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For more builds open solo role build list
Sigil Of The Old Guard
Golden Blade
Breastplate of Determination
Caduceus Shield
Genji's Guard
Mail of Renewal
Benevolence still worth to use that, but can be swapped with 
Sentinel's Gift
Spirit Robe or 
Mantle of Discord
Amulet of the Stronghold instead of 
Pestilence
Hide of the Nemean Lion instead of 
Spectral Armor Benevolence still worth to use that, but can be swapped with Sentinel's Gift
Spirit Robe or Mantle of Discord
Amulet of the Stronghold instead of Pestilence
Hide of the Nemean Lion instead of Spectral Armor
For more builds open support role build list
Sentinel's Gift
The Sledge
Breastplate of Determination
Pestilence
Spirit Robe
Spectral Armor
Bumba's Hammer+
Jotunn's Cunning can provide almost unlimited cc chain when using aa-canceling.
Hydra's Lament and 
Jotunn's Wrath can be swapped between in order to fit current match situation.
The Crusher provides more flat pen and the constant procs of its passive. Still can be swapped with %pen items such as 
Dominance, 
Serrated Edge, 
Heartseeker, etc, or with 
Brawler's Beat Stick for antiheal. Also can be replaced but more defence oriented items, like cadueceus shield or 
Runeforged HammerWith 60% cdr and aa-canceling this build provides almost unlimited ability and cc chain still not sacrificing lot of penetration
penetration builds are still viable. This build sacrifices penetration in order to get uncapped 60% CDR, but still good enough coupled with Horus innate flat pen. 60% cdr + Bumba's Hammer+ Jotunn's Cunning can provide almost unlimited cc chain when using aa-canceling.
Hydra's Lament and Jotunn's Wrath can be swapped between in order to fit current match situation.
The Crusher provides more flat pen and the constant procs of its passive. Still can be swapped with %pen items such as Dominance, Serrated Edge, Heartseeker, etc, or with Brawler's Beat Stick for antiheal. Also can be replaced but more defence oriented items, like cadueceus shield or Runeforged Hammer
Bumba's Hammer
Hydra's Lament
Jotunn's Wrath
Sphinx's Baubles
The Crusher
Dominance
Potion of Power
Relic Dagger is optional, if snowball is successful specifically for more often relic usage Genji's Guard can be swapped with 
Breastplate of Valor
Relic Dagger is optional, if snowball is successful specifically for more often relic usage
Genji's Guard can be swapped with Breastplate of Valor
War Banner
Genji's Guard
Caduceus Shield
Mail of Renewal
Mystical Mail
Talisman of Energy
Fortifying Shell
Thorns of Sapping Strength
These upgrades are synergizing very well with Horus' kit
Need info? relics part
Cloak of the Avatar
Cloak of Ascetic
Fortifying Shell
Sundering Siphon
Horrific Emblem
Blink Rune
Blighted Ankh
Belt of Frenzy
This might work sometimes
Bluestone Pendant
Jotunn's Wrath
Hydra's Lament
Bloodforge
Brawler's Beat Stick
The Crusher
These upgrades are synergizing very well with Horus' kit
Need info? Tier 4 part
Breastplate of Determination
Amulet of the Stronghold
Jotunn's Cunning
Malicious Deathbringer
Magi's Shelter
Magi's Revenge
Tap each threat level to view Horus’s threats
Tap each synergy level to view Horus’s synergies
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Horus is Ability based\AA melee god whose abilities can deal basic damage and who can utilize both ability and basic attack items and playstyle. He is god of of sky, freedom, day\night cycle, life, pharaohs, royalty, and all Egyptian gods, With  Set together he is the personification of world balance, day\night, life\death, good\evil. He leads his army forward to victory, with wise and noble leadership, uses his control potential to hold enemies and not allow them to leave, making them easy prey for allies. At the same time, he is not only a leader and frontliner he is also a valuable team player, who takes care of everyone in his team, empathetic, caring friend and mate. |
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And this is reflected in his gameplay, how he moves, what he does. If you will look at bare numbers, it may seem that contribution to victory is minimal and lower than other gods, but if you look deeper you'll understand how much help he made. His effectiveness goes hide, you may not even notice how much he has helped you, but he creates many situations to secure the victory. Horus loves you if you love him, appreciate him and he will be your waifu (or even senpai so love him, please) Horus goes to help you, and he will support you if you will be his faithful warrior. |
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His bird-referenced abilities provide him a specific playstyle and good mobility. Abilities focused on Crowd Control, same to many guardians, but unlike Guardians, Horus is a physical Warrior and fights enemies with his beautiful wings in melee combat and uses his abilities to gank one target. But unlike warriors he has only two damage skills since he tends to support his soldiers and help them, while they fight for their king, so these two had big supportive potential via CC and to be more effectively he got one fully supportive ability, to heal, to protec, but most important, instead of to attac. Even more, unlike guardians, he has no AOE (only small with his  Updraft, and focused more at control, than at damage) and attack area, as result he able to attack only one target and deal not so much damage, since he deprived with damage abilities, unlike warriors. And compensation for this is the fact that, though into clutches of the falcon-god, falls only one unfortunate victim, not the whole team which usually should hold on to onslaught of any other guardian, distract attention on them, the fate of this victim becomes a foregone conclusion: be torn apart by the Horus allies, who follows his lead as his loyal army. I think this is a good variation of "Falcon punch" (hit&run) tactics since he an actual falcon. |
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He is not a full warrior and not a full Guardian, he average, he between of them, hence he is not able to be as heavy, as guardian - live long in the fight against 5 enemies, dive very far and deep, deal a lot of damage trough AOE, as many guardians can as usual. And not able to be a strong damage dealer with pretty survivability because of lack of abilities and taking a long time to do decent damage. But he has strong support in his own way. His combat impact can be summed up in the word "additional", it means that he deal some additional damage, not compare to other warriors, or hunters; some additional healing, not compare to strong healer-supports, but still (and sometimes the only one); some additional supporting, some additional tanking. Keeping this in mind and you play more patience, not dive too deep and think first because Horus does not forgive mistakes as guardians, make sure your feathers stay dry and cozy until you get a good chance to snatch a defenseless victim, stand some enemy' damage, until your good allies help you to deal with your prey, and then rush into attack with allies, with just acquired advantage, help them, make sure that your soldiers remain healthy and safe, be ready to catch the next target. |
Of course, Horus can get a lot of protection, but this is useful very rare because being surrounded by enemies is a big problem for him since he is not a Guardian and can attack only one. So I offer to build him in a balance between damage and survivability with focusing on Cooldown Reduction (CDR) to let him use abilities as often as possible to help his army as much as possible and be able to go back in fight sooner. Do not forget about Crowd Control Reduction (CCR), thanks to his passive  Resolute you get extra 15% which is so tempting to combine with some CCR items. Make Horus balance between some survivability and damage dealing on enemies you caught in your Crowd Control, to make them easy prey for your team and send their souls in Duat.Watch your allies, help them here and now, so that they can fight the darkness and after death, their souls will go to the Fields of Aaru. |
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Starting itemsItems RELICSTIER-4Roles AbilitiesDamage brakedownUltimate strategyCombos and advanced movementAuto attack cancel Of-topic facts
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Check my new old Tiamat guide here |
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Checks out also my Set guide |
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Ratings explainedpros and cons
Horus is a very versitile god and can flex into a different roles. Protect allies with your wings? Lead the attack? Strike enemies with Mighty claws and highest speed? All this about The Rightful Heir
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Protect your ally, make sure that your army is safe under caring wing of Horus, who always watch and ready to help When classic tank-support, Horus can use his innate self heal and healing abilities to build massive HP pull, healing, and sustain, increase outcoming healing to care about his ally. A lot of protection and hp are two ways for Horus to be a chonky birb, but most important is do not forget that Horus is not the best tank in game, he is less supposed for long dive, and should keep that in mind not going too far and for a long time. His abilities are not suitable for long dives and long tanking with lack of massive zone controls, but he still can get a lot of protection tho. Periodically leaving the battle to get a little healing and heal ally with protector’s surge and Resolute before his CC chain will ready back. |
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| Objective: Protect and lead |
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Be a strong foundation for your team. Create a favorable situation and lead the charge, setting up for your allies. Rush to their aid when they are in danger. This style of play is more supposed for Horus, less defensible but more aggressive, focusing around locking down targets, withs skillset aimed at creating a favorable situation and setting up one ingle target. Find a vulnerable victim and lock down them with masiveCC,remove their protection and deal big damage with some power in build, while allies are dealing even more damage. The target caught in Horus' hard CC chain should be deleted as fast as possible and team must always be ready for this when they have Heir by their side. For late games Horus is going to be more solo-like, backline-frontline support, (can even have some power) using actively his movement in many ways, providing some healing, combining offensive and defensive potential as effectively as possible. |
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Engaging tip and extra playstyle info| Objective: Tank and attack |
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| The most important thing for every Horus warriors: He. Cannot. Defeat. Any. Opponent in solo lane (if the enemy has enough skill, [ but this is possible if enemy solo plays out of role character]). Most likely, Horus will have to confront the meta gods or strong gods, who will defeat him even with a bad player. Horus is very limited and neither tactics nor experience will help him win the lane, only win the match. He doesn't need to be too aggressive, and his main job in that situation - killing minions, forget about Ku totem, do not try to kill enemies in solo - wait for help, or attack only win for sure. Keeping towers alive at least is pretty enough before the late game, when Horus is able to unleash his CC and support potential through aggressive gameplay, tanking, and healing allies. |
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| Objective: Gank and heal |
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Go into the jungle, defeat another threat to your kingdom and bring order in these chaos lands. Do not forget to say for all worthy creatures - Thank you for your power . Jungler? Of course! The Horus combo is one of the most dangerous and powerful combos in the entire game, a victim caught in His CC claws can easily lose most of HP or even die. Playing in the jungle, attack style is a pure gank, it is a real gank, when the victim is quickly hit by a dangerous falcon without any chance to do anything and avoid damage while in his claws. Like falcons in life, the falcon-headed god strikes quickly, catches the victim in a dangerous combo and sends it Duat. But not everything is so great, because one must not forget that having abilities aimed at a pure gank Horus does not have the possibility for longest fights (This is why CDR is still important for him) |
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Breastplate of valor |
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Breastplate of Valor is a kinda core item or at least is difficult to overestimate its effectiveness in Horus kit, for its price and amount of bonuses it gives, a bunch of CDR though. With new tier 4 upgrades, this item has become even more effective and wishable. |
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looks like more preferable t4 upgrade for Breastplate of Valor since it uses stack mechanics, that synergizes well with Horus' own passive Resolute, ability protector’s surge as well as with items such Mail of Renewal. Until stacks are not finished and are kept at 4\3 this bonus effect is unlimited and provides some physical and magical defense. Once stacks are finished it gives even more defense, but for a short duration. Not building a cap defense is now more effective!
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Combined with Resolute, protector’s surge Horus can gain a bunch of protection during 6s window and can live longer without a high number of constant protection and gain them during battles even faster.
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This is a more team-oriented upgrade and requires good allies to be utilized well ( i.e they have to use  To The Skies!). Upon landing, Horus will be not only providing knock up, and shields for allies, but also reducing some attack speeds for a short duration, to make dropship more effective and safe. The main downside is that aura is pretty small and Horus will knock out everyone from himself so to use that aura Heir, at the first, will have to follow chosen enemies, while effect duration is very short. |
Heartward amulet |
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 Heartward Amulet with new upgrades becomes an interesting item. |
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Amulet of stronghold allows to focus on physical defence and then convert part of it into magical defence, and use only one magical defence item. This item is also affected by any other physical protection sources such as Resolute, protector’s surge, and items such Breastplate of Determination, Mail of Renewal, sledge.
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So this item literally can bust any other bonus protection effects which make Heir’ Resolute, and protector’s surge little more effective, by increasing their bonus magical defense!
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has less synergy with Horus kit, but still can have good usage in 2-1 combo. Using AA-canceling can prevent the enemy from using either aegis or any ability, that may help them to avoid upcoming knock-up. Using Auto before  Fracture would prevent them from using ability to avoid whole combo, since the silence duration is longer than Fracture' stun.
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Magi’s Cloak |
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 Magi's Cloak has always been a very useful item but mostly for damage dealers. Now, with the new glyphs this item gets viability in support's kit too for their situative slots. Both of them have a potential for Horus' gameplay depending on the situation. Magi's Shelter has a good usage against heavy CC comps, protecting teammates and helping to peel for backlines. Magi's Revenge has potential in a more aggressive playstyle, by debuffing one chosen enemy, who got unlucky to heavy CC Horus. |
Jotunn's wrath |
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Jotunn's Wrath is kinda a core jungle item and Horus can use it as well. After changes into glyphs of this item, there is no more specific items that Horus could use. |
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Jotunn's Cunning Has some potential in Horus's kit, as for any other ability-based gods, but due to having only two regular offensive abilities this potential is not that big. The passive of this item would only proc at the next cc-chain, after using Fracture and Updraft, not affecting the current usage of them. There is no reason to rush this item, so just a small bonus late game only. |
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Has low synergy potential in Horus Kit. Long cooldowns, two abbility only, burst-oriented gameplay not a good base for its passive. Situative item |
Executioner |
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 The Executioner This is auto-attack oriented item, but still has a glyph, that can be sometimes godd on Horus. |
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Being removed from Jotunn's Wrath this glyph not a good as an The Executioner's one |
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This item is meant for assassins that use their aa frequently. Limited attack speed does not affect horus playtile, while the big Penetration buff greatly synergizes with penetration oriented builds. But due to the way item works, hitting enemies with one auto before Fracture-auto- Updraft combo is crucial, if not - the gust will only proc a second stack, but will not be affected by it. Has some usage against tanky comps, but still other %pen items can be better
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This jungler staring item provides mana snd health sustain as well as helps to kill jungle monsters faster. Horus may get both auto-attack and ability bonus damage using AA canceling and Gust of Updraft. Both of its updates are useful for Heir.
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Using AA canceling after Fracture and before Updraft this item provides extra healing as well as cooldown reduction for every Horus non-ultimate abilities.(Horus is not a best abuser of thi item, as being limited only in two offensive abilities he can not rotate his kit without pauses) Horus' Gust is an auto-attack and gives one more item proc. This items is greatly synergizes with aa-canceling builds and Hydra's Lament as well as Caduceus Shield,  Protector's Surge and Resolute. Horus has so many ways to heal himself so combining all of them together brings massive healing to the bird. Besides all of this Bumba's Hammer gives CDRand extra HP which makes healing more effective and increases overall survivability, which can be used in more utility-based builds. Worth mentioning that this may be useful not only in jungle build.
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Agressive jungle item for a late game, is providing CDR and %penetration, that can be cinergized in horus kit with innate protection shred. This is a better choice for more consistent damage, rather than  Manikin Hidden Blade because it does not cooldown if situations are needed Horus' permanent teamfight presence.
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 Manikin Scepter Is an interesting item That empowers each auto attack with DoT effect. Due to the nature of Horus Updraft and with AA-canceling Horus can get extra benefits from this item rotating around jungle, cleaning camps etc.or even WITH. (But do not forget about specific way Golden Blade works for Horus, before deciding what you need).
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Manikin Hidden Blade is a late-game item which immediately damages the enemy for part of their max HP and fits very well to Horus jungler hit & run playstyle. This item as soon as Heir deal any damage to enemy, makes them open for +20% damage bonus from Runeforged Hammer for the duration of an entire combo but as soon as Horus takes or deals any damage both of these items stop working as intended, which is making overall high damage pretty unstable.Important note:
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optional Horus item, can be only used in AA-based builds. Due to long slow effect from Updraft, aa-canceling and gust Horus can get multiple activations of this item.
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Benevolence is now rewarding rotating supports by granting them healing and gold after they have gained stacks from assist or roaming. This healing is affected by Caduceus Shield and synergizing with Horus' healing which makes this item even more useful. Both of its upgrades are useful.
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Horus can use basic attacks inside his combo, to prock  Animosity twice, when Gust of his Updraft will highly benefit from this item, dealing extra damage to every enemy that it touched. On another hand
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 Compassion is a backline support item, it gives a lot of magic defense late game and provides even more utility for the team because it allows to mitigate some magical defence being out of teamfight. Every time Horus will go to the backline he still will be helping his allies with tanking.
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Sentinel's Gift is more safe support opinion if Horus doesnt wanna be too agressive. However with this item, Horus will probably be still less tanky than the enemy support with the same item, and still not being able to outtrade enemy support defence with his own.
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 Sentinel's Embrace is an item for more safe gameplay, to provide strong aura for the team. Falcon-headed god can get very high protection numbers with this item and still having utility items as well.
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Horus does not want to be too bulky, prefers to use his setting-up potential and utility, being able to provide early aggression, instead of rough tanking and backline supporting. This is why  Sentinel's Boon is a more effective late game upgrade. Thanks to its passive Heir may try to lead the snowball, constantly healing himself for a big amount of health and keep pressuring enemy team alongside with solo.
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 War Flag is one of the best starting items for Horus. An early-game aggressive support item. This item gives a chance to win lane, but after a certain point, this item loses its effectiveness and no more gives gold benefits since Horus can not be aggressive anymore. Healing for Horus and for his loyal Carry that this item is providing can be synergized with Horus's own healing through Protector's Surge. Since Horus Gust of Updraft is also counting as multiple auto attacks, every enemy god hit will be providing extra healing!
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War Banner This is the best start item upgrade, despite it has pretty questionable t1 item. This item even more increases Horus's own healing as well as grants healing to his allies. Thanks to its passive Heir may try to lead the snowball, constantly healing the entire team for a big amount of health, due to his Warrior nature Horus' autos may be deadly. Since Horus Gust of Updraft is also counting as multiple auto attacks, every enemy god hit will be providing extra healing!
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An optional item. Nothing to say. Never use that, because in situations, when this item may be useful War Banner will be even more effective.
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 Warding Sigil is a starter item, that provides extra protection from fighting a lane opponent, and greatly synergizes with Horus' Resolute and Protector's Surge, these in general, gives protection and a chance to get power item as next rather than a defensive one and still not lose too much survivability, since protection outtrades damage. That can be useful, for example, when the first item is Golden Blade or Runeforged Hammer or etc.Despite this starter item doesn't have a sustain, Horus can sustain his health through passive and
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This is very strong late game upgrade. This allows to deal damage not even having high power, due to aoe nature of its effect. |
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More safe item, greatly increases survivability and can be used to finish magical protection, if needed. |
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Despite bluestone doesn't having a full usage with Heir's kit, due to lack of offensive abilities and the fact he uses half of them for clean specifically, however, Heir still can find some usage to this item. His Fracture - auto - Updraft combo can apply stack twice in against opponent, now with the increased Fracture range Bird can dash through the entire wave, and use knock-up to apply two stacks to either backline archers or frontline melee. Using a 2-1 combo to clean the wave is more effective from behind in order to deal more damage versus frontline melee, since in most cases Heir will be rather one shooting backlines with Updraft thus this is, even more, riskier, as bluestone has no defense in it. This item is also giving good sustain, that combines with Falcon's kit.
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The same item, but for late game. Overal increases damage output from Fracture - auto - Updraft and higly benefits from CDR
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Does not effective item in Horus kit. |
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 Warrior's Axe This is a strong item, that can be considered instead of Warding Sigil, due to Heirs' kit, lack of abilities, and no possibility to provide constant poking to the enemy, this item has not the best performance in Rightful Heir's arsenal. Due to the nature of Horus kit and lack of offensive abilities, He is very reliant on the 2-1 combo. Fracture is increasing the damage He deals with Updraft by protection shredding, thus this is a high burst with high enemy control. With Warrior's Axe Horus have to not rely on bursting the enemy and focus on boxing, to keep some delay between his ability usage to get both two activations and then rotate his kit. This all needed to use warrior's axe as a strong poke item. However Warding Sigil provides more defence and more PvE damage. Another problem is that only Fracture has descent damage on its gust to do a ranged poke, yet this is his main for wave cleaning ability Still Horus can use this item with his Burst damage.
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ExampleImportant note. Since Horus Gust of |
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Item to increase damage from the second part of Updraft and extreemly good choice for wave clear and cleaning camps. Gust comes through all enemies, each triggers a golden blade passive and gives damage at all targets. This item also get extra damage with scaling from gust bonus damage. Mostly useful at Solo lane Horus. When its about cleaning a wave and hurt enemies this item makes Gust to deal X2 damage to every targets if at least two enemies been hit but his gust, instead of standart 50%. With very cheep price this is why it's an extremely viable pick! |
Updraft counts as many separated basic attacks Golden Blade will activate after EACH hit in the line. It means that in a 15 pcs radius you can deal significantly more damage if many minions stand inside. So try to hit god when the enemy stands RIGHT IN minion wave. For example, if the enemy god stands near to 3 archers or 3 swordsmen, if you hit them all with gust then god will get x3 Golden Blade damage. Most importantly, that you get a damage bonus for knocked up, and deal strong CC for gods, not letting them leave, which means this is a 100% chance to deal very much damage from ability by stacking Golden Blade and maybe
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These items are full defence, Genji's Guard is a must thanks to it passive + CDR. As alternative is  Shogun's Kusari - less protection, and more supportive passive, +extra 20% of CCR.
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Despite that fact this item is considered as more solo-oriented and not welcomed in most of the other support builds for traditional supports\guardians, Horus is a warrior with unique support oriented potential, also because of how He balanced and plays, he is getting a very great benefits from building it, especially early game because of it's cheap price. This item gives him: - Massive CDR that is very crucial for him because of long cooldowns, and makes his set-up play style more effective in teamfights not less than meta  Gauntlet of Thebes, because he can do his main work more often.- Mp5 and Mana even in cheep t2  Silver Breastplate (which he can rush earlier) that gives him early mana regeneration, but which he can also convert into health via Protector's Surge, that means he is getting free health sustain as well as mana sustain in one item and don't have to rush Hp5 items.- Big early physical defence to protect himself from minion and tower damage. This is why rushing this item in the no boots era, instead of Gauntlet of Thebes may be very effective!- Can also be considered to replace starting items in some situations or rushed earlier. |
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Very useful combined defense item for Horus which allows him to heal a little more besides more damage. Probably always useful in all roles but can be not so necessary in high-level plays if the team understands how Horus healing works and will group up for it, in that situation Horus can use something different! |
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After rework became a very useful item with passive looks good with Bird' own passive. This item increasing Horus's ability to get mitigation while getting hits. After rework also gives some protection that very viable in builds around HP that Horus can utilize very well because of his innate self-healing! And of course, strong healing aura for allies, increasing Heir' own healing |
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Gives to birb extra protection if surrounded by enemies, and some CCR which will stack with Horus passive Resolute. Gives him a bit of power, good to use for aggressive playstyle.
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In default scenario this item increases damage only from the Cleave part of Fracture, and basic attack right after Fracture, This item NOT increases damage from your allies and works ONLY for you, and does not activate with Updraft But using this item coupled with specific items like Manikin Hidden Blade creates a bunch of variable synergies, or also if team has bunch of cc. Using this item may also require learning Auto attack cancel tactick to put strong basic attack between Fracture- Updraft combo. This item also provides sustain that may be cricial early game at both solo or support roles.
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Another useful hammer, can be effective in solo lane as first item, as providing sustain, health, power and ccr, and also be useful in support role for aggressive playtyle, that benefits from these stats. This item provides health so it still gives some survivability as for support. |
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Replacement for The Sledge as Spirit Robe for some build. Gives you more and permament defence at the cost of damage, both gives extra 10% of CDR. And alternative for it is Mantle of Discord, if you have enough CCR.
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Spoiler: Click to viewHorus can use all default and casual relics. But here is list of special interaction and synergies of Horus kit with some relics:
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Can be synergized very well with Horus' own healing, which makes this item very useful. |
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Simly increases the amount of healing. |
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Instead of simple increasing the amount of healing now provides one extra aoe cknock up, that works in wider area than Updraft. This extra knock up can be combined with either of them Horus has Updraft and To The Skies! in many different situations, since knock-ups yet are strongest CC in game.
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Can be synergized with protection buff and with To The Skies! shield.
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Increases the power of shield and also works as old phantom veil, allowing to go trough god' structures |
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Gives a stronger protection buff, that can combines with Protector's Surge
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Can be synergized with protection reduction and overall setting up potential |
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Now works as AoE |
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Deadly relic for any tanky and healthy target, draining their health and healing Horus for half of that amount. Sinergizes with Heir's innate potential to Self Heal Resolute and Protector's Surge. In close quarters fight could be dificult for the enemy to brake that link, especialy if that enemy is under Horus' CC.Also considering that Horus playstyle puts him out of position very often, that extra healing could be very helpful |
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Very important item for horus, combined with To The Skies! can make Horus global presence known around alll the map! In combination with ult Horus may not be afraid of teleporting on towers (later on wards) distant from current team fight or destination point, as he will NOT lose time on running to the fight. He can teleport on any tower and after easily get another teleport into the jungle far from him. Great item for rotation from solo lane.
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Upgrading into this item increases the survivability while rotating around the map and combined with To The Skies!, Protector's Surge and Resolute
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This increases the constancy of Horus global presence, by matching relic's cooldown to Horus ultimate's. |
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Situative item, but one it's upgrade can be useful. |
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Now redirect all healing reducted by this effect to Horus and his army! Sinergizing with Falcon' Healing Protector's Surge
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Why even use it? |
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Can be synergized with Updraft slow.
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Can be synergized with Horus high mobility for even better results. |
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Can be synergized with Horus’s setting up potential, to increase the damage even more with protection reduction and long CC-chain |
Horus ability kit gives him multiple ways of prioritizing leveling order. His kit is separated for supportive and offensive parts.
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This is the main burst damage ability, consisting of two parts and providing 50-60%% of the overall Heir's damage. Horus can prioritize leveling this ability in order to improve wave and jungle camps clear especially with some basic-oriented items such Golden Blade and Hydra's Lament
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A locking down ability that sets up enemies for further Updraft or ally’s damage. Provides a stun as well as enemy's protection reduction in order of increasing any next damage target will get. Prioritizing this ability can be useful in supportive roles for early flat protection shred for teammates either for reducing enemy protection on solo lane if so needed. This ability is rather less useful against non-god targets hitting them, does not activate cleave part and does not provide protection shred for AI and deal less damage. Yet this ability steal can deal damage for waves and jungle camps and also provides some stun for them, which can be useful. If overall this ability is less effective as a damage source in the jungle, it still can be very effective in combination with Updraft against gods.
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Fully team-oriented ability yet can be used as personal little support in 1v1 fights and as movement escape or engage ability. This provides healing for everyone in that area and protection buff, including minions (that means the wave was affected by Horus healing at least once will win the enemy wave if there are no other factors). Prioritizing this ability can be useful in supportive purposes, to provide Horus' allies even more healing and protection buff, but still can be used in order of increasing personal sustain and survivability via healing and protection bust for a short period. Yet prioritizing this ability in very offensive play styles is very doubtful. |
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For the most part is Utility and for less - offensive. There is literally no reason to level 2-5 this ability until late game, because it does provide nothing but increased landing damage which is very hard to confirm and shield size. So it is better to level other abilities in credit for this. |
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For classic support: For Aggressive support\solo: For jungle and more offensive solo:
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ResoluteStacking defensive passive |
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Each time Horus is damaged by an enemy god, Horus gains a stack of Resolute provides CCR, defence. When Resolute fades, Horus is healed based on the number of stacks. Set provides two stakcs |
| Pretty weak passive which lets Falcon god get a little bit of healing which doesn't compensate even a part of damage gotten to activate passive. A little defense which is useful only in longer fights (which again activates after he already got damage), and a little CCR still pretty bad with engaging and after getting CCed first but helpful in longer fights. |
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+ Some extra heals. + A little extra magical and physical protection. |
– Activates only by God's damage. – Healing much lower than damage Horus must receive to get stacks. |
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Important note. The Gust part of this ability counts as separated basic attack for each enemies in the line. That means that |
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Explanation of Horus's very unobvious way to make damage
Horus is a unique god that has lack of direct damage through ability but has a lot of interesting mechanics like two-parts ability, morphed basic attacks, protection shred, CC, and knock-ups. Combining these mechanicks and different ability combos makes ways to utilize specific items requiring fulfillment of specific conditions and accumulate different damage bonuses.
All of it allows Horus to embed extra damage multipliers as long as more difficult his playstyle become
Fracture-basic- Updraft in math form:math
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Ability effects |
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Base invasionBackdoor and base pushing strategy |
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Phoenixes invasion area |
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While in the sky, Horus is in his native environment — he feels free from the limits of a bare ground walking, thus he moves as befits falcons. Spoiler: Click to view |
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Deep base and Titan invasion area |
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Horus sends his spirit into the sky to fly over the massive walls that defending titan from invaders, but yet not able to stop Falcon god from achieving his goal Spoiler: Click to view |
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Tier 2 tower pressure |
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Map objectivesFire giant, Fury and buffs coverage area |
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Horus gets wind and flies in his spirit form when his enemies at gold fury, fire giant, or else. Avoiding jungle geometry and reaches the destination much faster Horus selects his target very carefully, like a falcon tracking his prey, choosing to land at the enemy team to steal an objective, defend it, or while his teammates were near to him he teleports everyone to immediately cleans up the enemy team and secure the objective. Spoiler: Click to view |
| This picture depicted buff coverage areas that may be useful to steal them, defend from enemy jungler, or to understand where Horus can run away after stealing buff. This also shows the area Horus may cover in ult from that places at the map, which also may be useful. |
Lanes and TowersLanes and towers coverage area |
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Horus using his spirit able to jump between towers and cover very big areas much faster than other gods, which allows him to defend or attack towers more effectively and as an enemy may not expect!Spoiler: Click to view |
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Horus is an extremely mobile god. Under his protective wings is a much wider area than the lane itself he being on. Concentrating he sends his copy in the sky and gazes very far around an area to find where his help is needed! This shows Lane coverage area which may be helpful in understanding how far Horus can fly from the lane and how far from the lane Horus may start to ult if he needs to reach the lane much faster than if running through the jungle and avoiding obstacles. |
Horus has unique and uncommon mobility via his abilities, inaccessible to many gods. Use it to fly around the map like a bird, not only for offense or defense. Leap from ally to ally, slide and move where you are not expected, make them think that you are far away, and hit. Here you can find some examples of master-level mobility and complex movement chains combo, besides the usual attack combo.
| The basis of all combos. Sometimes it is deadly for you to use a full combo. Use it when: your team is not helping you; you are alone; there are a lot of enemies; a lot of CC. In one word, always when you have little time before the potential death of you. This would be just little extra annoying damage and not a problem with high CDR (you will able to repeat soon) |
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The main damage combo with two CC which are able to bring your target on the verge of death most likely with ally's help. Also, you can do extremely much damage with that combo (especialy with Hydra's Lament) and preventing enemy from dealing damage to you in return (Possible to kill squishy targets with one combo). The main difficulty is to reduce the time window between abilities, in which target may try to use escape or a response CC on you because no one wanted to be a punching bag |
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Extra version of this combo but with Hydra's Lament |
| Advanced combo in cases you are sure that allies will help you or you will not get into a dangerous situation and you can get out. Helpful to confuse the enemy at a distance from you and think he is safe if he didn't kill the minions. Same complexity with time window. |
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This is a same combo, but first you do Updraft. Because it faster, that using Fracture it may be more useful against group of enemy. Also this is more faster way to stop enemy, than using Fracture first after Protector's Surge and not let them move or escape |
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MLG combo |
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| Use your ult in any of that combos only to get in a fight, not to get out. Drop yourself at their heads. Check map. Try to surprise them, attack when they think they are safe or have managed to escape, be a real diving falcon who always above his prey and always sees it. And remember: never expect you hit someone with Horus ultimate. |
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So you want to be more effective as Horus, you think you know him enough... so I have one more Trick for him.
Auto Attack Cancel\Auto cancel etc trick pretty useful on many gods especially on Attack speed based, so how it can be helpful for Falcon headed god since he is an ability-based, and have only 2 offensive ability in his regular kit?
Updraft with and without canceling. In Horus case, unskippable animation duration is 182-190 millisecondSpoiler: Click to view Hydra's Lament that already viable in Heir arsenal! The problem starts with Fracture - Updraft combo; the remaining available stun duration after Cleave part match with the initial phase of Updraft in gameplay reason to combine them both in CC-chain if the enemy has 0 CCR, but default Basick attack animation + initial animation of Updraft is longer. This is where Horus gives the enemy a chance to escape or use their own countermeasures if Heir has been using his basic inside the combo! Here is an example of using Auto-attack canceling in the combo. Not so big difference in timingSpoiler: Click to view Hydra's Lament activating after every ability and increase damage from canceled basic attack as well as Gust after Updraft. There is an example below of how attack canceling allows defeating the Thor bot much faster than the regular use of auto-attack between skills. In the first case with canceling, the AI does not have time to gain immunity and got knocked up, providing increased damage Gust. In the second case, implemented basic attack have increased delay that allowed Thor to gain immunity, which causing Horus Gust deals less damage, Thor also got a chance to apply his own CC on Falcon god. Not using basic attack is lowering combo damage in general!Spoiler: Click to view
Horus and Set synergy |
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| Horus and Set can jump into battle together. Nephew is always together with his uncle to protect, tank damage when Set trying to deal with enemy as fast as he can with nephew help! |
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A default and standart
Protector's Surge usage on the Set, allows Horus to follow his uncle on a great distance to support him, give extra protection, and soak some damage instead of his donkey-uncle and setting up kills. Like a personal bodyguard who is always nearby and ready to jump with his KIng to interact and combine their potential.Besides that this ability may be applied before Set has used  Sandstorm on  Spawn of Set so Horus will fly after his uncle for an even greater distance. An important feature is that Set doesn't need to wait while Horus comes up because Falcon-god can leap on Set being 70 units away from him and after Set performed his own teleport he will have landed at the destination point of Set' own teleport. This is causing 70 units to leap into 140 units fly which is extremely a lot and helpful, but still requires a high cooperation level!The very mobile frontliner alongside the very mobile assassin is very strong, making Set much more dangerous. |
| Horus and Set both have something to slow their enemies and they could synergize it! |
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Both Horus' gust of
Updraft and Set'  Skewer have 25% slow and can be stacked together for the whole 50% making the prey unable to run away from a conflicting duo. Duration of these effects is almost the same that makes it fit together well and this also may be stacked with  Frostbound Hammer which is viable for Set too, in order to apply absolute slow on their enemies. One more trick is also increasing their fighting alongside potential. After they have made their movement trick (from the previous part) they still may be far enough from the enemy for Horus to catch them with Fracture, thus if Set has a chance he has to consider hitting them with Skewer that could slow them enough to let Heir, who is following his uncle, to approach them and catch the prey. Even so, the enemy could beads that, or the skewer’s slow wasn’t enough the distance of their skillshots is pretty similar and Horus can always use his Updraft to combine their slows, update or apply the effect again. This interaction may be used very well to chase an enemy, making their duo even more effective.
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| It wasn't said Horus can not use his abilities to help and to fight alongside Set. Healing combined with Set inherent healing in ultimate might make angry donkey even more resilient as well as protection reduction and cc-chains more deadly. |
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Protector's Surge bonus protection and healing, coupled with Set Sandstorm physical damage reduction is granting bonus survivability that has to be regarded while Set uses  Kingslayer and also getting healing from it. Horus can also provide his set-up and CC potential in order to buy some time for Set to unleash his rage versus the enemies that Falcon has caught in the deadly claws. Fracture flat protection reduction makes them extremely vulnerable against Set and CC chain makes it impossible for them to resist, or forces them to use their relics and safety abilities.
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Horus can always provide extra mobility for Set and allow him to be more confident in using Sandstorm as an offensive, without being afraid of losing his only escape ability! |
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Because of the inherent lack of tankines, and the role in team fights Set is usually assigned for, he is very reliant on his movement. His sandstrom is the only one movement ability that can be used either for escape or to engage in fights, so it is always a decision. Due to how
Kingslayer works Set is also very reliant on using his Sandstorm during ulting, so he is very limited in his mobility. Dropping both Sandstorm and Kingslayer is allowing Usurper deals a lot of damage, generates marks of Set more consistent, but the price of it is losing of an escape if something went wrong, and being in a bad position. This is where Horus comes to help his uncle. Besides his assistance with CC, healing, peeling, and protecting the enraged Set through his default kit, Heir can provide an emergency evac point to his uncle using his To The Skies!, if needed to. This is also allowing Set to take a different relic, instead of blink rune, which can be more helpful, for example aegis, to survive, or Belt of Frenzy as long as he can rely on his nephew.
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Still Target
Heavy Charge
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Feather Step
Gravity Surge
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Death From Below
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Stygian Torment
Paolao
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Seer Of The Jungle
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I've put a lot of effort into that, spent lot of hours in jungle practice figuring out what useful I can find, testing builds, doing maths, calculations and theoricrafting. The guide also went through multiple iterations in order to make it easier to navigate when it is getting bigger and some design updates. I m really happy this guide is helping people but the only thing I regret that due to overall complexity of this guide, it size and the fact it covers all possible and impossible aspects, there is no chances for other guides to exist, and other people might loose motivation of making something after seeing this guide or maybe this is simply because god is unpopular overall
Not to mention this item has been nerfed quite alot and now only deals a mere 5% health damage at 400 power which this build does not have. You would be much better off by getting
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Yes,
And yes, i changed it for caduceus shield because when i did that build i not thought about cad
However I would still not build this item on horus because the stats are fairly average aside from the 20cdr. Instead you could get bette cooldown items like Genji, Shoguns, Mantle etc. But in my opinion Pridwen is just too average if the passive cant be utilized.
I am confused with the explanation of your main build summary. How does
The builds for vs physical and magical are the wrong way around, you wouldn't be building BoV into more magical damage and you wouldn't be building
In your introduction you mention that he isn't the best at anything but he is average at everything. I would disagree, I would say his early game support damage and set up is one of the best in the game, definitely the best taking into account how much easier his CC chain is to hit compared to
You mention here after the title, main builds and the bottom of your introduction which game mode these builds are for (Arena). I would change this to be near the top or even in the title so people finding this guide can see clearly immediately what they are building Horus for, instead of someone who wants to build him for Conquest reading through and finding near the bottom.
I really like the style and layout of the "defensive build mixer" but here I am confused. As a user trying to find Horus builds I would be asking, what were the main builds for as opposed to this? Why aren't these other builds with the main builds I saw earlier and separated half way down the page? Also I would not recommend picking up
In the "Supportive Build Mixer" some questions I would be asking are; Why
Just a small typo but for the
The thing with
Being brutally honest the abilities description is very off the mark with
To the skies I can understand not being that great in Arena, however to write it off as "one of the worst ultimates if..." in the first sentence isn't really doing it justice.
In the combos you accidentally missed the image for
Overall reading for Arena there isn't anything inherently bad with this guide. There are a few tid bits that need to be fixed when you get a moment but a great effort has been put into this from your personal experience. My main thing that I think you should focus on is clarity; try and put yourself in the readers shoes while you're writing the build perhaps. I can tell (as you mentioned) that English isn't your strong suite which is fine, I'm impressed even at how well you have done. Thanks for the guide I'd love to see if you come along further with this guide or expand on more guides in the future!
- This is very odd, I made a lot of texts before with that basic build, and each time
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- Yes, I messed that names of builds but I not able to fix that - I do not see my guide
- Not agree, he exactly AVG, his early support damage? There is whole support class (guardians) and they able to deal tonnes of damage and be tanky. Horus - can't. His CC is neat, besides the fact that it is very easy to interrupt and much more risky
- I do not know how to put it higher. I wanted to make a name in an upright corner but it did not work
- Because first build only for them who not want to read anything more. There should be only one balanced build but not for now.
- Mail of Renewal because of CDR and healing, let you not exit from a fight. What can you offer instead of it?
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I need to rework that section to make it more understandable.
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- YES
- It seems you forgot, that to activate his passive he must gain damage. Whats a point of 15 protections if you need to be damaged 10 times before and you will gain full damage first, after 5 hits you will get 7.5 protection (how much it mitigate?) and how many damages you will get before? This extra useful only if you already have good protection. Healing is just extra, not cool enough to consider it a plus, because you pay too much for it. Just bonus which will let you stand against one basic attack. It does even not help you against very annoying
CCR is good only if you already have some (20%) and again, you still need to be damaged before, but CC not cares about it, they just stop you and damage. Ofc with each damage on you you will free yourself faster but still (It would be really cool if you could over cap it to 55% CDR, like set ult allow you to increase his damage with
- no, I did not. This is full combo, like fenrir
- thanks, of course, I will fix and expand when I will able to edit