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Divine Intervention: A Guide to Horus Support (Mid-S7)

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by Bugnutz updated August 31, 2020

Smite God: Horus

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Horus Build

Starter

Build Item Guardian's Blessing Guardian's Blessing
Build Item Glowing Emerald Glowing Emerald
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
2
Build Item Hand of the Gods Hand of the Gods

Core

Notes Talaria Boots are an alternative if you're ahead or don't need to be quite as tanky

Notes

Talaria Boots are an alternative if you're ahead or don't need to be quite as tanky

Build Item Reinforced Greaves Reinforced Greaves
Build Item Gauntlet of Thebes Gauntlet of Thebes
Build Item Caduceus Club Caduceus Club

Full build

Notes Late game swap Reinforced Greaves/boots for utility item like Relic Dagger or Winged Blade

Throw in Contagion or Pestilence if you need anti-healing

Notes

Late game swap Reinforced Greaves/boots for utility item like Relic Dagger or Winged Blade

Throw in Contagion or Pestilence if you need anti-healing

Build Item Reinforced Greaves Reinforced Greaves
Build Item Gauntlet of Thebes Gauntlet of Thebes
Build Item Caduceus Club Caduceus Club
Build Item Sovereignty Sovereignty
Build Item Genji's Guard Genji's Guard
Build Item Spirit Robe Spirit Robe

Situationals

Notes Depending on what you need

Shield of Regrowth is great if you need the MP5 and/or movement speed

Notes

Depending on what you need

Shield of Regrowth is great if you need the MP5 and/or movement speed

Build Item Contagion Contagion
Build Item Pestilence Pestilence
Build Item The Sledge The Sledge
Build Item Breastplate of Regrowth Breastplate of Regrowth

Horus's Skill Order

Updraft

1 X Y
Updraft
3 13 14 15 16

Fracture

2 A B
Fracture
1 8 10 11 12

Protector's Surge

3 B A
Protector's Surge
2 4 6 7 9

To The Skies!

4 Y X
To The Skies!
5 17 18 19 20
Updraft
3 13 14 15 16

Updraft

1 X
Horus uses his wings to create an updraft around himself, knocking nearby enemies into the air.

Using the currents from the updraft, Horus' next Basic Attack within 5s will create a gust of wind that travels forward, damaging enemies and slowing them for 2.5s. This attack cannot crit. Enemies that are knocked up when hit take bonus damage.

Ability Type: Circle, Knockup, Damage
Damage: 50 / 95 / 140 / 185 / 230 (+75% of your Physical Power)
Gust Damage: 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 + 100% of your Basic Attack Damage
Gust Bonus Damage: 1.5x
Gust Slow: 25%
Radius: 12
Cost: 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75
Cooldown: 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12s
Fracture
1 8 10 11 12

Fracture

2 A
Horus dashes forward a short distance, ready to strike with his weapon. If Horus hits a god he stops and stuns the god for 1.25s. He will then wind up a heavy cleave. Enemies hit have their Protections reduced for 3s.

Ability Type: Line, Dash, Damage
Dash Damage: 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170 (+30% of your Physical Power)
Cleave Damage: 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 (+50% of your Physical Power)
Protection Reduction: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30
Range: 40
Cost: 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75
Cooldown: 15 / 14.5 / 14 / 13.5 / 13s
Protector's Surge
2 4 6 7 9

Protector's Surge

3 B
Horus rushes to the aid of an ally. After selecting an ally, Horus will leap to their location before descending. Upon landing, the selected ally and all nearby allies have their health restored and gain protections for 3s.

Ability Type: Leap
Heal: 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160
Protection Buff: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30
Range: 60
Cost: 45
Cooldown: 13s
To The Skies!
5 17 18 19 20

To The Skies!

4 Y
Horus sends a mirror image of himself into the sky that scouts for a location to fly to. Upon selecting a ground location, Horus will begin to channel for 2s. Allies near Horus after these 2 seconds are flown to the location Horus' image chose. Horus and his allies land with such force, enemies take damage and are knocked away from the landing location. Horus and his allies at the landing location gain a protective shield for 4s.

Ability Type: Circle, Buff, Damage
Damage: 150 / 250 / 350 / 450 / 550 (+80% of your Physical Power)
Shield: 160 / 240 / 320 / 400 / 480
Radius: 20
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 100s

Introduction

Welcome! And join me on an educational adventure into the healing arts of... Horus, the Rightful Heir!


I promise this won't be the usual guide you've all read... leaving you wondering if there is another way to play our favorite half-man, half-eagle.
Horus still remains my favorite physical support by far, thus I'm willing to share my unique perspective with you all.
This is my first smitefire guide, so feel free to leave comments. Don't troll or be mean!

Anyhoo, lets move on to the boss himself!

Skills





Passive - Resolute
Analysis

1 - Updraft
Analysis

2 - Fracture
Analysis

3 - Protector's Surge
Analysis

4 - To The Skies!
Analysis

Thanks!

Thank you so much for taking the time to check this out. I hope/plan to do my best to keep it updated and current. I've been a casual conquest player since beta... only recent started dipping into the ranked scene. And global events have most of us with a little more free time on our hands. Please don't be afraid to leave a comment! My ign is Bugnutz and am ALWAYS happy to group up and play. I'll run Horus all day.
Take care! And happy hunting! :)

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Kriega1 (143) | September 2, 2020 4:04am
Also I recommend watching this:


(Guide came out before Sledge was a thing).
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Big Damage (37) | September 1, 2020 10:18am
Hi I noticed this is your first build, welcome to the site! Just a few things to mention about your guide.

As Kriega1 mentioned below, the " Guardian's Blessing, 4x Healing Potion, Hand of the Gods and Boots is a better start, due to a smoother transition into his first power spike which I will explain now.

You have a better power spike on Horus building Guardian's Blessing > Reinforced Greaves > The Sledge; the prots on all of those items plus his passive synergise really well with a total of 50 power and 71 protections of each on top of base prots before stacking Gauntlet of Thebes. Building the Glowing Emerald and going straight into Gauntlet of Thebes is expensive and you need boots to be able to rotate and help your team more, yes getting those stacks online earlier can be beneficial in one way, but it is counter productive.

Other items that should make an appearance (either as situational or core) in a Support build are: Void Shield, Midgardian Mail, Spectral Armor, Emperor's Armor, Oni Hunter's Garb, Shogun's Kusari, Relic Dagger and maybe a Heartseeker. Items I would suggest removing are Genji's Guard and shield of regrowth; There are just better options to support your team, Shogun's Kusari for example provides similar stats but the passive is much more helpful for burning objectives and increasing your backline ADC's DPS.

I really like the write up, keeps things pleasant and personalised not just a copy and paste of what the abilities do. The passive by the way doesn't provide cooldown reduction it provides crowd control reduction so that needs to be changed. I would also add somewhere about the combo of dash stunning with Fracture and following it up with the knock up in Updraft equalling around a 3 second CC chain that can force an enemy to use Purification Beads. On top of backdooring the Titan you should mention the play where you know enemies are elsewhere on the map (such as a Gold Fury) and you can ult to the Fire Giant to take it before they have a chance.

All seriousness aside you've done a good job putting the effort in to make this build so great to have you here!
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Kriega1 (143) | September 2, 2020 4:01am
I absolutely disagree with removing shield of Regrowth.
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Bugnutz | September 2, 2020 9:28am
Mind if I just ask your thoughts on that Kriega? The sustain and movement speed is actually pretty great for Horus imo. Especially since I'm really not a huge fan To The Skies!. You're a sitting duck the whole time... and it takes FOREVER to actually go off.
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Bugnutz | September 1, 2020 10:00pm
Thank you both so much for the feedback!

I starting using Glowing Emerald for it's sustain in early poke. Horus isn't the "tankiest" support early and the heal is nice to have but I found myself getting poked out in the very early game a lot. I definitely go straight into Reinforced Greaves or Talaria Boots before finishing the Gauntlet of Thebes. Seems to have been working as of late (Granted I'm climbing my way through Bronze atm).

Here I think is how my build/play style differs from pretty much everyone. I don't generally worry about building power on Horus. I entirely focus on support and instead tend to focus on aura/cooldown equipment. Which may sacrifice my own power... or even my own prots slightly (but we have our passive to help that). The Sledge is a great item, but doesn't necessarily help my ADC as much as say Sovereignty or the stacks from Gauntlet of Thebes.

Genji's Guard is often something I build when a Pestilence isn't necessary in the magical defense slot for it's CD effect. I do have Relic Dagger listed in my situational items. It's a great alternative. When ahead... Shield of Regrowth is a great mobility option. Although, I agree that I forgot to (and should have) add(ed) Shogun's Kusari.

Didn't spot to passive typo!! Thank you so much for that! Good eye. That's why we do this. :) Going to update the guide now and I'l definitely mention the combo. Seemed a little self explanatory, but you're right in that it's good to just see the numbers anyway. You don't realize it's that long while in the game and on high alert... but the numbers themselves contribute to the point being made. :)
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Big Damage (37) | September 1, 2020 11:08pm
It's a slow and steady climb, especially playing support and solo. Only after getting in diamond am I at a point where I can queue support as my primary role without having to worry about my mid or jungle not being good enough to win the game, and feel more impactful than even when I was in platinum, let alone lower.

Anywho, talking about poke. You will actually sustain back that damage you're taking with the extra 2 health pots, and still be closer to building your first core item being Reinforced Greaves (synergy with passive and nerfs to Talaria Boots make them the only best choice at the moment). So give it a try, you might feel a difference; it's less about the poke in lane and how much sooner your items come online.

Now the power in The Sledge I totally get that as a support you want to be defensive for your team which in the grand scheme of things is true. But Horus has decent scaling on all of his abilities and what I would consider to be his strongest early game threat is his constant dash stuns which hit fairly hard. So the opportunity to add power to those abilities including the heal while also staying tanky in a cheap item is more efficient than going straight into Gauntlet of Thebes that takes a while to stack and doesn't provide much until around 35+ stacks.

Anyways just give them both a try and if you like them consider the change, if not then no biggie.
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Kriega1 (143) | September 1, 2020 5:19am
Where’s the guardians blessing, boots 1, 4 health pots, HoG start
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