Slightly Supporty Arena Hunter Build

Just for ***** and giggles, I tried out this build on Skadi against medium bots in arena; I then ran a more traditional ability-based hunter build using Warrior Tabi, The Crusher, The Executioner, Qin's Sais, Brawler's Beat Stick (enemy team had a Guan Yu both times), and Bloodforge.

My first game I went 9/2/11; my second I went 14/3/7. Granted bots aren't exactly indicative of how a real match goes, but they are useful here to prove my point. I did this experiment because I didn't want the OP to feel as if we were ganging up on them, but this build is NOT an all-purpose arena hunter build. Sure it can work on hunters that have some type of steroid in their kit (bonus points if they also have increased crit chance like Artemis or Jing Wei), but an ability-based hunter like Skadi or Hou Yi would be better off using something like what I did and passing on this. For the record, my total power with this particular build was only 185, but the AS was 2.25.

I cannot in good faith recommend this guide to anyone, especially newer players, as it currently stands.

I see you're friends with rrcaseyr, who has also recently posted a build here. Is he the friend that said this build is OP? Just curious.

I'm not here to argue your success with Neith, and you can make most builds work if your skill and playstyle fits the situation.

I will say that Neith is an ability-based hunter, as are some of the others you mentioned ( Skadi in particular). I do feel Xbalanque can work well with ability use in a teamfight mode, but don't feel Izanami is in this category. Reasons she is an ability user include but are not limited to:

• Her abilities scale very well with power
• She has a lot of control in 2 abilities, fairly strong healing in another ability, and her escape tied to another.
• Her passive is effective specifically in combination with abilities
• She is not best as a basic attacker because there is nothing in her kit that enhances basic attack damage.

You may already know this, and may be trying to pose an alternate build that steps away from the meta, but if you do go this route, I feel it's still lacking in some key stats.

More than anything else, you're severely lacking in pen. If you choose to go with crits, that's fine, but you want to be able to punch through inherent and built protections. You have 0 items with ANY pen in it. This really cuts into your damage potential.

Since you have healing in your kit, you also don't really need a lifesteal item, though sure, it can help if you're boxing. At least Bloodforge has high power, which is helpful for your scaling abilities.

In any case, Neith in an arena setting will likely get MUCH better use by getting power, pen, and CDR. You can have fun with this build as a basic attacker, but you absolutely will see better damage by switching out an item or two and getting some pen. Try subbing out Odysseus' Bow and getting The Executioner instead, or dropping Bloodforge and getting Titan's Bane or The Crusher or Brawler's Beat Stick. Or drop both BF and O-Bow...those are the two you likely need least in this build.