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Chronos' Pendant
Boots of the Magi
Healing Potion
Chronos' Pendant
Healing Potion
Chronos' Pendant
Boots of the Magi
Void Stone
Warlock's Staff
Gem of Isolation
Rod of Tahuti
Bancroft's Talon
Ethereal Staff
Polynomicon
Aegis Amulet (Old)
Creeping Curse
Girdle of Might
Purification Beads (Old)
Heavenly Agility
Heavenly Wings
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Zeus skills:
Overcharge (passive)
Chain Lightning
Detonate Charge
Lightning Storm (ultimate)Zeus is a good mid and duo laner. But he fights the best with a good ally that offers much utility like Thor or Ymir.
Chain Lightning when there are 2 enemy minions left, you will probarly apply a stack on the enemy god. If you can follow this up with an auto attack you can do a lot of harass with Detonate Charge. Try to aplly charges like a ninja. I think you lane best up with an ally god with a good stun or pull, like 
Ares,
Thor,
Ymir,
Sobek,
Arachne... Every time someone stuns or throws an enemy back you have the chance to apply at least 2 stacks on him. This is so important with Zeus because you need to do free damage like this. Don't clear minions with your skills unless you went with second tier Chronos' Pendant.
Ra or 
Ao Kuang. Most of the time the enemy god has to come closer you use a spell to clear the minion wave. This is when you strike. Or you land 2 auto attacks or an auto attack on him and a Chain Lightning on the archer minions. If you've done this, inmediatly return and run away from the minions. Hit Detonate Charge and lol at the poor guy for thinking that he had done a better trade. Do this a couple times and you will find that he is very low after doing this 2 or 3 times. When you think you can kill him, dive the 'minions' and apply 3 stacks, then get away through the jungle or through your lane again and Detonate Charge. If you have your Lightning Storm already you can finish him with the big wave, or apply 2 or 3 stacks on him to then finish him. Lightning Storm on his head and he won't notice it fast enough. Detonate Charge and you got the kill. Please don't do this too often, this can be so irritating as an ally. You can take 1 or 2 but you give the rest to someone that's a little bit behind. Zeus is probarly the best kill stealer in the game but that's no reason to do so. Lightning Storm on their head and detonate your charges! This probarly means that you have won the team fight. Imagine that this brings them all to 3/4 - 4/5 health, it won't be hard to win a team fight like that. But in most instances this doesn't happen... You don't engage with your ultimate and let the others do the work. Only poke them a little bit with your skills. When everybody engages and chaos rises then it's the time to use your ultimate. Most of the enemy gods won't realise what they are doing and will keep fighting, this gives you all the potential to kill an enemy you can expect from zeus. Remember, use your ultimate on minimum 2 gods. If they are 2 gods behind they will not win the next team fight, so you force a team fight or push, take fire giant, gold fury.
Boots of the Magi: This item is the most basic item on any mage. It provides magic damage and mana that's pretty usefull.
Chronos' Pendant: This item is great on Zeus and a must in my opinion. It gives you mp5 that is really good on zeus. Also the magic damage is very decent. Then you have the 25% cooldown reduction wich is amazing to have on zeus. You can detonate charge more early when it was on cooldown and your stacks won't disappear just when your skill is up.
Void Stone: Pretty basic stuff, gives you magical power and protection wich is very good for mid lane. The debuff is also very handy for any magical god.
warlock's sashwarlock's sash: This item gives you nice health, mana and magical power, it also has these stacks that can't be lost on death. These stacks give health and magical power. Zeus can get many stacks very fast, so this is a pretty standard pick.
Gem of Isolation: This item is very handy and also a must. Because you can yell every time you do your ultimat: GET SLOWED!!! The extra health and mana are also very good.
Rod of Tahuti: This gives you more magical power and let's you crush the enemy with your epic damage output after this item.
Bancroft's Talon: This item gives you the lifesteal and extra power that can save your life in a team fight or let you win in a 1vs1 battle. Feel free to replace an item with this item, it's pretty damn good.
Ethereal Staff: This gives you sick sustain. Feel free to spam all your spells on the air.
Polynomicon: This is just a good item on every mage for it's passive and statistics. You are auto attacking anyway to apply stacks so why wouldn't we open up with a Chain Lightning and apply the further 2 or 1 stacks with a lot of damage.
Aegis Amulet: This can save your life against some gods like: Ra, 
He Bo, Ao Kuang, Ares...
Creeping Curse: You want an even better slow when you pop your ultimate? Go in use creeping curse and pop your ultimate, you are 3 stacks assured.
Heavenly Agility: You wonna help your team out to run or engage faster? This is the item to do so.
Purification Beads: This item can save you from some situations like an ult from: 
Hades, Ymir,
Sun Wukong...Basicly, if you want to clear waves very fast. Make a balance from upgrading Chain Lightning and Detonate Charge. Hit the wave with Chain Lightning and then use Detonate Charge
Odin: You have all heard from the Zeus - odin combination probarly. If not, don't worry, it's epic. When Odin uses 
Ring of Spears your ultimate ( Lightning Storm) can fit perfectly in it. They are trapped and you are doing a lot of damage on them and can finish them with Detonate Charge. But please don't be so stupid to trap a god with a jump... Only when you saw him using his jump seconds ago and you know it's on cooldown.
Thor: Thor offers so much chances for you to harass them and finally finish them. If he stuns you can easily hit the enemy god with 2 or 3 auto attacks and Detonate Charge. This is also very fun with a friend on voice chat.
Hel: Hel offers so much sustain and potential for zeus. She can heal you up after a failed fight. She can do a lot of damage that you can follow up and maybe kill someone. Overall a great god to play with.
Hades: Hades offers a good ulti combo because you can get the full amounts of stacks on. If you won't get the kill he will.
Ao Kuang: He can destroy you with his tornadoes. It's very frustrating. You have to play very carefull against him and engage when he used his tornadoes.
Thor: Thor can destroy you when he ganks your lane. He can stun you and do all sorts of crazy stuff without you can land an auto attack.
Hel: Hel can make you think you got her but then she heals and you are basicly useless. All your harass and engages are wasted. You have to go all in for actually killing her.
Sun Wukong: He can jump around you and basicly trade fights with you that you lose very hard. Carefull in this lane because it will be quite hard.
King of Gods, Zeus strives for fairness and justice, but will not hesitate to call down the thunder when theres smiting to be done!
Zeus father, the Titan Cronus, immediately swallowed his children after birth so that none could overthrow him as he had his own father. When Zeus was born, Rhea, Zeus mother, hid the child from Cronus and gave the Titan a rock in swaddling clothes, which he swallowed instead. In secret, Zeus grew up on the isle of Crete until he was old and strong enough to challenge his father. During their battle, Zeus slit open Cronus stomach, allowing his swallowed brothers and sisters to escape, slaying the Titan. Then, Zeus released the Cyclops and other beings Cronus had kept imprisoned. In gratitude, the Cyclops awarded Zeus control over lightning.
With his two brothers, Poseidon and Hades, the three Gods drew lots to decide command of creation. Poseidon became king of the sea, Hades the underworld, and Zeus the sky. From his golden throne atop Mount Olympus, Zeus now rules Gods and Men with his wife Hera, upholding justice, hospitality, oaths, and honesty to all under his domain.
Yet, Zeus is a restless God, and while he holds high expectations for others, he does not keep those standards for himself. Chiefly, Zeus is nearly infamous for several infidelities to his wife which have resulted in dozens of children beget by other women, most famous of which are Hercules, Artemis, and Athena. Such wanton unfaithfulness is the source of great jealousy from Hera, though as King, Zeus can ultimately do as he wishes.
Weather is dictated by the Thunder Gods mood. When in a fair temperament, the sky is clear, bright and warm. When Zeus anger flares, black clouds roll in, lightning streaks the sky and thunder shakes the very ground. Lately, Zeus has been furious.
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I run the same build for items, but in a different order.
Shoes of the Magi --> Warlock's Sash --> Chronos' Pendant --> Rod of Tahuti --> Void Stone --> Gem of Isolation
I build out my skills differently, based upon the game format.
In Arena, my priorities are Lightning Storm --> Detonate Charge --> Aegis Shield --> Chain Lightning. This is because it is far easier in arena to get charges on opponents, so the multiple charges with Detonate Charge is much nicer.
In Conquest, my priorities are Lightning Storm --> Chain Lightning --> Aegis Shield --> Detonate Charge. Typically in Conquest, you will only be able to land one or two charges, especially early game when you can bounce Chain Lightning off of minions to hit and charge your opponent.
What is particularly interesting about Zeus is he isn't really a glass cannon. He can take a decent beating and is particularly mobile thanks to Aegis Shield.
thx for the advice, i'm sure this was helpfull for people! thx +1
Hey I like the build but a suggestion is to try and Add Polynomicon in somewhere cause its a great damage dealer for Zeus because you can Gank but right before you basic use your Shield which will apply the Damage for your basic and then bam his health is like half down. Or Like you said use your 1 for chain lightning on the minions then sneak a basic in and his health drop and if you want to Detonate and his health is gone. But this is my Suggestion tell me what you think
ok, i'll put it in there somewhere, great advice. Thx! +1
Adding warlock sash as anything other than the starting item, to me anyway, just feels like a waste.
Shoes of the Magi --> Warlock's Sash --> Chronos' Pendant --> Rod of Tahuti --> Void Stone --> Gem of Isolation
I build out my skills differently, based upon the game format.
In Arena, my priorities are Lightning Storm --> Detonate Charge --> Aegis Shield --> Chain Lightning. This is because it is far easier in arena to get charges on opponents, so the multiple charges with Detonate Charge is much nicer.
In Conquest, my priorities are Lightning Storm --> Chain Lightning --> Aegis Shield --> Detonate Charge. Typically in Conquest, you will only be able to land one or two charges, especially early game when you can bounce Chain Lightning off of minions to hit and charge your opponent.
What is particularly interesting about Zeus is he isn't really a glass cannon. He can take a decent beating and is particularly mobile thanks to Aegis Shield.
Easily my favorite guild but i use Fatalis instead of Warlock's Sash ;)
Thx :D appreciate the comment +1
Only thing i would change would be the Sash, id rather go for Bancroft for the instant damage, late game i might not have time to farm stacks.
great guide but Hades should be up there in the combos, I just went 16-3 and something with him in my lane. great item build, +1 :D
Allright i'll do it :)