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Death's Toll
Spiked Gauntlet
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Blink Rune
Aegis Amulet
Switch the starter item when you have a teammate who can provide health/mana, such as Sylvanus.
Gilded Arrow
Spiked Gauntlet
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Blink Rune
Aegis Amulet
On your first recall, get whatever the best thing is that you can afford. If you have a few early kills, try to prioritize Transcendence.
Ninja Tabi
Devourer's Gauntlet
Transcendence
This is what your build will (typically) looks like once you've gotten your sixth item.
Death's Toll
Ninja Tabi
Devourer's Gauntlet
Transcendence
Rage
Asi
End-game is your choice. Sell boots for Elixir of Speed + an item, and sell starter for another item:
- Starter upgrades aren't great here, so you can sell for another item.
- Don't upgrade to Death's Toll.
- Sell boots for Elixir of Speed + another item.
- Anti-heal defense for whatever you're getting annoyed by.
+ Contagion if enemy jungle is your biggest threat.
+ Pestilence if enemy mage is your biggest threat.
+ Toxic Blade if enemy warrior/guardian/hunter has healing.
- Deathbringer if the enemy team is mostly squishy.
- Executioner or Dominance if the enemy team is tanky.
- Sell Devourer's Gauntlet for Bloodforge for some extra multi-kill capabilities.
- Dominance is great for an even mix between penetration and extra physical power. The best of both worlds.
Elixir of Speed
Death's Temper
Contagion
Toxic Blade
Pestilence
Deathbringer
The Executioner
Bloodforge
Dominance
As explained in the overview for Jing Wei's abilities, it's useless to upgrade the 2 early on, and the 1 does not have enough damage to warrant being upgraded early. Your ult is great to have, but only unlock it and don't upgrade it. The damage increase is simply not worth it. Thus, go for the buffs first (3, then 1), then do the crit chance (2), then upgrade the ult last (4).
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This is the ultimate Jing Wei guide from a subpar player who plays a lot of gods for every role, but only Jing Wei for carry. My win rate is above 10% on Jing Wei, I've played at least 2 and a half hours of Smite, and I might not be above Silver II but my wife's boyfriend hit Master last season.
This guide contains multiple builds because Jing Wei does not have a "one size fits all" build (no god does). Read the situation and the enemy team comp and build accordingly. For example, what the hell is a full crit build gonna do against a team of four warrior/guardians?
Also, this guide has a lot of words, and some people like to play a god for the first time in ranked conquest without ever touching them beforehand. Definitely not what I do. Nope. I never do that. Nope. Anyway, all of the important takeaways are in colored text, so you can get by without reading the rest. I put the rest of the words there so everything formed proper English syntax. For the formality, I suppose.
Also, any feedback is very much appreciated.
Builds this guide contains:
All general threats and synergies are located on the first build (Conquest Carry - 1/2 Crit). Unfortunately the threats/synergies tab is linked to one build. If you see a threat or synergy on another build in this guide, then it is warranted specifically for that build; otherwise, refer to the first build.
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Passive - Fly (Rapid Reincarnation) Jing Wei's passive allows her to travel from Fountain pretty quickly. So do NOT use Teleport Glyph or Talaria Boots. You can cancel out of the passive upon leaving the Fountain. If you lose your first tower on duo lane, feel free to recall as much as you want. You can use your passive to fly back to the second tower almost immediately. |
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Ability 1 - Trampoline (Persistent Gut) Can knock opponents up as well as yourself. Gives you an attack speed boost if you knock yourself. This ability does not do a lot of damage, but can be useful to peel off your guardian or knock a moving enemy into your tower range. |
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Ability 2 - Missiles (Explosive Bolts) Augments your next three basic attacks into AoE attacks with an increased crit chance. This is usually not useful early on. Never upgrade this ability early. You may unlock it, but not upgrade it, to help with lane clearing at some point (around the time your support leaves, usually), but this is not necessary. Also, you can use this at any time. In fact, always use this coming out of the fountain, as the cooldown timer starts directly on using it, and not on shooting your three shots. So basically, if you use this ability and wait for its cooldown, you can effectively shoot six augmented shots in a row by shooting your three shots, then using this ability, then shooting three more. |
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Ability 3 - Dash (Agility) This is your most useful ability and Jing Wei's specialty. Here's what the dash does:
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Ability 4 - Ult (Air Strike) This is simply your escape ability. You have a charge-up, then you commit war crimes a few units in front of you, then you're able to choose where you land 45 units in front of you (like Ao Kuang or Da Ji). Again, do not use this to deal damage. Sometimes in the early game you can finish a kill with your ult, but it only deals 580 damage + 100% physical power at max rank. And your builds aren't exactly for physical power - they're for basics. So use your ult to get out of a sticky situation (it's CC immune) or if you really want that kill. |
I was gonna do this for each build but the items are always used for the same purpose. A build is just a different mixture of those items. The items listed here are items that carries will generally like to use. Disclaimer: just because an item is listed as red doesn't mean you can't run it, but I would advise against not doing so. For example, Hero's Axe is absolutely fantastic in the situation that you want to lose.
Always recommended / nearly essential.
Recommended for most or a lot of situations.
Mostly situational.
Rarely recommended / not recommended.
I also try to put the reasoning in the colored text, so don't only check the green text - some situations may apply to you.
Starter ItemsFirst BuyFirst ThreeThe 1/2 Crit build is named for its ~50% critical hits.
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Sylvanus
Benevolence
Jormungandr
Soul Eater
In any case, there's some work to be put into the builds, but for the most part, what you see here is unfinished. I appreciate all the feedback though, I'll put some consideration into the builds I have planned out.
That said, if and when it's built, it should still have damage potential.
In addition, this build suggests double-stacking with Devo's followed by Trans, and that's just not a good suggestion. While these items are both strong in their own right, Jing isn't crazy-mana hungry so she doesn't need the CDR so much or the high mana. And when you're dedicating 2 spots to items that don't have AS, penetration, crit, etc., you're shrinking the already limited itemization options.
I'll just go through the rest at this point.
Death's Toll is probably not necessary for Jing. She can back and get back to lane quickly, so high sustain early isn't so needed. Going into crit, I'd suggest either 
Gilded Arrow -> 
Ornate Arrow or 
Leather Cowl -> 
Hunter's Cowl.
- This build lacks pen. It only has
Asi's flat pen early, with an option for 
The Executioner or Dominanace "if the enemy team is tanky." One of those items should be built anyway, tanky team or no. Lacking pen is often a clear indicator of a weaker build.
- They're doubling up not just on stacking, but on lifesteal (and this is on top of DT's health restore). You usually shouldn't need both
Devourer's Gauntlet AND 
Asi in the same build. If you do pick up Asi, you get it late-game when you want very high sustain, and you know that the enemy hasn't built lifesteal (or you're looking to partially counter-act lifesteal). Don't get Asi in the position suggested here.
- This itemization doesn't build enough into crits IMO. Sure you have Rage's 45% (at max stacks), but DB as a Tabi replacement OPTION isn't good enough. I'd be targeting at least 1 more crit item as core. Whether you do that by choosing a different starter path (going into
Ornate Arrow) or by making DB or another crit item as core is fine. You want the crit to be in a good, reliable spot, and just relying on Rage + temporary crit boost from her 2 isn't optimal.
Mainly, the way this build currently is, I suggest not following it.As for the feedback, a lot of it does make sense. I don't typically build Contagion or Pestilence, but I don't think they "should be nowhere near a Jing build." Dedicating one of your items to high protections, especially in end-game when all of your other items are fully built, isn't that bad of an idea. In fact, I was actually planning on recommending Mantle of Discord instead of the other two. In the end it is indeed situational, as sometimes you simply cannot afford to sacrifice an item slot. However, the option cannot be ruled out.
Double-stacking Devourer's Gauntlet and Transcendence is indeed a mistake on my part, I didn't exactly mean to put that in the build. I've only recently started doing this to see how it would perform in actual games, but it's pretty terrible. Actually the stacks aren't even a problem - even late into the game, Transcendence does less damage than Dominance as long as the opponent has more than 50 physical protections. Which, I believe, most gods have at level 20 without items.
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I'll admit, I do need to try the Cowls out a bit more. My games with Cowls are fairly limited. However, from the few games I've played, I can't help but stock up on potions time and time again. Apollo has always been a tricky enemy for Jing, but it's even worse when you can't peel for yourself with a gust or dash or ult. Never mind doing all three - it's hard to even do one.
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"This build lacks pen." Yes, it does. As I said before, the build isn't finished and I rushed a bit and made some subpar builds just to see what it would all look like. I'm a huge fan of Executioner and almost always use it, so I'll represent that on the build when I'm able to work on it a bit more. For games with only one tank (no warrior, just a guardian, for example), I don't know if I'd want Asi and Executioner both. Probably sticking with Executioner is fine, but then switching to something like
"This itemization doesn't build enough into crits IMO." Yes, my other builds have 90-100% crit chance. I decided to do this one first, as I thought this is actually the easiest build for newer players. It has more sustainability and you won't need to rely too much on higher level gameplay to make sure you don't feed the carry. It's a bit more suited for lower level lobbies. But my main build is indeed a very basic 100% crit chance build with nothing super special about it, and it always has Executioner.
Again, thanks for the feedback. I wasn't planning on publishing this at its current state, and I've got a lot more items to try out for Jing Wei before I can make a good call on them. I'll reply to you once again when the build is done, but that may not be for a few weeks.
I also completely stand behind my statement that Contagion and Pest should just not be built by Jing...pretty much ever. Jing is high damage. She shouldn't worry too much about countering healing, since she will outdamage any healing that takes place by a significant margin. Also if you really need that anti-heal, your teammates should have picked them up (Divine, BBS, and Pest/Cont for the tanks). Again, it's tough because with the starter items, you're now limited to 5 items late-game instead of 6, so it's that much more important to itemize as well as possible.
However, you DO bring up one other item that CAN be considered if things are really bad / dangerous for you, and that's
And of course, other alternative bruiser items exist that are situationally picked up, including
I don't feel you need 90% crit chance. I think 70% is just about perfect. It's nice because Jing can get a temporary boost to crit chance, but otherwise, for her, Rage + WD or DB should be plenty in general. Rage + WD/DB + Ornate is fine too. Getting 1 less crit item (in looking to hit super high crit chance) means 1 more free slot for another item.
And while those options have potentially less AS, that's where getting Cowl or Arrow also allows you to build less AS if you want. DT doesn't allow that. I just think there are better starters right now than DT.
Anyway, yeah, will look forward to seeing the final product.