is there a difference in building hunters?

[achilleas_demetriou]

i cant tell if there is any difference

[RecalledDread]

I don't think there's a massive difference.

You can do the same Crit, or Pen build, and do decently.
Some benefit more from AA builds (which will either focus on Qins, or Crit for damage), others benefit more from ability based builds (no crit, focusing on the Pen tree with Titans).

Can't think of any Hunters that build more uniquely though.

[RoofCat]

yes. Even more so in some weird assault. I have played tank Ullr once :D

[Perfectly Valid School of Magic]

Some like Medusa and even Skadi can be more ability based, don't need much attack speed. Others like Jing Wei NEED attack speed. Her only damaging ability is her ult and that's not reliable for damage.

[Anonn 20 16]

depends on the hunter but you can also use a universal build on them and it will work fine.

as for what to build on what hunters go with what you find working out for you. for example you can get away with building more power items and less attack speed items on hunters with build in attack speed or some steroid like rama or artemis. you can also do heavy damage builds on ability hunters like neith or hou yi since their abilities hit hard. but as i said a universal build works well enough on all

my 2 usual builds are
1 - dev gloves, ninja tabi, executioner, qin's sais, titan's bane and then either asi or bloodforge depending on the enemy team

2 - dev gloves, ninja tabi, executioner, poisoned star/wind demon, deathbringer and either titans bane, asi or posioned star/wind demon. i may even get frostbound just to annoy the hell out of the enemy team but that's rare.

now if you want to go purely for ability power then you could go for transendence and double stack with dev gloves, bloodforge, warrior tabi , titan's bane and then something with attack speed or joturnn's for the cd. i don't really recommend this build tho because if you are forced to fight alone you most likely won't be able to outbox the enemy hunter.

edit: btw i forgot that now on s5 items will change. so basicaly builds will most likely change a bit so wait to see what happens but the basics are still there.

[Mother of Exiles]

Publicado originalmente por Jurassic King:

Some like Medusa and even Skadi can be more ability based, don't need much attack speed. Others like Jing Wei NEED attack speed. Her only damaging ability is her ult and that's not reliable for damage.

Doesn't her knock-up do damage?

[Perfectly Valid School of Magic]

Maybe a little, but still. You wouldn't try to bring an enemy's health all the way down to zero with *that* would you?

[Mother of Exiles]

Publicado originalmente por Jurassic King:

Maybe a little, but still. You wouldn't try to bring an enemy's health all the way down to zero with *that* would you?

Yeah, but just wanted to correct it

[Daketey]

Builds are same because of how strong, efficient and cheap crit builds are. Attack speed , crit and lifesteal.

[Arrancar]

Skadi is quite different than the rest. I guess that is why she is only hunter I can't play properly :D

[Perfectly Valid School of Magic]

I myself am still not sure how to build Skadi. Should I focus on basic attacks or power? I'm not sure if Kaldr becomes stronger with higher attack speed or physical power...

[Daketey]

Publicado originalmente por Jurassic King:

I myself am still not sure how to build Skadi. Should I focus on basic attacks or power? I'm not sure if Kaldr becomes stronger with higher attack speed or physical power...

Build physical damage and pen for doggo based build. And if u wanna use doggo for pokey pokey go aa based.

[RoofCat]

Publicado originalmente por Jurassic King:

I myself am still not sure how to build Skadi. Should I focus on basic attacks or power? I'm not sure if Kaldr becomes stronger with higher attack speed or physical power...

I prefered power back when I played her. The reason for that is Kaldr doesn't hit often. So make it count. Of course, increasing attack speed should do the same to dps, but if Kaldr has just the time to bite twice, 30% attack speed won't help to make it 3. It would be still 20% attack speed missing. Also her piercing cold has decent power scaling.
Kaldr can't use Skadi crit or pen afaik, except defence reduction on target.

I just haven't seen Kaldr biting continuously a lot. Except back when he had immortal ult or while he chews minions. Kaldr is more like a burst ability than an autoattack.

[EmethSAS]

There are a few Hunters that function differently enough that you may want to build them differently than the typical meta "solved-DPS" build.

For Skadi, Kaldr DOES scale better off of power than attack speed, so I play Skadi where you build power and just know that your basics are still going to be far more powerful than on a Mage or something. I usually play her on Joust when I have to play an ADC and between Kaldr and her field hitting harder with power, you can basically be an AoE Mage that destroys towers having to play Sol or Chronos. Of course you can build Skadi like a normal Hunter too, but I just figure you're better off paying AMC or even Artemis in that case. I figure you play Skadi for Kaldr so build for Kaldr.

Similarly, Neith and Chiron can often work better with a power build to just wreck people with their AoE and auto-aim abilities... But again, there's compelling arguments for building them with a usual Hunter build as well.

On the opposite end of the spectrum is Xbalanque who you still basically build the usual Hunter items on, but in a different order and maybe with one extra attack speed item since his 1 is pretty much a flat damage boost and doesn't really have a scaling component, so you get more DPS from him building attack speed early rather than power.

Most other Hunters though function similarly enough that you just build Devourer's Gauntlets, Executioner, and Qins' or crit and call it a day.