Arena of Valor (AoV) - Diao Chan Item Builds

Diao Chan Item Builds Guide for Arena of Valor (AoV). Each build is geared toward a different play style, so choose one that fits your personal preference.


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Core Items

These items are necessary in order to play Diao Chan optimally. Only diverge from a core item if you are a very experienced player and/or you have a very good reason for doing so.

Arena of Valor Frosty's RevengeFrosty’s Revenge While the item might seem a bit redundant, Frosty’s Revenge stacks with the natural slows of Diao Chan’s abilities to dramatically restrict tagged enemies. It additionally gives a small boost to movement speed, something that Diao Chan otherwise lacks.
Arena of Valor Holy of HoliesHoly of Holies Not only offering an immense amount of ability power, Holy of Holies provides the holder with a large HP boost as well. This will both increase the impact of Diao Chan’s spells and keep her up longer in fights.

Optional Items

Offensive Item Choices

Arena of Valor Orb of the MagiOrb of the Magi A great starting item for most mages, Orb of the Magi helps its wielder stay in lane while also providing increasing amounts of ability power and health as time passes. The cooldown speed it offers is a good addition, helping Diao Chan throw out spells at an increased pace.
Arena of Valor Hecate's DiademHecate’s Diadem Offering the highest ability power potential for a single item, Hecate’s Diadem is a given for mages. The extra damage will really help Diao Chan soften up targets caught in her spells.
Arena of Valor BoomstickBoomstick Boomstick’s high ability power and explosive passive make it a great way to increase a mage’s damage output. Diao Chan can use this to play more like a nuker than a supporting mage.
Arena of Valor Rhea's BlessingRhea’s Blessing Should the battle not be the team’s favor, Rhea’s Blessing can grant protect Diao Chan by granting a shield so that she can escape. The built in magic lifesteal is a nice addition, giving her an additional source of sustaining her health.

Boots Upgrade

Arena of Valor Flashy BootsFlashy Boots Flashy Boots is a great way to keep her abilities regularly up and ready for controlling the enemies. Keep an eye on your other sources of cooldown speed, however, as it doesn’t take too much to hit the 40% cap.
Arena of Valor Enchanted KicksEnchanted Kicks Enchanted Kicks is an offensive boots choice, helping the wearer’s spells pierce through the enemy’s defences. These are great if you are already well equipped with cooldown reduction or if the enemies are tougher than most.
Arena of Valor Gilded GreavesGilded Greaves Gilded Greaves is a purely defensive choice, granting magic defense and resistance. The resistance is especially useful when facing enemy teams with a lot of control abilities at their disposal.

Active Items

Arena of Valor Berith's Agony
Arctic Orb
Diao Chan can greatly increase her survivability with Arctic Orb since she has no escape abilities and her control abilities are unreliable and requires precision. Do take note that using Arctic Orb while channeling her ultimate cancels the ability, so take caution.

Sample Item Builds

Here we make our main goal to push up Diao Chan’s damage potential. Her abilities scale relatively well, her ultimate in particular able to deal out large amounts of damage to those caught within. We stray from complete ability power focus with Frosty’s Revenge, the extra slow too good to pass up on.

This build shortens Diao Chan’s cooldowns as much as possible so that she can throw out as many abilities as possible in fights. While they won’t hit as hard as they would in a damage focused build, the slows that she will provide will make up for the lost damage. Enemies will be unable to escape from her once hit and thereby will be left vulnerable to her allies’ damage

Here Diao Chan forgoes damage almost completely, instead building up items to set enemies up for her allies to pounce on. This is a rather durable build in comparison to some of the others, many of the items offering health or other defensive benefits. One notable addition is Soaring Aura, it’s slashing of magic defense both aiding allies and Diao Chan herself. The aura is a perfect fit for her aural ultimate.

Let me explain why I don’t use the following items

Rhea’s Blessing
The shield can sometimes save you, but usually it will only delay your death. If the enemies jump at you, you are probably dead anyway. Lifesteal is too small for be efficient.

Frosty’s Revenge
Not a bad item, but the other items above are better when using Diaochan for DPS. I use 10% movement speed arcana making her quite fast, so I don’t use the 5% speed Frosty gives. Also, my speed lets me run after enemies and slow them with ability 1 and 2.

Enchanted Kicks
Soaring Aura take care of the Magic Defense. And the 15% cooldown from Flashy Boots let me use my abilities more often, which makes me deal more damage over time.

Arcana I use:

Movement Speed: 10% (Full Guerilla)
Attack Speed: 10% (Full Guerilla)
Cooldown Speed: 10% (Full Focus)
Abilitypower: 42 (Full Violate)
Magic Pierce: 24 (Full Violete)

OldFog made my job easy, justifying their decisions and explaining their reasoning along the way. Take notes friends, this is how you get noticed quickly. This looks to be a rather damage centric build that relies on rapidly casting abilities to disable foes rather than on adding any additional utility to the abilities themselves. A perfectly sound strategy with Diao Chan, whose abilities already are very capable of locking enemies down.

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Have a build you want to share? Think you have a build that’s better than what we have listed? Put it in the comments, along with any (optional) explanations for how it works. If we like it, we’ll include it in our sample builds section – just let us know what name you want us to refer you as. For example: “ALG Rest’s Super Duper Support Build.” Feel free to include any social media accounts you want us to link to.
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  1. Wise x10 (5.3 AP)
    Devour x10 (2.4 AP, 1% Magic Life Steal)
    Focus x10 (1% Cooldown Speed)

    Flashy Boots (for the CD increase- its srsly effective)
    Boomstick (the unique passive is great, but it’s the 5% movement speed for me)
    Hecates Diadem (Duh)
    Staff of Nuul (since frozen enemies take extra damage and are no problemo, I focus on being able to damage tanks so squishies can’t hide behind them)
    Frostys Revenge (The passive stacks with Diachans first skill: 50% slow for 2 sec > 70% for 2 sec, and surprise! 5% movement speed)
    Holy of Holies (400 AP is a huge reason to build this item, but the extra HP is the icing on top)

  2. I like I build her with:
    Berith’s Agony
    Sorcerers Shoes (magic pen)
    Hecate’s Diadem
    Frost guard (armor/magic pen in one)
    Soaring Aura
    Rhea’s Blessing (I use sap arcana)

    Then, sell boots for the Aegis.
    I use this build against Quillen, Wukong, Errol, and other AD based teams who have an assassin AD jungle player.

    She becomes so hard to kill, that when the entire enemy team jumps on me I survive long enough to freeze clumps of enemies and kill 3-5 at a time (as the Aegis and Frost guard will slow their movement speed) you don’t have to use ability one first, just ability two Diamond Dust and then follow up with ability one, then immediately going into her ultimate where she gains 300 armor.

    *Keep in mind that this build will not work against a strong AP carry unless you focus Diamond Dust on them and take AD hits while killing that enemy mage*
    I find that I don’t have many matches as Diaochan where there’s an abundance of magical damage that I cannot avoid already with the use of her passive shield or freeze.

  3. I always heart attacked when I meet asassin! Of course Diaochan is not a tanky mage like gildur. So, I use Indomitable Full arcana for that, and use This build:

    Orb of magi
    Sonic boots (psycal def)
    Berith’s Agony (psycal def)
    Boomstick
    Apocalipse
    Helicate’s Diadem

    And voila! Diaochan have more time to escape from crazy asassin! (because item sonic boots and Berith’s Agony)

    Another tips:
    If Majority of ur enemy is not mage (using 1 mage) this build is good for this situation.
    If ur enemy using 2 mages u can replace sonic boots to Gilded Greaves.
    Use Sprint talent, this is good for escape and help ur ally on time 🙂

  4. if you want to use any mages I recomended to use arcana that boost your magic&phy defense then your magic power and cooldown….you see pure mage depend on their ability so when you have secure those above you can focus on the items of demage.

  5. After 700 battles with Diaochan, I have figured out a very good DPS build for her, all items are in descending order:

    Orb of the Magi – +260 AP when fully stacked. 10% CD, 1100 HP and Lvl up feature.

    Flashy Boots – 15% Cooldown
    Boomstick – +240 AP and Explosion Passive based on AP deals more damage.
    Hecate’s Diadem – +240 AP and +25% AP.
    Soaring Aura – Adds HP to Diaochan, AP +140 AND reduce Magic Defense around her.
    Holy of Holies – Adds HP and +400 AP.

    Let me explain why I don’t use the following items

    Rhea’s Blessing
    The shield can sometimes save you, but usually it will only delay your death. If the enemies jump at you, you are probably dead anyway. Lifesteal is too small for be efficient.

    Frosty’s Revenge
    Not a bad item, but the other items above are better when using Diaochan for DPS. I use 10% movement speed arcana making her quite fast, so I don’t use the 5% speed Frosty gives. Also, my speed lets me run after enemies and slow them with ability 1 and 2.

    Enchanted Kicks
    Soaring Aura take care of the Magic Defense. And the 15% cooldown from Flashy Boots let me use my abilities more often, which makes me deal more damage over time.

    Arcana I use:

    Movement Speed: 10% (Full Guerilla)
    Attack Speed: 10% (Full Guerilla)
    Cooldown Speed: 10% (Full Focus)
    Abilitypower: 42 (Full Violate)
    Magic Pierce: 24 (Full Violete)

  6. Ancestral Glory
    orb of the magic
    Hecate’s diadem
    Boomstick
    Flashys boots i use. Ancestral glory can possibly help you whole team put of hard situations
    You got down and rescue Freez them and kill whit special if time.
    Flash boots helps you escape whit ancestral glory.

  7. Ancestral Glory
    orb of the magic
    Hecate’s diadem
    Boomstick
    Flashys boots
    Frosty revenge
    I use.
    Ancestral Glory help battle alot also it can help ur allies
    If you get down and others team mates are low heal you could possibly save them to freez and special if get time.
    Flashy boots helps escape in ancestral glory