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Smite God: Erlang Shen

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Erlang Shen Build

Starting

Guardian's Blessing

Shoes

Healing Potion

Multi Potion

Relics

Heavenly Wings

Blink Rune

Magic Shell

Shield of Thorns

Core

Talaria Boots

Gauntlet of Thebes

Sovereignty

Blackthorn Hammer

Oni Hunter's Garb

Spirit Robe

Situational

Reinforced Greaves

Berserker's Shield

Runic Shield

Heartward Amulet

Winged Blade

Hide of the Nemean Lion

Void Shield

Shogun's Kusari

Pestilence

Midgardian Mail

Witchblade

Erlang Shen's Skill Order

Spot Weakness

1 X

2 8 10 11 12

2 A

3 15 16 18 19

72 Transformations ES

3 B

1 4 6 7 9

9 Turns Blessing

4 Y

5 13 14 17 20

2 8 10 11 12

Spot Weakness

1 X

Erlang Shen opens his third eye and analyzes the enemy's strengths and weaknesses. When activated, Erlang Shen gains additional Physical Damage and Lifesteal on each strike. He also applies a stacking debuff to enemy gods, reducing their damage dealt to all sources. Stacks last 3s.

If the buff effect has ended and the ability is on Cooldown, successful Basic Attacks reduce the Cooldown of this ability by 1s.

Ability Type: Buff, Damage
Physical Damage: 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 (+5% of your Physical Power)
Lifesteal: 4 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 20%
Damage Reduction: 5 / 5.5 / 6 / 6.6 / 7%
Max Stacks: 3
Duration: 5s
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 14s

3 15 16 18 19

2 A

Erlang Shen launches a spear that damages enemies on impact. Enemies in the dead center of the effect when it lands are Rooted in place.

Ability Type: Circle, Root, Damage
Damage: 85 / 130 / 175 / 220 / 265 (+55% of your Physical Power)
Root Duration: 1.5s
Radius: 20
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 16s

1 4 6 7 9

72 Transformations ES

3 B

Erlang Shen transforms into an Mink or Turtle and charges forward, becoming immune to knockups and slows.

Mink: Damages all enemies, stopping on first god hit and increasing Attack Speed and Movement Speed for 4s.
Turtle: Knocks up enemy gods and gains a health shield that is boosted by 75% of your protections from items for 12s.

Ability Type: Line, Buff, Damage
Turtle Damage: 55 / 100 / 145 / 190 / 235 (+40% of your Physical Power)
Shield Health: 50 / 100 / 150 / 200 / 250
Mink Damage: 80 / 140 / 200 / 260 / 320 (+70% of your Physical Power)
Mink Attack Speed: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35%
Mink Movement Speed: 15%
Cost: 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85
Cooldown: 16s

5 13 14 17 20

9 Turns Blessing

4 Y

Erlang Shen Taunts nearby Enemy gods, gaining Damage Mitigation for the next 4s. Afterwards, if Erlang Shen is still alive he is Healed for a flat amount plus 12% of his Maximum Health.

Ability Type: Cone, Taunt
Heal: 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300 (+12% of your Maximum Health)
Damage Mitigation: 35%
Taunt Duration: 1.5s
Cost: 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100
Cooldown: 70s

Leveling Order

The first three levels might be situational or preference, but I always level Erlang's 3 first and then his 1 to clear camps better at level two.

"72 Transformations" is a very strong ability and will probably be focused in leveling order. Not only is the damage from the Mink and the Turtle very high, but come with a lot of utility with the slow, attack speed boost, knock-up, and shield. The shield and the attack speed boost also scale higher when leveling.

Next I focus on leveling "Spot Weakness". It's a very powerful steroid that can be very frustrating to fight against after being slowed by the Mink. The cooldown is shorter than the description says at 14 seconds -- successful auto attacks actually make this ability cooldown shorter so it's always available.

"Pin" is nice to root an enemy for a second and pairs really well with the Turtle knock-up, but be aware that this ability's cooldown does not get shorter as you level it and the root duration does not get longer than 1.3 seconds -- So I put less preference on leveling this ability as the utility does not actually become more useful toward mid to late game.

Erlang's ult "9 Turns Blessing" gets leveling priority over the "Pin", in my opinion. The cooldown does not get shorter, but the heal gets much stronger and scales with your health and the mitigation boost sponges a ton of damage -- Be careful when ulting a team that has anti-heal or a lot of CC as Erlang can easily become stuck in a messy situation.

Dog-Man turn weasel and turn turtle. Okay?

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(81) |

Why pick s over s?

(143) |

There is one problem though, the author should buy tier 1 shoes with that start because there's enough gold for it.

Oops! I agree and definitely should've put that in there. I'll add it!

(143) |

Because you can tank more damage? I would never get mana pots on a support unless I was playing like a Hel or Aphro support.

(81) |

Makes sense. I'm used to buying health and mana pots, but I can see the use of multi. I'll have to update my Kuzenbo guide soon.

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(143) |

The first time I remember getting multi pots in my start was when I was playing Ranked in Season 5 and when I got to Diamond I realised I started to not get my preferred role (Mid) and sometimes ended up as Support, so I remember quickly searching Jeffhindla videos and saw him starting guardian's blessing, tier 1 boots, 3 health pots and 3 multi pots and started to notice an improvement in my early laning phase with that start. The only other start I've used since then that wasn't that one was guardians blessing, health chalice and and 5 health pots start when I first tried out Achilles support where I got the idea from seeing an EmilZy video on it, and he could put up pretty good pressure with Achilles in lane with that start - especially when Horrific Emblem was stronger.

Actually, there is 1 other start I remember using, but I think it was season 4 where I would go blessing, ward chalice and health pots , or maybe it was very early season 5. Haven't used that one in a long time. Think it was also when ward chalice was cheaper and very cost effective.

(72) |

Seems good to me too

+1

(143) |

Build seems good, perhaps consider a few more situationals like midgardian, witchblade, pestilence etc...

(400) |

In a support role, don't know if I'd consider ...Solo absolutely.

Suggest adding skill leveling direction.

(143) |

I've seen it appear in high level PC ranked, could ask EmilZy about it as well.

It's not my preference but I mean you are playing an AA-warrior in support so I can see it being functional.

At least it's not something ridiculous like which SoloDoubleJ and Dukesloth have helped spread. There's a reason I don't hold Dukesloth to that high of a regard in terms of reliability, especially when he isn't particularly amazing in regards to theory crafting unless he's parroting from pros.

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(81) |

Sloth's one of those jackasses that outright tells people not to come here; so while I do watch his videos, I don't have a whole lot of respect for him as a person.

(143) |

I mean, I can't blame him for not having a good view towards this site, especially as overall it's not really in a good state, but I wouldn't actively say the site is bad, no. I would say "you have to cherry pick to find good guides and builds on this site otherwise they're unreliable".

(105) |

Any site with usermade builds will have this problem. Still for LoL mobafire is quite huge

(81) |

I can't either, but he refuses to discuss the site outside of saying that he doesn't come here.

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Smite God: Erlang Shen

Erlang Shen Build

Starting

Relics

Core

Situational

Erlang Shen's Skill Order

Spot Weakness

Pin

72 Transformations ES

9 Turns Blessing

Leveling Order

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