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May 8 2026 01:34pm
Great guide but the one thing that bigs me about it is it assumes you are able/willing to reskill your zon between duels. Thats fine for ladder duels if you want to burn a token each duel, but no one is doing that in pub games.


Yea, its a great guide for singular matchups, but i definitely want to build a more ZvA friendly build that covers “most” of my opponents.

Because if all else fails I can just make some minor adjustments on my hdin to make it a hdin vs all.

Generally i have been pub dueling with my java but being res stacked/sorbed is literally the first thing opponents do the moment they die once.
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May 8 2026 01:57pm
So do you use javs/ss on offhand switch so you can have max block against melee?


I have a variety of switches based on matchups

Wiz spike + SS vs casters that she physical dmg such as ele druid.

Wiz spike + Spirit vs casters that due magic or elemental dmg such as bone necros, sorc, hammerdin

Titans + SS vs blockable attacks such as bowzons, ww barbs, melee Druid, zealots.

EBOTD War Pike vs smiters. Cant block smite and defense doesn’t matter so I go all in on damage for this matchup.

And of course CTA plus maras and soj in the cube in my inventory.

This post was edited by Spartikis on May 8 2026 01:58pm
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I have a variety of switches based on matchups

Wiz spike + SS vs casters that she physical dmg such as ele druid.

Wiz spike + Spirit vs casters that due magic or elemental dmg such as bone necros, sorc, hammerdin

Titans + SS vs blockable attacks such as bowzons, ww barbs, melee Druid, zealots.

EBOTD War Pike vs smiters. Cant block smite and defense doesn’t matter so I go all in on damage for this matchup.


Okay yea that sounds like a cool setup simple switches. Hows ur inventory set up?
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May 8 2026 02:01pm
Yea, its a great guide for singular matchups, but i definitely want to build a more ZvA friendly build that covers “most” of my opponents.

Because if all else fails I can just make some minor adjustments on my hdin to make it a hdin vs all.

Generally i have been pub dueling with my java but being res stacked/sorbed is literally the first thing opponents do the moment they die once.


Yeah that’s exactly what I do do CS zons. Wisp + tgods + lit res charms. After that CS just tickles and you can kill them up close with impale or if they tele away and switch to bow it’s just a classic bow duel and chances are you have better dmg due to max/ar/life sc, max GA and Multi, plus better passives because you have 1 pt in impale where they need like 60+ for their passive tree.
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May 8 2026 02:07pm
Okay yea that sounds like a cool setup simple switches. Hows ur inventory set up?


Anni
Torch
Cube
8x 3frw/5res all
18x 3/18/20
7x 3/20/3frw (these get swapped as needed for res charms in the stash)

Stash has:
7x 11fr/3frw
7x 11lr/3frw
7x 11cr/3frw
7x 11pr/3frw

Stash is full of the typical item switches such as tgods, wisp, hot spurs, etc…

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May 8 2026 02:40pm
Mind sharing the full build gearwise? Can pm if u want
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Mind sharing the full build gearwise? Can pm if u want


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