Mercury: The Half-Brother of Apollo (UPDATED 5/20/16)

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Hello everyone, and welcome to my guide for Mercury. (Currently WIP)

Mercury : Mercury is a melee physical assassin. His weapons of choice are his fists.. yup he uses his fists combined with his ridiculously fast amount of speed to take down his opponents on the battlefield. Mercury is an excellent Jungler just like other gods such as Kali or Thor but usually has problems when he falls behind. My guide when I eventually finish it will show you the basics of how to build, and play Mercury in every game mode, and in various ways such as conquest playing either jungle or maybe even adc again. Hopefully this guide will provide you with the know how of how to build, and play Mercury

Pros of Mercury


High damage potential
Made You Look has a great minion clear potential
Two initiations, and potential finishers
Sonic Boom ranges up to 500 ft
Very versatile (able to adapt)
High potential speed makes him great in 1v1 fights
which can help if you rather solo lane, then jungle.

Cons of Mercury


Very Squishy
Made You Look can be difficult to land early game
Sonic Boom can kill you without caution since it ranges up to 500 ft
Special Delivery can throw your team off

Main Items for Mercury

Picking up Golden Bow will give Mercury +35% physical power, 10% critical strike chance, and 5% movement speed while also giving Mercury a 15 ft radius of 50% of Golden Bow's damage on his AA's. Golden Bow on Mercury will help him clear minion waves, and jungle buffs very fast which will help him out in the jungle, and in any lane he decides to gank while also poking at enemy gods that are within the 15 ft radius.
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Warrior Tabi is a good choice for Mercury since it gives him 30% Physical power, 9% attack speed, 18% movement speed, and +15 Physical pen, and as we all know in Smite boots are essential to almost any build you will see unless you are one of those kinds of player that for some reason don't build them.
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Mercury is an assassin like probably some of your favorite gods such as Loki. Like Loki a Deathbringer is amazing on Mercury for the critical hit damage it provides their AA's, and for Mercury his Made You Look acts just like an AA which means the critical hit damage will apply to this skill which will do a ton of damage, and will act as a nice poke at enemy gods or as a way to finish someone off if you don't wan't to get up close, and personal.
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RAGE!!! You pretty much will see this item on almost ALL physical gods like these 2 ranged physicals Neith, and Artemis or these 2 melee physical assassins Loki, and Arachne. Rage is good on gods such as Loki, and for this guide Mercury, because it gives its user 20% physical power, +30% critical strike chance, 15% attack speed. For Rage if you don't get a critical strike on the enemy gods you are attacking, the damage will build up 10% every time your AA's don't crit. This passive can build up to 5 stacks before it probably insta kills your target unless you kill them during the time it takes for you to build up the 5 stacks lol.
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If you insist like I do on building some lifesteal then Bloodforge is the perfect item to build on Mercury late game. Bloodforge is amazing on Mercury, because it will give you him extra +40 physical power, +20% physical lifesteal, and for its passive it will give Mercury +5 physical power, +2 physical lifesteal every time you land a successful AA on an enemy god or minion which is very useful since most of Mercury's damage out put is in his AA's.
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Titan's Bane is an item that provides the user with +30% physical power, and as a passive Titan's Bane will give you 33% physical penetration on all of your physcial attacks. For Mercury Titan's Bane is a must have late game for those tanky gods like Ymir for an example. With Titan's Bane Mercury also gains the opportunity to start boxing with gods such as Hercules or Vamana which would normally build something like a Witchblade or a Runeforged Hammer and become almost unkillable for most physical gods.
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Starter Items, and Actives

Bumba's Mask. This item is strongly recommended for any jungling god such as Bakasura. Bumba's Mask essentially gives 30 hp, allows the player to get a full gold bonus from jungle camps, and get a 10% heal off of the camps as well. Below I will have a picture, and a description of the conquest jungle layout.
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