Swift as a Coursing River (Mulan Jungle S10 UPDATE))

Hello, this is my first formal guide on here. I hope it goes well.

UPDATED FOR SEASON 10
Few Changes honestly.

Combo #1
-Use your 3 to grab them.
-Use your 2 to follow up for a slow and a lot of damage.

That's it.

Mulan is very simple in this regard, this is pretty much your bread and butter. If you miss, that's okay just close the distance by walking or leave. You will mostly use your 1 as a way to deal extra damage while already fighting.

Mulan has a fun and interactive passive unlike any other god in the game, she levels her abilities by dealing damage. This is why we max our 2 first.

To cite it directly:
"Mulan utilizes a Sword, Spear and Bow with her abilities and can gain Skill towards them by damaging enemy gods. Her expertise in each weapon provides different bonuses. Mulan also gains a buff every 10 seconds that reduces the cooldown of the next non-ultimate ability used by 2 seconds."

I will hereforth in this section refer to Skilled, Adept, and Mastered as levels 1, 2, and 3.

So, the level 1 change for each of these abilities isn't too crazy. The 1 gives you bonus attack speed, the 2 turns on healing, and the 3 gives your temporary protections when you hook an enemy god. But oh boy level 2 is fun. Here we gain:

An extra attack on our 1.
An extra attack with extra damage on our 2.
And our 3 turns into a modal movement ability as well.

Most guides recommend leveling Cross Strike, your 1, first. I disagree.
Both abilities have the same scaling, at first, of +35% of your physical power. And the damage of Cross Strike is higher than that of Spear Thrust. HOWEVER, this is before leveling up.

At level 1, Cross Strike offers two hits of 75/95/115/135/155 damage.
At level 1, Spear Thrust offers one hit of 120/155/190/225/260 damage.

At level 2, Cross Strike offers three hits of 75/95/115/135/155 damage.
At level 2 Spear Thrust offers two hits of 75/95/115/135/155 PLUS 20/35/50/65/80 bonus damage with +15% scaling on that bonus damage.

This is to say that at level 2, scaling ignored as they scale the same, Cross Strike deals 215 damage whereas Spear Thrust deals 170 +15% of power and heals you and slowing by 20% for 3 seconds.

Looking at 5 level points, Cross Strike offers 465 damage and Spear Thrust offers 600 +15% which is much more.

So,
Lose out on the early rotation damage, scale up for the mid game damage.

Finally to cement this, Mastering Cross Strike gives you a permanent +10% attack speed which is good, don't get me wrong. However Spear Thrust offers +5% power which is a lot better.

Remember when playing Mulan that you want to deal as much damage with your abilities as you can. Minions give you 1/5 the training arc experience as gods but that's still solid. You should always clear with your 2 first and then your 1 so you can scale up for the late game.
A good way to double up is to use your 3 to grab an enemy god standing by archers to pull them up into the middle on minions and hit all targets with your ability.

Mulan has a great ultimate.
Or at least I think so.

The ability fires a wide dash that makes her CC immune and roots all targets damaged, then if you dealt damage to an anemy god fires two projectiles when you aim freely. You can cancel the ultimate at any time after the dash.

Divine Mastery has a 90 second cooldown, or 54 seconds with full 40% cooldown built.

This is a quick cooldown so don't be afraid to use your cooldown to run. IF YOU'RE TRYING TO RUN, CANCEL THE ABILITY AFTER THE DASH. I cannot tell you how many times I've died like this but it's rough to get away, not realize you hit someone, and be stuck at the end of the dash waiting for more animations.

The ultimate also scales your protections up while it's active so you can dive towers when you have a decent amount of health.

Finally, this ult is a CC train. It's a root, then a knockup, and then big damage. You can often easily mess up a mage or a hunter by grabbing them with your 3, doing the combo, and then ulting right after. This can often be lethal.

Alright so how does map presence work?

With Mulan the first rotation is kind of tough. You might get some cheeky mid damage but... that's usually not worth it.

We start at Yellow Buff, then clear that side's XP camps.

After this rotate to mid and try to get the XP camp there. Wait for cooldowns and try to snag the enemy mid with your 3 - 2 combo, which you'll have by now.

If you hit, cool thats some pressure for your team.
If you miss, no sweat, go to the other mid XP camp.

(The secret is you go to that camp either way.)

Following this I often kind of wander around Duo jungle grabbing whatever camps show up and maybe pressuring duo, but this is more dangerous than mid.

Now we'll head back, grab the upgrade to our choice of mace or morningstar, and we do it again. However drop blue buff for solo, you need to keep it classy.

Once you finish second rotation you should have more than enough gold for Transcendence or Crusher and the ganks will come rolling in.

*As a note, Transcendence still needs more time to come online.

Remember,
Be as swift as a raging river
have all the force of a great typhoon
gain all the strength of a raging fire
it is optional to be as mysterious as the dark side of the moon.