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Shoes of Focus
Breastplate of Valor
Gem of Isolation
Hide of Leviathan
Rod of Asclepius
Spear of the Magus
Shoes
Mana Potion
Shoes of Focus
Heavenly Agility
Purification Beads (Old)
Salvation
Shell of Absorption
Bulwark of Hope
Mystical Mail
Divine Ruin
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This guide has been archived, and although the information in it might still be useful, I highly recommend taking it with a grain of salt. Not only is it likely months outdated from the time you read this, but the content I do have here is simply me trying to hold on to her original playstyle through her constant changes every single patch. I'd recommend building and playing her much more like a mage nowadays rather than how I have written in the guide.
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Chang'e's playstyle is among the most fluid in the game; her skills have extremely short cooldowns that provide excellent mobility in addition to their regular effects. Her ability to AoE heal, body-block more effectively than tanks (for a short duration, but quite often), and her possession of one the best CC's in the game combined with her high mobility make her an excellent pick for the constant teamfighting in arena. Moonlit Waltz, could be considered an Aegis on steroids; it provides damage immunity while still being mobile (in fact, you'll be moving 25% faster during its duration) and when fully leveled, in conjunction with a maxed CDR build, it will have a cooldown of just 7.2 seconds! This could be considered her staple spell and it alone makes her incredibly fun to play, but fortunately the fun doesn't stop there!
Pro's:
+Low skill floor.
+Very safe to play.
+Excellent mobility.
+Relatively High Skill Ceiling.
+Extremely short cooldowns.
+Arguably the best sustain in the game.
+Can negate many ultimates with a 7.2 second cooldown.
+Her ultimate is one of the best crowd control spells in the game.
Con's:
-Low scaling.
-Low burst damage.
-Passive loses its usefulness in arena.
-Mana hungry due to her spammy nature.
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Shoes of Focus without returning to the base. Due to the frequent recalls to the base in arena, this it isn't as helpful as in Conquest, but it's still a nice quality of life passive.|
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Shoes of Focus and Breastplate of Valor are completed, and not only can it be used for damage, but also for the physical protection. It can also be spammed along with her other spells to give her excellent escaping abilities due to the constant speed increases from her passive, or used with Gem of Isolation to constantly reapply a slow.|
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Sobek, you can body block his 
Charge Prey from tossing a teammate back, with the added benefit of regenerating mana. :D
Xbalanque's 
Poison Darts and 
Rising Jaguar or 
Agni's 
Rain Fire. It can also be used to prevent CC on you such as 
Chronos's 
Stop Time or 
Eset's 
Spirit Ball.|
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Hel's Inspire from 
Repulse / Inspire, but it also deals damage to any enemies within its radius. Sobek's 
Sickening Strike; it applies a healing reduction debuff of 50% to all affected enemies. As it lasts 4 seconds, and you will end up with only a 6 second cooldown, you'll have an incredible uptime on healing reductions. It's therefore also an offensive spell and it works wonders in conjunction with Divine Ruin or 
Weakening Curse.|
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Thor's spin-to-win (
Berserker Barrage) and therefore preventing the cleanup from the mess of melted teammates. It will have a 54 second cooldown with 40% cooldown reduction, though, so use it sparingly.
Moonflower Dance effective, as well as make your harass hit a tiny bit harder than a wet noodle. The cooldown reduction is also essential for Chang'e, and combined with Breastplate of Valor, cap you at 40%.
Shoes of Focus, you will have your cooldown reduction maxed out, which means you'll have near constant mobility due to your constant dancing.
Crescent Moon Dance enough to almost keep enemies permanently slowed, and with your high mobility they won't be able to escape the harassment. It's also very useful for helping teammate's escape without having to use Waxing Moon.
Magi's Blessing
Moonlit Waltz, I don't feel it's quite as important as it is on Hel, but as you are still relatively squishy and you can't break out of hard CC with the waltz, it still provides once of the best passives in the game.
Chang'e. Due to her low scalings, strict MP items aren't too beneficial. However, this item's passive gives your basic attacks enough damage for the enemy team to be wary of. And her low cooldowns lets her gain its benefit every time it's off cooldown. If you build her pure MP, she can deal quite a bit of damage with her basic attacks due to how frequently she can cast abilities.
Chang'e. Her low scalings reduce the effectiveness of MP, so the low MP on this item doesn't hinder her too much, and the frequency with which she can cast Crescent Moon Dance means she can keep a 100% uptime on this item's debuff, providing a damage benefit for your team (aren't you a good little support?).
Chang'e with enough physical defense to tank hits when not in her Moonlit Waltz and, "supporting" your support role, this item will provide physical and magical defense aura for your team.
Chang'e, and different items gain and lose significance depending on how much MP or defense you build on her.
There should be no deviation from Heavenly Agility or 
Purification Beads unless you're particularly attached to Meditation or Shell of Absorption. If the enemy has a lot off CC, replace Heavenly Agility as you desire. If they have virtually no CC, too bad don't replace Purification Beads as it can lead to some incredibly trollzy "burst immunity," as I like to call it.
Purification Beads. You are going to get focused at one point or another, and not only will this break you free of any and all crowd control, but also reduce all cooldowns by 5 seconds. Maxed out and with the core build, Moonlit Waltz will have a 7.2 second cooldown. That means you can use two of them almost consecutively, providing two seconds of damage immunity along with 25% increased movement speed. Combined with Heavenly Agility's movement speed and healing buff, as well as two back to back Moonflower Dancees, you can really troll the hell out of the enemy team.
Heavenly Agility is an excellent active for a support god. It increases healing received during its duration, affects all teammates around you, and gives you an extra escape. It can also be used offensively to help your team chase down a dirty little ****er like Chronos or 
Poseidon.
Chang'e, as Purification Beads are superior in every way for her. You already have a mobile Aegis on a 7.2 second cooldown with Moonlit Waltz. Beads lets you remove crowd control in order to activate it, and can give you two of them back to back, and it also has a shorter cooldown.
Fist of the Gods will provide a 1.5 second stun, which can be useful against things like Thor's spin-to-win or Ares's 
Searing Flesh.
Shell of Absorption is the best alternative to Heavenly Agility. Rather than escaping damage or chasing down an enemy, this will help your team stand its ground against an enemy onslaught.
Once you're a few levels into the game and have enough mana to spam your spells, Chang'e turns into one of the most mobile and evasive gods in the game. You'll be dancing around, providing frequent heals for your team as well as high-quality body blocking through the use of your Moonlit Waltz. Don't be afraid to get in close range to the enemy team to provide extra harassment and debuffs, but remember that while you're not particularly squishy, you aren't a tank.
Once you have Gem of Isolation built, you will have an effective soft CC on a very short cooldown in addition to the hard CC from your ultimate. And once you have both physical and magical protections, you'll want to constantly be in your enemies' faces to apply all your infuriating debuffs while also being difficult to snare.
Although the damage on Waxing Moon is actually pretty high, remember that you are a support god. Don't use it to get a kill unless you think your team will be unable to secure it otherwise. It should be used to disrupt the enemy team, whether defensively or offensively. Don't hold it off too long trying to include every enemy god in its path; three stunned gods is enough to turn the tides of a battle, and don't underestimate how much even the one second stun on an enemy god can save a fleeing teammate.
To sum that up: Dance around, body-block, heal your team, CC the enemy team. Never stop moving!
Healing Reductions can be applied through certain gods' skills, or through the use of items or actives. It's obviously very important to be aware of them as a healer. Here's a list of all the different healing reductions:
Brawler's Beat Stick, it applies a 25% healing reduction each time you or your teammates are hit by the enemy god's abilities. Because magical gods' spells cannot be recast constantly like physical gods' basic attacks, it's usually best to wait until the debuff wears off to cast the heal. Moonflower Dance can still be useful while under the effects of creeping curse, though, as it also provides a minor speed increase and a healing debuff. Sobek's third skill. It applies a 50% healing reduction on all affected targets for four seconds. Many Sobeks will purchase both Divine Ruin and 
Creeping Curse in order to rotate through pretty insane healing reductions. For instance, a Sobek could Charge Prey>
Tail Whip to apply both stacks of Divine Ruin, and then cast Sickening Strike to apply 100% healing reduction. He can then apply Creeping Curse a few seconds later for an increased duration of healing reduction. That's a long time without a heal.
Bacchus's third skill. It applies a 25% healing reduction to all affected targets for two seconds when the belch ends (when the stun occurs). It's not quite as dangerous as Sobek's Sickening Strike as it's an easily preventable CC and you'll have a three second warning before it comes in to effect. However, be aware of a Bacchus with Divine Ruin; his Belch applies both stacks by the time the healing reduction effects come into play. This means that simply by building DR, Bacchus can have a three second long 50% healing reduction, followed a three second long 75% healing reduction at the end of the belch. (Technically it's .5 seconds of 25% reduction, 2.5 seconds of 50% reduction, followed by 3 seconds of 75% reduction, but...yeah). Chang'e! Not only does it heal all allies, but it applies a four second 50% healing debuff to all enemies for four seconds: exactly the same as Sickening Strike. Due to her ability to spam her spells, she could easily stack this spell with a Divine Ruin and really mess up your day. Fortunately, the spell effect has rainbow colors and it is cast with her in the center, so it should be very obvious and she has to risk getting in closely if she uses it offensively.
Ao Kuang who has Divine Ruin built and he's also under the effects of Bacchus's 
Belch of the Gods. This means that he will have a combined healing reductions of 75% from the 50% healing reduction from the two stacks of Divine Ruin added to the 25% healing reduction from Belch of the Gods. In addition, negative healing (taking damage from receiving a heal) can never happen.
Aegis Amulet not only prevents all damage, but also prevents heals! If you see an ally pop Aegis DO NOT HEAL THEM until the effect wears off, as it will unfortunately do nothing.Even if you won't damage an enemy with your Crescent Moon Dance, it can be helpful to cast it simply for the speed increase. Are those pesky teammates running from your heals in solo queue? No problem! Due to her passive, you'll be able to catch up to them in no time.
Chang'e is probably one of the best baiters in the game due to her "aegis on steroids" as well as the short cooldown on her heal. She can kite with ease and the length of time you can dance around your enemies, avoiding almost all damage, is remarkable.
Have you ever had a 
Ymir stand in front of you, taking all the hits for you like a boss? Chang'e can do this even better than him, both because of her damage immunity and her speed increase. Think of all those movies where the hero jumps in front of the maiden, intercepting the gunshot. It's essentially the same thing, only this time you don't get hurt at all! The only downside is that instead of getting the girl, all you get is a measly "VVT, VER!"
Due to its 7.2 second cooldown, Moonlight Waltz can be cast twice almost consecutively by using Purification Beads. That's more than about four seconds of complete immunity while also moving 25% faster. You will also be able to cast two consecutive Moonflower Dances and Crescent Moon Dances, which will keep her 25% speed increase up for about the duration of sprint! Combine this tactic with Heavenly Agility and even Poseidon will be left in the dust.
Feedback on the build and playstyle is much appreciated; I prefer building defensively, but I'm sure there is merit to building her with high MP and I would like to see your arguments as to why that's so.
I also have a more in-depth guide on Hel I'd appreciate feedback on, which you can reach by clicking on the following link:
Smexy Hel (Arena) Guide
Thanks for reading!
1. July 30th, 2013: Moonlit Waltz and Moonflower Dance have had their cooldowns increased from 8 seconds to 10 seconds, changing them from 5.2 seconds to 6.5 seconds with maximum CDR. (35%)
Moonlit Waltz has had its cooldown increased from 10 seconds to 12 seconds, changing it from 6.5 seconds to 7.8 seconds with maximum CDR. (35%)
Crescent Moon Dance has had its cooldown increased from 4 seconds to 5 seconds, changing it from 2.6 seconds to 3.3 seconds with maximum CDR. (35%) Moonlit Waltz has been reduced from 1.4 seconds to 1 second. Its cooldown has not changed.
Crescent Moon Dance, Moonlit Waltz, Moonlfower Dance, and Waxing Moon to 3, 7.2, 6, and 54 seconds, respectively.
Moonlit Waltz has been increased from 1 second to 1.2 seconds. Its cooldown has not changed. In addition, the base damage of Waxing Moon has had its damage reduced at all levels. (Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately because she's constantly nerfed in wrong areas to compensate for the power of her ulatimate) it has not received a reduction in the duration of its crowd control. Rod of Asclepius, has been added into the build.
Moonlit Waltz occurs one tenth of a second earlier in order to better match its animation. Moonflower Dance now applies equivalent damage as it does healing to enemies within range, but no longer increases her healing received for each ally affected.
I also have some other guides on this site. If you enjoyed this one, feel free to check out:
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Props to Blissey1 for notifying me of outdated information.
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Jade Rabbit
Personally I just prefer more reliable items - ones that do not have a recharge time or I can determine when they take effect, but there's no denying Magi's is an excellent item for her.
Thanks for the input. Like I said, I'll be updating this guide (to include Pestilence in the HR section) and I'll put a bit more info into Magi's description then.
as for Iso gem, I have tried prioritizing it a bit more lately, and I admit, there has been some improvement. I always knew it was good, I just I just never really noticed how good. A 2 sec long 25% slow is kinda hard to notice when it's not on you, I guess.
I think
There are so many useful items that, like you said, the game greatly determines the build (and even simply its order). However, while she has quite a few core items, I think the "super" core items are Shoes of Focus, BoV, and GoI.
Edit: Oh, yeah, and about Magic Defense: yeah, she doesn't need much - but it's so hard to fit in Void Stone (even though it's an awesome item) and if you don't have Void and have Magi's instead of Leviathan, she wouldn't have any at all. It all depends on how highly you rank GoI, I think - it's essential to build it early for how I play her, but different playstyles might rank Void and others higher.
my build is almost always
The only thing that changes between matches is the order I get the stuff in. Shoes and Valor always come first, cause dat cdr is too sexy, and then 3rd slot depends on what's happening. If there's a lot of CC flying around, Magi's. If I'm getting a lot of heat from mages, Void. If my team is taking a beating, Asclepius, If none of the above, Iso gem. Similarly, which item I end up not getting because you never fill that 6th slot also depends on how things are going.
I honestly kind of ignore actives until at least after my 3rd item, if I don't just forget about them entirely. Which I feel is honestly something I could be better about.
As for
there is one thing about you build that I've always wondered about, however. I just don't see why you would ever pick
Edit: it's updated. I would like to point out in this comment that while it is a core item for her, I do not believe that it should be purchased early on because other items are still better (they way I build her). However, if you build her with higher MP, then it should be purchased by your fourth item.
more importantly, do you think you'll be updating this with the new, smexy healing item,
I was having this exact same problem for both my Chang'e guide and Hel guide. In fact, all five of my Hel builds ended up being deleted! Fortunately the single Chang'e build has managed to make it onto the guide, but I'm too worried to update either guide in the fear that the builds will be removed.
I'm sorry I have nothing to offer in terms of help. Hopefully it's just a temporary glitch on Smitefire's end.
Edit: This problem should be fixed for everyone as of July 30th.
Thanks It Works Now :)
Really like this build I'm new to this support thing and reading all of this really helped. I just have a few questions. First, do you usually build similarly in conquest and other game modes or do you think other builds are better? Also, when is the best time to buy those Purification Beads, and Heavenly Agility?
I personally have not played Chang'e a single time in conquest, so I don't think I can give you solid advice other than she would definitely want some good sustain items. I think this build would still work well in Conquest, but it probably wouldn't be the best. And remember, build based on how the game is progressing; don't stick to a single build for every game.
As for Beads and HA, I would complete beads before even getting the first tier of sprint, but it depends on how the specific game. Typically I will complete both
A question. Why do you use
HelChang'e (oops, lol) are CDR items andThanks for the positive feedback, guys. :)
A question. Why do you use
Because it's ridiculously easy to hit an entire team, and makes chasing easy when combined with your passive. They won't get away even with something like an agni dash or neith backflip.