Ganesha

How to play Ganesha

Ganesha is a melee guardian from the Hindu pantheon who deals magical damage. Top players play Ganesha in the Support role.

In your kit, Remove Obstacles (dash and knock-up) is your way in and out of fights. Ohm (channel cone silence) is your main crowd control. Turn of Fate (line damage, marks) adds damage and pressure. Your ultimate is Dharmic Pillars (slowing, damaging prison), on a long cooldown (about 75s at rank 1), so save it for fights that matter. Your passive is Good Fortune: gift kills to allies.

Community guides level Turn of Fate, Remove Obstacles and Ohm first. Max Turn of Fate first, then Ohm, then Remove Obstacles.

Your job is to start fights and protect your team, not to get kills. Move in when your team is close enough to follow up, then stay near your hunter and protect them from anyone who jumps on them. Your build makes you very hard to kill, so you can stand in front and absorb damage. As support, stay with your duo lane partner early and use your crowd control to set up kills.

Start with Heroism, then buy Gauntlet of Thebes. Buy it early so it finishes stacking. Your core is Stampede and Amanita Charm, and you finish with Genji's Guard, Breastplate of Valor and Freya's Tears. A good relic is Blink Rune. If the enemy team heals a lot or you keep dying, open the full tool and enter the enemy gods for the exact swaps.

If you own Aspect of the Triumphant, it reworks Good Fortune (kills grant cooldown), Turn of Fate (line damage, marks), Ohm (channel cone damage) and Dharmic Pillars (slowing, damaging prison). It changes what to build, so turn on Aspect in the tool when you play it.

Top players win most often against Charon, Baron Samedi and Yemoja, and struggle against Amaterasu, Hua Mulan or Zeus. Against those, play safer and consider a defensive item earlier.