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Stone Cutting Sword's penetration stacks with that of The Executioner.
Instead of Stone Cutting Sword, you can buy Frostbound Hammer if you want to slow enemies and provide some control for your team.
Optional: If you bought Stone Cutting Sword, you can sell Warrior Tabi late game for Hastened Katana (Thanks DV-8)!
If you have enough $, purchase Elixir of Power. If you think the game will be ending soon, make the most of potion of physical might instead.
Amaterasu is meant to be a frontliner who can tank a lot of damage with Heavenly Reflection while supporting her allies with Divine Presence. This build is a just for fun, damage build that goes a bit against the way she is supposed to be played. However, you are still functional since you have some defense and CDR (allows more frequent use of your Divine Presence, Heavenly Reflection, and Dazzling Offensive.)
If you purchased Stone Cutting Sword, you could sell Warrior Tabi late game for Hastened Katana. This was DV-8's suggestion. This will help you stick to enemies while basic attacking. The bonus attack speed will also boost Qin's Sais passive.
Use Blink Rune to teleport in and use your ult on multiple enemies.
Boxing combo 1:
- Divine Presence (valor stance)
- Blink Rune to close distance
-Basic Attack
- Heavenly Reflection
-Basic Attacks
- Glorious Charge to chase if enemy leaps/dashes away
-Switch Divine Presence to benevolence if you need some extra movement to finish chasing
-Continue Basic Attacking
-Mix in Dazzling Offensive as needed.
Boxing combo 2:
- Divine Presence (valor stance)
- Glorious Charge to close distance
-Basic Attack
- Heavenly Reflection
-Basic Attacks
-Mix in Dazzling Offensive as needed.
-If enemy leaps away and Blink Rune/ Glorious Charge are on long cooldowns, you can attempt to chase with Benevolence stance (can be risky). This may become a bit easier if you applied the slow from Frostbound Hammer. Otherwise, just let your assassin kill secure.
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I noticed the DV8 guy had put traveler's shoes in a suggested build so I would assume that Amaterasu is a character that suffers from mana management early? If so I was looking at starting with
Traveler's Shoes and switching out with Warrior's Tabi by my 5th item or third if I switched the Blackthorn Hammer to my 3 spot.
Ancile Magic Protection, Power and cooldown(I know no health but will be covered)
Void Shield Physical Protection, Power and Health.
Runic Shield Magical Protection, Power and Health.
Blackthorn Hammer More Power, Health, some mana and flexibility on having abilities up faster or mana to use those abilities depending on situation.(was also looking at putting this in at the 3)
Frostbound Hammer More health and power plus the slow(which I have seen discussed as a valid item on her by a couple of posters on one of the builds I was looking at.
I also know there is no pen in this build but I was trying to stay as tanky as possible but also feed more damage/heal potential into her abilities.
yeah that is true, so a bit of pen. Build seems to be working alright, but I have started putting the blackthorn at the 2 or 3 and instead of frostbound going crusher at the 6. Doing the Blackthorn early I just run straight to warrior's tabi too. situationally if I do have more physical damage coming I switch ancile for shifter's shield.
Also, warrior tabi is the way to go in arena. Travelers isn't that great.
Try this:
Warrior tabi
Breastplate
Shoguns kusari
Black thorn
Void shield
Masamune
Im just gonna wait on branmuffin to come and correct me.
See the thing with building is, no build is set in stone. You have to build according to the situation.
What do you think about this build?
Warrior tabi
Breastplate of valor
Spirit robe
Pestilence
Midgardian Mail/Oni hunter's garb
Midgardian Mail/Oni hunter's garb
If you need max cooldown, replace one of the last two items with mantle of discord.
You can consider items like void shield and masamune on hwr for some damage functions.
Best of luck in your future matches.
I'm going to assume Gabi is talking about their own self, because Boogie apparently has over 50% win rate with Ama (though the K/D isn't incredible, the assist portion with her being a tank balances things out to a good KDA).
With that assumption, Gabi, you have to understand some things.
Another option would be to replace Shogun's Kusari with Oni Hunter's Garb in boogie's base build. You'll still have 20% CDR from BoV, giving you some pretty good hybrid function. Oni will give you better tankiness to help you survive a bit more. Depending on preference, you could skip Stone Cutting Sword there and move straight into Exe/Qin's...and maybe finish with Hastened Katana if you wanted sticking power...or go for Frostbound to slow them instead. Or whatever else you might find useful.
But basically, you have to understand, when you go with a build that focuses a decent amount on basic attacks and partial offensive function, instead of going full tank, you're going to die more easily, and you need to have higher awareness and better timing...and it always, always helps to have friends, where they know how you plan to build.
@Bran, I'll probably make a future update to this guide to include the standard tank/bruiser builds.
I dont like ichaival too much, especially on a warrior. Ichaival's passive is limited to only the enemy I'll be basic attackin, so unless the other 4 enemies are being kept in check, i think ichaival is a weak item outside of 1v1 or 3v3 scenarios.
Now if i got scs should i sell warrior tabi? My initial thought was to get ninja tabi for the attack speed to help qins dps. All of your alternative options offer the high attack speed as well.
I will say the ninja tabi offers 8% more ovement speed than your alternatives, but that may or may not matter to you (I'd stick with the 8% extra movement). I dont like
Hastened katana because i feel its only purpose is to help you stick to enemies. I have a movement speed boost in my first ability, so i feel hastened is a weak choice (i still prefer the 18% movement in shoes over the 10% in hastened)
Witchblade and toxic blade are very interesting alternatives you bring up. I'll give a more detailed reply when i get on a pc.
The 20% Movement Speed in a non-boots build avoids this inefficiency.
However, with the speed increase from Divine Presence, a boots build puts you at 540 Movement Speed; right on the verge of the increased diminishing return threshold (50% diminishing returns after 540 Movement Speed). Whereas a non-boots build puts you a bit lower; at 525 Movement Speed.
You are correct that Hastened Katana's main function is to help you stick to enemies. More specifically, it allows you to avoid the 35% Movement Speed penalty from basic attacking. High movement speed alone will not always be enough to overcome this, especially when you factor in other possible slows from enemy abilities, items, etc.
BranMuffin's precious SmiteBuilder is inaccurate. It doesn't factor in movement speed diminishing returns correctly (Thanks a lot BadMuffin. Useless as always).
Also, I agree that high movement speed isn't going to be enough to overcome an enemy escaping, but it DOES help. Also, consider that I won't always be fighting/chasing fleeing enemies. Sometimes, I'll need to retreat myself. Even with diminishing returns, more movement speed can become helpful here.
But anyway, I'm gonna do some testing in JG practice and get back to you.
Keep in mind, when actually fighting, you'll usually want the power buff form of Divine up...the MS form is for chase/retreat. So you'll have to rely less on the MS to stick to enemies when fighting.
That MS is also going to be more than demolished when you're basic attacking, as you'll suffer a 35% MS slow due to the standard penalty.
Also, while basic attacking...she has 0 ways to actually stick to a god...no slow or stun except in her ult. Of course, if you're in a teamfight and other teammates have a slow, that will help. But that also means you can't rely on yourself to help stick.
I would agree with DV-8 on replacing Tabi late. She's got added MS in her kit, so she doesn't really need the 8% higher... Getting another 10% ms item to give you 20% should be just fine.
Masamune should also be considered. Higher power than Warrior, added prots for team fighting.
Your current build is a hybrid, and offers sort of the best of both worlds (whether you choose Frostbound Hammer or Stone Cutting Sword is up to you as an example, but you might consider expanding your presentation).
First you'll change your build title from "attack speed + CDR" to something more general..."Teamfight Mode Builds" or whatever.
Keep that AS + CDR build as one example. Then offer a second example committing more fully to basic attack damage.
In that one, I would definitely consider Hastened Katana as an item. I know you like that extra 8% MS from Tabi for whatever reason, but you might consider skipping shoes altogether.
Basic attack committed build example:
Thoughts?
I disagree with your hastened. So lets just agree to disagree for now. Ill make better commmentary when i get home.
However, let's take a quick look at Void Shield for a second. If you decided to get Stone Cutting Sword instead of Frostbound Hammer, then Stone Cutting Sword's passive combines with the passive of The Executioner. Throw in Void Shield into that mix, and you'll be doing close to true damage to most squishy enemies after 3 basic attacks. So yea, I can definitely see the Void Shield substitution also.
One thing to keep in mind is that, in most respects, Ama is a hybrid god that relies a good amount on her ability use too. So the 30% CDR from the originally proposed build addresses that. Also, when getting Qin's, it benefits you by getting as much attack speed as possible...so I feel the Runic substitution isn't as good as Shogun's.
For a high pen type build, I would say then that Void instead of BoV would be fine, but keep Shogun's.