Chang'e - The Dancing Arena

Introduction

Chang'e

Chang'e

Chang'e

Skills

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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Crescent Moon Dance

Moonlit Waltz

explanation

Start with Crescent Moon Dance. That's my explanation JK. Seriously though, there isn't a real, deep reason. It's just that it's your main damaging skill, and it has the longest range (aside from your ult - this is the regular combo) and a very short cooldown.

Afterwards, get within the range of Moonflower Dance and use it so that it'll hit your enemy. It used for both the damage, mobility to dodge attacks and heal if they start attacking you.

Finally, dance away to freedom with Moonlit Waltz, as your enemies will most likely attempt to attack you. Well good luck for them, your will be vulnerable to, well, everything.

explanation

Start with Crescent Moon Dance to apply on-hit effects if you have items according to it and to start the cooldown running as soon as possible so that it'll be available again shortly.

Follow with Moonflower Dance to apply more on-hit effects if you have them, for the damage and again, for the cooldown to start running.

Afterwards, throw your ultimate. Try to hit as many people as you can with it.

Your Crescent Moon Dance should be off cooldown by now. Use it again as soon as it's ready. If you don't have it on cooldown, skip to the next ability;

(Optional) At least by this point, enemies should be attacking you. This is great to avoid any incoming damage and CC and to burn out time between your abilities.

This ability should be off cooldown by now. Use it as soon as you can.

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*Note: You won't always be able or need to pull off the entire combo. This is just the longest possible combo in a long fight. But the super combo could also be just Crescent Moon Dance, moonfloewr dance and Waxing Moon. Also, if you are not in danger, you shouldn't use Moonlit Waltz. It's that usually you'll get attacked.

• I strongly recommend putting 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.
  
  
• Make your passive for good use. No, I don't mean the rabbit, he is useless in Arena. I'm talking about the movement sped bonus. Since you don't get any backpedal penalty when casting your abilities, if someone is chasing you and you are running away, you can cast the ability and then immediately turn to hit them with it. I'm obviously talking about 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

Items

Magic Shoes: You want to get Shoes of Focus ASAP to get the CDR rolling.[/color]

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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Divine Ruin: When coupled with the healing debuff on Moonflower Dance, you can reduce someone's healing by 90%.

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.

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.

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.

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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• Before you use your ultimate, it is best that you ask your team mates if their ultimates are ready (just say VVVR and most of them will answer with either VVVR back or VVVD).
  
  
• It is best that you don't use your ultimate to kill enemies if you know your team mates can kill them. Save it. But if you know they can't kill them, go ahead. You shouldn't be cheap on your ultimate. In a matter of fact, on none of your skills. You have low cooldowns, lots of CDR. You are meant to spam everything.

Healing Debuffs

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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%.

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

• Moved 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.
• Added 'Lifesteal' and 'Health' under the 'Useless Stats' sub-section under the 'Stats' section.
• Deleted the 'Support' paragraph under the 'The Dancer's Duties' sub-section under the 'The Dancer's Play Style' section. Further paragraphs have been added: 'Damage', 'Debuffer', 'Initiator' & 'Healer'.
• Added 'Aegis' paragraph under the 'Healing Debuffs' section.
• Some minor visual corrections and improvements.

• Removed 'Trolliest God Ever' and 'Low Skill Floor' from the 'Advantages'. Removed 'Weak Early Game' and 'Low Scaling' from the 'Drawbacks'.
• Redone the 'Expansion' spoiler in the 'Advantages / Drawbacks' section.
• Rephrased some of the skills explanations, the skill order reasoning and the items explanations.
• Changed the arrows in the skill combos.
• Removed sprint from the starting items as its cost was increased to 300 which made it impossible to buy it from the start along with Purification Beads.
• Some visual changes to the icons in the 'Items', 'Skills' and 'Healing Reduction' sections.

• Rephrased most of the items and stats explanations.
• Made some visual improvements to the 'Stats', 'Skills', 'Items', 'The Dancer's Duties' and the 'Healing Debuffs' sections.
• Added lord of the afterlive to the 'Healing Debuff Section'.
• Removed Polynomicon from the build.
• Moved Rod of Tahuti to the 'Core Items' category.
• Moved magi's blessing to the 'Situational Items' category.
• Moved the 'Health' stat to the 'Profitable Stats'.
• Removed 'CCR' from the 'Stats' section.