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Smithy's Hammer
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Runeforged Hammer
Warrior Tabi
Devourer's Gauntlet
Jotunn's Wrath
Stone of Gaia
Spirit Robe
Shield of the Underworld
Cloak of Meditation
Emerald Talisman
Stone of Gaia
Warrior Tabi
Devourer's Gauntlet
Jotunn's Wrath
Midgardian Mail
Spirit Robe
After over a year of playing Hercules in all 5 positions, I've decided to release my Solo Lane build for Hercules. The idea here is to focus on his strongest character trait: sustain. While he needs mana pots, NOT BLUESTONE YOU ARE WRONG, meditation and conservative play will allow you to stay in lane. The added lifesteal to his truck load of auto attack damage combined with his 3 makes him unkillable. Using this build, Hercules will dominate any other warrior in lane: for example a Chaac I just played went for the basic bruiser build and was half my power and only 30 protections higher than me 15 minutes in. By utilizing meditation and shield of the underworld, you give Herc further advantage in fights. The point of emphasis here is to keep your opponent pushed back enough to take tower. From tower you need to focus on taking his blue and getting yours around the 50 second marker of the stolen blue. The only time you need to back is to spend gold OR if you fail to conserve mana/steal the blue.
Utilizing this build, you should never lose to another warrior/guardian.
This build isn't a go to for all match ups. I do not condone its usage against assassins or mages. ENJOY
EDIT: Utilize extra health/mana pots as needed. The ET/SoG opening should provide enough mp5 alongside the blue to give you enough sustain.
EDIT 2: As of the 75 Stack Devo's, this build has lost almost all of its viability. Stick to more conventional methods. BLUESTONE IS STILL WRONG STILL.
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Active Issues: With the current meta (especially ranked and pro play) HOG is so important early, and a single early ward will give the enemy the info that you don't have HOG, and an invade will surely follow.
Teleport is the best active for sustaining farm, and once you have tankiness online you won't ever miss a wave of farm.
Item Issues Herc is so strong because his abilities don't scale well off physical power, but instead do insane amounts of damage off levelling, allowing him to build heavy tank/cooldown and still have insane damage. I've gotten 35k + player damage going full tank.
With Herc's combo life steal adds little to nothing. He will often get only 1 or 2 AAs in. You'd have to go fatalis to fully utilise life steal on herc.
Saying this I haven't tried this build out, but I'm still skeptical.
If all you want is sustain in fights and in lane, grab
A cool thing about
Actual stat itemization aside, why would you ever sacrifice an active slot for something that a starter item can do? Just get bluestone and replace the meditation with something useful, like a weakening curse, or beads, or shell, or.... anything that is not meditation.
Meditation is more useful than any of that. The mana is nice but the point is for the jolt of HP in a fight. After popping a 3, you can take over 100% of your max hp in damage do to med. If you have stupid sustain you'll eventually beat down anyone in a fight. Hercules Rarely needs beads and shell needs to be picked up by support or not at all. Hercules needs to emphasize sustain in fights and meditation it the ultimate means of doing that. Not to mention wasting money on bluestone allows your opponent to pickup smithy's and win the lane by default.