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Ascendant - a Mulan Solo Lane Guide [Patch 7.9]

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8.9
by Soululu updated October 9, 2020

Smite God: Mulan

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Mulan Build

Initial Build

Build Item Warrior's Blessing Warrior's Blessing
Build Item Chalice of Healing Chalice of Healing
Build Item Multi Potion Multi Potion
4
Build Item Teleport Fragment Teleport Fragment

First Back

Notes Always go Warrior Tabi, Mulan has an excellent early game for establishing pressure, and more power helps you abuse it. If you are constantly brawling, get two more multi-potions, but wards are almost always better here.

Notes

Always go Warrior Tabi, Mulan has an excellent early game for establishing pressure, and more power helps you abuse it. If you are constantly brawling, get two more multi-potions, but wards are almost always better here.

Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi
Build Item Ward Ward
2
Build Item Multi Potion Multi Potion
2

Full Build example (vs. Physical)

Notes Sell boots for an all-around defense item, such as Mantle, Spirits Robe, or Gauntlet of Thebes.

Notes

Sell boots for an all-around defense item, such as Mantle, Spirits Robe, or Gauntlet of Thebes.

Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi
Build Item Breastplate of Valor Breastplate of Valor
Build Item The Sledge The Sledge
Build Item Oni Hunter's Garb Oni Hunter's Garb
Build Item Gladiator's Shield Gladiator's Shield
Build Item Brawler's Beat Stick Brawler's Beat Stick
Build Item Mantle of Discord Mantle of Discord

Full Build example (vs. Magical)

Notes If you are more on the offensive, I would suggest Runic Shield, but if you are against a Guardian and not fighting as much, Stone of Gaia may prove to be a better option.

Notes

If you are more on the offensive, I would suggest Runic Shield, but if you are against a Guardian and not fighting as much, Stone of Gaia may prove to be a better option.

Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi
Build Item Runic Shield Runic Shield
Build Item The Sledge The Sledge
Build Item Void Shield Void Shield
Build Item Oni Hunter's Garb Oni Hunter's Garb
Build Item Gladiator's Shield Gladiator's Shield
Build Item Brawler's Beat Stick Brawler's Beat Stick

Anti-heal

Notes All of Mulan's abilities deal damage, and are excellent for applying Brawler's anti-heal passive, so I believe it is the superior option.

Notes

All of Mulan's abilities deal damage, and are excellent for applying Brawler's anti-heal passive, so I believe it is the superior option.

Build Item Brawler's Beat Stick Brawler's Beat Stick
Build Item Pestilence Pestilence
Build Item Contagion Contagion

Mulan's Skill Order

Cross Strike

1 X Y
Cross Strike
2 8 11 12 14

Spear Thrust

2 A B
Spear Thrust
1 3 6 7 10

Grapple

3 B A
Grapple
4 15 16 18 19

Divine Mastery

4 Y X
Divine Mastery
5 9 13 17 20
Cross Strike
2 8 11 12 14

Cross Strike

1 X
Mulan swings her sword with precision, striking twice and dealing damage to all enemies hit.

Skilled – Mulan gains an Attack Speed increase after using this ability.
Adept – Mulan strikes a third time in a large cone in front of her.
Mastered – Mulan gains 10% Attack Speed.

Ability Type: Area, Buff, Damage
Damage per Hit: 75 / 95 / 115 / 135 / 155 (+30% of your Physical Power)
Attack Speed: 25%
Duration: 6s
Range: 25
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12s
Spear Thrust
1 3 6 7 10

Spear Thrust

2 A
Mulan brings forth her spear striking in front of her, dealing damage and slowing all enemies hit.

Skilled – Mulan heals for up to 3 enemies hit.
Adept – Mulan strikes a second time further in front of her, dealing bonus damage if she hits the same enemy.
Mastered – Mulan gains 5% Power.

Ability Type: Line, Slow, Damage
Damage per Hit: 90 / 125 / 160 / 195 / 230 (+35% of your Physical Power)
Slow: 30%
Duration: 3s
Heal: 12 / 23 / 34 / 45 / 56
Bonus Damage: 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 (+10% of your Physical Power)
Range: 25
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 14s
Grapple
4 15 16 18 19

Grapple

3 B
Mulan readies herself and fires an arrow with a rope attached to it. If she hits an enemy god she stuns them, dealing damage and pulling them towards her while dashing and hitting them again for extra damage.

Skilled – Mulan gains a Protection buff after hitting an enemy god.
Adept – Mulan is able to dash to walls.
Mastered – Mulan gains 5% Movement Speed and 5% Protections.

Ability Type: Line, Stun, Damage
Arrow Damage: 90 / 135 / 180 / 225 / 270 (+50% of your Physical Power)
Stun Duration: 1s
Bonus Damage: 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 (+20% of your Physical Power)
Protection Increase: 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45
Duration: 6s
Range: 60
Cost: 60
Cooldown: 16 / 15.5 / 15 / 14.5 / 14s
Divine Mastery
5 9 13 17 20

Divine Mastery

4 Y
Mulan brings forth her entire arsenal dashing forwards with sword slashes, dealing damage and rooting enemies for 1s, then Mulan uses her new divine energy to knock up enemies with her spear before firing a large projectile attack with her bow.

Dealing damage with any part of this ability gains Skill towards the weapon used. Mulan also gains Protections for the duration.

Ability Type: Area, Crowd Control, Damage
Sword Damage: 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 (+60% of your Physical Power)
Spear Damage: 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 / 260 (+40% of your Physical Power)
Arrow Damage: 175 / 225 / 275 / 325 / 375 (+60% of your Physical Power)
Protection Increase: 30%
Range: 65 / 65 / 85
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

Mulan Threats

Tap each threat level to view Mulan’s threats

Max
3
Major
1
Even
4
Minor
4
Tiny
0

Introduction


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Hello everyone, my name is Soul, and welcome to my guide for Mulan. Mulan excels at establishing lane pressure in the beginning levels with her high base damage and self-sustain. However, she can suffer from falling off late-game and her protections are on the lower end of the Warrior class.

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I did have some help whilst making this guide, credit and mentions go to:
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Branmuffin17 for formatting help throughout the guide.
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Vini_sds for his collaborative Mulan opinions and matchup knowledge.

♡ Be sure to check them out ♡

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About Mulan

Stats (at level 20)
Offensive
Defensive
Other
  • Mana: 980 (+38)
  • Damage: 83 (+2.2) +100%
  • Range: 12 (+0)
  • Attack/sec: 1.2 (+1%)
  • Health: 2120 (+82)
  • Physical Prots: 78 (+3)
  • Magical Prots: 48 (+0.9)
  • Hp5: 23 (+0.7)
  • Mp5: 12.7 (+0.4)
  • Speed: 375 ()0)
Note: Numbers in parentheses are the amount gained at each level.
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Pros:
  • High fight potential
  • Good buff secure
  • Two forms of CC immunity
  • Good clear
  • Strong self-sustain
  • Strong early game
  • Above average CC
Cons:
  • Vulnerable while ulting
  • High mana costs
  • Poor late-game
  • Poor range
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Abilities & Leveling




Training Arc (Passive)

Mulan utilizes a Sword, Spear and Bow with her abilities and can gain Skill towards them by damaging enemy gods. Her expertise in each weapon provides different bonuses. Mulan also gains a buff every 10 seconds that reduces the cooldown of the next non-ultimate ability used by 2 seconds.

Sword Skill: 600, 2400, 6000 damage done
Spear Skill: 600, 2400, 6000 damage done
Bow Skill: 200, 500, 1200 damage done
Skill gain for Minions: 20%

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Mulan's passive is the most essential part of her kit to understand, as leveling up her skills and abilities will grant you access to added bonuses. While it can seem overwhelming at first, there are several tools at your disposal to help you. There is no numerical indicator that informs you what damage amount progress you've made on a skill, but there are two things you can use. The first is the passive meter above her god icon (with default HUD settings), it has images of a sword, spear, and bow that all have meters in them. The closer the meter is to the top, the closer you are to leveling it up. The second is the ability icon for the skill you are mastering. There are four different colors representing each level of the ability, and they change color based off of your progress. The first and initial color is a royal blue, then when it turns Skilled, it becomes a lighter blue. Next is Adept, which is orange, then last is Mastered, which is in between a bright orange and yellow. The passive can be stacked off of jungle camps, minions, and gods. Please note that minions only give you 20% of the damage dealt.
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Cross Strike

Mulan swings her sword with precision, striking twice and dealing damage to all enemies hit.

Skilled – Mulan gains an Attack Speed increase after using this ability.
Adept – Mulan strikes a third time in a large cone in front of her.
Mastered – Mulan gains 5% Attack Speed.

  • Damage per Hit: 75/95/115/135/155 (+30% of your physical power)
  • Attack Speed: 25%
  • Duration: 4s
  • Ability Type: Area
  • Radius: 25
  • Cooldown: 16/15/14/13/12 seconds
  • Cost: 60/65/70/75/80 mana

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This will be your main form of wave clear, but personally I advise against getting this ability at Level 1 in solo. However, if you are jungling, I would suggest getting this as your clear, and putting your points into it whenever possible. Becoming Adept with this ability grants access to the third strike, which increases your damage significantly. The attack speed boosts are also a small but helpful tool when clearing minion waves and jungle camps.
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Spear Thrust

Mulan brings forth her spear striking in front of her, dealing damage and slowing all enemies hit.

Skilled – Mulan heals for up to 3 enemies hit.
Adept – Mulan strikes a second time further in front of her, dealing bonus damage if she hits the same enemy.
Mastered – Mulan gains 5% Power.

  • Damage per Hit: 120/155/190/225/260 (+35% of your physical power)
  • Slow: 30%
  • Duration: 2s
  • Heal: 15/30/45/60/75 (+10% of your physical power)
  • Bonus Damage: 20/35/50/65/80 (+15% of your physical power)
  • Ability Type: Line
  • Range: 25
  • Cooldown: 14 seconds
  • Cost: 50/55/60/65/70 mana

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I would personally get this ability at Level 1 in solo, as well as max this ability first. It's more of a personal preference, but I think that having an early start to unlock the heal from this ability gives you so much more fighting potential in the laning phase. In Jungle however, I would suggest getting the 1 first because it does have a bit higher damage.
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Grapple

Mulan readies herself and fires an arrow with a rope attached to it. If she hits an enemy god she stuns them, dealing damage and pulling them towards her while dashing and hitting them again for extra damage.

Skilled – Mulan gains a Protection buff after hitting an enemy god.
Adept – Mulan is able to dash to walls.
Mastered – Mulan gains 5% Movement Speed.

  • Arrow Damage: 90/135/180/225/270 (+50% of your physical power)
  • Stun Duration: 0.8s
  • Bonus Damage: 40/50/60/70/80 (+20% of your physical power)
  • Protection Increase: 20/25/30/35/40
  • Duration: 4s
  • Ability Type: Projectile, Dash
  • Range: 60
  • Cooldown: 16 seconds
  • Cost: 60 mana

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Grapple should be leveled last, and only has one use in the laning phase, for bonus damage and as an interrupt tool to cancel out channeled abilities. This ability is a bit harder to hit than Armillary Sash as it has a tad of delay after casting, and it's something you get used to after playing. Much like Sobek's pluck, you can use this ability to give yourself CC immunity when grappling an enemy or towards a wall. While does grant CC immunity, it counts as a dash, so you can't use it while crippled.
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Divine Mastery

Mulan brings forth her entire arsenal dashing forwards with sword slashes, dealing damage and rooting enemies for 1s.
If she hits an enemy god during the dash, Mulan uses her new divine energy to knock up enemies with her spear before firing a large projectile attack with her bow.

Dealing damage with any part of this ability gains Skill towards the weapon used.

  • Sword Damage: 80/140/200/260/320 (+60% of your physical power)
  • Spear Damage: 100/140/180/220/260 (+40% of your physical power)
  • Arrow Damage: 150/200/250/300/350 (+60% of your physical power)
  • Ability Type: Dash, Line, Projectile
  • Range: 65, 65, 85
  • Cooldown: 100 seconds
  • Cost: 100 mana

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In the early game before you're stacked on cooldown reduction, this ability has a very high cooldown of 100 seconds, so you should play pretty conservatively with it. In solo lane, you should only use it really for finishing a kill, or using it to escape in the early game. With max CDR, it becomes a 60 second cooldown so you become more free to use it. The root is the most important part of the combo to hit, since you can't use the rest of the ultimate without hitting the initial strike. Don't be afraid to use this ability to escape since the dash has a pretty nice distance, but remember you can't cancel it.
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Understanding Passive Skills




All three of Mulan's basic abilities have four stages, with various effects and bonuses depending on how much skill you've acquired towards that weapon. It is very important to quickly gain as much progress towards her skills as fast as you can, as they grant you useful tools that help you in the laning phase, as well as teamfights.

Sword Skill:
The sword skill will be one of the easiest to progress on, since you use this ability quite often for wave clear, jungle clear, and fighting in lane. The biggest power spike of this ability is when you hit Adept, gaining access to the third cone strike.

Spear Skill:
This should be your first to level up, since you should be prioritizing this ability in solo lane. This ability has two solid power spikes, one being when you reach Skilled, gaining access to the heal from the ability. And the second being Adept, gaining access to the second strike.

Bow Skill:
This will be your most difficult skill to make progress on, since landing this ability consistently is harder compared to her other two abilities. As with the sword skill, Adept is once again the power spike to get to on this ability. Gaining the ability to grapple to walls and not needing to rely on having an enemy in close proximity is essential for maneuvering.

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1
Bighauss | December 27, 2020 1:26am
Been useing this for solo and joust and it works great
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Big Damage (37) | June 1, 2020 1:16pm
For solo, Oni Hunter's Garb and Ancile should definitely be situational pick ups for magical defence, much better than Heartward Amulet. Also I recommend considering a list of relics to pick up in the item builder somewhere so people know what the best pick up is at level 12.

One final note, Gladiator's Shield is too strong to not pick up with someone like Mulan so definitely consider Runic Shield, Gladiator's Shield then Reinforced Greaves or an alternative build path that suits you.
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vigilants | June 5, 2020 9:02pm
All the items you mentioned should be listed on the guide! It may be under the Solo build if the Jungle build is shpwing by default.
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Branmuffin17 (400) | May 28, 2020 5:01pm
Solid info contained herein. Definitely would like to see gameplay discussion at some point. Good work, Vig.
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