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Conduit Gem
Tiny Trinket
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Purification Beads
Gem of Focus
Bancroft's Talon
Pythagorem's Piece
Typhon's Fang
Lono's Mask
Stone of Fal
Purification Beads
Blink Rune
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Primordial Onslaught (Flying): Tiamat gathers power, allowing her to fire orbs of energy at the end of the channel. Each orb damages enemies and stops on enemy gods. Hitting the same enemy deals 15% less damage each time, to a minimum of 70% reduction. This ability can fire additional projectiles at ranks 3 and 5.
Consume (Ground): Tiamat fires a cone dealing damage and slowing enemies hit. Minions, Large Monsters or Buff Holders hit under a health threshold are executed. Tiamat can immediately consume her Serpent and Beast pets to provide a Hardened Scale. When Tiamat consumes a Buff Holder she gains their buff while the original can still be picked up by allies. This allows Tiamat to pick up a second buff as well. Tiamat can only have one consumed and one regular buff at a time.
Ruination (Flying): Tiamat creates an energy field dealing low damage to enemies in the entire area and then a larger amount in the inner area. The inner area of the field also stuns enemies for a short duration.
Outburst (Ground): Tiamat slams the ground creating seismic rifts that erupt in succession in front of her, damaging and knocking up enemies hit.
Grounding Dive (Flying): Tiamat dives into the fight landing on all fours, dealing damage and switching to her Ground stance. This ability also provides Tiamat one Hardened Scale.
Rising Flight (Ground): Tiamat rears up sending out a blast of energy, dealing damage to enemies and sending herself backwards as she returns to her Flying stance.
Children of Creation (Flying): Tiamat is able to summon one of her children onto the battlefield.
Summon Serpents (Summon #1): Serpents that travel down lanes and act as minions.
Summon Beast (Summon #2): Kusarikku who stands guard waiting for enemy gods.
Summon Storm (Summon #3): Umu Dabrutu, the storm that chases enemies.
Tempest of Undoing (Ground): Tiamat causes a celestial outburst around her, dealing initial damage and a damage over time effect to every enemy nearby. Tiamat also gains one Hardened Scale per enemy god hit.Tap each threat level to view Tiamat’s threats
Tap each synergy level to view Tiamat’s synergies
Gem of Focus
Bancroft's Talon
Shoes of the Magi
Typhon's Fang
Lono's Mask
Stone of Fal
Purification Beads
Blink Rune
Tainted Breastplate
Bancroft's Talon
Shoes of the Magi
Typhon's Fang
Lono's Mask
Stone of Fal
That's a Lot of Damage (Mitigated)!
PS.: Above image is after match results for an Arena using this build.
Tiamat had her passive reworked recently to scale off of your magical power, up to 600 magical power, and provides up to 60% mitigation with max Hardened Scales while in ground stance. So, why not supplement such a powerful passive with a powerful build focused on damage mitigation and just not dying? You can achieve 74% Damage Mitigation with this build, which to me is absolutely insane. Hardened Scales mitigation applies multiplicatively (thanks Flareb00t for pointing that out).
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But if you would not build magical vampirism this build may seems not such tanky. Trying to build her more power instead of vampirism may give her more % mitigation trough passive, but hardened scales still fading fast without defensive items because scales is the only that reduces incoming damage in this build, which means that all damage she got before passive will not be reduced by protection and her armor health will get ~50% from 90% of enemy damage. Which still a lot, which will causes her hardened scale fading very fast. Which means you would like to escape close fight much sooner (this is where your no-cdr will be a problem with very high stance switch cooldown) and which more important is that this result is how her gameplay mentioned to be — even with that build her defence is just something that not allow her die too fast because of her need for close range fights to utilize all potential. So i dont see any specific reasons to sacrifice a lot of damage into defense that will not be so useful in most scenario especially when enemy get antiheal.
Devs fixed her passive realy well and closed some ways to abuse her passive, which means that you only build power + little defence, or full power or full defence. But not both, and i dont think this build may show good results at long distance. But surely this build may be interesting for fun or to learn something as player who gonna decide making her even more tanky, or more powerfull
There's certainly many options! Thanks for the reply! This is my first build so if I do another one, I will try to make it formatted nicer. Appreciate the discussion!