Gusion — Assassin

Source: In-client Hero Info (Attribute + Skill tabs), screenshotted 2026-04-22 by user (ADB pull). Client build: 2.1.61.1173.1 Specialty: Burst / Magic Damage Accuracy: Primary-source verified. Do not flag as *[verify]*.

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Base Attributes (Lv.1)

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Passive — Dagger Specialist

Each skill cast adds a rune to Gusion's dagger (stacks up to 4 times). Each stack enhances Gusion's next Basic Attack to deal additional damage equal to 3% of the target's Max HP and restore 50 (+25% Total Magic Power) HP to himself.

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Skill 1 — Sword Spike (Damage · Mobility)

Cooldown: 9.0s base · Mana Cost: 50

Gusion throws a dagger in the target direction, dealing 200 (+50% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage to the first enemy hit and marking them.

Use Again: Gusion moves behind the marked enemy, dealing 200 (+100% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage to them. This skill cannot be interrupted while Gusion is moving behind the marked enemy.

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Skill 2 — Shadowblade Slaughter (Ace · Slow)

Cooldown: 9.0s base · Mana Cost: 60 · Spell Vamp Ratio: 50%

Gusion throws a volley of daggers in the target direction, each dealing 100 (+40% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage to enemies hit and slowing them by 6% for 2s (when hit by multiple daggers, the slow effect can stack up to 30%).

Use Again: Gusion recalls the daggers, each dealing 65 (+40% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage to enemies in its path.

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Ultimate — Incandescence (Mobility · Buff)

Cooldown: 24.0s base · Mana Cost: 100

Gusion dashes to the target location, resetting the cooldowns of Sword Spike and Shadowblade Slaughter. If Shadowblade Slaughter was cast once before the reset, Gusion can throw another five daggers on his next Shadowblade Slaughter cast, and recall a total of ten daggers afterward.

Use Again: Gusion dashes a short distance in the target direction.

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Combo framework (in-client mechanics only)

• Core burst rotation: S2 (throw 5 daggers) → S1 (dagger mark) → S1 again (teleport behind + hit) → Ult (dash + reset S1/S2 cooldowns AND add 5 extra daggers to next S2) → S2 (now throws 10 daggers) → S2 recall (10 daggers back) → S1 → S1 again. Each skill cast adds a rune stack; at 4 stacks the next BA hits for +3% Max HP and heals.
• Ult's hidden damage multiplier: After ult, the next S2 throws 10 daggers instead of 5 (5 original + 5 extra) and recalls 10 — doubling the S2 damage window for a single cast. This is the "ult-S2" spike that defines high-level Gusion play.
• Passive as the execution layer: 4 stacks = +12% Max HP on next BA. Against tanks, that's the 5k HP target losing 600 extra on one hit. Passive also heals 50 (+25% Total MP) per stack hit, so Gusion scales sustain with MP.
• Hybrid trait: Both Phys Atk and AS base numbers are unusually high for a Magic Damage assassin (119 Phys Atk / 1.11 AS / 260 MS). Enhanced Basic Attacks from the passive are Gusion's DPS floor — on-hit item pickups (Corrosion Scythe, Golden Staff on specific builds) get real mileage.
• S1 double-use = gap close + mark: First cast marks and damages; second cast teleports behind the marked target. The mark is the combo anchor — losing it (target dies, runs out of range) cancels the teleport.
• Ult as a Stutter-cast reset: Two base-second cooldowns of 9.0s (S1 + S2) erased by a 24s ult. Against long-duration fights (objective contests), ult-reset lets Gusion double his total daggers thrown.

Current Meta Placement (as of 2026-04-22)

C-tier jungle per heroes.md (Season 40). Resolved 2026-05-02 — pre-rework Gusion is hard-countered by current jungle meta (Julian / Hayabusa / Nolan / Yi Sun-shin all outclass him at burst + escape). The combo still scales but the resource floor (mana + skill chain) doesn't justify the pick over modern assassins.

See heroes.md → Full Tier List + lore/gusion.md for in-client backstory (House Paxley, Valentina ancestor, expulsion-by-Aamon arc).

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Player Guide — Hajun (300+ stars, Gusion main, 1200+ matches at 60% WR)

Source: YouTube HZjZDBgFryw (Hajun, "Gusion Dagger Timing Guide"), ingested 2026-04-29.

The dagger-distance rule (the thing most guides miss)

The single mechanic that separates "smooth Gusion" from "clunky Gusion" is whether your daggers are closer to you OR closer to the target:

• Daggers FARTHER from you than the target is → S2 first, then S1.
  • Reason: if you S1 first, you teleport behind the target, and now the recalled daggers fly back through empty air past you. Most won't hit a moving target.
• Daggers CLOSER to you than the target is → S1 first, then S2.
  • Reason: S1 lands you on the target, then S2 throws fresh daggers from your new position straight into them.

This is THE timing tip. Internalize it before learning any combo.

Combos (only two you actually need)

Max-damage combo (early game / single high-HP target): S2 → recall S2 → ult onto target → S1 → S1 again.

Fast combo (mid-late, kill a squishy now): S2 → ult → S2 → S1 → S2 → S1.

• Tap the buttons in rhythm; don't wait for animations to finish. Hajun: "Press S2 then S1 immediately, even if the prior S1 hasn't landed yet — build the muscle memory by ignoring feedback."

Nuclear combo (open-bush surprise burst): Throw S2 (daggers in flight, hidden) → recall S2 just as ult lands target → instantly second S2 from new position → S1 + S1.

• All 10 daggers (5 thrown + 5 recalled + 5 fresh from after-ult S2) compress into ~0.4s. Squishies die before reacting.

Multi-kill positioning rule: with the fast combo, you commit all skills into one target. With the nuclear combo, you can aim each skill at a different target — pre-plan in your head: "S2 throw at target A, ult onto target B, S2 recall direction sweeps both, S1 confirm A".

Vs melee CC heroes (Zilong, Leslie, Yu Zhong)

Don't dive on top of them with the fast combo. Stay at S2-throw range, only enter melee on the S2 recall window — when daggers come back to you, you're moving forward, but you can dash out before they finish their CC channel.

Build & Emblem

• Spell: Petrify (when not jungling). On jungle: Retribution.
• Emblem: Assassin — Rupture (pen) → Bounty Hunter (gold per kill, transcript said "Season Hunter") OR Weapons Master (item-stat damage amp) → Pure Rage (skill damage on hit, also speeds farm).
• Core item path:
  1. Genius Wand (Hajun: "core item").
  2. Holy Crystal OR Lightning Truncheon — Truncheon is preferred vs squishies because of the CDR (more ults, more S2 spam).
  3. Divine Glaive (vs magic-def stacking).
  4. Winter Truncheon swap when you must shred tanks (sell Glaive).
  5. Immortality as quick-swap for late-game safety.

Macro — when not to fight

"Without your ult you are SO vulnerable. Don't force fights without ult."

Without ult, Gusion's damage halves and his escape disappears. If teammates are pinging engage and your ult is on cooldown:

• Farm a buff/camp instead.
• If a fight breaks out near you and you're already buff-camping, finish the buff first — guaranteed gold beats a 50/50 kill.

Macro — clear sequence at game start

Always start blue buff. Reasons:

1. Blue is closer to mid lane (where solo-rank mid laners usually need bailouts).
2. Lethal pops near blue side; you can clear blue → help mid → take lethal in one rotation.

If you've taken green before red, your red spawns later — meaning when turtle is contested, the enemy can't trade their red for it because yours isn't up either. Use this to manipulate tempo.

Targeting rule (scoreboard discipline)

When two enemies are fed, the higher-gold one is your priority, not the more visible one. Open scoreboard at every recall. Hajun's example: Sora was 400g ahead → Sora was tagged as the "shutdown target" mentally for the rest of the game; Selena (also fed but less) was secondary.

Don't auto-aim S1 in messy fights

Auto-aim works at point-blank range vs a single target, but in cluster fights it picks the wrong enemy. Manually aim S1 onto your priority target — there's a transcript clip where Hajun auto-aimed S1, it locked onto the wrong (already-low) target, and the kill on Selena slipped.

Late-game discipline when ahead

Don't push waves into the inhibitor when ahead. Freeze them — enemies have nothing to farm, you have your jungle + scaling. Only start clearing 10–20s before Lord respawns. Forced engages near the inhibitor when you're already winning are how leads collapse.