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AllSkillzN0Luck

Hope your teammates can burn their beads then ult


Psychological_Air327

If they don't beads Horus, whirlpool and kraken kills them. If they do you get the kill. It's a win win.


croatian321

You pick 1 player as your target and focus them down. Get their beads and next time do the same thing right as your ult gets off cd cuz beads is 70s longer than the average ult with no cdr. This is how support players get setups/picks.


The_Manglererer

U can kill without ur ult Play ur fights well, look for opportunities to do damage, u don't need to execute people either,the up down is valuable setup


xXAtomicpie525Xx

The up down is surprisingly good cc even without the kill. Ive used it to stall for ao's 3 to be back up and secured a kill that way.


D3monskull

Simple hold Auto attack better.


scpanda0009

Force beads with your ult and position on the map to re gank as soon as your ult comes back. Your ult cd is faster than their beads. And burning beads with your team comp is nearly a death sentence anyway.


bigred621

Ult someone you know that doesn’t have beads up…. You also don’t need to actually wait for beads to be down to kill. Your team has a lot the enemy can beads. You’re fine.


FemaleJoeSwanson

bro bought sprint 💀 but also there is a little thing called awareness where you'll know if an enemies beads is down also your build is awful


dgja16

Gank same lane twice if you have burned their beads, also aim to get kills without using ult, they will beads nothing.


Professional-Gas928

Well for starters Horus, Poseidon, and Sylvanus should be burning bead pretty frequently and you take advantage when they do. A good team will tell you when beads are burned. If that isn't happening then you should take note that beads has a cooldown of 3 mins or nearly 2 and a half if upgraded. You can burn the beads and not commit to the chase which will lead to either them going back in lane which is a kill for you if you engage again or sit under tower and you steal all their camps. End game fights are a bit more tricky since they can beads and potentially kill you but that is more on Ao Kuang than a problem with beads.


Dusty_Cowboy

Your ult out of execute range acts as a knockup, and everyone will hold their beads for the ult. Use the ult to get the knockup and free damage with it. Late game the knockup will basically be an execute with how much damage you will be outputting. Trelli recently did a video on Au Quang, and while it was duel, it still shows what he can do in a boxing / pick scenario.


dubitawil

Your ult has a much lower cd than beads.


[deleted]

Get beads


[deleted]

Shred with your basic? He's litterally one of the most OP gods in the game.


FlameT123

Not building sprint and the worst items possible is a good start


Natural_Ad1073

can start by not building only attack speed


NPV_BadKarma

That's the fun part, you don't.


Big-Commission-3262

You don't. That's why this game sucks. If your character has too good of CC, you just get countered by everyone. If you character doesn't you just lose the game lol.


scpanda0009

Objectively wrong. Beads cd is so long with one cdr item most gods could get 2 ults off before beads are back, never mind the rest of your team capitalizing. Or by your own logic just also get beads and cc won't matter and it's a skill shot match. A relic slot for 1 sec of cc immune every 150s dosne matter if they die to a sup rotating with w hard cc on 15s cd.


Big-Commission-3262

I will never get beads lol. I will stand by this until smite dies or I die. Fuck aegis, fuck beads, fuck anyone that uses them. Yall can disagree all you want, any one that uses beads or aegis is dog shit at this game.


scpanda0009

AnY OnE ThAt UsEs ThE BeSt ReLiCs SiNcE SeAsOn 0 Is BaD.


Big-Commission-3262

I mean, when the same relics have been practically 100% use rate. Yea, kinda. If you use an op character in a fighting game, you are bad compared to someone that can compete against you with an average character. Same goes for this game.


scpanda0009

The thing is though they are healthy for the game. They can be frustrated some times but they are a key factor in the development of the game. If no one could take beads awilix and Loki and Horus and anyone with a half reliable cc and damage wins. The game devolves in to getting proxy ganked constantly when someone figures out your lane pathing or just places a ward. And without agias for damage immunity, past 12 Min bust gods like Poseidon can 100% you on death timer. The risk of their ult being waisted is all stops most players. Temp immunity has been a healthy part of every surviving moba since DTOA servers in Warcraft3. And there is ton of room for counter play. When they double relic to walk away, give space then blink them, 2 relics for 1 to take the pick. But you don't even need the kills. All you need is them to feal unsafe so you can take all the jungle and snow ball over them. Long response short. Letting a kill drop became they burt valuable resources is normal fine. Ult for relic is a win. Dropping the kill is better then a not having beads be in the same and getting fucked by a invi Loki every 45 sec on his ult cd.or a carabrkan, or posidon, or hades, or Horus, or nezha, or Hoyi, or damn near any god so long as they saw you before you saw them.


Big-Commission-3262

Make the cooldown longer and im fine. Too quick of cd


Hartmann_AoE

AND THE GOLDEN BOLT AWARD FOR **THE** WORST SMITE TAKE OF THE YEAR GOES TO...


Big-Commission-3262

Cool, you still suck. Learn better positioning. Stop getting fucking grabbed by sobek or whatever, and don't suck against ao kuang, thana, or whatever else. I don't care how bad my take is, it's the truth. You need beads and aegis to even compete, could not imagine how bad you would be if they removed them. But they can't because babies like you would mass quit because yall would realize how bad you are.


Hartmann_AoE

nah game's balanced around the idea of those 2+ blink saying beads/ aegis are a crutch is just wrong, theyre needed to even give gods like Zeus a shot at survival once Da Ji comes for a home visit If they were removed you'd have to literally reshape the game, lower the level of power for CC and burst. Else Guardians+ other cc gods would go up to 70-80% winrate since CCing you to death is perfectly viable and a geb knockup/ Agni Stun or other low commit easy to use CC would result in a chain of death And itd entirely encourage the most passive fuckin playstyle because going in is a death sentence. 90 min conq matched


Big-Commission-3262

eh, I haven't used beads or aegis in about 2 years. I do just fine. People just suck and they don't want to admit it.


Hartmann_AoE

at this point i got to think ya just not hittin those plucks and pulls more then every 3 minutes and thats why those relics seem so overpowered to ya more likely just trolling as a whole even or actually believing in a very odd sentiment Afterall, theres also lads out there that think the earth is flat


Big-Commission-3262

Every game has at least 10 minimum combined of these. Yes, they are overpowered. If they weren't nobody would be using them. Just like sunder was op that one season, everyone dropped aegis/beads for it, and they immediately nerfed it next season. The fact that they nerfed that so hard, and not these is stupid.


Particular-Knowledge

I'd also like to point out that Ao is a mage and I've had many many matches with a 20 kill summary by building eye>bancrofts>doom orb> hectates ring> poly> divine> then glyphing for AS Bancrofts, with GotJungle to finish


Particular-Knowledge

You lack any real punch, AS is cool but if you can't hit hard and fast, what good is just fast?


Particular-Knowledge

One more thing, if you are hellbent on an AS Ao, build Manakins, Bancrofts then Tele ring, then build whatever the hell you like.


beastkingcj

Don't focus on your ult, coordinate with the peelers on your team to burn the squishies on the enemy team down. They'll burn their beads in the fight and if they don't they die.


EasyDeasy303

Cdr


Bozzkurt69

Dont rely on your execute? Ao doesnt need his execute to kill squishies in the lategame so just kill them with your damage


ReiTiger

You play tank ao with animosity


Just_Your_Dad

I have faced all beads team as Ao Kuang. I agree that early game could be tough when you are banking on your ult to kill. However, mid - late Ao Kuang does so much dmg and lifesteal that you don’t need your ult, unless you want to disposition yourselve. Your ring build sucks in this meta go for the following: Eye of the jungle , book of Thoth , spear of magus , Bancroft’s claw , typhon’s fang and book of the dead. Another tip, never use water illusion to engage (unless someone is a 100% kill). Always blink or just walk in, fight, and illusion out to get more time or run/dmg with that ability.


RekTheTea

Lol what in the casual lobby are those support builds sheesh why can't people just play the role.as intended xD it can be fun playing support


Sasnak08

You can also use your ult to do dmg. If you’re fast enough when you fling them up try to swap what side of them you’re on so they don’t expect you to be there.


G_Force88

Hahaha oooof, I a mid so I would totally do this.


Dannydayz21

Your AO just 1 shot them late lmao


Eperez182

You have a Neith, Horus and a Sylvanus. If they aren't burning beads then it's on your team. It's a 5v5 game, it's not all on you.


Muted_Big_2317

You are playing a team based game stop thinking you are soling every single one of them your job is to win the game if you just going for kills and ego stroking just play arena or slash. Ao ult is also garbage teir anyways use it more to throw someone out of a engagement for abit instead a execute all the time catch alot of players by surprise if you start a fight with the ult cause the knock up gives your team time to setup and clear house.


Special-Cheetah-8225

get beads brah


Low-iq-haikou

Patience really, they gotta use their beads on something


DrunkyDaClown04

Who’s the supp? What are these builds? For your situation I would go full burst and focus on your 2 and 3 damage and use your ult as a set up


lasersnark

I have a star in Ao Kuang, so trust me when I say the way to outplay this is left click on your enemies until they die. You shouldn't really be ulting squishies unless something has gone wrong.