In Heroes vs Hordes, everything revolves around one thing: gold. You'll need literal billions of it.
So, how do you stack up an insane amount of gold as fast as possible?
You turn the Leprechaun into a gold-printing machine. This guide will walk you through the gear, weapons, and jewels to maximize your gold generation.
While the Leprechaun is an overall B+ tier champion, his speciality is farming gold. He's S- when it comes to farming, only falling behind Santa in the category.
To max farming, you take advantage of the Leprechaun's cauldrons and ultimate to turn horde into cold, hard cash.
Welcome to the Pooping Autobot build—a pot of gold at the end of your toilet run.
Thanks to @Rod for testing the build and laying out the requirements. Thanks to @Wizhum for additional details.
Based on my testing, here's how much gold you can expect versus other scenarios.
| Build | Gold (millions) | Increase vs Baseline | Increase vs Santa |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leprechaun w/ Gold Jewels - 140HM Active | 23.195 | 82.25% | 63.25% |
| Leprechaun w/ Gold Jewels - 215HM Auto | 19.420 | 52.59% | 36.68% |
| Leprechaun w/ Gold Jewels - 140HM Auto | 18.127 | 42.43% | 27.58% |
| Santa w/ Gold Jewels - 140HM Auto | 16.936 | 33.07% | 19.20% |
| Santa w/ Key Jewels - 140HM Auto | 14.208 | 11.64% | 0.00% |
| Baseline Hero - 140HM Auto | 12.727 | 0.00% | -10.42% |
You turn the Leprechaun into a gold pooping machine thanks to his skill set.
His first skill, "Pot o Gold," has a 30% chance to turn a horde into a gold coin. From what I can tell (playing in NMM), that chance acts like an instant kill, so your damage is somewhat irrelevant.
His ultimate, Rainbow's End," has the same 30% chance to turn a horde into a gold coin.
But the catch is that these spells need to be the killing blow. If you kill a horde with another weapon, then they can't be turned into coins.
This catch impacts gameplay in three significant ways:
1. Minimize damage sources. Because the killing blows must come from these specialized skills, your build actively tries to minimize damage from other sources. That means you will need high enough base stats to survive until you can get enough defensive tomes/weapons to survive horde smacking into you.
But now comes the skill part.
Or at least the paying attention part.
2. Aim Skill Shots.The Leprechaun's two skills either go in a random direction (Rainbow's End) or in the direction you're facing (Pot o Gold). Therefore, to maximize gold, you need to aim the Leprechaun away from the skill shots. That requires actively paying attention to change direction, at least on ultimates.
The result of aiming correctly increases your gold by 37% over letting Leprechaun go on Auto mode.
3. Run the highest chapter possible on Hard Mode. You want to push this build to find the highest chapter you can comfortably complete because gold per chapter increases. You get significantly more gold on 370HM than 140HM.
While I typically run 140HM for farming with Santa, I pushed Leppy to 215 HM so far.
The aim with your gear is to max coin percent increase, but you do have one choice around boots. Let's take a look:
| Helm: Noble | Gloves: Noble |
| Chest: Noble | Necklace: Noble |
| Boots: Noble/Wizard | Ring: Noble |
The choice around boots comes to balancing interactivity with gold generation.
The ascended wizard boots collect everything on the map every 10s, this importantly includes coins. When the Leprechaun turns horde to gold during coin rush, you need to run around and collect it. The wizard boots do that, collecting automatically, which can add up to half a million coins or so.
Tip from @HaxSennin: The Leprechaun's abilities still turn horde into coins during Coin Rush. You must run around to collect them at the end of the Coin Rush. You do this because you get x5 coin boost in the last minute of Coin Rush. It's more beneficial to collect them in that moment instead of from the beginning.
Wizard Boots will automatically collect them through out Coin Rush.
However, you sacrifice an insane amount of gold key chance to do it. Ascended noble gear's 5% gold chance is the same as a 30% increase to silver key chance. Over the course of many runs, the additional coins in the coin rush probably won't be worth more than the gold keys you forgo.
Therefore, I would recommend Ascended Noble Boots over Ascended Wizard Boots.
You'll have to fight every habit you have to gear up this gold ATM. You don't want to do damage. You just want to print money.
With that in mind, here's the build:
Rainbow Staff
Divine Aura
Ice Wand
Arcane Wand
Dragon's Breath
Tomes to compliment the build are:
Coin
XP
Recovery
Armor
Evasion
Let the power of rainbows power you to mega millions. Your weapons only act to keep you alive.
Rule of thumb: Run the highest level coin jewels you own. It's unclear if you should save a slot for a looter jewel for more chest loot along the way. So jewel priority is:
Coin
Looter
Ultimate Charge
No cooldown here. No ultimate duration.
You *might* want to run ultimate charge to get more ultimates out, but it's probably a wash and safer to run another coin jewel there instead.
For the min/maxers out there, here's how to optimize the forge for the weapons you pick up in the run.
Your objective for your weapons is to minimize the damage and optimize disruption so you can potentially tackle higher level content. So when choosing left or right in a weapon forge, always choose the one that does less damage or gives a chance for disruption.
Here's how @Rod put it, "If you choose the Ice Wand for Leppy, there is a Forge choice between "+10% damage" or "Make fart sounds when hitting an enemy", choose the farts."
The best pet for the Leprechaun is no pet. Going with the theme of minimizing damage from sources other than your skills and ultimate, you should bench your pets.
If you want to bring a pet, consider ONLY double slime passive pets. Each adds 15% to the Leprachaun's HP making him survive higher chapter content. The higher the chapter, the more gold.
Remember, no active pets.
Leprachaun wants to poop gold in peace with his rainbows and pot o' gold.
