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Warrior's Axe Every time you hit an enemy, you deal extra damage and heal, but it can only happen once every 8 seconds. It's really good for 1v1s in the first levels.
Health Chalice HP sustain for the lane.
Sundering Arc You deal damage in a cone to enemy gods and jungle monsters, allowing you to buff faster and secure them easily.
Bifrost Shard gives you a free ward that lasts 90 seconds. It is useful for early ganks from the enemy jungler.
Warrior's Axe Every time you hit an enemy, you deal extra damage and heal, but it can only happen once every 8 seconds. It's really good for 1v1s in the first levels.
Health Chalice HP sustain for the lane.
Sundering Arc You deal damage in a cone to enemy gods and jungle monsters, allowing you to buff faster and secure them easily.
Bifrost Shard gives you a free ward that lasts 90 seconds. It is useful for early ganks from the enemy jungler.
Warrior's Axe
Health Chalice
Health Potion
Bifrost Shard
Sundering Arc
Sundering Axe It gives you defenses, damage and its passive makes that when you hit an enemy god you do extra damage and heal yourself, it can only happen every 8 seconds.
The Reaper gives you a lot of damage and lifesteal, a very aggressive item for dominating the lane.
Sanguine Lash With this item you do 2% damage (+1% for every 10% Lifesteal) of their health as Physical damage every second, and his active: lash out at enemies within 4m for 10% of their maximum health as Physical damage (max 500).
Brawler's Beat Stick gives you mixed defenses and a lot of damage.
Regrowth Striders gives you physical defenses and cooldown reduction and most importantly its passive that makes you move faster when you heal.
Spectral Armor very good against characters with high attack speed and critical chances because reduces enemy attack speed and critical damage.
Hide of the Nemean Lion right now the carries are very strong and this item gives you a passive that when you activate it you reflect damage, that's why it's very good vs carries. Sundering Arc You deal damage in a cone to enemy gods and jungle monsters, allowing you to buff faster and secure them easily. Bifrost Shard gives you a free ward that lasts 90 seconds. It is useful for early ganks from the enemy jungler.
Sundering Axe It gives you defenses, damage and its passive makes that when you hit an enemy god you do extra damage and heal yourself, it can only happen every 8 seconds.
The Reaper gives you a lot of damage and lifesteal, a very aggressive item for dominating the lane.
Sanguine Lash With this item you do 2% damage (+1% for every 10% Lifesteal) of their health as Physical damage every second, and his active: lash out at enemies within 4m for 10% of their maximum health as Physical damage (max 500).
Brawler's Beat Stick gives you mixed defenses and a lot of damage.
Regrowth Striders gives you physical defenses and cooldown reduction and most importantly its passive that makes you move faster when you heal.
Spectral Armor very good against characters with high attack speed and critical chances because reduces enemy attack speed and critical damage.
Hide of the Nemean Lion right now the carries are very strong and this item gives you a passive that when you activate it you reflect damage, that's why it's very good vs carries.
Sundering Arc You deal damage in a cone to enemy gods and jungle monsters, allowing you to buff faster and secure them easily.
Bifrost Shard gives you a free ward that lasts 90 seconds. It is useful for early ganks from the enemy jungler.
Sundering Axe
The Reaper
Sanguine Lash
Brawler's Beat Stick
Regrowth Striders
Spectral Armor
Hide of the Nemean Lion
Bifrost Shard
Sundering Arc
Spirit Robe provides you mixed defenses in addition to its passive that protects you when you are hit by a CC, giving you a lot of defenses. You have to change it for Spectral Armor if nobody has critics.
Spirit Robe provides you mixed defenses in addition to its passive that protects you when you are hit by a CC, giving you a lot of defenses. You have to change it for Spectral Armor if nobody has critics.
Spirit Robe
Purification Beads gives you CC's immune when you use. If enemy team have a lot of CC change it for Sundering Arc
Purification Beads gives you CC's immune when you use. If enemy team have a lot of CC change it for Sundering Arc
Purification Beads
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Passive -
 Apotheosis Hercules gains strength when enemy gods damage him. This stacks up to 3 times and lasts for 5 seconds. Additionally, hitting an enemy god with an ability provides a single stack, or 2 for hitting your ultimate, towards achieving Apotheosis.At 4 stacks, enter an empowered state that immediately subtracts 2 seconds from your active ability cooldowns and provides additional strength, protections, size, and cleaving basic attacks for the duration. This passive is really good to fight in early/mid game because you gain a lot of strength |
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Ability 1 -
Driving StrikeDash forward dealing damage, stunning, and pushing enemies hit. It is the most important skill of Hercules because it is the one that helps you push minions, it is the one that does the most damage and you can do many combos with your skills, above all, combo with Earthbreaker.
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Ability 2 -
Earthbreaker Hercules Create a rift that deals damage to enemies in front of you. enemies hit by the end area are pulled to you.It's very important to use this skill correctly, if you want to push the wave quickly you pull the archers and use your Driving Strike to hit all the minions.But the most important combo against the enemy gods is to hit Earthbreaker at the end of the area to pull them and use the Driving Strike.
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Ability 3 -
Mitigate WoundsImmediately heal yourself, and gain attack speed and protections temporarily. At the end of the duration, heal yourself again for a percentage of damage taken during the effect. This ability is very good for tanking a lot and doing basic cancels to do as much damage as possible. |
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Ultimate -
ExcavateHurl a boulder at a location, knock up at the landing spot. The boulder then rolls and bounces off walls, dealing Physical Damage to hit enemies. This ability does quite a bit of damage, and the knock up it does is very important to take advantage of. |
Earthbreaker in the end to pull > Driving Strike > Excavate Driving Strike > move away to use Earthbreaker in the end to pull > Excavate Driving Strike basic attack > Earthbreaker basic attack > Mitigate Wounds basic attack > Excavate basic attack
Earthbreaker, if you have Sundering Arc use it to do the blue fast, and then go to the lane to push the minions. If you don't lose any minions you will go up to level 2 when you manage to kill one more minion from the next wave of minions. Earthbreaker in front of the melee minions, and thus gather all the minions to be able to use Driving Strike later. Also Hercules has a lot of 1vs1 damage thanks to his passive, so you can get a kill. Hercules has a very good fight in mid game (Your playstile in all fights: Earthbreaker in the end to pull > Driving Strike), because you are quite tanky and you do a lot of damage thanks to the passive, apart from that you can apply a lot of CC to the enemy to get a kill or get enough pressure to be able to do the Gold Fury or the Pyromancer. Earthbreaker in the end to pull > Driving Strike to any enemy to apply CC and if your team follows you you can kill anyone or at least make them use 
Purification Beads. It is also very important to use Mitigate Wounds at the moment when they are putting the focus on you to tank as much as possible. Earthbreaker in the end to pull > Driving Strike to any enemy to apply CC or get a kill and destroy the Phoenix with the help of your carry and mid. You can also go with your jungle to another Phoenix to create pressure since you have a lot of defense to tank and your jungle can do good damage to the Phoenix easily.
Vision Ward
Sentry Ward
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Been enjoying your solo lane and support builds, thanks for sharing your knowledge with myself and the community!
If you're referring to the new actives that you can buy as items, I think the best one for Hercules is Blinking Eyes, and I'd swap it for Genjis, cuz I think the magic defense is a bit useless.
If you have any other questions, I'm happy to answer them, and I'm glad you like my guides.
However, I believe builds are limited to 3 actives. Pendulum Blade, Sanguine Lash, Pridwen, and Nemean are all active items.
Which of the 4 Active items would you remove from the build and which item would you replace it with? Thanks again, appreciate your time.
In this case, I would replace the Pridwen with the Spectral Armor (if anyone has critic) or Spirit Rope.
glhf!