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Hercules Buck

Against the Grain

By Jacob Russell

Another month of Paladins Community Magazine brings us another addition to this article

series. With Legendary cards joining The Realm, we have another way that we can show the

meta who’s boss. In case you didn’t know, there are three options for your legendary card,

but I assure you that that is all I need in order to spice things up. After the three previous is-

sues of the magazine, we have one role to go Against the Grain with, FLANKERS! I know that

you’re probably tired of having people instalock Skye and Maeve, but now you have a good

reason to instalock a flank with this “Hercules” Buck loadout. You might wonder how this

loadout got its name, so here we go. Hercules is the Champion of Rome that is also a god in

SMITE that is known to be hard to kill because of his high self-sustain. The goal of this load-

out is to take a squishy flanker and make him something like this. Simply put, they needed

to use that many ults to get my boy Hercules to take a spill. Want Buck to be like that? Read

below to make your dreams come true!

“Most Popular” Buck Wrong! Seismic Wave IV reduces the

This “Most Popular” loadout is commonly cooldown of Heroic Leap by 2s, meaning that

used with the Bounce House legendary, in one second you can already jump again.

which essentially makes a Buck a frog You’re obviously jumping a lot, right? Why not

on steroids. Heroic Leap gains a charge, make the jump even better!?!?! Leg Day IV

meaning that Buck gets to jump every 3 and Exhilarate II are there to help with that,

seconds. You thought we were done there? as they make you jump 20% further and heal
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