ARTICLE
able to choose a new location to
experienced Ao Kuang, very much
land, dealing damage when he
reminiscent of how Kali brings
does and also fully refueling his
down the guardians as well. Moral
sword. Stats are shown in Figure 2.
of the story, get into the fight, do a
TEAMPLAY
Proud and self-reliant as
always, Ao Kuang does not play
a big part in teamplay. Expect to
Damage:
90/140/190/240/290 +50% of your magical power
Landing Damage:
100/150/200/250/300 + 50% of your magical power
Execute Threshold:
23/26/29/32/35% of full health
see him enter the battle a la Loki.
Starting off with Water Illusion,
he can enter a team fight without
Figure 2.
being seen and immediately lay
out damage before the enemy
GAMEPLAY
even realizes the situation he or
before you get put out of the fight.
Ao Kuang’s kit is interesting
lot of damage, get out of the fight
she may be in. His one and only
Core items that would
crowd control from the slow in his
as a whole in which there is not
normally be built on Ao Kuang
3rd ability may help in securing
much synergy between his abilities
would include Demonic Grip
kil ls for his team mates or more
unlike a large majority of the other
and/or Hastened Fatalis. Heavily
often, to secure kills for himself.
gods. There is no particular order
reliant on his basic attacks in
If you have Ao Kuang as a team
to cast his abilities where you
unison with Dragon Call, attack
mate, try to provide as much stall
will get the maximum potential
speed in the form of those items
time as possible for him before
out of him. Being on the low
would assist greatly in dishing out
he needs to get out of the fight.
side in terms of health and also
the damage that much quicker
Any form of crowd control, soft or
ranged abilities means that Ao
and with Ao Kuang, speed is
hard, may deter an Ao Kuang from
Kuang relies on heavily on doing
important. Building cooldown
his mission of dealing massive
damage fast and retreating just
items such as Shoes or Focus or
amounts of damage. Purification
as quick. What he lacks in those
Breastplate of Valor on Ao Kuang
departments though is made
also presents itself as a viable
up for by his damage output. He
option. The escape and/or initiation
is capable of tearing down even
opportunities through Water
guardians in a few seconds, alone
Illusion is too good to pass up.
Heavily
reliant on his
basic attacks
in unison with
Dragon Call
no less, if played in the hands of an
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