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Relics are largely matchup dependent mainly focusing on what is scariest to you early on but beyond that you don't really need much health sustain due to your 3.
Mana potions aren't the worst thing in the world to get off spawn however I prefer mixed since it keeps your health a bit more stable than it would be otherwise.
Vampiric Shroud
Tiny Trinket
Multi Potion
For specific matchups you should definitely play around with order a bit such as getting divine earlier and so forth but Bancroft's Claw should almost always be your first item.
As a final note, the primary items you'll be swapping out are likely warlock and divine. They're definitely really good however just less useful in certain circumstances.
Sacrificial Shroud
Bancroft's Claw
Warlock's Staff
Spear of the Magus
Typhon's Fang
Divine Ruin
Generally getting Devour Souls first is just a really safe option. AOE damage (really good damage at that) and healing if they're blighted allowing you to be really aggressive in lane. Past that your leap for evade and engage and your silence/fear.
I will say leveling your 2 move is definitely an option, its actually pretty invaluable if used properly.
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You really can do a lot with some of these items however most of them are a bit strange to build and somewhat uncommon. For example things like Polynomicon and Staff Of Myrddin can be absolutely frustrating to fight in the right circumstances but you may be giving up something like Divine Ruin or having lower power over all.
Soul Gem
Staff of Myrddin
Obsidian Shard
Polynomicon
Perfected Rod of Tahuti
Book of the Dead
Pros
~ Incredible Lane Clear
~ Great AOE Damage
~ Incredible Sustain (Even some built in healing.)
~ Beads Burner
~ Good Survivability Even In 1v2 To 3v1
~ Good CC (Fear, Vortex Ultimate, & Silence)
~ Lane Bully
~ Insane Protections During Ultimate
Cons
~ Struggles Against ADC
~ Cripple Is Death
~ Anti Heal Cripples
~ "Close Range" & No Projectiles
~ Somewhat Struggles Late Game
Hades is a god that excels at being a massive lane bully being one of the most frustrating gods to fight due to his high damage and lifesteal potential. You generally want to abuse this as much as physically possible.
Early on its very easy to pick off kills while also clearing lane since once you leap towards the opposing Mid you'll often be able to both pull minions, apply blight, and harm the enemy mid while clearing lane. A good chunk of mages also don't have a good way to deal with Hade's ultimate besides beads which can either lead to an outright kill or easy ganks for your teams jungle.
Ganks from the enemy jungle can also backfire and in general its easy to find yourself snowballing if the enemy makes even slight mistakes. Hades can quickly turn a 3v1 gank into a triple kill with very little effort due to high damage and CC immunity on his ultimate which is fairly unique for a mage making him daunting to approach. You're hard to gank and can rotate somewhat frequently due to your almost instant lane clear.
In general you want to clear lane, also damaging the opposing god if possible, and overall smother through pressure as well as sustain while occasionally rotating and get side camps when possible. Later in the game you'll be able to be exceptionally agressive and even tower dive due to your ultimate giving you pretty amazing protections (on par with solo and support with lifesteal) as well as Hades having the ability to recover from massive damage almost instantly if not outright mitigate it using lifesteal.
Hades is somewhat of a lame Solo (in my opinion at least). You're always going to out lane clear or be even with any Solo you run into meaning you have only three situations possible for Hades Solo.
Scenario 1: You lane clear, kill the other Solo, and generally snowball hard.
Scenario 2: You struggle in lane and are forced to sit in tower after lane clear but are essentially in a stalemate.
Scenario 3: You struggle and slowly lose lane due to a very poor matchup or constant ganks.
In general you're more likely to win Solo or just stalemate. If possible you should try to set up jungle ganks and farm as much as possible which is open to your due to your clear potential.
Once you get late in the game you want to focus on being setup for your team with your ultimate and being an especially high damage tower invader. Hades is surprisingly an extremely dominate late game team fight Solo despite lacking traditional CC and excels as setting up his team while being able to quickly protect the backline. Him being very hard to escape due to his silence, fear, good chase, and vortex ultimate can also genuinely win close games.
Overall played similar to Mid Hades however with a much stronger focus on protecting and setup as opposed to overwhelming and smothering.
Random Tips
~ Be aggressive, you can afford it.
~ Hades is one of the few mages that can tower dive with very little risk due to his life steal and ultimate granting notable protections.
~ It's often worth taking damage from entering a group fight against low CC as your healing and life steal from the follow up will almost always justify the loss.
~ You get I-Frames on your leap despite it looking different.
~ Your leap is still a leap meaning Awilix can and will give you a heart attack by aggressively ripping you out of the ground with her ultimate.
~ Your most useful move is your leap, it can be used to avoid almost anything while also getting you in and out of fights with its decently long range.
Random Fun Notes
Hades was one of the first gods ever in the game, sitting with Zeus as the first greek gods all the way back when the game first existed.
Hade's dance is a reference to "2Spooky4Me".
Patrick Seitz voices Hades but also has a pretty wild list of VA work such as Chaac, Cerberus, Dio Brando (Jojos Bizarre Adventure), Franky (One Piece), Uvogin (HxH),Kenpachi (Bleach), Jiren (Dragon Ball Super), JP (Redline), Bob (Tekken), and a million others especially in the anime industry.
So you know, have fun with that.
"This heat...That is your limit." ~ Hades having eaten a Ra that couldn't kill him with ult.
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