the increases in movement and
an ally or commonly into a wall
be sure of it as 15 seconds is not a
attack speed, improving Mercury’s
where you get a free hit or two
short cooldown for a mobility skill.
mid game quite a bit and allows
before the enemy can react.
him to snowball, should you
This can also be used as an
This is usually the ability
levelled up last, a one hit wonder
The perfect package for
if you will. You get your dash, the
damage isn’t worth levelling up
you have to latch onto someone,
for and the cooldown remains
because you also render yourself
the same; there isn’t much to
open to attacks for that second
THIRD ABILITY:
SPECIAL DELIVERY.
escape or chase tool. Just because
you dash into a fight doesn’t mean
level quicker than others.
gain out of this ability asides
you’re rooting the enemy. Perhaps
from costing you more mana.
someone on your team, a
just dashing up to their face and
devastating next few seconds for
throwing punches is a better
the enemy. Special Delivery is a
idea. If you can avoid incoming
dash that will push minions to
crowd control abilities or a hefty
the side and latch onto the first
amount of damage (say Scylla’s
enemy God in Mercury’s line of
Ultimate or Hercules’ pull) then
nice if this were a real sonic boom
sight, of which he will spin round
dash away my friend, for Mercury
and sound was disabled in the
as you get to direct where the god
is not kind to taking hits himself.
game for a short time, that’s not
is thrown. Whilst the damage is
Remember that this ability
FOURTH ABILITY:
SONIC BOOM.
Now then, as much as it’d be
quite the case. Upon activating the
next to nil in terms of significance,
stacks up Mercury’s passive in
ability, Mercury claps his hands
you essentially root an enemy
distance travelled, so dashing out
and a bar that only he can see
for a second and then throw
of base or around the map to get
reaches further away from him
them where you wish, towards
where you want quicker is ok, but
the longer he charges. It gets to a
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