Honor of Kings Shangguan build guide: Best equipment, Arcanas, Battle Spell, and skill combo

While creating a robust Shangguan build in Honor of Kings, players must boost the hero's damage, cooldown reduction, and survivability. Shangguan is a Mage/Assassin class hero who plays in the Mid Lane. She is a very hard-to-play character who is highly dependent on the Azure Golem. Slaying the Azure Golem grants her cooldown reduction and extra Mana, allowing her to use her skills more frequently.

This article takes a look at a Shangguan build in Honor of Kings that players may want to use.

Note: Some parts of this article reflects the writer's opinion.

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Honor of Kings Shangguan build guide: Best equipment

Best equipment for Shangguan (Image via Level Infinite)

Here are the Honor of Kings equipment players can use for this Shangguan build:

• Boots of Tranquility: This provides Shangguan with a 15% Cooldown Reduction and 60 Movement Speed. Additionally, it reduces the Cooldown period of her Basic Skills by 15%.
• Scepter of Reverberation: Shangguan gets 240 Magical Attack and 7% Movement Speed with Scepter of Reverberation. An explosion is triggered when her skills hit. The explosion deals 120 (+40% Magical Attack) Magical damage.
• Mask of Agony: This gives Shangguan 5% Cooldown Reduction, 120 Magical Attack, and 800 Max Health. Additionally, her skill deals extra magical damage equal to 3% of her current Health four times over three seconds.
• Savant's Wrath: Savant’s Wrath grants Shangguan 240 Magical Attack and increases her Magical Attack by 30%.
• Void Staff: This grants Shangguan 240 Magical Attack, 500 Max Health, and 45% Magical Pierce.
• Splendor: This HoK equipment gives Shangguan 160 Magical Attack and 10% Cooldown Reduction. When activated, it grants immunity to all effects but makes her immovable, unable to use skills, or attack for 1.5 seconds.

Players can also use the Insatiable Tome instead of Splendor to increase Shangguan's max Health by 1,000, Magical Attack by 180, and Cooldown Reduction by 10%. She also gets a 25% Magical Lifesteal when equipped with Insatiable Tome.

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Honor of Kings Shangguan build guide: Best Arcanas

Best Arcanas for Shangguan (Image via Level Infinite)

Honor of Kings players can use the Arcanas listed below for this Shangguan build:

• Nightmare ✕ 10: Nightmare boosts Shangguan’s Magical Attack and Magical Pierce.
• Mind’s Eye ✕ 10: Mind’s Eye increases her Attack Speed and Magical Peirce, boosting her damage.
• Avarice ✕ 10: Avarice grants her Magical Lifesteal, ensuring her survivability.

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Honor of Kings Shangguan build guide: Best Battle Spell

Purify is the best spell for Shangguan (Image via Level Infinite)

Flash and Purify are the best Battle Spells for this Shangguan build in Honor of Kings. Beginners can use Flash to escape sticky situations that they may encounter due to Shangguan's squishy nature.

Purify, on the other hand, removes all crowd control effects and debuffs from Shangguan. It also grants her crowd-control immunity for 1.5 seconds.

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Honor of Kings Shangguan build guide: Best skill combo

Best skill combo for Shangguan (Image via Level Infinite)

Here is the best skill combo for this Shangguan build in Honor of Kings:

Seething Script (Skill 2) > Finishing Stroke (Ultimate Skill) > Finishing Stroke (Ultimate Skill) > Ink Burst (Skill 1) > Finishing Stroke (Ultimate Skill) > Finishing Stroke (Ultimate Skill) > Finishing Stroke (Ultimate Skill)

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Honor of Kings Shangguan build guide: Skills explanation and skills-upgrading priority

Shangguan's Ultimate skill (Image via Level Infinite)

Here are Shangguan’s skills:

• Piercing Brush (Passive Skill): This enhances every third Basic Attack, dealing an additional 300 (+40% Magical Attack) Magical damage to enemies in a line. If Shangguan's brush strokes intersect, nearby enemies receive 300 (+40% Magical Attack) Magical Damage. The damage will be reduced by 50% for subsequent hits within one second. It also recovers 100 (+22% Magical Attack) Health and gains an enhanced Basic Attack when she is near intersecting brush strokes.
• Ink Burst (Skill 1): Shangguan launches a powerful bolt of ink in a direction, dealing 200 (+40% Magical Attack) Magical Damage to enemies. When it reaches the end of its range, the ink explodes, dealing 200 (+40% Magical Attack) Magical Damage to nearby enemies.
• Seething Script (Skill 2): Shangguan chooses a spot, making her current location the finishing point, and starts writing. The moment she starts writing, she deals 150 (+20% Magical Attack) Magical Damage. The enemies touched by her brush strokes take 300 (+40% Magical Attack) Magical Damage. They are also slowed by 50% for 2 seconds. This skill can store brush strokes every 10 seconds (up to 2 strokes).
• Finishing Stroke (Ultimate Skill): Shangguan dashes with her brush, dealing 300 (+24% Magical Attack) Magical Damage to enemies in her path. If she hits an enemy or ink from another active skill, she can dash again in any direction within three seconds. She will jump into the air if she dashes three to five times. While elevated, she becomes untargetable, removes all crowd-control effects, and continuously attacks nearby enemies, dealing 600 (+45% Magical Attack) Magical Damage. The number of attacks is based on the number of dashes she performs. Shangguan performs 4/7/10 attacks if she dashes three/four/five times. If she attacks the same target multiple times, subsequent hits deal only 25% damage. She can attack and use skills between dashes. If she gets interrupted, the skill’s cooldown is reduced by 80% to 20%, depending on the number of dashes performed.

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Honor of Kings players can upgrade Shangguan's skills in this order until she reaches level 5 for this Shangguan build: Ink Burst (Skill 1) > Seething Script (Skill 2) > Ink Burst (Skill 1) > Finishing Stroke (Ultimate Skill) > Ink Burst (Skill 1).

Note that one must never engage in fights when met with several enemies. Shangguan needs help from her teammates to defeat multiple opponents. However, she is one of the most effective Honor of Kings heroes for 1v1 fights or solo laning.