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Ah Puch main weaknesses: mana costs.
Hollow Ground for extra mana/health.
This start solves one of Ah Puch main weaknesses: mana costs.
Therefore, you can consistently use your abilities/combos early on without much hesitation. Furthermore, this means you have good sustain as you can consistently use your abilities to activate Hollow Ground for extra mana/health.
Mage's Blessing
Spellbook
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Ah Puch build as it rounds his kit of with all the essential items he needs, you will be able to shred all types of enemies and have enough mana and MS to sustain yourself, us this build as a baseline.
Shoes of Focus for 
Chronos' Pendant and buy the 
Elixir of Speed to make up for the lost MS.
This build is your fundamental Ah Puch build as it rounds his kit of with all the essential items he needs, you will be able to shred all types of enemies and have enough mana and MS to sustain yourself, us this build as a baseline.
When you've finished the build sell Shoes of Focus for Chronos' Pendant and buy the Elixir of Speed to make up for the lost MS.
Shoes of Focus
Book of Thoth
Spear of Desolation
Gem of Isolation
Charon's Coin
Soul Reaver
Mana Potion and 
Lost Artifact granting you 10MP5 from level 1, plus the scaling MP5 from Mage's Blessing, meaning you will never be mana hungry early on.
This start gives you the most mana efficient start as you start with even more Mana Potion and Lost Artifact granting you 10MP5 from level 1, plus the scaling MP5 from Mage's Blessing, meaning you will never be mana hungry early on.
Mage's Blessing
Lost Artifact
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Ah Puch main weaknesses: lack of mobility. With no escape or steroid Ah Puch has only the safety of 
Empty the Crypts to protect himself. Therefore, when this is on CD, the mobility from both 
Doom Orb and Charon's Coin will ensure a lot more safer playstyle and making you less susceptible from ganks. Shoes of Focus for Chronos' Pendant and buy the Elixir of Speed to make up for the lost MS.
This build solves one of Ah Puch main weaknesses: lack of mobility. With no escape or steroid Ah Puch has only the safety of Empty the Crypts to protect himself. Therefore, when this is on CD, the mobility from both Doom Orb and Charon's Coin will ensure a lot more safer playstyle and making you less susceptible from ganks.
When you've finished the build sell Shoes of Focus for Chronos' Pendant and buy the Elixir of Speed to make up for the lost MS.
Shoes of Focus
Doom Orb
Spear of Desolation
Gem of Isolation
Charon's Coin
Soul Reaver
Mana Potion and Lost Artifact granting you 10MP5 from level 1, plus the scaling MP5 from Mage's Blessing, meaning you will never be mana hungry early on.
This start gives you the most mana efficient start as you start with even more Mana Potion and Lost Artifact granting you 10MP5 from level 1, plus the scaling MP5 from Mage's Blessing, meaning you will never be mana hungry early on.
Mage's Blessing
Lost Artifact
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Chronos' Pendant early on means you play really aggressive with your abilities and pull of your combos more often. Shoes of Focus for 
Rod of Tahuti and buy the Elixir of Speed to make up for the lost MS.
This build is the most meta build right now in s7 wit some small changes to fit a puch style of play. The rushing of Chronos' Pendant early on means you play really aggressive with your abilities and pull of your combos more often.
When you've finished the build sell Shoes of Focus for Rod of Tahuti and buy the Elixir of Speed to make up for the lost MS.
Shoes of Focus
Chronos' Pendant
Spear of Desolation
Gem of Isolation
Charon's Coin
Soul Reaver
Magi's Cloak provides a small amount of protections and surviveability with its passive. Buy this if the enemy team has lots of CC.
Divine Ruin is a fantastic anti heal item can apply to lots of enemies at one time. Buy this if the enemy team has healing.
Obsidian Shard is the best choice for anti tank due to its passive. Buy this if the enemy team has more than one tank.
Mercury and there's no possible way for you to outrun them. Buy this if the enemy team has lots of mobility.
Winged Blade brings lots of surviveability and a fantastic passive when encountering slows. Buy this if the enemy team has lots of slows.
Mantle of Discord is extremely useful if the enemy team has lots of burst gods such as 
Set, due to it's passive and protections. Buy this if the enemy team has lots of burst gods.
Ethereal Staff is a great alternative to common mana items such as Book of Thoth and also has great utility because it's passive allows you to steal health/mana from enemy gods. Buy this if in need of a sustainable mana source.
Magi's Cloak provides a small amount of protections and surviveability with its passive. Buy this if the enemy team has lots of CC.
Divine Ruin is a fantastic anti heal item can apply to lots of enemies at one time. Buy this if the enemy team has healing.
Obsidian Shard is the best choice for anti tank due to its passive. Buy this if the enemy team has more than one tank.
shield of regrowth is a very situational item, I'd only recommend it if the enemy team has lots of mobile gods like Mercury and there's no possible way for you to outrun them. Buy this if the enemy team has lots of mobility.
Winged Blade brings lots of surviveability and a fantastic passive when encountering slows. Buy this if the enemy team has lots of slows.
Mantle of Discord is extremely useful if the enemy team has lots of burst gods such as Set, due to it's passive and protections. Buy this if the enemy team has lots of burst gods.
Ethereal Staff is a great alternative to common mana items such as Book of Thoth and also has great utility because it's passive allows you to steal health/mana from enemy gods. Buy this if in need of a sustainable mana source.
Magi's Cloak
Divine Ruin
Obsidian Shard
Breastplate of Regrowth
Winged Blade
Mantle of Discord
Ethereal Staff
Purification Beads is a must as Ah Puch has no escape, therefore they'll help you out of stuns, slows etc and let you loose the enemy.
Aegis Amulet helps when having trouble with nuke ults like 
Release The Kraken!.
Heavenly Wings can be a life saver as the MS helps Ah Puch out of tricky situations. Once upgraded you can use this to support your team with a nice haste effect to AA.
Phantom Veil is essential when facing Gods such as 
Odin and 
Ymir; if Phantom Veil is on CD I'd recommend using Empty the Crypts to protect yourself instead.
Purification Beads is a must as Ah Puch has no escape, therefore they'll help you out of stuns, slows etc and let you loose the enemy.
Aegis Amulet helps when having trouble with nuke ults like Release The Kraken!.
Heavenly Wings can be a life saver as the MS helps Ah Puch out of tricky situations. Once upgraded you can use this to support your team with a nice haste effect to AA.
Phantom Veil is essential when facing Gods such as Odin and Ymir; if Phantom Veil is on CD I'd recommend using Empty the Crypts to protect yourself instead.
Purification Beads
Aegis Amulet
Heavenly Wings
Phantom Veil
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Ah Puch. I'm in no way a smite veteran or a veteran at playing Ah Puch. However I saw he is out of meta and needed some love. Therefore I took it upon myself to create a guide for him and for players to understand his role/playstyle/builds etc.
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Hollow Ground is an incredibly valuable passive for Ah Puch as it gives him tons of sustain and works in tandem with Corpse Explosion. Firstly, the corpses Ah Puch spawns from his abilities: Undead Surge and Fleeting Breath, can be 'consumed' for health/mana. This is great as if you're low on health/mana just use one of these abilities for easy sustain. Also, this effect scales up with your health/mana, so the more items you build containing these stats, the more sustain you will get from the corpses. Secondly, Hollow Ground also directly effects Corpse Explosion too as the more corpses you have, the more damage will be applied. So I always recommend grouping up your attacks or even pre-placing corpses around choke points/objectives so your Corpse Explosion can deal maximum damage.
Undead Surge is another core part of Ah Puch kit as it's antiheal and scaling slow,(when combined with Gem of Isolation), can be devastating to enemies and ensures you can reliably land Corpse Explosion due to its long wind up time. Be warned though that Undead Surge can be easily juked so always start a combo off with Fleeting Breath so you can land this ability with ease.
Corpse Explosion is a relativity weak ability on its own, however when combined with corpses from your other abilities, Corpse Explosion can deal massive amounts of damage and even one shot squishes if setup correctly. This is why I recommend restraining this ability to only be used when corpses are present; unless you're able to finish off an enemy god with just this ability alone.
Fleeting Breath is a fantastic anti heal/poke damage ability that gives Ah Puch some versatility in his kit. It's also his most reliable ability to hit,(aside from Empty the Crypts), as this ability doesn't have much wind up time making it a reliable poke damage tool and a great 'setup' ability for your combos. Conjointly Fleeting Breath further damages any enemy gods that heal while being damaged from it as well as stunning them once the ability ends. Additionally, when in tandem with Gem of Isolation this ability becomes a tremendous utility as the stacking slow can help chase down enemies and prevent ganks.
Empty the Crypts is Ah Puch signature ability and is one of the best teamfight abilities, alongside 
Fear No Evil, in the game. This is because you're able to close off an entire lane/objective, thus your team is able to attack/retreat at your own mercy. When combined with Gem of Isolation the stacking slow from the wraiths will be enough to force the enemy gods to retreat or take enormous damage and possibly die. This is more than enough to switch any teamfight in your favour, howbeit their is a long CD so don't use this ability sparingly.|
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Ah Puch guide, I hope this helps in any way as mentioned earlier, I'm in no way a smite veteran or a veteran at playing Ah Puch, so take everything with a pinch of salt.
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Qin's Sais
Baron Samedi
Potion of Power
Elixir of Power
Fenrir
Bakasura
Elixir of Defense
I spent 6 hours on it today, everythings been updated, I will be improving the readability of the 'gameplay' section though in the near future.
Granted, once you hit level 2, having the 1-2 combo is great for clear.
NICE. Brand new, big ol' guide. Some comments:
- Skill leveling looks good to me.
- Build 1 looks great. Stacking Thoth, then CDR from Focus because you're getting high pen function in Magus 3rd. Gem is just too OP on him and looks good in the 4th spot. I'm assuming 5th and 6th, along with Shoes replacement, are all flex picks to a degree.
- I also like that you have both a Thoth example and a Warlock's example. I think a 3rd example with no stacking would be great to see also...likely
Mage's Blessing and a Magus rush. You'll be doing true damage super early.
- One off-meta option you might consider for the situationals is Shield of Regrowth, in place of
Bumba's Mask. I know it's quite a bit different in how the MS is applied, but I don't like nerfing his damage potential from that -10% damage dealt, along with the +10% damage he will take. Regrowth's MS is applied a bit differently, but fairly easily enough, I'd think, and it still has the CDR (and some health, which I'm sure he'll appreciate). Again, off-meta, but possible function. You don't have to add, just a thought.
- To that end, other situationals you might want to consider include
Mantle of Discord, 
Ethereal Staff, 
Spear of Desolation, and 
Shaman's Ring.
- In the skills writeup, you might talk about the DoT damage of
Fleeting Breath being key to getting the most out of 
Spear of the Magus's passive stacks, as well as prolonging 
Gem of Isolation's slow. You do mention Iso with 
Empty the Crypts, which is great...but although you talk about Iso forcing gods to retreat or take damage, it's also your most reliable peel tool to get people (aka ganking Jungler) off your back.
- Good gameplay writeup. Smart to play safe early. Good tip on the early fleeting for some mana regen.
- I think you should talk a bit more about comboing, not just in the late-game section. Also, the combo you talk about, 1-3-2, is one combo, but I think the more common (and higher damage) one would be 3-1-2. It doesn't have to be complex. Obviously the 1-2 combo is the standard for quick burst. But if you can burn an enemy's poke ability and you have Magus (and even better Iso as well), or you're not the first one to start a fight, you can initiate with
Fleeting Breath, allow it to provide a couple Magus stacks, and then do the 1-2 combo for higher damage potential. Know what I mean?
Anyway, well done, would like your response and consideration of adding some other situationals, but solid overall.2) I'll replace
3) I'll add all the situationals you've mentioned
4) I'll include additional information about how
5) I'll fix the combos, I just put 1-3-2 because I just find it easier to land than 3-1-2 because of
Thanks for the feedback!
Changes will occur this weekend.
I'm not sure I'd recommend Tahuti too early for
AP levels his Explosion before all others, and relies heavily on that to decrease enemy health...he doesn't put a lot of early points into Fleeting or Surge, and those won't deal enough damage to get the enemy health down by themselves...and then where Zeus' Detonate is a for-sure hit if he's got stacks, Explosion needs the nearby corpses, AND the enemy to be in range. So again, to me, AP's kit is less reliable for the Tahuti passive.
So, you'll have to deal with the lack of mana without the Thoth stacking (or even the base mana Warlock's provides). The Blessing can help some, but you might have to supplement with some extra mana potions.
Let's see...starters being
Complete
I'm thinking roughly
But that obviously isn't final I'll test this tomorrow.