Speed Broseidon - King of the Brocean

Why Speed Poseidon?

I've been asked many times why I build Poseidon the way I do, and often times people need to see it to understand why it works. This build works around your 2, Trident offers you increased base damage, and movement speed. The damage doesn't appear to scale all that high, but when put into practice it often overshadows Release The Kraken!

Also I've never written a guide before so any feedback would be appreciated and used in improving this guide. As you can probably see, I lack a lot of information but will continue to work on this guide until it is complete.

If your opponent has a ton of health regen (Chaac, Chaac, Chaac and Hercules) grab it. The purpose here is to prevent Gods like the aforementioned to mitigate the damage that you have dealt to them, you'll find that against Hercules for example his Mitigate Wounds which would otherwise make him partially invincible will now barely keep him alive against your onslaught. We choose Divine Wrath over Divine Ruin Because with Trident this build relies heavily on damage done with basic attacks.

This item is very effective in helping you survive ADCs who rely heavily on basic attacks, if they continually hit you it offers the best physical defense of any single item. Since this build relies on not getting hit it may help you if you were to somehow get caught with a root. Though you're still likely to die this should greatly increase your odds of survival.

This might come as a substitute for Wall of Absolution, the CDR will allow you to pop your Trident more often.

You might find that you literally just need to nuke even harder. You'll find that Soul Reaver is there and as a late game pickup you'll go from melting faces to insta-gibbing foolish assassins who try to pick off mages.

Along with it's not so distant cousin Gem of Binding You'll find that the slows they provide will largely reduce what makes this build efficient. Be wary against mages using this.

This item also has slows, which pretty much negates why Speed Poseidon is effective. Not completely, but it is not to be taken lightly.

Avoid slows at all costs

This item is terrifying for the fact that you are giving your opponent movement speed by slowing them, tread carefully against opponents wearing this especially Chronos

Pros: + High Mobility + High Damage output + TONS of slow + Strong team player + Works with most game modes

Cons: - Doesn't cope well with hard CC - Weak early game - Can easily feed early game - Is pretty Mana hungry

This passive pretty much increases your damage by spamming your basic attacks, this build offers plenty of basic attack spam so you'll pretty much always be at high tide.

This skill is your main skill for farming, and often a finishing move on a dying opponent. You are to max this first for maximum minion farm and harass. You may also appreciate that it makes it rain men when you use it on a minion wave.

This skill is your bread and butter, this is used for pretty much everything, farming, face-wrecking and all around swag sliding to victory. This has fantastic synergy with Hastened Fatalis and Gem of Isolation, using these two together make you super fast and the person you are hitting super slow. This allows god-like Juking and harassment. Hope you enjoy running circles around your enemies while dealing some serious hurt.

This is your slowing DoT, while it's glorious you'll often find it's better suited for cutting your enemies escape route, lets face it... Once you have them with your slowing trident spam it's already over. However be doubly certain that any enemy who has an escape like Neith for example, you use this to cripple and prevent an escape.

This ult works SO well with some of your potential Teammates, a couple of which are Ares and Hades. The damage is fantastic, and the knockup/stun is icing on the cake.

In lane this build servers best as a mid-late game carry, if you farm good enough and get your Gem of Isolation Polynomicon and Hastened Fatalis that's when your build really picks up.

I spent a lot of time testing the other night, and I came to decide that in conquest in particular Poseidon is better off to get Hastened Fatalis right after you finish shoes. This gives you plenty of movement speed and escape, and though your damage isn't incredible, Poseidon still has enough damage to have strong presence in lane.

I found that I got upwards of 655.5 movement speed, and nearly chased down a Son Wukong in bird form, from this point on the enemy team feared Poseidon, and this gave me a strong presence, I would practically be all over the map.

Laning Gods

In my battle with Agni I learned that it's extremely important to stay ahead of him in farm, sustain your mana and send him home first. As soon as Agni pulls ahead, his damage becomes insane and you'll find it a struggle just to hold lane. When laning against Agni you should be very careful, as a speed Poseidon you often get very close when attacking, Agni does not care. He will suicide bomb you with his Rain Fire, and escape with his Path of Flames and just generally cause havoc and mayhem in your lane. Lane carefully against this god.

Eset is a very strong God to lane against, a good Isis is to be feared. Thankfully, her skills are all Linear save for her silence Dispel Magic. If you work off of your movement speed and take great care to dodge her stun and avoid as much damage from her as possible. You can very easily win the lane, however don't forget that she can and will hit you like a truck. And if you aren't careful she will steam-roll you and wreck your lane.

For this lane matchup you should treat him like you treat Eset and avoid his very small linear stun Mummify will make the difference between getting bursted and getting killed. Bait him into wasting Mummify and be wary of his AoE, he might play hard to get but eventually with proper timing and placement you can nuke him down regardless of what he might try. Like always lane carefully, the difference between a good Anubis an an amazing Anubis is astronomical.

Laning against Ao Kuang can be quite taxing if he's a clever little dragon, but as long as you pay attention to your position and don't allow him to line up a Squall you should be alright, he'll continue to spam tornadoes on your minion waves and push your lane extremely hard. Don't allow him to push you all the way to tower (unless you have a jungler ganking) you won't want to let him push, try to line up your Tidal Surge to hit both his minion waves and him as well. Knock him out of position and continually add pressure.

If possible, keep your dragon buddy locked down in his tower to limit the gold/exp he is gaining thanks to the tower making the minions it hits worthless. His ultimate is quite dangerous but extremely linear so as long as you stay on your toes and pay close attention to his movements and behavior you should be able to continually avoid damage as long as you don't walk into the tornadoes.

More coming soon

This build relies on you avoiding damage, if you're not completely dodging enemy skills while you're attacking you are not utilizing the speed provided by the Hastened Fatalis and Trident.

This build generally works in all game modes, and especially well IMO in lane, you will find that you have plenty of speed for roaming and ganking once you've got your lane locked down. Being able to get to and from objectives at high speed allows you to have an extremely strong map presence, be sure to utilize this!

Lastly, as I've said this guide is not finished, please give me some constructive criticism I can use towards making this guide better and to make better guides in the future. Feel free to suggest items I may be neglecting or an approach I had not thought of, I will add more details as I learn more.

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