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Nu Wa Undisputed Top Damage (Season 10)

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8.1
by Rococo updated January 30, 2023

Smite God: Nu Wa

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Build Summary

Sacrifical Shroud

Build Item Sacrificial Shroud Sacrificial Shroud
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Spear of Desolation Spear of Desolation
Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus
Build Item Soul Reaver Soul Reaver
Build Item Calamitous Rod of Tahuti Calamitous Rod of Tahuti

Nu Wa's Skill Order

Mysterious Fog

1 X Y
Mysterious Fog
2 14 16 18 19

Clay Soldiers

2 A B
Clay Soldiers
3 4 6 7 9

Shining Metal

3 B A
Shining Metal
1 8 11 12 15

Fire Shards

4 Y X
Fire Shards
5 10 13 17 20
Mysterious Fog
2 14 16 18 19

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 4 6 7 9

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 8 11 12 15

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 10 13 17 20

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

Extended Build

Safe Build

Build Item Pendulum of Ages Pendulum of Ages
Build Item Book of Thoth Book of Thoth
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Soul Reaver Soul Reaver
Build Item Charon's Coin Charon's Coin
Build Item Calamitous Rod of Tahuti Calamitous Rod of Tahuti

Experimental Build

Build Item Manikin Hidden Blade Manikin Hidden Blade
Build Item Tablet of Destinies Tablet of Destinies
Build Item Book of Thoth Book of Thoth
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Soul Reaver Soul Reaver
Build Item Spear of Desolation Spear of Desolation

Other Options

Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus
Build Item Obsidian Shard Obsidian Shard
Build Item Divine Ruin Divine Ruin
Build Item Soul Gem Soul Gem
Build Item Archmage's Gem Archmage's Gem
Build Item Gem of Focus Gem of Focus

Introduction

Hello! it's me again. Hope you're doing well! :)

This time I bring you a build that I've been testing and that has really given me good results. If you are just starting to play with Nu Wa I recommend you to practice this build because you may be very vulnerable. You can also make some modifications to suit your play style! In my games, I always come out as top damage so I recommend you give it a try!
I also bring you an alternative in case you are not convinced to use Sacrificial Shroud!
These builds are designed to make the ultimate really dangerous and generate a lot of pressure and damage.

Hope you guys enjoy it!

Sarificial Shroud Build Explanation

Here I am going to explain a little bit the idea of this build and the use of Sacrificial Shroud (I guess you can already imagine it).

Sacrificial Shroud passive is that basically your damage is increased by 15% for a cost of 5% of your hp.
It's a pretty strong item, which in characters as squishy as Nu Wa the game mode has to be a bit more defensive. Think that with each ability you execute, 5% of your hp will be consumed, so the use of abilities has to be quite tactical and at some point, try to save it for teamfights.
This can be countered with items such as Gem Soul or Spear of the Magus or any other item that gives you magical lifesteal (in my personal opinion, those two items are the best for Nu Wa in general terms).

Chrono's Pendant, Spear of Desolation and Staff of Myrddin are bassically its main utility is the cooldow, magical damge and penetration that will guarantee a higher damage both in your normal ability and in your ultimate.

Staff of Myrddin can can give you a higher damage after using her ultimate, but this depends on how you want to play with Nu Wa.
That is, it is a very useful item in teamfights if you usually use this ability and then stay with your teammates doing damage.

But if you use it to finish someone off or to generate pressure for example in a temafight: you are in the base and your teammates in a teamfight, you throw your ultimate to generate pressure and your teammates make a kill, Staff of Myrddin will not perform at 100% with its passive. However, penetration, cooldown and magic damage can serve you actively, these decisions are yours and you can choose your playstyle!

If you want to replace Staff of Mydrin for another item because you don't want to go for that playstyle, since Sacrificial Shroud consumes a part of your maximum hp, you can use Soul Gem so you don't loose Staff of Myrddin cooldown.
Spear of Magus will give you magic life steal and some penetration, it is a good item to replace Staff of Myrddin if you don't want to use Soul Gem, you will have a little less cooldowm but in teamfights it can be more effective.
If there are many healers or builds with a lot of life steal in the enemy team, I recommend you to use Divine Ruin

Soul Reaver is a classic Nu Wa item that never fails and allows you to destroy the enemy support barriers and melt the most squishy ones with its passive.

Calamitous Rod of Tahuti is the star item. The passive causes your damage to increase by 25% on enemies that have less than 50% health with a bonus of a meteorite falling within a radius of 15 units damaging them by 35% of your magic power.

If we accumulate all the "extra damage" of Soul Reaver, Calamitous (in case you choose to use Gem Soul and use the ultimate with the 4 stacks) plus the 15% damage of the passive of Sacrificial Shroud the damage can be brutal and not to mention if the enemy has less than 50% of its HP and plays the passive of Calamitous, you can do much destruction in the enemy team and an unparalleled pressure.

Experimental Build

I have had my doubts about whether to include this build or not, but I leave it for you to try it and give me your feedback.

Minikin Hidden Blade will give you more damage if you have not inflicted damage or have not taken damage in the last 5 seconds, this is good for when your teammates are in a teamfight and you are in another part of the map and you use the ulti with Manikin's cooldown, you will do a lot of damage!

The idea is to do more damage without having as much exposure since Nu Wa is very squishy, we would enter the teamfight if necessary.
You can also replace one of the items with a glyph, which will probably do more damage but in this case I prioritized the cooldow, you choose!

Conclusions

You can obviously mix the items, for example, a good mix is Sacrificial Shroud with Book of Thot. These builds are thought just for the synergy (according to me) that the items can have, but you can mix them as you want!

To finish this mini guide: the whole idea is focused on making a kind of "accumulated damage" (if we can call it that way), where the ultimate will shine.
An ultimate as strong as Nu Wa's where she becomes invulnerable, gives visibility of enemies and a hit that can't be dodged in general lines, you have to get the most potential out of it and that's what I try to explain in these builds.
I hope you like it, try it and leave me your feedback, recommendations, changes and your experience with it. As I say, everyone should have a different playstyle and you can adapt this build to your playstyle.

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