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Shoes of Focus
Breastplate of Valor
Spear of the Magus
Gem of Isolation
Rod of Asclepius
Rod of Tahuti
Shoes of Focus
Spear of the Magus
Rod of Asclepius
Rod of Tahuti
Breastplate of Valor
Chronos' Pendant
Gem of Isolation
Magi's Cloak
Divine Ruin
Void Stone
Heavenly Agility
Aegis Amulet (Old)
Combat Blink
Greater Purification
Magic Shoes
Purification Beads (Old)
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
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Introduction
Chang'e was introduced. I like making guides and I consider myself an average player, though I think I am better at writing guides than playing. Chang'e. If you don' know the basics of Arena, please check out this General Arena Guide by TormentedTurnip Chang'e is an interesting god. Her kit is all about support and sustain. She is the master of sustained damage and healing, and I think we can all agree that she is the trolliest god in the game.|
Advantages
High Damage Output
High Sustain High Mobility Ridiculous Ultimate |
waxing moon
jade rabbit_____________crescent moon dance
chang'e
moonlit waltz_________moonflower dance |
Drawbacks
Useless Passive
Low Burst Team Reliant Mana Hungry |
expansionSkills
jade rabbit |
Jade Rabbit: This passive is semi useless. The rabbit looses his niche in Arena because of the frequent recalls to base. But, the second part of the movement speed increase is really helpful to escape from enemies, kite them and bait them - it allows you to dance in front of the enemies faces while being ridiculously fast. |
crescent moon dance |
Crescent Moon Dance: This is your main damage ability. You should never be afraid to use it because of its low cooldown. Use it to damage, clear minions, poke enemies, zone them out, apply on hit effects and trigger the speed from your passive. |
moonlit waltz |
Moonlit Waltz: Your "Oh ****!" ability. It is basically  Aegis Pendant but with CC immunity. You can use it to completely deny the enemies' efforts to collapse on you and to waste their abilities so they won't use it on your allies.
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moonflower dance |
Moonflower Dance: Great utility in one ability. You can heal with it yourself and your team mates, speed yourself up, damage enemies and apply on-hit effects and significantly reduce their healing. While it doesn't pack the insane heal of Hel has, its short cooldown and overall utility make up for that. |
waxing moon |
Waxing Moon: Jesus F Christ, this is one of the best ultimates for Arena. Because of the constant team fights that occur in Arena and the clustery nature of these fights, you can easily get 3 enemies within one ultimate. And those without beads, die. |
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Crescent Moon Dance first allows you to deal the sustained damage and clear minions. Next, focus on leveling your heal. The damage and sustain on it, while somewhat underwhelming alone, together form a very strong ability. Lastly, max your Moonlit Waltz. Because the duration of this skill doesn't scale, the only perk it gives you for leveling it up is the cooldown which scales. Of course, whenever possible, put a point in your ultimate.| crescent moon dance |
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moonlit waltz |
explanation| crescent moon dance |
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moonlit waltz |
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moonflower dance |
explanation Moonlit Waltz on instant cast. You can do it in the skill section (pres 'k' to open it). Moonlit Waltz is your "Oh ****!" ability, and it's the one you need on the quickest alert. It will help you in getting out of sticky situations. Crescent Moon Dance exclusively because Moonflower Dance is an AoE around you and Moonlit Waltz doesn't do damage or anything. So basically, you cast Crescent Moon Dance and then immediately turn to your enemy, hit them and turn back. It is especially useful if you have something like Gem of Isolation.Stats
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Cooldown Reduction: You want to have as many heals, evasions and ultimates as possible. |
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Power: Never underestimate the damage output of Chang'e, as its one of her strongest aspects. |
spear of the magus |
Penetration: Without penetration your damage drops significantly and you just become a walking healer/debuffer. |
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Protections: If you can't keep yourself away from damage, a few protections will do the job. Protections are especially useful on a healer since you can heal health that is more "beefy". |
bulwark of hope |
Health: Although less effective than protections, because you heal "empty health" that is squishier, it still increases survivability. |
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Lifesteal: You have enough sustain from your heal, and you get more survivability from health or protections. |
Items
magic shoes |
Magic Shoes: You want to get Shoes of Focus ASAP to get the CDR rolling.[/color]
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Ative Item: This really depends. Usually,  Purification Beads will do the job, but in some other situations,  Aegis Amulet or Combat Blink will be better.
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healing potion |
Potions: A few potions for the beginning of the match in case you get damage too much by the buff camps or get to much poke early on. |
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shoes of focus |
Shoes of Focus: Has everything you need, really, except from penetration, but the CDR shoes best it. |
spear of the magus |
Spear of the Magus: Because of Chang'e's short cooldowns, she can constantly apply the debuff, which also helps your team mates. |
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Rod of Asclepius: More health, mobility and power, on top of more healing. With this you are even more evasive and hard to kill. |
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Rod of Tahtui: Power, and some more power, and even more power, because power. |
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Breastplate of Valor: For when the enemy team has too much physical threats, this is your go-to item. |
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Chronos' Pendant: For when you don't fear the physical gods on the enemy team. |
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Gem of Isolation: My favorite item on Chang'e's, as her short cooldowns allow her to constantly slow the enemies. |
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Divine Ruin: When coupled with the healing debuff on Moonflower Dance, you can reduce someone's healing by 90%.
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Void Stone: Good magical protection and the aura syncs with her Chang'e's playstyle. |
magi's blessing |
Magi's Blessing: For when you feel trolly enough to become "unlockdownable". |
Starting the Match
eat minions |
Minions: While Chang'e isn't exactly the  Ao Kuang of clearing waves, she can still do it fairly effectively. You can clear all of the wave apart from the big minion within 5 seconds or less, depending on the phase of the game. And since there isn't much of a loss for clearing a little bit late in Arena than there is in Conquest, you should always try to help clearing the wave. Remember, minions are the key to winning Arena games. If your team doesn't have much push, than just take care of killing the minions. If your team is more of a kill team, just make sure that the minions don't reach your base.
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Healer: True, you might not be  Hel, but your heals still count. With the short cooldown and enough magical power, you can heal ~15% of your team mates' health every 6 seconds. That's meaningful. You might not thing that it's so significant, as in Arena the base is very close, but it is. You can keep your team in the action for longer, making them gain more gold and XP and help you farm the creeps, on top of having an important influence in actual fights.
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Debuffer: Your are the master of on-hit effects and denying the enemy of their attempts to chase/heal someone. With items such as Gem of Isolation, Spear of the Magus and Divine Ruin, on top of having a built-in healing debuff - combined with your extremely short cooldowns, you can constantly keep your enemies slowed, unable to heal and more vulnerable to damage. ABC - Always Be Casting, always apply those annoying-*** on hit effects.
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Initiator: Your mobility, safety, and overall style of kit allow you be a great initiator. And holy ****, the stun. Waxing Moon is so, so powerful in team fights it cannot even be explained in words. It's glorious. And with your other traits, such as debuffing - slowing and reducing the enemies' protections, you are more than a gifted initiator. And you also have the speed to avoid incoming attacks and the Oh! **** skill to deny, well, everything.
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Damage: Foolish, imbecile, idiotic, narrow-sighted morons are those to underestimate the dancer's damage capabilities. You might not notice your damage, because it is so spread out. But you matter so much. I'll say this; you do not encourage short, burst match-ups fights. You'd want to have drawn-out engagements. That's when you matter the most and that's when you are the most effective. You can constantly deal damage to the enemy in small portions. And your damage also applies in quite a large area. |
Ymir, but you are basically invulnerable when you have all of your abilities on cooldown. And your cooldown are very short. You can easily go to the middle of the Arena, hit someone with your Regular Combo, and get out with no harm done. Further more, you can also preform the Super Combo and get out with almost no harm done.Healing Debuffs
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Brawler's Beat Stick: This is bought by physical gods. It reduces your healing by 40% for 8 seconds. That's a lot. It means that with full CDR, you don't even need to think twice before healing, even with this debuff on you, as your Moonflower Dance will be up in no time.
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Divine Ruin: This is the  Brawler's Beat Stick of Magical Gods. I find it more dangerous for you/effective than Brawler's Beat Stick is, just because Mages can constantly hit you from very far away, for example tornadoes which constantly apply this item. So, you must keep an eye out for enemies who have this item equipped, and know if your allies are affected by it or not.
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Belch of the Gods: This is  Bacchus' third ability. If you are hit by it when he's tipsy, which would most likely be if you happen to fight a smart Bacchus, than your healing will be reduced by 25% for the next 3 seconds. It isn't much of a problem, but it still makes a difference. If you can, try to heal when this effect has wore off. The debuff itself applies only when the belch ends, when he stuns you. So, what you can do is wait for him to belch and before it ends, use Moonlit Waltz to avoid both the stun and the debuff.
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weakening curse |
Weakening Curse: This is the most dangerous healing reduction in the game. It straight up reduces your healing by 100%, and also slows you. But, remember, that Rod of Asclepius and Heavenly Agility override this, meaning that if you happen to have Rod of Asclepius and Heavenly Agility, your healing will still matter and it'll be wise to activate Heavenly Agility if you need to quickly heal someone to save their lives.
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Sickening Strike: This is  Sobek's third ability. Much like your Moonflower Dance, it reduces all healing by 50% for 4 seconds. It is best to avoid healing when this effect is applied and wait 'till it's over.
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moonflower dance |
Moonflower Dance: You know this one. Then you know that a Chang'e that's about to use this ability is going to get close to you. This is a war of who's gonna do it first. If you get it first, you heal yourself for 100% of the heal and damage her. If she gets it, your heal will be reduced by 50% and it won't affect her heal. Another thing you can do is just Moonlit Waltz it and then use moonflower dnace.
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pestilence |
Pestilence: Not much you can do about, aside from knowing who has this item and just keeping your distance from them. It's an aura that reduces all healing by 20%. |
greater aegis |
Aegis: All of the kinds of Aegis don't only prevent all incoming damage, but they also deny all healing received. You must pay attention if an ally has popped his Aegis, so that you should know not to heal them. If they are in trouble, stay near them and as soon as their immunity has worn off, heal them. |
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Lord of the Afterlife: This is Osiris' ultimate. Luckily for you, it's quite easy to dodge. Because you can hear his shout and see the animation before it hits you, you can just use Moonlit Waltz to avoid it. But, if it hits you, your healing will be reduced by a 100%.
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This has been what I know about our dear Chang'e.
I'm sorry for this guide not being as good and in depth as my other guides, and that's just because I'm not that good in Arena as I am in Conquest. If there are things that I've missed, or things that you disagree with, be sure to leave a comment below saying what and why.
If you happen to have a video if you dancing to victory in Arena, I'll be happy if you linked it to me, and I'll post it on this guide.
Any feedback/criticism is more than welcome.
Thank you for reading my guide. Hope I helped and that you've enjoyed.
Jordenito out.
TormentedTurnip - Lots of my designs are inspired by him, specifically the 'Stats' section and the 'Healing Debuffs' section. Also, he is the best Arena guide out there and he surely helped me with the general info of playing Arena and some tips & tricks.
Subzero008 - The general format of this guide was inspired by him. He also gave a very helpful criticism.
Piederman - The general format and style of this guide was inspired by him as well.
Sanguis - Many thanks to him for the skill sequence.
jhoijohi - Without her guide to making guides, my guides wouldn't have existed.
March 25th, 2014
Spear of the Magus to the 'Core Items' and Void Stone to the 'Situational Items'. The 'Penetration' sub-section in the item section therefore has been deleted. Purification Beads.
Polynomicon from the build. Rod of Tahuti to the 'Core Items' category.
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protectionitem in the game, it's never a bad choice. Though, I wouldn't recommend getting bothThanks for the compliments.
Like I started off, great build and a great guide! Thanks!
Thank you Sub. Appreciate it. I missed you.
Yeah, just noticed that the skill explanation of the super combo has two times
When I made this guide, I did feel that my team fight section is a bit... lacking. But I'll expand it.
On top of expanding the healing debuffs, I'm gonna add a note about Aegis.
Thank you for all the kind words, and I'm thrilled that you are back to reviewing guides.
Build
Good. Not much else to say.
Item Explanation
I like the stats and their breakdown, but I do think you should explain that lifesteal and health and whatnot are useless on her. When you buy
For example,
Holy ****, the items section is glorious. Logically organized, and you present multiple options.
*In fact, you should explain that more protections are better than health, since more protections makes your healing worth more.
Skill Explanations
What can I say other than this is excellent? Chang'e is a straightforward god and you gave simple, concise explanations.
There is one caveat: Due to your emphasis on repeating combos, I really think
Guiding/Gameplay
Very good. You explain what she does and how. The teamfight section is a bit vague, but there's nothing really wrong with this section.
If I could change something here, it'd be adding one more role in a teamfight: Healer, Debuffer, Initiator, and Damage. Don't underestimate the area damage of Chang'e.
Details
Great coding. This guide, aesthetically speaking, is excellent.
There's a few grammar hiccups, and I think you meant to put
The section on debuffs is also excellent, but I think you should emphasis the more dangerous-ness of Divine Ruin, since it doesn't just hit you, but often most of your team, especially someone you want to heal.
Summary
This guide is short, simple, and pretty much perfect. It's great. Simple as that.
Upvoted.
I said that the rabbit part was useless, not the speed part. The speed part is one of the most fun things about her. Thanks for the compliments :)
I misread it. Sorry :c. Anyways, no problem. I enjoyed the guide.
Anyways. Great guide. An upvote from me. c: