You Cant Escape His Detonate - Zeus S3

Pros: Awesome AoE burst damage Insane Reach "poke" takes half their health Outstanding Team-fight ultimate Lightning Storm

Cons: Very Squishy No escapes No Sustain .

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Combos
Aegis Assault placements can be found under that skill.

Tip to keep in mind! Throw your shield and immediately Chain Lightning the same spot while the shield is still in the air. It will hit the shield nearly instantly after it lands and players wont have time to run out of bounce range.


- Normal Fight/Poke -
Aegis Assault -> Chain Lightning -> basics -> Detonate Charge.

- Ultimate / Team Fight -
Lightning Storm -> Chain Lightning -> basics until they run -> Detonate Charge



The main things to practice with Zeus are:

The placement of your Aegis Assault
Being Paitent with Detonate Charge, keep basicing until they run!
Maximizing the effect of Lightning Storm
Being cautious until Rod of Tahuti, you have no escape and dont do enough damage to kill assassins first yet.

Starter Items



Relics



Core Items

Before we get into the Core Items on Zeus, I want to briefly explain how I landed on this build and how much it helped. In the beginning of Season 3, I built
Shoes of Focus -> Book of Throth -> Cronos Pendant -> Rod of Tahuti -> Obsidian Shard -> Spear of Desolation

Not a terrible build, but It had a few problems:

- Constantly out of mana until Book
- 3 mp5 items in a row, meaning that stat was quickly wasted
- A Terrible power curve, with low power items broken up by 3000+ price tags.
- No pen until late, but if built earlier it ruins the curve even more.

I tried a bunch of stuff, including item 3 Pythagoream’s Piece for the Lifesteal and CDR. Then players in the SPL started using Dynasty Plate Helm, and holy **** did that fix Zeus’s problems. Added the starter item to fix point 1, switched out Cronos Pendant for point 2. Dynasty Plate Helm fixed the rest nearly on its own. During 3.11 I started messing with Winged Blade as the flex item instead of Pythagoream’s Piece to give some health and an ‘escape’ and loved it, but a week late Ritual Dagger came out and was a better version (with CDR!), so here we are. The biggest problem now is the lack of CDR.

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Item 1

Shoes of the Magi Is the first choice of boots on Zeus. The extra penetration has a noticeable effect on his damage, especially early game where he usually struggles a bit. Switching my build to these noticeably helped my early game. These also let you build Rod of Tahuti one item earlier, since 25 pen is enough to last until late game.

Notably, using these means you deal ~true damage to most targets at full build (48*.667 – 30 = 2 protections).

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Item 2

Dynasty Plate Helm is the perfect second item to pick up. Cheap as dirt, power, pen, and even physical protections to deal with those ganks youll be getting means it’s the mid laners new best friend. This will be sold late game for Spear of Desolation, but that’s a long while from now.

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Item 3 or 6

Book of Thoth will usually be your 3rd item, coming with a nice power spike; however, if you are in a situation where stacking will be a problem for you, you can delay it until later. Picking it up after Obsidian Shard is still worth it due to the passive giving a bunch of Power, but you will have mana problems in the mid game delaying this unless you pick a flex slot with mana or mp5 on it ( Chronos' Pendant usually). If you do delay it, just move everything forward one slot (helm -> flex -> rod -> shard -> book).

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Item 5

Rod of Tahuti, praised be its name. Giving a staggering 224 magical power by itself late game, this is the one item in every single mages build. This is where you really come online, but its expensive enough that it shouldn’t be built to early. 5th item is a good spot, especially when 3 of the previous items were <2000 gold! Feel free to sell Vampiric Shroud while building this to get it a bit earlier, it really makes a difference.

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Item 6

Now's about the time where the flat 25 pen just isn’t doing it for you any more, so build Obsidian Shard to cut through tanks protections. Not much to be said here, its cheap, gives a chunk of power, and a bunch of pen. Can be switched with Rod of Tahuti if needed, but I prefer getting the power online and relying on the 25 pen for a few minutes.

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Ritual Dagger

Item 4, the Flex Slot

After you finish your Book of Thoth, you still have some time and gold before you can afford to work on Rod of Tahuti; however, there isn’t really a 6th specific item that Zeus needs to do his job. Congratulations! You are playing one of the gods who gets to grab a situational utility item! Of course there will always be a “best” option (in Zeus’s case its Polynomicon), but here they are all so close that its really up to you.


If Ritual Dagger isn’t exciting you, there are plenty of other options more specialized in what they bring Zeus. Want more power? A bit more defense? Pick your poison below


Ultimate Power!



Protection of the Gods

Will update as builds change in patches etc.

UP TO DATE AS OF 3.12

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7/12/2016 - Guide Created