Introduction Top
Hey folks! It's MardyVain here, Hots player since the last phase of the Beta. This is my first guide so please, feel free to constructively criticize and discuss whathever you want.
As introduction, I have to admit I'm not very into Li Li: I've never played ranked games with this hero so this guide may be non appropriate for that gamestyle; however, this still seems to be atleast fun to play in hotjoin. That been said, let's start!
General thought about this build Top
I've always been a fan of mmropg and rpg in general, in which my favorites classes were always hybrid ones; I loved to damage and heal at the same time, trying to find the perfect balance within these two dimension.
I used others support heroes in Hots, like
Brightwing and
Malfurion, but I've found that these heroes are better if played right into a pretty purely offensive (rare) or a most defensive (much more common) build.
And then, here she comes Li Li!
The core of this build is the Cloud Serpent ability, making you capable to deal and heal a tons of damage.
First things first; let's take a look at the general pros and cons of this build:
Pros
Very hard to kill.
Can outlast most of the others heroes.
Tons of healing.
Tons of damage.
Late game is your bread and butter.
Can still provide some (quite) nice burst healing.
Cons
Less burst healing potential.
Less CC.
May be a bit slow in the early game.
Basic Abilites Top
Talent's Choice Top
TIER 1 TALENTS
At first I was confident using
Timeless Creature, but after a few try I found that
Conjurer's Pursuit is far superior. This will make your mana pretty endless in the late game, if you played right, thus is not worthing picking a 4 seconds
Cloud Serpent boost. However I'll encourage you to try both, to find the best bet for your playstyle.
Pro Toss and
Gale Force are just too weaks compared to
Conjurer's Pursuit.
TIER 2 TALENTS
The core of the build, hands off the key to balance offensive and defensive capabilities. This allow your
Cloud Serpent to heal and deal damage at the same time, restoring health to targeted hero. Let the Serpent rise!
Other talents are not considered, just because this is a must-pick for this build.
TIER 3 TALENTS
Again, another must-pick choice. More bounce mean more damage. More bounce mean more healing. Do you need more reasons to choose this?
HEROIC ABILITIES
The choose here is really up to you. Personally I prefear
Jug of 1,000 Cups because it allows you to sustain much more damage and it can really screwed up your opponents if timed well in a team fight, letting your teammates survive a bit more.
Water Dragon is useful to CC enemies down, but I don't think it's really the right choice in this build.
Pick this if you have another support heroe in your team and he/she's going deep in healing build.
TIER 5 TALENTS
Ability power is always good. Spam [Bliding Winds] during teamfights to CC enemies and to stack this. This tier is, however, a little bit more team dependant than the others: nice choice are indeed even [Shrink Ray] and [Elusive Feet]: you can pick one of them if the enemy team got a painful assassin like a morph [Illidan] or [Nova].
TIER 6 TALENTS
Two [Cloud Serpent] at the same time? I'm going to dance!
No, really, pick this and cast Cloud Serpent ONLY on allies; avoid casting it on yourself for whatever reason after level 16 (seems a pretty dumb advice but trust me, it takes a lot of practice to me to understand this).
TIER 7 TALENTS
And again, this tier is up to you. I found
Storm Shield being perfectly combined to
Jug of 1,000 Cups, as it can refill the health bar almost of the entire team.
Kung Fu Hustle is another wonderful talent, and you can considering pick this if you went for the
Water Dragon heroic talent.
Conclusion Top
In the end, this is a very fun build to play. I'm topping damage and healing most of the time (hotjoin only, better to remind that) while I can literally face pretty anyone 1v1. I feel that this build could be less useful in organized team, just because you're wasting much healing and CC's skill to maximize your damage.
This is a strange way to play a support hero, but you should give it a try (if you don't have done it yet, it may be not the first Li Li's build focused on offensive playstyle).
Hope you have fun, folks!
Blinding Wind
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