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Smite God: Hades

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Hades Build

Usual build

Bancroft's Talon

Shoes of the Magi

Warlock's Staff

Spear of Desolation

Obsidian Shard

Rod of Tahuti

Defensive options

Breastplate of Valor

Hide of the Urchin

Mantle of Discord

Stone of Fal

Void Stone

Other offensive options

Chronos' Pendant

Soul Reaver

Spear of the Magus

Utility

Gem of Isolation

Winged Blade

Divine Ruin

Breastplate of Regrowth

Relic possibilities

Blink Rune

Bracer of Radiance

Horrific Emblem

Shield of Thorns

Purification Beads

Hades's Skill Order

Death From Below

1 X

2 8 11 12 15

Shroud of Darkness

2 A

3 14 16 18

Devour Souls

3 B

1 4 6 7 10

Pillar of Agony

4 Y

5 9 13 17 19 20

Introduction

Introduction

Welcome to my build guide. I recently got to level 10 with him in a short amount of time. Due to the fact that there were triple worshipers and boosters. Here are my stats for reference if you want to check them out. In this guide, I am primarily focusing on all game modes but Conquest. I don't play Conquest much so I feel like I would not be able to give a good explanation or build for it.

is an unique mage that relies on getting up close and personal to inflict damage with his kit, unlike other mages who rely on ranged abilities. With this in mind, is completely ability based. So builds should focus on some CDR, health and maybe some protections. I will discuss item choices later on. First, let's get into some Pros and Cons.

Pros and Cons

Pros/Cons

..... Pros .....

- Can have high burst
- AoE heal
- Decent escape

..... Cons .....

- Anti-heal items really hurt
- Slow movement speed
- Has to get close to do damage

Explanation

Abilities

Abilities

Blight

Hades' basic attacks apply a debuff to the target. It stays on for 8 seconds and can be refreshed. When affected by this, all the other abilities for Hades will have an additional effect. It is always best to have your enemy blighted before using your kit. You can tell an enemy is Blighted when they havea black aura like thing on them NOTE: and also apply

Blight

Ability Video

Death From Below

This is his initiator and escape move. He descends into the ground and erupts from it. Damaging everyone in the circle. This applies blight if the target does not have it. If they do have , they will also be slowed. This does count as a leap, so when used around she can pull him in with her ultimate.
Max this out 2nd.

Death From Below

Ability Video

Shroud of Darkness

Hades silences all enemies in a cone in front of him. If the enemy already has they are also feared, which basically disorients them like a taunt would. It makes them move away from you. So you could potentially come from behind, fear them and make them walk towards your teammates and tower and they can't do anything about it. This also applies , if do not have it already. This is good to use as an initiator or after you initiated with . This will either make enemies fear you or will apply blight making them take more damage from .
Max this 3rd

Shroud of Darkness

Ability Video

Devour Souls

This is his bread and butter move. Every enemy is damaged in a circle around him. If they are blighted, the enemy explodes dealing damage to nearby enemies as well. It also heals you and nearby allies that are within the circle as well. This is why you want everyone to have because this move consumes it and heals and does even more damage when Blighted. This is usually your end part of your combo as it consumes . You max this 1st.

Devour Souls

Ability Video

Pillar of Agony

A perfect team fight set up move. When used, enemies within the area of effect will be pulled closer to you while getting damaged every .5 seconds for 4 seconds. If they are blighted, their protections are reduced as well. Hades also gains protections for the duration of the move. It can be canceled early if needed. The downfall is that you are stationary and do take damage when used. Timing is also key, as enemies can use leaps, dashes and teleport out of it. They can also use beads to escape it as well. Focus on gods who have used their escape move already or ones that do not have one to at least force the use of . If they do escape, you can cancel early. I would recommend this as you are just sitting there doing nothing. As well, you can use as a way for the enemy team to draw out their relics, like beads and Aegis, while setting up a teammates ultimate.
Max this when available

Pillar of Agony

Ability Video

Combo Time

Main Combos

Explanation

Item choices

Item choices

can be built in a couple of different ways. You can go with more protections while diminishing your damage. You could go a full damage build but be subjected to more punishment while ulting. You could just build health and use your heal as your defense. Personally, I like building health with power and penetration while occasionally getting a defensive item when needed.

In my opinion, your main focus as should be getting some lifesteal, some CDR and penetration. With these, you can replenish your life more often while shredding through enemy protections with your build items and also your abilities. Remember when using , that their magical protections are reduced between 60-100, if they were blighted beforehand. So always make sure they are blighted.

Let's discuss item possibilities shall we. In this portion, I will split between Offensive, Defensive and Utility items, with the ones showing as my preferred items for .

Boots

These are the boots for Hades. Provides the most power and some flat penetration along with your movement speed. With the power and pen they help with early wave clear. You do sacrifice some Cooldown reduction, but they fit much better in my opinion

Replacement / situational items

Offensive Items

	So this is usually my first item even before boots. The increase in lifesteal makes Devour Souls heal more potent while increasing your damage by 100. You also gain more power and lifesteal from missing health making you even more dangerous so early in the game.
Warlock's Sash	A big increase in health even at the base stats. I usually get this item after Bancroft's Talon and Shoes of the Magi because by then your Devour Souls clear wipes out the entire minion chain. Plus usually your teammates are building early stacks, which makes it less of a fight over minions. If you don't want to stack or in a game mode where it is tough to stack (Arena), sub this out for Hide of the Urchin. It will provide you some the health lost and also give you some protections.
	Little bit of everything needed. Nice power, +20 penetration, and some CDR which is needed. The price is right at 2600 and just helps you in so many ways.
	Double penetration items just shreds through enemy protections. With this item, it is only truly effective when using Pillar of Agony, but it is more helpful than Obsidian Shard in team fights. This item could be subbed out for a different item.
	Really cheap penetration. Could be inefficient when using Pillar of Agony. Since that move reduces protections, but at the price it is really hard to pass up.
	Don't think need much explanation on this one, but your damage will jump up majorly. With this and double penetration items, you will be the god feared most.

Spear of the Magus replacement / situational items

Defensive Items

If I do get a defensive item, it would usually just be 1 item. Usually this would be item 4 in the build.

	Really nice physical protections with 20% CDR. I would get this if facing a majority physical enemy team that has high burst.
	One of the cheapest dual protection items available. After stacks it provides the most dual protections as well. Nice increase in health and mana. Downfall, no CDR and actually have to build stacks to fulfill its potential
	Nice dual protections for a heavier price. Has some CDR. The passive can be helpful while using Pillar of Agony so it could stun them while caught in it if tirggered.

Replacement / situational items

Utility Items

Good power, some health and a little bit of CCR. When you hit enemies with your abilities it will slow them down as well, making it harder for them to escape your grasp.

Replacement / situational items

Relic Possibilities

	Keeps Death From Below from being used so you can use it as an escape if needed. Can catch enemies off guard more easily as well.
Bracer of Undoing	Using it will subtract 3 seconds from abilities but will also restore 50% Health and Mana lost within the last 3 seconds. So if you are in the middle of your ultimate getting pummeled, you can pop this and your life back then hopefully have Devour Souls back up to replenish even more.
	It slows enemy gods, making it potentially harder to get out of Pillar of Agony. Also reduces attack speed so you could take less damage as they attack you while in Pillars.
	Reflects damage back to enemy for 5 seconds. Use this before using Pillar of Agony to take less damage while giving out more.
	Because getting CCed sucks. This can help with that.

My usual build

Imagine awesome build name here

Warlock's Sash

My usual build has been used in all modes besides Conquest. I believe it could work in Conquest but am unsure since have not tested it. So most of the focus will be on the other games modes.

Build details

Downfalls

Changes

Conclusion

Conclusion

is an unique mage that can punish gods with high damage output while also taking a fair amount of damage by healing himself with .

His downfalls include: having to be close to do his main damage, being vulnerable to CC after initiation, being left open for attacks during and his slow movement speed. With that in mind, you should pick and choose when you need to initiate and when to hang back. Make sure when you initiate, you are not doing it by yourself and have the aid of teammates. If you have a support teammate, have him initiate and after he uses part of his kit use to come in and take over with your silence from with a finish of either or . With these things in mind and with the build items suggested, you should do well more often than not.

If you like this guide, check out my others!

Many Thanks

Many Thanks

Special thanks to the following:

Zerostrike for his Spruce up your words guide and helping out with some coding issues.

Technotoad for his Color Compilation guide

Zilby for his Template Guide

Changes

We talking bout changes.

8/14- Updated through 4.15. Added Obsidian Shard to builds and item choices
7/21- Updated through Patch 4.13. Added Solo build, anchors and minor fixes
6/12- Minor revisions
5/19- Minor revisions from feedback from Bran. Added relics
5/18- Original publish date

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(3) |

great build for hades

(46) |

Sunny, you always brighten up my day.

(33) |

You light up my world!

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(12) |

I have officially made it now since I got a comment from Sunny. I can now retire haha

(394) |

I don't think I've ever gotten a comment from Sunny =P

(46) |

You've gotten at least two. This one and this one.

(394) |

Well ****...I'd forgotten...

Technically, the second one is me maintaining Daelinn's guide, so I won't count it. At least I did get the one...makes my day to be reminded of this.

(10) |

I think we all know what that means Bran

(33) |

thAt BraN SuCKS

(46) |

He missed all his skill shots and made us lose Joust.

JK I was a ****py support :(

(394) |

It was basically the opposite of the previous night, where I was hitting almost everything =( I'll blame it on being tired after my hockey game...yeah, that's legit.

The enemy team controlled so much in this match. Just absolutely demolished.

And then it was better in this one, but couldn't hold them off.

Funny enough though, no in sight...sorry for mucking up your comments, newb. Play though, seriously.

(12) |

I suppose I will let it slide haha. At least could give me some upvotes if felt it was warranted.

And no . Need to work on others first.

(394) |

I don't deny it. My upcoming ranked ventures will give you PLENTY of examples to confirm this.

(17) |

You know your guide is good if sunny leaves a compliment

(9) |

The Legend Sunny108108.

(394) |

Funny intro pic...my kids like watching Hercules, but the art style overall just seemed a bit of a weak effort by Disney. Also, with that chin, makes me think of Jay Leno or something.

Gonna start from top to bottom.

Bob Dylan?

Starting item...you pick up Bancroft's Talon first? Are there situations where you would pick up Shoes of the Magi first? Just thinking, if you're the one mostly in charge of wave clear, you're usually pretty committed with your 1-3 combo, so getting back to safety might be a concern and move speed would be appreciated. That said, I guess you've also got Shroud to help out, plus teammates.
Oh, as with pretty much any guide, explaining which modes they're meant for is important, I think. Either including in the main title, in the build title, or in the intro would be good. I do see you mention it in your "my usual build" chapter, but that's pretty far down.
Due to his close-in nature, combined with being a sitting duck when he's ulting, I think my personal preference is both health AND protections. Granted, Pillar provides pretty decent protections, but I am still more comfortable playing him as if he was still a guardian. But I'm sure many don't agree with me, and Hades definitely isn't my best god by a longshot. (All but one match of my playtime with him was random Assault roles, and that's a deathwish a lot of the time...on PC, my KDA is 100/161/416 LOL.
For penetration items, another option would be not getting Spear, and just subbing in Void Stone (as long as you need the magical protection). Combined with Shoes of the Magi and Spear of Desolation, you'll be taking away 50 of their protections when not using your ult, which is perfectly fine against squishy gods. You don't have enough burst to take down tanks anyway.
Personally think you should get rid of Polynomicon. Bancroft is his go-to, and double-lifesteal isn't all that great. Leave Poly to Kukulkan, Ao Kuang, and Damage Ymir.
In your Pros/Cons explanation, you say Pillar of Agony can be escaped with the use of Purification Beads...but it can also be escaped by any leaps, teleports, or dashes.
I like seeing the ability name in the abilities section...you've got the large icons, but they're not titled...your preference of course, but I feel adding the names is way better.
For Death From Below, you should mention this actually counts as a leap (reverse leap, I guess). He can be pulled out of it by Awilix's ult, for example.
For Shroud of Darkness, you say it disorients them like a taunt...but you could be more specific and explain that the fear makes them move directly away from you. You can use this to your advantage, for example, by coming from behind (or popping your Death From Below behind them and then fearing them into teammates or the tower, etc.
For Pillar of Agony, I'd specifically mention that timing the ability is really key. You want to be aware of enemies using their escape moves, if their Purification Beads are down, target enemies that don't have escape moves, etc.
Just picking on you here, but for Hide of the Urchin, technically Stone of Binding (T2 item) and Gauntlet of Thebes are both cheaper and offer dual protections. (FYI I just noticed that Gauntlet of Thebes wasn't showing up in the database when filtering for protections, so had to fix that)
At this point, I just want to say that I'm liking how you describe the items overall...you're definitely improving.
Hardy har har with your "insert awesome build name here" using one of my templates. It does look pretty good though.
One thing you could do is suggest a late game switch from Shoes of the Magi to Shoes of Focus, especially with the CD adjustments he's going to get in Patch 4.9. I think that the early flat pen from Magi is still going to be important, as you don't get any other pen of any type until item #4 in your standard build.
Thinking more and more about it, I'm feeling that Spear of the Magus should be more situational than standard.
FYI, spoilers within spoilers don't really work. If you open the main spoiler, it automatically opens all spoilers within it. So I'd probably suggest just getting rid of those inside spoilers, and using a title or an item icon instead. Try columns, maybe. See below.

Item #1

Bancroft's Talon

My usual start for is with 1 and 1 (if in Clash or Joust). After accruing enough gold, I complete the trinket into . With this item, your power is increased quite a bit while also gaining additional health from ' heal. The downfall of this start is that you have limited mobility since your movement speed is very slow, so you'll usually have to use to get out of dangerous situations. Put a point into your first 3 abilities. When leveling up, focus on leveling .

And here's the code:

Code:

[size=5][color=#844DFA]Item #1[/color][/size]
[columns]
[nextcol width=100][center][icon=Bancroft's Talon size=60]
[color=#844DFA]Bancroft's Talon[/color][/center]
[nextcol width=20]
[nextcol]My usual start for [[Hades]] is [[Talon Trinket]] with 1 [[healing potion]] and 1 [[Mana Potion]] (if in Clash or Joust). After accruing enough gold, I complete the trinket into [[Bancroft's Talon]]. With this item, your power is increased quite a bit while also gaining additional health from [[Devour Souls]]' heal. The downfall of this start is that you have limited mobility since your movement speed is very slow, so you'll usually have to use [[Death From Below]] to get out of dangerous situations. Put a point into your first 3 abilities. When leveling up, focus on leveling [[Devour Souls]].[/columns]

Anyway, hope this info is useful. If you think I'm an idiot, that's cool too.

(46) |

I think is great for added dps and works well with .

(394) |

Sure, but...better than ? Only 12% lifesteal compared to 20-40%, and 75 power compared to 100-200...based on ult and close-in use, I'd argue Bancroft is way, way better.

(12) |

Hercules is one of my favorite Disney movies probably because of the mythology behind it. I believe Hades is meant to sorta look like the guy who voiced him: James Woods. But that could just be me.

Yes, Bob Dylan

Anyways, thanks for the feedback as always. Your feedback is always useful. You have seen what I can do with this build, so you should know that it is generally pretty solid, so I am glad not nitpicking the items to much..besides for your comment haha.

(12) |

Further more

(33) |

Not to mention that they put Hercules as a greek demigod[?]

(12) |

Constructive criticism is perfectly fine. I know for some reason my Pros/Cons symmetry is off and I am unsure how to fix it.. I literally copied and pasted it from old guide and made switches... Any advice?

(394) |

Your guides suck. Git gud, newb.

(12) |

bahahaha...Thanks Bran! I will take that into consideration.

(46) |

Just add another one-line pro.

(12) |

I tried one extra space and that didn't work, but looks like 2 is the magic number. Thanks Techno

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	Some power and penetration. Would get this against healers as it reduces their healing and regeneration.
	With Hades being pretty slow, any slow can be fatal. If that is happening to often, get Winged Blade. It provides health CCR, Movement speed and some attack speed you don't need. The passive will make you immune to slows and increase your movement speed for 4 seconds. Hopefully letting you get away.
Shield of Regrowth	Provides some health, with CCR. After you heal yourself from an ability you move 40% faster for 4 seconds. Can be really nice item for Hades

Knock, Knock, Knocking at Underworld's Door

Smite God: Hades

Hades Build

Usual build

Defensive options

Other offensive options

Utility

Relic possibilities

Hades's Skill Order

Death From Below

Shroud of Darkness

Devour Souls

Pillar of Agony

Hades Build

Full CDR with protection

Arena like build

Physical protection

Solo Lane- Sell Sands for Tahuti, Can switch Bancroft's and Spear around

Introduction

Pros and Cons

Abilities

Combo Time

Item choices

Boots

Offensive Items

Defensive Items

Utility Items

Relic Possibilities

My usual build

Imagine awesome build name here

Conclusion

If you like this guide, check out my others!

Many Thanks

Changes

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