effectively deal basically true damage. And by the time you have pendant + boots and you're building into your third item the support/solo and/or maybe even the jungle may have a magical protection item in their build. Please stop being stubborn.

At the very least get shoes of the magi if you're going to delay magus (a core item on him) to 4th item (not including blessing).

(9) |

Build is good however I would change a few things:

Your start can be easily made a lot stronger if you replaced with as the power and MP5 you gain from it is much more worth it than the 6% MS you get with , as this would help out your early game a lot better. 6% MS won't help you in escaping ganks or do more poke damage so I'd pick , , 's and 's.

Furthermore, I'd adjust the PO a little. You should make your 3rd item instead of as it's passive won't be utilised effectively until later on in the game when teamfights are more abundant. To further justify this, getting 3rd would help you tremendously in the early/mid game as you would have all your abilities unlocked (and levelled a few ranks) so you can take advantage of 's passive.

However apart from that, (sorry if that sounded arsey), add in a couple of situationals such as for tank shred or for anti- heal.

Hope this helps - UPLAR

I appreciate the feedback to this guide. I did some more testing and I do find the movement speed useful to poke more effectively against aggressive gods with a stronger early game against Merlin. As well, the early mana and cooldown from a completed shoes of focus is cheap and very good. Merlin struggles with mana early on and cooldowns are a little longer than preferred, so the early boots provide a better boost than rushing a Chronos' pendant. That being said, Lost Artifact could be a safer start for most players, especially versus gods who have weak early game lane clear. For PO I find the 100 power and movement enable Merlin to hit harder while playing safer. I would only do spear as item 3 if you desperately need to shred protection. As for situationals, I think the build is made of necessary items that I wouldn't outright trade unless you absolutely need to. Merlin does enough damage even without Obsidian shard and the only thing id replace would be rod if you have too much trouble with too many enemies being too tanky. As for divine ruin, it has to wait for the late game once you can sell shoes and get the elixir mentioned in the guide. In non-conquest modes, you could consider not building rod and building divine ruin instead but rod providses so much power that Merlin otherwise lacks.

(9) |

Hey again,

What I meant was to buy instead of but buy before getting on your first back, (hope that makes sense lol).

Therefore you're able to finish your boots on your first back as well receive the power/MP5 from . Also this start will lighten the expensive cost of on your second back. Everything else you've said I agree with.

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Once again thanks for more feedback. I did some side by sides and I do think there is a consistently a better early game with the Lost Artifact instead of Shoes, as you said. I updated the build and gave a shoutout to you in the Intro section.

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Merlin 100-0 Build

Smite God: Merlin