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Tanky Hercules Solo

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by Nyarlathotep661 updated May 22, 2021

Smite God: Hercules

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Build Summary

Bluestone Start

Notes Bluestone Pendant is OP right now and it's a good idea to go it just about every game.
Teleport Glyph is a good idea if you're rushing boots or you aren't confident yourself.
Blink Rune is a great item to finish a kill or to set up for your team in the later stages of the game.
Heavenly Wings is an option for if you're facing a Vamana Solo or Jungle because his Ult is really good because of all the CC immunity and healing. Use it to allow your team to just walk away and then come back in and finish him.

Notes

Bluestone Pendant is OP right now and it's a good idea to go it just about every game.
Teleport Glyph is a good idea if you're rushing boots or you aren't confident yourself.
Blink Rune is a great item to finish a kill or to set up for your team in the later stages of the game.
Heavenly Wings is an option for if you're facing a Vamana Solo or Jungle because his Ult is really good because of all the CC immunity and healing. Use it to allow your team to just walk away and then come back in and finish him.

Build Item Bluestone Pendant Bluestone Pendant
Build Item Chalice of Healing Chalice of Healing
Build Item Multi Potion Multi Potion
4
Build Item Teleport Fragment Teleport Fragment
Build Item Blink Rune Blink Rune
Build Item Heavenly Wings Heavenly Wings

End of the Game

Notes Void Shield is really good as well right now and will make you more tanky and decrease Physical Prots so you can Frontline very nicely for your team.
Bluestone Brooch is the best option for you so you can keep up your damage in the late game while giving you more health.

Notes

Void Shield is really good as well right now and will make you more tanky and decrease Physical Prots so you can Frontline very nicely for your team.
Bluestone Brooch is the best option for you so you can keep up your damage in the late game while giving you more health.

Build Item Bluestone Pendant Bluestone Pendant
Build Item Reinforced Greaves Reinforced Greaves
Build Item Mystical Mail Mystical Mail
Build Item Ancile Ancile
Build Item Breastplate of Regrowth Breastplate of Regrowth
Build Item Void Shield Void Shield
Build Item Bluestone Brooch Bluestone Brooch

Hercules's Skill Order Notes Mitigate Wounds is really good early but in this build with Tank boots you shouldn't have to worry about the enemy solo doing much and the percent heal will give you the needed sustain in fights.

Notes

Mitigate Wounds is really good early but in this build with Tank boots you shouldn't have to worry about the enemy solo doing much and the percent heal will give you the needed sustain in fights.

Driving Strike

1 X Y
Driving Strike
1 4 6 7 10

Earthbreaker

2 A B
Earthbreaker
2 8 11 12 14

Mitigate Wounds

3 B A
Mitigate Wounds
3 15 16 18 19

Excavate

4 Y X
Excavate
5 9 13 17 20
Driving Strike
1 4 6 7 10

Driving Strike

1 X
Hercules delivers a mighty strike, driving all enemies back, damaging and Stunning them. Hercules is immune to knockback during the dash.

Ability Type: Line, Dash, Damage
Damage: 100 / 170 / 240 / 310 / 380 (+90% of your Physical Power)
Stun: 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4 / 1.5s
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 12s
Earthbreaker
2 8 11 12 14

Earthbreaker

2 A
Hercules smashes the ground, sending a shockwave forward that does damage to all enemies in the path. Enemies at the end of the shockwave are thrown into the air towards Hercules.

Ability Type: Line, Knockback, Damage
Damage: 90 / 145 / 200 / 255 / 310 (+70% of your Physical Power)
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 12s
Mitigate Wounds
3 15 16 18 19

Mitigate Wounds

3 B
Hercules heals himself instantly and gains increased Attack Speed, Magical and Physical Protections for the next 4s. A percentage of the damage taken during this time is returned to him as an additional heal that at the end of the duration.

Ability Type: Buff
Initial Heal: 45 / 75 / 105 / 135 / 165
Damage Returned as Healing: 20 / 26 / 32 / 38 / 44%
Protections Buff: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60
Attack Speed: 25%
Cost: 60
Cooldown: 15s
Excavate
5 9 13 17 20

Excavate

4 Y
Hercules rips a huge boulder from the ground. Throwing the boulder does damage where the boulder lands. The boulder continues rolling, doing the same damage to all enemies in its path. Subsequent hits on the same enemy do 50% less damage per hit. Hercules is immune to crowd control while casting.

Ability Type: Circle, Damage
Damage: 300 / 425 / 550 / 675 / 800 (+100% of your Physical Power)
Radius: 15
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90 / 85 / 80 / 75 / 70s

Extended Build

Start of the Match

Notes Reinforced Greaves and Mystical Mail are going to make you very tanky at the beginning of the match. Your passive and Bluestone are going to make you able to out Box the enemy in solo and it will be very hard to kill you even with early Ganks.

Notes

Reinforced Greaves and Mystical Mail are going to make you very tanky at the beginning of the match. Your passive and Bluestone are going to make you able to out Box the enemy in solo and it will be very hard to kill you even with early Ganks.

Build Item Bluestone Pendant Bluestone Pendant
Build Item Reinforced Greaves Reinforced Greaves
Build Item Mystical Mail Mystical Mail

Middle of the Game

Notes Ancile is a very good item in conjunction with Shield of Regrowth when your taking a lot of damage and Mitigate Wounds is active you'll silence the enemies and get outta dodge or chase our an enemy after your heal.
Caduceus Shield is another good option in place of Shield of Regrowth to increase the heal you receive when taking a lot of damage.
Genji's Guard is a good replacement if you need more magical protection in place of Ancile. This is to keep your CDR and give you some more health in place of losing power.

Notes

Ancile is a very good item in conjunction with Shield of Regrowth when your taking a lot of damage and Mitigate Wounds is active you'll silence the enemies and get outta dodge or chase our an enemy after your heal.
Caduceus Shield is another good option in place of Shield of Regrowth to increase the heal you receive when taking a lot of damage.
Genji's Guard is a good replacement if you need more magical protection in place of Ancile. This is to keep your CDR and give you some more health in place of losing power.

Build Item Bluestone Pendant Bluestone Pendant
Build Item Reinforced Greaves Reinforced Greaves
Build Item Mystical Mail Mystical Mail
Build Item Ancile Ancile
Build Item Breastplate of Regrowth Breastplate of Regrowth
Build Item Caduceus Club Caduceus Club
Build Item Genji's Guard Genji's Guard

Selling Boots Options

Notes Mantle of Discord for some extra CDR and Prots to make you more tanky.
Spectral Armor is super good right now because of how often people go Crit in the current meta and will help keep you alive while running down the ADC/Jungle.
Heartseeker isn't something I would go unless your team is in a serious lead this late in the game. It would be better to set up kills and to be tanking everything for your team.

Notes

Mantle of Discord for some extra CDR and Prots to make you more tanky.
Spectral Armor is super good right now because of how often people go Crit in the current meta and will help keep you alive while running down the ADC/Jungle.
Heartseeker isn't something I would go unless your team is in a serious lead this late in the game. It would be better to set up kills and to be tanking everything for your team.

Build Item Mantle of Discord Mantle of Discord
Build Item Spectral Armor Spectral Armor
Build Item Heartseeker Heartseeker

Summary

Hercules is probably one of my Favorite Gods to go in the Solo Lane next only to Nike. In this build I honestly wanted to just make a very tanky Hercules that still does good damage throughout the game and can just run down the enemy team.

I can't say for sure that this build is the best because the one game I went to play with it the enemy surrendered at 13mins. I did die at that time but I got greedy and went for the enemy Blue buff at like half health and I only died with both Tsukuyomi Ult and Gilgamesh Ult almost finishing me and them just chasing me down afterwards. That could have been the enemies build or how tanky I was that early but I still halved the enemies health in that little skirmish.

I hope to see what changes someone else would make but I'm still looking to keep him tanky like he is in this build and if you'd change the build order.

My skill buying order might have been different in the game but I can't remember off the top of my head so I'm willing to change it and get Mitigate Wounds a little earlier.

The second build I added is more of a Meme/ Nuisance build for the enemy team. Its pretty funny to just walk into an enemy team and get healed to full after between every Proc and all the damage and your 3. It's not a serious build but it's still kinda fun to use.

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Big Damage (37) | May 8, 2021 8:31am
Ancile probably isn't worth the pick up on tankier gods post nerf, it can be okay on gods with more scaling tho.
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Nyarlathotep661 | May 8, 2021 8:50am
Yeah, I’ll have to change it after I test some more stuff out. Thanks. Forgot that was on the nerf list otherwise I probably wouldn’t have put it on there.
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Big Damage (37) | May 9, 2021 3:51am
The build that I see the pros always using is

Bluestone > Warrior Tabi > Breastplate > Regrwoth > Winged Blade > Spectral/Witch/Void/Mantle > Brooch
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