Ix Chel

How to play Ix Chel

Ix Chel is a ranged mage from the Maya pantheon who deals magical damage. Top players mostly play Ix Chel in the Mid lane (84% of games) and the Support role (16% of games).

In your kit, Lunar Invocation (area damage, knock-up, and heal) is your main crowd control. Gleaming Blast (projectile damage, swaps to blind) and Rainbow Crash (projectile damage, ally speed buff) add damage and pressure. Your ultimate is Great End (channeled damage and heal beam), on a long cooldown (about 110s at rank 1), so save it for fights that matter. Your passive is Rainbow Weaver: stacks empower next attack.

Most of your damage comes from abilities, so fight from behind your front line and never be the closest god to the enemy. Look for the moment your crowd control can land, then follow up with the rest of your damage. You have no dash, so your positioning is your escape. In the mid lane, clear the wave quickly, then help the side lanes or the jungle.

Start with Archmage's Gem, then buy Spear of Desolation. Top players buy it in the first two or three slots. Your core is Book of Thoth and The World Stone, and you finish with Soul Gem, Rod of Tahuti and Obsidian Shard. A good relic is Aegis of Acceleration. 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 Mother's Light, it reworks Gleaming Blast (projectile shield and slow), Lunar Invocation (area damage, knockup, and heal) and Great End (channeled heal beam). It changes what to build, so turn on Aspect in the tool when you play it.

Top players win most often against Hecate, Hel and Jing Wei, and struggle against Amaterasu, Artemis or Cupid. Against those, play safer and consider a defensive item earlier.