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Death's Toll
Warrior Tabi
Devourer's Gauntlet
Fatalis
Rage
Deathbringer
Titan's Bane
Soul Eater
Frostbound Hammer
Aegis Amulet (Old)
Purification Beads (Old)
Creeping Curse
Heavenly Agility
Girdle of Might
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Pros:- High damage output - Can be played mid and duo lane - Easily makes a difference when ganking or counter-ganking with stuns (Armillary Shash and Wind Fire Wheels)-Clears minion waves with ease by mid-game with Universe Ring Toss and  Righteous Spirit |
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Cons: Wind Fire Wheels serving as his only possible escape)-Mostly line abilities with the exception being Flaming Spear-Can easily be overrun by minion waves when chasing an enemy down lane |
Child of the Lotus
Universe Ring Toss Universe Ring Toss bounces around minions and gods similar to the way 
Sun Wukong's Furious Monkey does while doing 50/70/90/110/130 +15% of your physical power; however, the ability bounces more (up to nine times plus the initial hit), increases Ne Zha's movement speed by 4% per target hit, and it lowers the physical protection of enemy gods by 10 per stack.
Flaming Spear
Armillary Sash Armillary Sash is a pull but instead of pulling the enemy god towards you, you are pulled towards the enemy god. Upon impact, the enemy is dealt a decent amount of physical damage (70/100/130/160/190 +50% of your ]physical power) as well as is stunned for one second.
Flaming Spear and Armillary Sash in that order makes for a devastating combo against enemy gods as you are pulled towards them and they are stunned. This allows you, depending on your attack speed, to begin the four hit chain of Ne Zha's passive to really decimate their health.
Wind Fire Wheels
Devourer's Gloves
For your first purchase, regardless of which lane you're in, you should buy Death's Toll and the first tier of Warrior Tabi. Death's Toll gives you decent stats (+15 Physical Power, 3% Attack Speed, and some physical "lifesteal" and "manasteal") needed to sustain yourself for a decent amount of time in any lane. Warrior Tabi gives you the same types of stats the Death's Toll does while giving you more movement speed. Next, you should focus on your lifesteal as it is the key to success when fighting large groups of minions or going toe-to-toe with another melee god. Devourer's Gloves* fits the bill perfectly as it gives decent physical power, 10% physical lifesteal, and for each minion kill that you get you gain 0.25% lifesteal and 0.5 physical power per stack stacking up to 40 times (the grand total is +50 physical power and 20% lifesteal). Following this, Fatalis makes a great addition to Ne Zha because of its attack speed increase and the passive that allows you to move backwards just as fast as you move forward. Now it is time to focus on his critical strikes. Rage and Deathbringer are the Yin and Yang of the critical strike world as they compliment each other and almost cannot exist without one another. Rage increase the critical strike chance per each attack that doesn't crit (stacking up to 10 times or 50% crit chance); this, coupled with Fatalis, means that you will be critting more often because of how quick and often you basic attack. Finally, Deathbringer increases the damage of your numerous critical strikes by a substantial amount thus making Ne Zha a damage dealing powerhouse. At this point, you may be asking "Well, what about Death's Toll? Where does it go?"; well, dear reader, it goes straight into the trash after you've built Deathbringer and can be replaced with any of the items below depending on what you feel is necessary:
* Soul Eater can also serve as your lifesteal item if you are not mid. Devourer's Gloves is a fantastic item when you are farming minions in the jungle or in mid lane or even if you have a nice enough lane mate to let you land the last hit on all the minions. Soul Eater on the other hand is slightly more beneficial in a duo lane as it is an aura item that grants lifesteal to you and allies in its radius while taking away from the focus on minion kills.
Titan's Bane Titan's Bane is your best friend as it gives you 33% physical penetration. This means that you will hit enemies regardless of their physical protection for more damage. If you have all the items above, minus Death's Toll, even tanks will begin to fear your damage output abilities. Frostbound Hammer Frostbound Hammer is a great addition to the build if you want to chase down enemies easier as it has a 25% slow (two second duration) each hit landed on that god. In addition to this, Frostbound Hammer gives you +325 Health, giving Ne Zha a little bit more survivability.
Aegis Amulet: This active effect is highly effective against abilities that have the potential to dish out high amounts of damage, stun, slow, or even one shot you. 
Neith's 
World Weaver and 
Sobek's 
Lurking In The Waters are examples of theses types of abilities.
Purification Beads: This active effect removes any form of crowd control or pulls. It is highly effective against 
Ares' ultimate, 
No Escape, 
Anubis' 
Mummify, 
Artemis' 
Calydonian Boar, and 
Ymir's 
Shards of Ice. Heavenly Agility: This active allows Ne Zha and allies to run 50% faster for five seconds while increasing healing on them by 25% for the duration of the effect. Creeping Curse: This active effect slows enemies by 50% for five seconds and reduces healing on them by 25% for the duration ( Heavenly Agility but only backwards). Girdle of Might: This active is an all around buff to both magical and physical power and penetration for any ally within a 35 foot radius. While this could be beneficial for Ne Zha to have, if he is duo laning, let your team mate grab it so you can buy the more practical effects listed above.
Hand of the Gods: This is useful for junglers at any point in the game, but as the game progresses and you gain more lifesteal, Ne Zha relies less and less on the minion destroying capabilities of the active. However, in late game scenarios, it may prove useful to steal a Fire Giant buff or Gold Fury from the enemy.
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At level one, Ne Zha, along with allies or Hand of the Gods, can certainly take on a jungle camp because of his Universe Ring Toss and/or Flaming Spear. The buffs that Ne Zha should focus on obtaining in early game are the Attack Speed buff and/or Cooldown Reduction buff as both are excellent to have in the early game. If Ne Zha is midding, the Attack Power buff wouldn't be a bad idea to grab as well as it allows Ne Zha to have a higher damage output in the early game. Throughout the course of the game, as lifesteal is obtain, Ne Zha will easily be able to solo larger and larger jungle camps. This will be useful for not only Ne Zha but his teammate (should he be duo laning) as it gives Ne Zha the buffs, gold, and experience while his teammate farms the minions in the lane which will give them the advantage over their opposition. |
Hopefully, at this point you should have some basic idea of how to play Ne Zha according to this build (even with some improvisation by you). Because Ne Zha has such a high damage capability, he can be played in either the side lane or in mid. Because of his passive, I would strongly recommend playing with one of the gods listed below:
Tail Whip and 
Charge Prey. Sobek's health pool when built tanky is massive which will allow him to initiate easier. Once Sobek has thrown an enemy god back, Ne Zha can begin his assault with Flaming Spear followed by an Armillary Sash. Ne Zha can then attack the enemy god and minions with Universe Ring Toss which will slow the enemy god some as well as giving a speed increase to Ne Zha. If the opposing god is trying to escape, both Sobek and Ne Zha's ultimates work well together. Ne Zha will initiate this devestating combo with Wind Fire Wheels which will keep the enemy in place long enough for Sobek to active his ultimate, Lurking In The Waters. As Ne Zha and his prey (assuming they survive the onslaught) fall back to earth, Sobek will be ready to jump from the waters to secure the kill.
Frost Breath halts enemies in their tracks which will allow Ne Zha to begin to tear into them with Flaming Spear. Should the enemy try to escape, Ymir can easily throw up a 
Ice Wall which can hold an enemy long enough for Ne Zha to charge in with his Armillary Sash to put even more hurt on the enemy. Much like Sobek, Ymir and Ne Zha's ultimates work well together for the same reasons that Sobek and Ne Zha's work in almost perfect unison. Ne Zha can launch the enemy into the air with Wind Fire Wheels and Ymir can pop Shards of Ice. When Ne Zha and the possibly still living enemy fall back to Earth, Ymir's Shards of Ice will shatter any all of the enemy's hope for a chance of survival.
Death From Below, that will cause most enemies to jump in their chair because of how quick it is. Following this, Hades can cast 
Shroud of Darkness to fear the enemy briefly; this allows Ne Zha to roll up on his fire-skates and begin tearing the enemy to shreds. Let's say that Ne Zha and Hades are taking damage and could use with some more health, Hades can cast his 
Devour Souls which will deal damage to anything in its radius as well as heal Hades and his nearby allies by bit for each target hit that was afflicted with 
Blight. Ymir, Sobek, and Hades all have one thing in common: their ultimates are AoEs that deal massive amounts of damage should an enemy get caught in one. Ne Zha can initiate the Hades and Ne Zha ultimate combo with Wind Fire Wheels and Hades, after Ne Zha and the enemy leave Ne Zha's ultimate, can active his 
Pillar of Agony to slow the escape of retreating enemies and allowing Ne Zha to catch up and secure a kill in the event that Hades' ultimate doesn't do the job.
TornadoesSpirit's TempestGraceful Winds
Decoy
Aimed Strike
Vanish and Aimed Strike, Loki will drop your health quickly in the early game (maybe even securing a kill). His Decoy can be used to defend him against your Armillary Sash as you will be pulled toward the decoy instead of Loki himself. And Loki's ultimate, 
Assassinate, will rip you to shreds in any part of the game assuming that you cannot counter it with an Aegis Amulet. Really, against Loki, what the fight boils down to is who can use their abilities better?
Birds of Wisdom
Gungnir's Might which allows him to slow you; this does one of two things, allows him to escape you or prevents you from escaping him. He has 
Lunge which will bring him to you, sure it saves your Armillary Sash but it does damage to you and makes you a sitting duck instead of the other way around. 
Ring of Spears is an ability that will stop your ultimate in its tracks because Odin becomes immune to crowd controls which is what Wind Fire Wheels is considered. His ring increases his damage output on you, his 
Odin's Shout increases his attack speed which means you'll take damage more often. The only effective way to counter Odin is to tear into him with your abilities after buying a Titan's Bane.
Ne Zha is a physical damage dealing power house by late game when following this build (feel free to deviate as much as you'd like as this is just the ground work for Ne Zha). Just remember these following tips:
-Play it safe and tower dive only when -absolutely- necessary.
-Have fun; nobody likes a grumpy player.
- Flaming Spear followed by Armillary Sash makes a devastating combo against enemy gods.
-If you don't like the lane your up against, ask other players to switch in a polite manner.
-Watch the jungle exits; you cannot rely on other players to call out so be ever vigilant as it can be the difference between living and dying as Ne Zha.
Here's some proof that this build works in live games:
Build: Basic Build
Lane: Right. Game was 4v5 from the early as my lane partner disconnected and was unable to return; spent most of my time roaming. With Neith off and on. Against Thor, Arachne, and Artemis.
Brawler's Beat Stick to counter Hercules' 
Mitigate Wounds)
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There should be a comma before which. Also create more spacing in the sections like basic build items. When it is really close together with no spacing, it becomes slightly hard to read.
Cheers!
I like playing him with my friend (as Ao mostly) who holds a solo lane while I myself go jungling and ganking.
Have to do some games so that I can put up some results and sweet looking pictures on my guide as well :p
Lately Iv been out of focus when Iv played him, and it takes a lot of concentration to play really good with him.
How is your playstyle with him, laning or roaming etc?