Smite Yu Huang Build Guide: Yu Huang - Master of Dao (9.4)

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Smite God: Yu Huang

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Build Summary

Starts

Conduit Gem

Enchanted Spear

Healing Potion

Standard Build

Notes This build is slightly more classical. Strong early game, and finished with the amazing Nimble rod. All-around strong build with strong life-steal as well.

Archmage's Gem

Spear of the Magus

Chronos' Pendant

Soul Gem

Staff of Myrddin

Nimble Rod of Tahuti

Extended Build

Relics & Consumables

Ward

Sentry Ward

Chalice of the Oracle

Chalice of Healing

Aegis of Acceleration

Cloak of Ascetic

Alternative Damage

Notes [*] Spear of Deso for more pen
[*] Soul Reaver for tanky mages like Zhong Kui (also use anti-heal)

Spear of Desolation

Soul Reaver

Situational

Notes [*] Use divine for anti-heal
[*] Use warlock for increased mana or if you don't use Chronos
[*] Use Ethereal if the enemy has a consistent poke

Divine Ruin

Warlock's Staff

Ethereal Staff

Build Summary

Standard Build

Notes

warning

This build takes time to charge up due to Thoth. Play early-mid carefully.

Strong late-game power, CD, and minor lifesteal. Plus decent speed for positioning.

Pendulum is selected due to additional power based on total mana (max 100 flat power at 100% mana). More mana = bigger pendulum buff uptime.

Additionally Book of Thoth adds a massive 273 power at full build from the passive alone.

Pendulum of Ages

Chronos' Pendant

Book of Thoth

Bancroft's Talon

Doom Orb

Charon's Coin

Extended Build

Build Summary

Standard Build

Notes This build can be fun but is not my personal recommendation. This ADC build includes polynomicon because he can proc it fairly easily with the stun on his 2.

Manikin Mace

Telkhines Ring

Ring of Hecate

Hastened Ring

Polynomicon

Nimble Rod of Tahuti

Extended Build

Introduction

Welcome to my guide for Yu Huang: Cultivator of Dao
My name is Lord Alexander. I am a frequent observer of SmiteFire and a Casual Smite player with over 1200 hours in the game. I mainly play conquest so that is what my builds will be focused on.

This is my FIRST smitefire guide, and I intend to keep it updated, so please comment your suggestions in the discussion section so we can all learn together.

There are currently three main builds I would recommend. As time goes on I will update the build to reflect more time spent with the character as well as more information about the different possible synergies and counters in particular.

Pros / Cons

Pros:

Strong poke
Long range abilities
Great mobility and escapes
Can mitigate high damage ults with Celestial Flight
Decent ult to position and damage large groups
Low mana cost
Good basic attack for wave clear

Cons:

Squishy
Weak early game
Midling damage output (strongest in mid-game)
2 is clunky to achieve the stun.

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Was looking for a leveling guide, pretty much know how to build burst mages

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Hey Darkon,

Do you mean skill leveling order? If you need some explanation on that, I can advise there. There seem to be 2 schools of thought on skill prioritization. For the early game, a lot of people seem to like getting the 2 at level 1, as it has higher base damage, then getting the 1 next for additional wave-clear/poke. That's fine as long as you feel safe enough and you're not afraid of an early gank. Otherwise, you might need to get the 3 at level 2. Note that the 1 is significantly safer, as you don't need to line up a wave at close range.

Prioritizing the 2 is great because of the higher overall damage, but again, you have to be confident in your safety in applying it to the wave. If you're going to be poked out every time you attempt that in a given matchup, it might be better to prioritize the 1. That's not that bad anyway, because at least you get decreasing CD when you level it.

Regarding a build for burst mages, the build recommended here (which includes , , , , , and , I would probably recommend some adjustments, though between the build example and the alternative/situational items, Alex has most of the key items covered, with one exception.

Lifesteal: It's not awful to have both Spear of the Magus and Soul Gem, but I would typically suggest just getting one of those, not both. Any anti-heal that affects you will be semi-countering 2 items instead of 1.
CDR: This build maxes CDR (40%), which I would say isn't necessary. Yu Huang's cooldowns are pretty good, and while more CDR is always appreciated, sometimes choosing items with CDR take up space for other items that might be of greater effectiveness. I think 30% is good for him in most cases.
Penetration: Flat is covered well here. Magus is in the build example, while alt damage lists Spear of Desolation and situational lists Divine Ruin. The big missing piece is higher % pen. While Staff of Myrddin + Nimble Rod of Tahuti gives 20% (which is decent), the absence of either Charon's Coin or Obsidian Shard as even situational items is an issue. Those should absolutely be shown in some capacity here, and usually one of the two should be used in a build.
Nimble Rod of Tahuti: In some ways I can see the appeal, but while his passive gives some added function to basic attacks, it's not significant enough to build into it IMO. This should just be Calamitous Rod of Tahuti, where the passive's added damage can be easily applied if you hit his 2. Alternatively, with the nerf to Tahuti, you could skip it and get Reaver instead.

Hey Branmuffin17,

Thanks for the in-depth comment! I am glad the build checks out with you, you def know your stuff.

I will change the build to recommend to play off the root of his 2. It makes more sense than just focusing on the basics which seem to fall more flat the more I play with him.

As for pen, my personal philosophy is that I prefer a bit more cooldown to proc the damage more rather than increase that damage itself. It is just how I would recommend playing personally, but to each their own!

Thanks and again I'm honored

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Hey Alex,

Yeah, I'm not saying you can't go 40% CDR, and if you've covered all your bases w/ they key items other than that, it's nice to have. That said, the reason I feel 30% is enough is because you have the later game option to get to max CDR temporarily. And if you get , its passive is fairly equivalent to providing an extra 10% CDR (outside of the ult).

Of course, you could argue getting 40% CDR w/ Chronos is fairly equivalent to 50% CDR, but any added CDR in your build isn't going to always be used. Keep in mind that for every second an ability is off cooldown and not being cast, the value of the CDR is decreasing. And while there will be times where you'll be trying to spam an ability immediately off cooldown, there will be more times that's not the case.

Altogether, I think that 30% CDR level (especially when the build includes CP) is a sweet spot, and allows you to get other items that situationally will give you more value.

Other than the Sands/Pendulum build example Kriega provided with 30% CDR and max 40% pen, if you wanted to stay with and , here are a couple of other example builds you could try.

( -> (when anti-heal is needed) -> -> -> -> -> (30% CDR (variable), anti-heal, 1 lifesteal item, 20% pen for squishier comps)

( -> -> -> -> -> (30% CDR (variable), 1 lifesteal item, 30% pen for somewhat tankier comps)

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Or, go Pendulum, Deso, Magus/Divine, Coin, Reaver, Shard, and have high (30%) CDR and max pen.

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Yu Huang - Master of Dao (9.4)

Smite God: Yu Huang