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Choose one of the Blessings to start with and its upgrade later. I added jungle but i have not made a jungle build yet.
Sands of Time
Pendulum of Ages
Conduit Gem
Gem of Focus
Eye Of The Jungle
Protector Of The Jungle
Pendulum of Ages
Spear of Desolation
Divine Ruin
Soul Gem
Obsidian Shard
Soul Reaver
Choose 2 Relics & their upgrades, recommended just to use base form until later in game. Cloak only for Assault style game modes where no fountain.
Purification Beads
Aegis Amulet
Cloak of Meditation
Horrific Emblem
Temporal Beads
Aegis of Acceleration
Cloak of Ascetic
Emblem of Increasing Peril
General all build setup: Prioritize 1,2,3,4.
Site keeps bugging and erasing skill tree i keep trying to keep it fixed Sorry for any inconvenience.
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I'm working on multiple builds, and haven't had the time to fully flesh him out yet. I hope to add to my build soon on guru and fire, But for now this should get you going and give one a idea of what to do and build your way from their. For arena just use the biggest hitting items as per usual ;p or the mid build will work fine.
Oh yeah a thumbs up would be appreatiated if this helped,
Thanks,
-KingKatura
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Looking to provide some comments on your build recommendations. Hope you don't mind.
- Blessings and Upgrades: You currently list the 2 standard mage blessings and what I'd consider to be the appropriate upgrades (Sands -> Pendulum and Conduit -> Focus). I don't know that he's a good option for Jungle though, and wouldn't suggest providing that option. Reason being, he doesn't have any real mobility to move through the jungle more quickly, and his clear isn't the best. For now, I'd eliminate Eye -> Protector.
- I'd say you don't need to aim for 40% CDR. 20% should be enough, with flex for a
Potion of Power later if you have the gold. Reason I say you only need 20% CDR is because Yu's base cooldowns are not bad. 30% is also fine but I don't think 40% is needed.
Sands of Time build and a 
Conduit Gem build since you're recommending both of those.
Divine Ruin or not. If you decide you don't need anti-heal, you can choose if you want to get 
Spear of Desolation or 
Spear of the Magus. Magus obviously offers some lifesteal which means you may or may not then opt for 
Soul Gem. See, lots of item combinations to consider. Of course, you can still get 2 flat pen items, but that combo is not as strong as it was a couple of patches ago due to the minor nerfs.
Spear of the Magus, 
Spear of Desolation, 
Divine Ruin)
Obsidian Shard or 
Charon's Coin, or combination of something like 
Rod of Tahuti + 
Staff of Myrddin)
Spear of the Magus or 
Soul Gem)
Rod of Tahuti isn't as core anymore (though still good and you can confirm Calamitous if you land his 2), and good flex picks you should consider as options would be 
Soul Reaver, 
Staff of Myrddin, 
Ethereal Staff. Others may suggest different builds than these. On any of those examples, you can also switch the different flat pen items as preferred.
- Relics & Upgrades: Outside of extreme circumstances, I really think you should limit your recommendations to Beads and Aegis. Cloak shouldn't be recommended at all outside of perhaps Assault mode.
- Skill Leveling: You made a mistake...you have 6 points in the 1, and 4 points in the ult. That should be fixed. Also, first rank of ult is level 5. 2nd point of the 1 should be at level 4.
- Joust Ranked Build: I think
Charon's Coin is built too early here. As a % pen item, you should build it mid-build. Also, 
Ring of Hecate is likely a very poor choice. Don't be fooled by his passive basic attack function...that's a bonus, not something to focus on. As you already have Magus also, you don't need another lifesteal item.
Hope this info helps. Would be curious to hear your feedback.With that in mind, I'd suggest offering a
Based on my recommendation thus, I would say you might plan your build around if you need
Maybe we should back off a bit and determine what we consider to be core.
- Starter/upgrade
- 1-2 flat pen items (
- Minimum 20% CDR (30% is fine, 40% is not needed)
- Minimum 20% pen (
- 1 Lifesteal item (
If you're in agreement with the above, then here are some builds that include key item combinations to make this work. Items can be built in different orders than shown if preferred.
There are obviously many other combinations.
Actually i have a build that uses staff of mermaiden i just haven't posted it yet until i get to actually test it in a match. Thanks again for taking the time to throw out the suggestions its actually quite similar to what i was already planning on doing.. ;p
On Relics the cloak i just have in there for yeah people who play assault and such i assume that people who look at the builds have at least a idea of things they want to do in the game and are using the builds as a template to figure out what the god plays with.
But yeah some of the items listed are only if your playing certain modes and such but i could be wrong, I'd like to hear what people think if they know or not whether certain relics are for certain game modes or not? or are they looking at builds from a completely never played type of mindset?
Regarding using items in specific modes, that's a semi-complex question. I might make some generalizations here.
In Conq and some other non-Arena modes, I do still feel starters are absolutely worthwhile. They still have a very specific function that helps you in the early game, and the upgrades usually provide good value and added function.
Yu Huang got some buffs for 9.4 Bonus Update, which went live .
Now that 9.5 is out, it looks like there are definite shifts in meta builds for mid/mages. As we can expect due to shifts in tankiness of all gods (health and increased protections), flat pen is less functional. Where before building 2 flat pen items was functional, things are now shifting away from them. While you should always still consider
But now, you should mainly be looking at always including both
Due to the increased health of all gods, if you want more survivability,