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Bluestone Pendant
Boots
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Teleport Fragment
Warrior Tabi
Silver Breastplate
Breastplate of Regrowth
Breastplate of Valor
Spirit Robe
Midgardian Mail
Titan's Bane
Bulwark of Hope
Pestilence
Winged Blade
Mail of Renewal
Mystical Mail
Jotunn's Wrath
Hide of the Nemean Lion
Sundering Spear
Shield of Thorns
Titan's Bane
Warrior Tabi
Breastplate of Valor
Breastplate of Regrowth
Spirit Robe
Midgardian Mail
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Introduction
You know him as the big bisep'd base ball pro that's really bot to play against, and knocks most solo-laners "outta the park!". (My favorite)
...You may also know him as the auburn haired (gingery) muscle man in a Disney classic playing himself.
... Or as a dank meme that made it to the VGS in the game on the retro hercules skin
I just think he's OP...
...Why, I hear you say?
- Well you didn't say that, I know. You've noticed his burstdamage is ridiculous for a god that can heal oneself so much with a big heal at that.
You'll be no stranger having been ran over
as if being hit by a truck.
Or having the sun suddenly disappear and the maps floor darken as a giant
approaches from the other side of a wall to destroy you and everything you hold dear... R.I.P.
In this guide we'll try to utilize his essence of OPness. Which should be easy, but this is my first guide so just bear with me if you're reading thinking I'm just an idiot that rambles on when typing. Which I am. You're probably reading this thinking 'where is he going with this?' - Well I'm not going anywhere with this so let's just move on and be sure to give lots criticism my internet friends (preferably after reading my guide). Anyway moving on...
along with Bellona
have the natural highest HP and protections of all warriors.
Increased Cooldown from 15s → 17s.
NEW: Everytime Hercules takes Damage from Gods, he gains 5 Physical Power +1 multiplied by your level, stacking up to 3 times and lasting 5s.
Decreased Mana Cost from 70/75/80/85/90 → 60/65/70/75/80.
NEW: When activated, Hercules heals himself instantly and then heals himself again for a % of damage taken after 4s. Also, Hercules gains Bonus Magical and Physical Protections for the duration.
Abilities
Driving strike
the extra mana and the CDR you'll have from my build mid to late game means you can swing and miss at the cost of getting spammed in VGS with the chants of 'you rock'. (every other game for me).
Earthbreaker
before putting points into Mitigate Wounds
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Mitigate Wounds
for the heal then mid game as an escape because it works with shield of regrowth, then late game as an engagement/heal/escape.
Excavate
If you're under pressure you can throw it wave and it will clear after two points in
Go for the kill and throw at fleeing opponents with low health
Secure camps. I.e. mana buff secure via throwing between walls when your opponent tries to steal and can be used to steal your opponents buff with the same bot strategy or go for trick shots by throwing the boulder over the wall (yep, you can do that)
Strength From Pain
. Shame it only last 5s. Don't go outta your way to get hit (lol).
then,
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+ Auto-Attacks
Ravana
flip kick isn't up you can position yourself to where you want to push them to, which could be under tower. You should follow up with auto-attacks, because the burst damage is good so chip at their health some more and use
to back off while auto-attacking if you've bit off more than you can chew.
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Or
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try not to get into a boxing match or at least a long one. Use mitigate wounds
and get that passive cooking you'll come out on top for a while.
offensive items:
Death's Toll: You'd be brave to start with this on Herc. If you're solo queuing nobody will like you and if like me the friends you play with don't like you either way. It's not the meta on Hercules because bluestone pendant
is far superior for wave clear and will, and you don't hit more than one minion with auto attack so you can not fully utilize the passive. As much as other warriors with 'cleave basics'.
Bluestone Pendant: Bluestone Pendant is a no-brainer on Hercules. In this current solo meta just play to your strengths as Hercules is an ability based warrior and this item is tailored for these type of gods.
warrior tabi is you're got to because we're not building death's toll and so have no need to build ninja tabi which is better for attack speed which we don't want as we would like the little extra physical power from warrior tabi
Frostbound Hammer: It fits most warriors as a go-to item. But I'd never pick it up on Hercules not even last because we're not in the face of some basic attacking alot of the time late game so adopt a team mentality as this won't make to much of an impact on back-lining either.
Runeforged Hammer: It's ok to build but build it late as possible, I'm talking last item the passive is applicable.
Jotunn's Wrath: This item does really well on ability builds for obvious reasons. Hercules is a mana hungry man, especially without his blue buff, so he can make good use of every stat on this item. Combined with Breastplate of Valor
you get much CDR, Especially if you add shield of regrowth shield of regrowth in to the mix you will be casting driving strike constantly. Probably best to build breast plate and shield so you can mitigate more though. :(
Titans Bane Titan's Bane: I like this item on Hercules, it is strong against gods with a lot of protections, and less useful against opponents with little or no defenses for whom +15 flat pen would strip much more than 30% of their total defenses. Titan's bane is considered to be a fit ability-based gods (which is what we are). Makes your boulder hit like a bigger boulder.
*Disclaimer*
A list of offensive items that if I see you build these I will show up at your house and haunt you wearing my Friday clothes-
BEWARE!...
Ninja Tabi - We're not Herc the hunter.
Hastened Fatalis - Usable, but we're not Herc the hunter.
The Executioner - We're not Herc the hunter.
Qin's Sais - We're not Herc the hunter.
Ichaival - We're not Herc the hunter.
Silverbranch Bow - We're not Herc the mage hunter.
Transcendence - You'll never pull it off
Mark of the Vanguard: I'm a fan when I'm playing Bellona, Osiris, Xing tian etc. However you don't need to bother on Herc, as his sustain is as such where you can race to buy breastplate of valor
or mystic mail mystic mail and get item advantage over you opponent. Take that! told you Herc is OP!
Breastplate of valor: Ability gods are great with Breastplate. The stats just suit Herc like a glove as well as it will fuel you with some mana and CDR, Great! A Breastplate however in a straight up fist fight will get beaten by mystic mail as it's health and phys. protection as well as pulsating damage. But it is cheaper
Silver breastplate beats
steel mail by a mile...
Silver Breastplate costs 950gold and provides +35 Physical Protection, along with some much needed mana= +200 Mana and +10 MP5 given.
for me to not want to build it, and not only can we justify building it but it is also extremely fun. After healing yourself from an ability, you gain +40% movement speed for 4 seconds. This cannot occur more than once every 10 seconds. That's like a free sprint relic going off. Also you get +10 HP5, +10 MP5, +10% Cooldown Reduction along with +300 health.
Hide of the Nemean Lion: To trade CDR for a pretty sweet passive good against all basics providing. With some nice physical protections that beats Breastplate of Valor as it gives +80. IKR so you can throw breatsplate
outta the window if there's a few heavy auto-attackers in your match.
and of hide of the Nemean lionhide of the namean lion. Just build it when you haven't gone into mystical mailmystic mail, or haven't built Breastplate of valor
and hide of the namean lionhide of the namean lion.
Pestilence: Is an item built by a lot of solo-laners in SPL games. Pestilence will give excellent magical defense and health while passively reducing all enemy healing nearby by 25%. That includes both direct healing abilities like Ra's heal, and even lifesteal from items. So it's bad news if someone on the other team picks it up.
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. Maybe not so much magi's blessing unless the CC is unbearable.
Conquest match
So to battle to then...
I think the best way to pick up on all the little things about Hercules that some wanna disregard just because. Is to watch how he's played. I could describe to you the habits for when I play and what I think is good but to save time (which I'm short on).
I will reference to a popular streamer that I watched before picking up Hercules. That is what I recommend; watch a video and adapt to play style before experimenting with build etc.
However he doesn't spam laugh enough to be as good as me ;).
Thank you for looking over my first guide.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on my build and anything else.
Hope it was as fun to look over as it is to play with shield of regrowth... Oh, and "good luck out there!"
*Hopefully I'll get round to writing a chapter on solo-lane match-ups for this guide.
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