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Assassin's Blessing
Boots
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Purification Beads
Warrior Tabi
Deathbringer
Demon Blade
Asi
Stone Cutting Sword
Mantle of Discord
Titan's Bane
Malice
Bloodforge
Winged Blade
Magi's Cloak
Blink Rune
Aegis Amulet
Heavenly Wings
Assassin's Blessing
Katana
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Purification Beads
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Fastest God Alive (Passive)
Passive
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For every 1 ft. traveled, Mercury gains a 0,5% physical power bonus on his next basic attack (max 50). Mercury also gains additional physical power equal to 25% of movement speed form items or abilities.
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Made You Look
Skillshot
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Mercury moves in the blink of an eye, dealing one melee attack to every enemy within the target area. Each hit may trigger item effects for basic attacks, and can critical hit.
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Maximum Velocity
Buff
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Mercury passively gains movement speed. When this ability is activated, Mercury increases his attack speed and is immune to slows for the duration.
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Special Delivery
Skillshot
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Mercury dashes forward, knocking aside minions, grabbing the first enemy god he encounters and spinning them. The enemy god takes damage until the effect ends, and Mercury throws the god in the direction of his choice.
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Sonic Boom
Skillshot
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Mercury gathers energy for a powerful dash, with the range extending as he does so. He travels the distance faster than the speed of sound, dealing damage to all enemies, stunning them and spinning them around in a random direction.
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Starter items
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A must have item for all junglers both for sustain.
The 10 penetration you get for evolving the item is also nice, but don't be afraid to replace it as soon as you don't need the sustain and selling it can get you an important item. |
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Just some extra movement speed and to let you get a heads start on
Warrior Tabi because it is so important for Mercury. But if you want some extra damage early on you can go for Katana, the drawback from building Katana is that it builds into Stone Cutting Sword which you do not want that early. So it is a 700 gold investment in an item you wont finish before mid/late game. But it could help you secure a first blood and it helps with your clear. Both work fine in my experience.
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Two healing potions is normally enough for me but you can go for three if you want to. But I like saving the 50 gold.
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Again I prefer going just two, but you can go three if you want to. Mercury is pretty mana hungry early so going three is definitely not a bad idea. You can also switch the
Mana Potions out with  Multi Potions if you feel like it.
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Core items
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The early damage from warior tabi is perfect for Mercury just to rocket launch you into the game. I definitely recommend this over
 Talaria Boots for the extra damage, but if you feel like you need the movement speed I don't hate the Talaria pickup.
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Critical hits is your main damage source so
Deathbringer is perfect. I normally go this as my second item (after Warrior Tabi). If the game is going really really bad you might be better of with Stone Cutting Sword.
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Wind Demon
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Normally I would build this as my third item (after
Deathbringerto make you deal insane damage before anyone has built much protection. But you can also go for Asi if you are having problems staying alive or Stone Cutting Sword.
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Mercury is a pretty straight forward god though an you do not need to be a mechanical mastermind to play him well.
Fastest God Alive
Auto cancelingPassive
Made You Look
ClearingFighting
Maximum Velocity
OffensiveDefensive
Special delivery
JunglingTeamfighting
Sonic Boom
GankingTeamfighting
Mercury. Special Delivery. If not you just try and do the the mid camp on the side you are on, then clear the mid wave and go for the opposite mid camp. Warrior Tabi. Warrior Tabi you should hit level 5 soon. As soon as you hit 5 try and gank someone. Preferably the solo lane because your speed buff is about to re-spawn. Sonic Boom is great to get out of danger with if you get caught. Try and gank when ever you got the chance, Special Delivery is deadly early game and will force your enemy to beads. Also try to use Sonic Boom on cooldown unless you are going to invade. Sonic Boom and using Special Delivery to force beads or kill enemies that are out of position. Deathbringer and Made You Look should be starting to deal some real damage. As soon as you get Deathbringer you should make use of your potential burst damage and focus more on ganking and invading. You should be able to 1v1 the enemy jungle and the enemy mid laner now. Deathbringer and wind demon you have to remember to farm. If you are late with the Asi purchase you will end up not being able to fight the enemy hunter at all. Sonic Boom or blink and Special Delivery. Then try to start fights with the advantage. Sonic Boom. A perfect Sonic Boom --> AA combo can instantly kill an enemy mage or ADC. Then use Special Delivery to re-position yourself or engage on a new target, but you might end up getting bursted down during the ability. So use Special Delivery carefully. Special Delivery can be very dangerous to use in the late game, but if you can catch a carry and through them into a wall you will kill them before they even hit the ground unless they use beads. So if you get the opportunity you should use it. But don't start a fight with trying to throw one of the enemy frontliners.
Mercury. The combo goes like this: Special Delivery --> AA --> Maximum Velocity --> AA Special Delivery on an unsuspecting enemy, but you can also use blink or just walk up to them. If it is an enemy without a jump or dash you can start the combo with an AA. If that isn't enough to secure the kill you can finish off with a Made You Look. Purification Beads if they have it. Special Delivery combo, but it deals a bit more damage in the early game if the situation to use it is there. The combo goes like this: Special Delivery --> AA --> Made You Look --> AA --> Maximum Velocity --> AA Special Delivery combo is that you add one more auto cancel in there with the Mad you look. As i mentioned in the Tips and Tricks chapter under Auto canceling using Made You Look for auto canceling is only worth it early in the game. So you should only use this combo early. It is also not good vs enemies that have a jump or dash, then it is better to go the basic combo and follow up their escape with Made You Look. Special Delivery --> (AA) --> Made You Look --> (AA) Made You Look to hit all the minions. Special Delivery Made You Look on the whole camp then you AA down the camp boss until it is low enough for you to kill it with Special Delivery. It might take some practice to know when you can kill the boss with Special Delivery, so I recommend you practice this a bit before you start dashing out of the camp. But the idea is to dash out of the camp with Special Delivery. Sonic Boom to much. The combo goes like this: Sonic Boom --> AA --> Maximum Velocity --> AAs Sonic Boom so that you just barely hit the enemy, then you AA the enemy and auto cancel with Maximum Velocity. This combo is especially useful for when you are trying to pick someone off 1v1 in the late game. Purification Beads though. The combo goes like this: Sonic Boom --> Special Delivery --> AA --> Maximum Velocity --> AA Sonic Boom perfectly because you are going to follow it up with Special Delivery anyways. You can use the Special Delivery to either throw the enemy into a wall to kill the enemy yourself or throw the enemy into your team.
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As we can see,
As a rare Merc player this guide has helped me tremendously and made him one of my favorites this season so thanks for that.
I generally go for the alternate start you have listed and run
Thanks! :)
He is still really good though, just not stupid OP :)
But crit is just so important for merc. Because you are going DB and Wind Demon. So I kind of like the early DB more than the Stone cutting. If you are going Stone Cutting you should start lvl 1 katana though and not boots.
What you also could do is go Wind Demon first, but Ive felt it is not as impactfull as the DB.
This is a good question, and I'll try to explain when a typically late-game item like
So, you know that DB is usually best purchased late. Why?
- It's expensive (one of the most expensive in the game). Building this can slow you down in the early/middle parts of a build, allowing enemies to get full tier 3 items before you, which can give them a temporary advantage over you.
- Critical damage is enhanced by multiple things. 1: Power gives you a higher potential base of damage. 2: Penetration allows you to deal more damage via bypassing enemy protections to some degree. 3: Attack speed gives you more opportunities in the same time frame of getting a critical hit. If you get DB early in a build, it's likely you have very little of the above, which decreases its overall potential.
- DB enhances crit damage, but is often best as the 2nd crit item in a build.
Rage, for example, is not only cheaper, but once evolved, gives you an incredible 40% crit chance...getting DB after that means it's going to have that much more of an opportunity to crit. This sequence gives you a smoother progression of build and damage potential, while not holding you back too long due to price and other factors.
Now, getting DB earlier in a build, and/or as the first crit item, can work for some gods...usually, it's due to something in their kit giving them enhanced use of crit items. Some examples:
Artemis gets 0-15% crit chance as her passive...15% + the 25% that DB provides is a nice 40% crit chance, and can give her an early boxing advantage.
Jing Wei's 
Explosive Bolts gives her up to 20% crit chance for 3 basic attacks after activating the ability...similar to Art, the crit chance in her kit is in some ways like having a 1st crit item, giving more chance for DB's crit damage boost to take effect.
Ne Zha automatically crits (with proper use of timing) in his ult. 
Flaming Spear also gives 15% crit chance while active. He's perhaps the best example of a god that can use an early DB, as the basically ensured crits in his ult mean DB will provide extremely reliable enhanced damage.
- And the one in question here,
Mercury can take advantage of an early DB in a couple of ways...1, his 
Made You Look is a great poke tool, and can proc basic attack functions including crits. So, if you can get lucky, you get a nice boost of damage from that.
Fastest God Alive provides a 50% power boost...this is huge for his damage potential (and is also a reason you build him for very high power in a glass cannon build rather than as a bruiser with protection items). If you get lucky with a DB-enhanced crit on that basic, you have MASSIVE damage potential.
Maximum Velocity, which provides a large attack speed boost, so if he's boxing an enemy, he'll get more chances to get crits off.
It's questionable ifIn addition, a fully stacked
Finally, on consecutive hits, he can activate
Does that answer your question?
You have great tips on abilities, ability use, and comboing...solid guide, especially for something "short."
Maybe I should add "feel free tk ask me about the rest of the items in the comment section or just PM me." But I can answer you here and maybe I will add it later. Not likely though, want to keep it "short".
Titans bane against tons of protections that would be if the mid has BoV and Nemian, the jungle has 1-2 physical prot items etc for example. And I would switch it for eiter
Im sorry mate :P
Welp, no more
i peffer to go warrior boots , Malice , Deathbringer , blood forge , qins sais , and focused voild blade . really the last time you can put what ever you want bc after you get your first 3-4 items you'll be 2-4 hitting mages and other phys gods and you can shreds tanks alway well , and never go golden bow on merc its not a smart items to use with him but all and all your info on how to use everything was fine
Cheers!
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