TABLE OF CONTENTS
-Welcome Note
-Introduction
-Build Style Explanations
/= Captain, Supporting
/= Weapon, Carry
/= Crystal, Carry , Fighting
/= Crystal, Carry , Nuking
/= Blitz, Weapon
/= Blitz, Crystal, Fighting
/= Blitz, Crystal, Nuking
-Tips and Tricks
-Friends and Foes
-Extras
-Conclusion

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Here's there overview of Adagio

Pros:
-Excellent healer when you have a large amount of health
-Gift of Fire + Agent of Wrath + Weapon Power = Truck coming through
-Ulti with Crystal Power = 1v3

Cons:
-When playing as a Captain, low damage output.
-Easily countered with silence (No heal No Ult No items)
- Slumbering Husk can counter ult


Weapon or Crystal?

Choose weapon if:
-You prefer auto attacking
-You can't land Heal + Ult together
-Enemy has tanky heroes ( Lance/ Blackfeather) and you cannot deal enough damage with you ult.
-Enemy has high attack speed and can take you down before you can cast ult in time. ( SAW/ Ringo

Choose crystal, Fighting if:
- Your teammate is playing weapon, but you still cant land heal + ult
- You have a love for fighting with normal attacks
- Weapon is not your type

Choose Crystal, Nuking if:
-You are quite certain you can land ult (or else it would be a waste)
-Enemies have squishy heroes ( Kestrel/ Celeste/ Petal)
-You don't like chasing people

Pros of:
Weapon:
-Hit like a truck with ability A+B
-Make enemies scared when you are nearby
Crystal:
-Reduce enemies health by 60-70% in 2 seconds
-Better heal amount compared to Weapon

Cons of:
Weapon:
-After 0.7s, you will have a hard time chasing people. (No more slow from Gift of Fire)
-Easily countered with Atlas Pauldron, No attack speed = no damage. ( Reflex Block) can cancel the effect.
-If you are not farmed well, after you use up the 5/7 attacks from Agent of Wrath, you have no damage.
Crystal:
-Stun will cancel you from casting ulti
-2 seconds is more than enough time for your enemies to run out of the ring.
- Slumbering Husk helps enemy not take damage from your ult.
-Fast attacking enemies can potentially take you down before you can finish channeling you ult.

Everyone instapicks carry/jungle, you have no choice but to play as a support hero....

In order to be able to keep your team alive, you will need a lot of health, to tank as well as buff up your healing amount. 10% x average of 1k bonus health = up to 400 hp healed.
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SKILLS
-Since we are trying to keep our team alive, we therefore choose to max our heal as early as possible. (duh)
-You can also choose to take extra levels in Agent of Wrath if your teammates cant deal enough damage.

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ITEMS

Starting Items:
-Either you start off with a Ironguard Contract to give yourself more health, or defense in order to buy more potions/traps to prevent ganks. I suggest you buy a trap and a potion as your heal should be able to keep you alive. Don't worry about your mana, as it will be recuperated when you attack enemies affected by Gift of Fire.

Early Game:
-Get a crucible first, too boost your amount of health. I wouldn't suggest getting fountain first as you have Gift of Fire as a heal. You should prioritze increasing your hp value as much as possible to increase heal value from Gift of Fire. You can buy the fountain later.

Mid-Game:
-If your heal from Gift of Fire is working well, you can choose to skip Fountain of Renewal, and go straight for a Stormcrown to increase your cooldown speed of your heal as well as provide you some extra damage.
-Buy a contraption as well to further increase your cooldown speed and also to use for vision to set up/prevent ganks.

Late Game:
-Buy an Atlas Pauldron if your teammates are constantly being harassed by enemies using weapon power.If not, you can choose to buy Metal Jacket to tank.
-War treads to further boost your health, also to help with chasing/fleeing

Weapon or Crystal infusion?
-Choose Weapon if you prefer attacking
-Choose Crystal if you prefer using your ult


=SIDE NOTE=
-If you choose to not go for fountain, you can then buy an Aegis instead. Fountain is still recommended over Aegis as it is used as a backup if you do not have enough Mana for Gift of Fire.

-If you do not need shields, you can either choose Sorrowblade/Shatterglass to increase damage for attack/skill

-Don't need the damage but want to be more Tanky? Try Slumbering Husk

-Enemy fountain passing you off? Gauntlet!

So the nice guy has decided to play Captain.

Your team needs a carry (you can go jungle with this build as well). You feel that adagio is your best bet. However your teammate is playing crystal and you have no idea how to play weapon? then you can follow this build.

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-SKILLS[/]

Since we are playing weapon, we focus on our attacks.
As such, i suggest you opt for Agent of Wrath so as to maximize your damage output.
It is also possible to go for Gift of Fire first, if you feel that you need the extra health to stay alive and deal enough damage (your captain should be helping you with this)

You can choose to skip your ult and go heal instead since there is no weapon ratio for Verse of Judgement. However i still suggest you add points into this skill as a source of backup damage/ stun to land hits on enemies.

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=ITEMS=

STARTING ITEMS:
As a weapon carry/jungle you want to deal as much damage as you possibly can. Thus, start with 2 weapon blades.
Halcyon Potion as backup in case you need health and heal is down.

EARLY GAME:
- Sorrowblade for more damage
- Sprint Boots to chase

Mid-Game:

At this point in time, you need to make a decision.
1.Do you want more attack speed?
OR
2.Do you want more damage?

If you choose the first option, then go for Tornado Trigger and Breaking Point.
If you choose the second option, buy Tyrant Monocle first then a Tornado Trigger

Reflex Block is optional if there are no stunners/nukers from enemy team.

LATE GAME:

Buy the Aegis if you need to, or else buy a Bonesaw if you can't do enough damage or a Tornado Trigger if you can't take down enemies fast enough.

=SIDE NOTES=

-If you are that keen on hitting enemies hard, then you can buy a Tension Bow. With this, use gift of fire and affect an enemy, then follow up with Agent of Wrath before using your attack. This should deal quite a big amount of damage to them.

-If enemies keep running away and the 0.7s slow from Gift of Fire is not enough, you can choose to buy a Frostburn to slow them even further.

Because someone else is playing weapon but attacking is your fav, you can then choose to play Crystal, Fighting and show your enemies/team weapon power player who the real boss is here.

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-SKILLS-

In order to deal damage, we need Agent of Wrath, as such we choose to skill it first.

In this build, try not to skip ulti for Gift of Fire as the Crystal items we buy increases damage for our ult.

>ITEMS<

Start off with 2 Crystal Bits for more damage from heal so as to be able to get last hits.
If you feel that you might run out of mana, you can buy a battery instead.
If you want to get your A.C faster, you can buy a swift shooter also.

-Early Game-:

Alternating Current for damage from normal attacks

Sprint Boots in order to chase

-Mid Game-:

Buy a Frostburn so as to slow enemies to get hits on them.

Buy a Shatterglass to deal more damage.

-Late game-

At this point you should more or less have enough damage, so you can either choose a Clockwork to be able to use Agent of Wrath more or a Tornado Trigger if you can't get hits fast enough.

Aegis is optional if your enemies can't deal enough damage to you. If you don't buy it, you can then buy both Clockwork and Tornado Trigger.

=SIDE NOTE=
No notes.

This build focuses more on using Verse of Judgement, and should be applied if enemies are squishy/ have no stuns.

= SKILLS =

Taking Gift of Fire over Agent of Wrath since we have no damage.

>ITEMS<

-Start off with 2 Crystal Bits to maximize damage from Gift of Fire,as well as the crystal ratio heal.

# EARLY GAME #

Buy Shatterglass for more damage
Buy Hourglass so as to increase cd speed and reduce cool down of ulti.

#MIDGAME#

Buy Clockwork to further increase cool down speed.

Frostburn is to ensure that enemies don't run out of the radius of Verse of Judgement.

*LATE GAME*

Broken Myth to help deal more damage
Aegis is NECESSARY here to prevent getting stunned. Can be skipped if enemies have no stunner.

=SIDE NOTE=

You can choose to buy a broken myth first, but this sacrifices cool down speed which means that you don't get to use ulti that often.

Same choices as playing Carry weapon.

Starting Items:

Choose Sorrowblade & Tornado Trigger if you want to hit hard and fast

Choose Sorrowblade & Breaking Point for a slightly harder attack with lesser speed.

Choose Tornado Trigger & Tyrant Monocle for more critical chances, although this causes you to have lesser base damage.

Choose Sorrowblade & Tyrant Monocle if you really want to hit HARD.

Aegis optional.

Same concept as Carry Crystal fighting build.

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Choose Alternating Current & Shatterglass for higher damage

Choose Alternating Current & Frostburn to prevent enemies from escaping.

Choose Alternate Start 2 to be able to deal damage with ult as well.

(The rest is more or less self explanatory)

This is a little more complicated due to the 6k gold available.

Choose 2 Shatterglass for pure nuke

Choose Shatterglass & Clockwork to be able to use ulti more often

Choose Clockwork & Broken Myth to be able to deal more damage in case enemies buy shield early on and to get lower cool down time.

Choose Shatterglass & Frostburn to be able to keep enemies inside the radius of your ulti. Use Gift of Fire to slow them down.

Choose Frostburn & Broken Myth to keep people in your ulti as well as to deal damage to shield buyers.

Choose Frostburn & Clockwork to keep people in as well as for lower cooldown.

Don't be afraid to heal! especially if enemies are nearby, you will get mana back. Your teammates will also appreciate it. [Note that the 70% slow only works if you use heal on yourself]

-Gain mana whenever you can. You never know when that missing mana might cause you to not be able to cast another heal.

-Always give damage to yourself/teammates. Heal your creeps to be able to affect enemies with Gift of Fire so you can deal more damage to them with Agent of Wrath.

-When playing Fighting Carry, don't be afraid to hit. Adagio has quite a big attack range!

-When playing as a nuker. Try to fight in groups of 3. This will help you to use and position your ulti properly.

Friends



Phinn can help you by hooking and grouping enemies together, to assist you in setting up your ultimate.



Ardan ult = no escape for enemies = ez Verse of Judgement placement.



He has an attack speed buff, give him Agent of Wrath and you can watch your enemies melt.

Foes



Can attack/stun you from far, prevent you from using ult/ supporting your teammates.



Stun as well. Also has heal from Three Ring Circus to stay alive.



Long range ult stun.

(Use a reflex block for these stunners)

Lookin for a Battle Royale Build? just follow the carry/Blitz builds. Only your item progression is different. But the playstyle is the same!

Playing as Captain in blitz? follow the captain, support build. You only get items faster.

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