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Smite God: Zeus

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Zeus Build

Lightning Ganks

Shoes of Focus

Book of Thoth

Chronos' Pendant

Gem of Isolation

Doom Orb

Hastened Fatalis

Situational (replace 4th item if needed)

Soul Reaver

Divine Ruin

Actives (situational)

Shield of the Underworld

Greater Sprint

Purification Beads (Old)

Weakening Curse

Zeus's Skill Order

Chain Lightning

1 X

1 4 6 12 15

Aegis Assault

2 A

2 10 11 17 19

Detonate Charge

3 B

3 7 8 13 16

Lightning Storm

4 Y

5 9 14 18 20

1 4 6 12 15

Chain Lightning

1 X

Zeus fires a bolt of lightning that arcs between enemies, doing damage and applying a charge on each hit.

Ability Type: Projectile
Damage: 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Arcs: 4
Slow: 20%
Slow Duration: 2s
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 12s

2 10 11 17 19

Aegis Assault

2 A

Zeus throws his shield forward dealing damage to nearby enemies and apply a charge. The shield remains for 5s, and Zeus may target it with Basic Attacks or Chain Lightning. Each Basic Attack or first Chain Lightning arc that hits the shield will deal additional static damage and apply a charge in the area. While Zeus' shield is deployed, he gains Attack and Movement Speed. Zeus may refire the ability to recall the shield early.

Ability Type: Ground Target
Initial Damage: 60 / 105 / 150 / 195 / 240 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Static Damage: 55 / 65 / 75 / 85 / 95 (+30% of your Magical Power)
Attack Speed: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35%
Movement Speed: 15 / 17.5 / 20 / 22.5 / 25%
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 12s

3 7 8 13 16

Detonate Charge

3 B

Zeus detonates any charges that have accumulated on enemies, doing damage, multiplied by 1/1.7/2.4 depending on the number of charges.

Ability Type: Instant
Damage: 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 (+25% of your Magical Power)
Cost: 60
Cooldown: 10s

5 9 14 18 20

Lightning Storm

4 Y

Zeus conjures a Lightning Storm, striking enemies in the area every second. Applies a charge with each hit.

Ability Type: Ground Target
Damage per Hit: 100 / 145 / 190 / 235 / 280 (+55% of your Magical Power)
Max Damage: 500 / 650 / 800 / 950 / 1100 (+275% of your Magical Power)
Lifetime: 5s
Radius: 30
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

Bio

This is a guide to swiftly deal with enemies using Zeus. You are building towards Power and Attack speed to always stay on the offense and to send your enemies running in fear of the lightning

You can use his Aegis Shield to initiate a fight or to escape with. It is good to initiate with due to the movement speed it gives you. If there is a group use your chain lightning, if not, then just use your AA (auto attack) to get some dmg and procs on the enemy god.

Once you have 3 charges on the enemy god/or gods, do not wait to detonate, this is the core of your power beside your ULT (ultimate). The only time you may not to detonate is when your teammates are chasing an enemy with the charges place, due to the slow effect. This however only works once all 3 charges are place and only last for 1.5 secs.

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on zeus i usually go rod of tahuti fatalis/winged blade chronos soul reaver/obsidian shard shoes of magi book of toth...with zeus's new 2 he doesn't need demonic grip like he used to anymore id prefer fatalis/winged blade over grip with the speed bonus since he not as reliant on his basic attack

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I wouldn't go AA with but I understand your point Rinorim. I also agree that would work perfectly here. I've seen Incon play a casual game with , and the 2+3 combo is terrific as 2 apply charges, that's why I'd probably go for an ability based build instead of AA.

My build would be something like that :

The last slot is for situationals : (against MID with slows like ), against healers (instead of maybe), against a physical mid or if you really are ahead.

I'm not sure that needs that much cooldown, I would probably not reach the 40% CAP, but it requires trying! :)

is great combined with , if you go AA if can be really interesting to see (then of course, is better than . However you're really vulnerable to CC. Unless you have or to save you, it might be tricky to stay alive long while boxing. I'm not sure that you could outbox , or even for that matter.

At least, we can agree that is back! ;)

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Still, I don't really think the works here. You'd probably prefer . Also, it's good to mention starters. I'd go + tier-1 of the . Also, lifesteal is really valid on , being my favorite, with alternative choices according to your opponent. seems a bit weird to me... If it's for the extra movement speed (that I understand), maybe is a better choice, especially if you go with instead of

The "new" has literally NO escape, which makes sprint (as Blink got nerfed) a really valid choice combined with .

Yep it was for the Movement speed and atk speed. I was building that with max CD from the and . Then with passive if anything survives your initial start up you can just chase down and charge up and detonate whoever escaping.

thanks guys. I actually thought about putting the instead of , but it cost so much you probably will not be able to finish the whole build by time the match ended unless it gets really drugged out. I went with the doom orb for cost management. I did not think of , that is a pretty good idea and goes for what I was going for. Thanks, I will edit that into the build. Thanks for the input guys.

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I agree that needs to not be in this build, lol, but I'm onboard with the . Zeus actually gets a lot of use out of his basics considering they apply charges, so he has to stick on his target. doesn't have much to do in-between uses of , so making him a left click monster is nice.

Another possible thing to do with is slap on a , and if you're really going for it, put on a too. Talk about awesome! It'll take people by surprise for sure.

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I know, but the main thing they will be changing is how his shield will work. I will probably do an edit on the guide once the rework officially ships.

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I find it strange to release a guide on a god the same day it has been reworked.
It is not a full rework, I agree, but still, his gameplay will change a bit.

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Bio

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Zeus, Father of Greece

Smite God: Zeus

Zeus Build

Lightning Ganks

Situational (replace 4th item if needed)

Actives (situational)

Zeus's Skill Order

Chain Lightning

Aegis Assault

Detonate Charge

Lightning Storm

Bio

Pros / Cons

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