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Welcome to another G2 hero guide! Today we are talking about another roam hero played as carry:
 Ardan. His skills and base stats also make him a very good weapon power carry for the jungle. He has good burst potential combined with gap closers/speedboosts and the ability to protect allies as well which makes him a strong pick for the jungle position. The main part about this build is to carry your team in the early game and putting pressure in the enemy team. His late game is not bad and if you did right in the early game it will be easy to clear off games with this build. So lets get started!
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Ardan heroic perk
Julia's Gift allows him to heal 1% of his missing health when he gets hit by an enemy. That makes him naturally very tanky against any small damage sources such like
 Skyes
 Forward Barrage. Making good use of this kit, gives you the ability to build more offense instead of defense because you have an integrated damage reduction.
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Ardan doesn't use energy but instead "Vengeance" which restores slowly over time or whenever he does basic attacks, abilities or critical strikes. Due to that fact it is very usefull on him to build attack speed and crit items to refill your Vengeance faster and deal more damage.
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His first ability
Vanguard allows him to dash to an ally target quickly, giving it a barrier which scales to his total health for 3 seconds and also giving the target a burst of movement speed. An Additional effect is that
Ardan gains a boost of Vengeance and nearby enemy heroes get damage and slowed for a short duration.
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Ardan can also cast this ability on himself but doesn't gain as much barrier, movement speed boost or Vengeance. An early
Dragonheart will make this barrier bigger for you and your team and will also make you tankier. As an only defense item with a lot of positive effect, it is very usefull and you can concentrate on more damage after that.|
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Ardans second ability
Blood for Blood makes him such a great weapon power carry for the jungle.
Ardan immediately leaps forward and deals basic attack damage to the targeted enemy. This ability can only be used when the Vengeance bar is full and it will consume all. On overdrive this ability deals another 25% more damage so I recommend leveling this ability whenever you can!
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Minion's Foot will nearly guarantee that the next fight will be won. Use it to stay ahead of your oponent jungler and try to steal as much farm as you can.
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Ardans ultimate
Gauntlet makes him a great support as well as carry for your team.
Ardan charges in the air for a short duration and drops an arena to the targeted location. Every enemy who tries to pass the arena gets crystal power damage and is stunned for a short time. BUT enemies can
 Reflex Block to get outside of it without getting stunned.
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Reflex Block yet they are trapped and always in melee range of your attacks. If they can't stay on range you will kill them very quickly, if you use the right combo (look at the section "Early Game" for the combos). But keep in mind that if you leave this area it will disappear, making enemies able to walk freely again. Sometimes you should sacrifice yourself if you can't win the teamfight. That way you save your allies and maybee keep your enemies off pushing important objectives such like Kraken or turrets. Blood for Blood on your wished target. This gives even more burst to this burst weapon power jungle ardan build. Using a
Blood for Blood on level 8 with already a
Sorrowblade in your pocket will definitely hurt a lot!
Blood for Blood > AA
Vanguard > AA
Ardans early game is very important if you play rhe aggressive build like I do. Try to invade as much as you can (if the enemy jungle comb allows to) and get an early advantage by taking some farm away.
Ardans burst potential on early levels just with some weapon power items is insanely strong. If you didn't try it so far you should definitely try it out in your next game and you will be surprised! Now lets get to some basic combos which makes weapon power Ardan such a strong burst hero:You can already start using the combo at level 2 which normally will deal like at least 75% of the enemies health. Try to get in melee range of your target first and use a normal auto attack. Immediately use your A ability Vanguard which will cause a slow, small Vengeance boost and an auto attack reset. So after this just auto attack another time and use your B ability
Blood for Blood right afterwards. This ability is also an auto attack reset so you will be able to deal another auto attack! This combo takes like 2 seconds max if you use it correctly and will melt all your targets health bars to nearly 0. Dont switch targets if you use this combo and try to get a quick kill to cause a 2 vs 1 or 3 vs 2 situation as fast as you can. The more attack speed you buy, the faster this combo can be used and the faster you can use more
Blood for Bloods but this combo combined with a
Sorrowblade should be enough damage to finish of a lot of targets in the early game.
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Shiversteel will also help you to make sure your enemies can't flee from your melee range. Buy it if you feel that your combo is not strong enough to kill them anymore. Also always consider buying a
Reflex Block if the enemies team is full of stuns to make sure you get your combo out before they can interrupt you.
In the mid game you should at least have 1 completed damage item as well as starting your second one or having a completed
Shiversteel. Also remind yourself that you may need to upgrade your
 Sprint Boots to rotate faster and collect farm as well. Boots will also help you to finish of target who survive your comboattacks! Else there is not much of a difference between the early game and the mid game. Just get as much farm as you can and also help your laner or gank the enemies laner sometimes if you can. This will help you to snowball a game into your direction and win it for your team as a carry supporter.
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If you did everything right and snowballed the game it should not be longer than 16 minutes with a Kraken finish if you weren't able to close out the game earlier. With a
Sorrowblade and
Tyrant's Monocle your damage should be enough so if you have those 2 with some attack speed you can consider building defense like
Aegis or
 Atlas Pauldron to survive longer in teamfights and help your team.
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Weapon carry
Ardan is a great pick for the draft mode. It allows you to steal away one or two good supports and also always adds the momentum of surprise to your draft. Ememies won't know that you play carry
Ardan until you pick a second support! Use this to your advantage which makes drafts you may lose to good drafts again.
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Ardan is definitely
Fortress. His burst potential with his B ability combined with
Ardans combo will burst down enemies even faster! You could also consider playing it with other supports but using this combo the best is surely only with
Fortress. Also
Lance is a good support, because he is tanky and very annoying thanks to his abilities.
Krul or
Reim! They may survive your combo and heal up again or survive too long with barriers to defeat you in the long run.
Ardan carry would be the best pick if your opponent team has squishy carries like for example
Taka or
Celeste. Try it out yourself and you might be surprised how much potential was hidden in a normal supporter! As always we want to thank you for reading and stay tuned for our next guide coming weakly!
WP Jungle Lance
CP Jungle Reim
WP Blackfeather ; CP Lane Blackfeather
WP Jungle Alpha ; Terminator Alpha CP
Jungle CP Petal
Bloody Crit Rona
Armorshredder Krul
Crit Queen Joule
Dirty Paws Burst Glaive
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