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Transcendence
Warrior Tabi
Asi
Jotunn's Wrath
Titan's Bane
Hastened Fatalis
Bloodforge
The Executioner
Charged Morningstar
Boots
Transcendence
Warrior Tabi
Asi
Bloodforge
Jotunn's Wrath
The Executioner
Titan's Bane
Hastened Fatalis
Odysseus' Bow
Charged Morningstar
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
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Skadi guide. Skadi(and by that also the wolf Kaldr, I guess). Therefore, if you're looking for a guide on anything other than Skadi, this is not the place for you. Skadi and what is she capable of? Skadi and what are her weaknesses? Skadi. Skadi has. Including skill combo's.
Skadi is a female hunter that has been released since Patch 3.4
Unlike any other regular hunter, Skadi has a very unique kit. There is currently no other god that works in the same way as she does, there are however, gods that show similarities.
What's so special about Skadi?
Skadi makes use of a full-time companion: her wolf, Kaldr. Kaldr is a unique addition to Skadi, as she (aka the player) can control the wolf at your own will.
Skadi's stats are as follows:
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470(+78) | 220(+35) | o370o | o55oo
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35(+2.5) | oooNoneoooo
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11(+2.8) | 30(+0.9)
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8(+0.69) | 4.5(+0.32)
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Skadi's early game is rather weak... or is it? Remember, she has her companion, Kaldr. Skadi's early and mid game is on par with the other hunters. However, during the late game, Skadi will be a force to be reckoned with, as she is, partially due to her companion Kaldr, a very dangerous huntress!
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| High DMG | No (real) escape |
| Kaldr (More DMG) | Low CC amount |
| Strong ULT | Easily ganked |
While Skadi may have a companion, you play her allmost identical to any other hunter: safely.
During the early game, you're very weak and vulnerable. During this time, the enemy will do everything to kill you. This is to keep you low, so you do not become the late game killer a hunter is supposed to be.
But don't worry! I've got you covered! Let's go over some tips that'll hopefully keep you out of trouble.
Early Game
The early game is the hardest time for any hunter. This is because they're still weak, but don't have enough damage yet to sustain themselves.
During this time, you'll want to keep a few things in mind. This includes, listed by categories:
Laning
While in the (duo) lane, you'll be facing the enemy support and ADC, and occasionaly the jungler from either team. The enemy's goal is to eliminate you as much as possible, to keep you low and prevent you from getting your damage online.
To avoid certain death, follow the following steps:
- Do not over-extend. As the ADC, you should not be found any further than half of the lane. Even 1/4th could arguably allready be to much. Once you cross this distance, you're putting yourself at a great risk of dying, especially since Skadi has no escape.
Wards. While laning, keep the jungle Warded at all times. This to avoid the enemy assassin from ganking you. Warded the jungle to avoid ganks. Ward. It's not because you are strong, that Wards aren't necessary. A good enemy jungler can take you down easily. Ward. Use Wards to spot enemies throughout the jungle, and thus avoiding enemies sneaking up on you.
Warding Ward as much as possible. I'll explain where and when to Ward below: Ward or 
Sentry Ward first, obviously.
Warding map
Warrior Tabi is the very core, together with Transcendence of this build. Without Warrior Tabi, you're putting yourself at a disadvantage. Why Warrior Tabi? Warrior Tabi provides a great deal of physical power. Not only that, it also gives movement speed, which is entirely necessary on Skadi, as she has no other forms of escape. The Physical Power will give you and Kaldr a great power boost to start with.|
Summary -
Warrior Tabi
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Physical power: +40
Movement speed: +18% |
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Transcendence is an item that's necessary on allmost every hunter. This item is so good, that it cannot be missed in anyone's build. The mana allows you to cast your abilities more often. This is especially important since your Piercing Cold is your main poke and clear. The high (stacked) power is a great power boost during the game. Transcendence not only gives Physical power, but also Mana, Mp5, and a nice passive.|
Summary -
Transcendence
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Physical power: +35
Mana: +300 Mp5: +6 |
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Passive: You permanently gain 15 Mana per stack, and receive 5 stacks for a god kill, and 1 stack for a minion kill.
Additionally, 3% of your Mana is converted to Physical Power. |
Asi is a very versatile item. It provides alot of benefits that can be used in plenty of situations. The penetration will help you neglect some of your enemies' base protections, and some protections from items. Lifesteal will help you sustain and stay in lane a lot longer, even through various pokes from your enemy. The attack speed will help both you and Kaldr to attack faster and get hits in quicker. Asi grants you lifesteal, attack speed, flat penetration and a somewhat decent passive.|
Summary -
Asi
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Physical Lifesteal: +15%
Attack speed: +20% Physical penetration: +15 |
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Passive: If you drop below 35% health, you gain an additional 25% Physical Lifesteal for 5 seconds.
Can only occur once every 15 seconds. |
Jotunn's Wrath is well known for it wide array of benefits it provides. From physical power to cooldown reduction to mana increase, it has it all. The only thing that Jotunn's Wrath does not have, is a passive. CDR allows you to cast more abilities. This combined with Piercing Cold is very useful for wave clears + pokes. The power and penetration will increase your overall damage output, even to enemies with protections.|
Summary -
Jotunn's Wrath
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Physical Power: +40
Mana: +150 Cooldown reduction: +20% Physical Penetration: +10 |
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Titan's Bane is very well known for the wonderous things this item can do. It is your go-to item to deal with tanks that build alot of Physical protections.|
Summary -
Titan's Bane
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Physical Power: +30
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Hastened Fatalis is a fun little item. It gives the player a great deal of speed in both movement and attack speed. Hastened Fatalis stand out, however, is it's passive. The passive allows you to move at normal speed while attacking, if you hit, allowing you to dodge enemy attacks easier while still doing a fair deal of damage.|
Summary -
Hastened Fatalis
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Attack speed: +30%
Movement speed: +10% |
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Passive: When a basic attack hits a target, the attacking movement speed Debuff is removed from you for 1s.
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Asi is a great item. However, the benefits are provided by other items allready. But xZeroStrike, then why do we keep it?! Because it's cheap. However, should you find yourself getting alot of kills and sitting on a pile of $$$, you can swap Asi for Bloodforge.Do note that Bloodforge is not cheap!
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Art by: Scylla812 via NewGrounds.
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Art by: Larinor via NewGrounds.
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Jotunn's Wrath has alot of benefits. However, if you want to eliminate your enemies defenses, and attack faster, The Executioner is for you!
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Hastened Fatalis won't do much for you. However, you'll still want that attack speed. What item to get? Odysseus' Bow to the rescue!|
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Odysseus' Bow
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Attack speed: +40%
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Passive: Every fourth Basic Attack triggers a chain lightning, damaging the target and up to 4 nearby enemies for 30 damage +50% of your total Physical Power.
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Skadi doesn't need them. Kaldr allready allows Skadi to pretty much hit for 2.|
sanctuary
Sanctuary:Using this item makes you invulnerable to damage for 2s, preventing you from taking actions. You may still move. Cooldown: 160s |
purification
Purification:Using this item removes Crowd Control Effects and makes you immune to new ones for 2s. Cooldown: 160s |
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Sprint
Sprint:Using this item buffs the Movement Speed of Allies within 55 by 40% for 5s. It also makes them immune to Slows for the duration. Cooldown: 150s |
Curse
Curse:Using this item reduces all enemy gods Movement Speed by 40% in a 55 unit radius around you for 5s. Their healing is also reduced by 50% for the duration. Cooldown: 150s |
Skadi, your starting "kit" is very important. Running off with the wrong items will put you at risk. Not only do you risk to lose farm, you'll also risk of dying more often. Here are the (currently 2) starting "kits" and when to pick which.|
Starting kit 1
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The Charged Morningstar and Boots start will give you an early mana boost, and a bit of extra movement speed. The movement speed will be useful to escape easier from though situations, while the mana will allow you to stay in lane longer. | ||||||||
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When to pick this starter kit?
You'll want to pick this starter kit when you're facing enemies that can more easily catch up with you, mainly due to a leap/jump and the like. If you're facing any such enemy, pick this starter kit.
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Starting kit 2
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The Charged Morningstar will give you an early mana boost. The Healing Potions and Mana Potions will help you keep your health and mana high enough to stay in lane longer and thus accumulate more gold. | ||||||||
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When to pick this starter kit?
You'll want to pick this starter kit when you're facing enemies without a leap. The reason being that enemies with leaps can get to very quickly, without you having much time to react, forcing you to burn the mana and health you'll get from the potions, and perhaps even killing you, rendering the potions useless. | ||||||||
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Note: you can use either starting kit in either situation, these reasons are just my "recommendation".
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Kaldr, The Winter Wolf|
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Kaldr fights by Skadi's side and has 2 forms: Beast and Elemental. While in Beast form he can attack enemies and be attacked. While Elemental he is immune to attacks and regenerates health over time. His forms can be controlled with Skadi's Rune of the Hunt but he will be forced into Elemental form if he loses all Hit Points.
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Ability video Piercing Cold|
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Skadi throws an icy spear forward, dealing damage to enemies and Slowing them for 3s. Kaldr's basic attacks deal double damage to targets afflicted by Piercing Cold.Ability Stats |
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Ability video Rune Of The Hunt
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Toggle: Skadi marks an enemy for Kaldr to hunt. While toggled on, Kaldr assumes Beast form, chasing and attacking the marked enemy. If a marked enemy dies Kaldr attacks other enemies nearby. When toggled off, Kaldr stops attacking and returns to Skadi, reverting to his Elemental form on the way. This ability can be activated at rank 0 and Kaldr gains new skills as it ranks up.Ability stats |
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Ability video Permafrost
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Skadi freezes the ground for 5s at a target location. The icy area deals damage to enemies that touch it and continues to deal additional damage every .5s they stay on it. Gods who step on the ice are slowed and lose control of their movement while sliding across. Also, Skadi's movement speed increases by 25% while standing on the area.Ability stats |
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Ability video Winter's Grasp
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Snowstorms surround Skadi and Kaldr. Upon activation, enemies in range become Rooted and Kaldr is restored to full health. The storms persist for 4s while dealing damage to enemies every .5s and making Kaldr immune to damage.Ability stats |
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Hit the enemy with Piercing Cold. Once you hit your enemy, send Kaldr out to attack with Rune Of The Hunt. Kaldr will now do double damage (basic attacks only) for a short period of time.
Difficulty: Easy
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Hit the enemy with Piercing Cold. Once you hit your enemy, send Kaldr out to attack with Rune Of The Hunt. When Kaldr attacks the enemy, use Winter's Grasp. Kaldr will do double damage for a short period of time while the enemy is rooted in place.
Difficulty: Easy
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Use Permafrost to let the enemy lose control over his/her movement. While the enemy is sliding, use Piercing Cold on them for a free hit.
Difficulty: Intermediate
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Use Permafrost to let the enemy lose control over his/her movement. While the enemy is sliding, use Piercing Cold on them for a free hit. After you've hit the enemy with Piercing Cold, send Kaldr out to attack the enemy using Rune Of The Hunt. Kaldr will now do double damage for a short period of time.
Difficulty: Intermediate
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Use Permafrost to let the enemy lose control over his/her movement. While the enemy is sliding, use Piercing Cold on them for a free hit. After you've hit the enemy with Piercing Cold, send Kaldr out to attack the enemy using Rune Of The Hunt. When Kaldr attacks the enemy, use Winter's Grasp. Kaldr will now do double damage for a short period of time while the enemy is rooted.
Difficulty: Intermediate
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The skillset is similar to the previous one (Easy difficulty). The difference here being that you'll use Piercing Cold after Kaldr has used his dash to attack an enemy (with Rune Of The Hunt. This is because Kaldr's dash attack does not benefit from Piercing Cold's double damage, and by using Piercing Cold after Kaldr has used his dash, you'll maximize it's effectiveness.
Difficulty: Hard
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This skillset is similar to the one above. The only difference is that you'll use Permafrost before the rest of the combo. The difficult part is that you won't use Permafrost randomly, you'll have to place Permafrost in a way that makes your enemy slide towards you. If this is succesful, proceed with the combo as usual.
Difficulty: Very hard
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I can understand where you're coming from. However, I've selected
- While Kaldr's attacks give
- When Kaldr is out of life points, you cannot use his attacks for movement speed. Since you'll only send Kaldr out in 1v1s, to finish off low health enemies and when he has 4/5 life points, you'll find Kaldr in spiritual form more often than not, causing the movement speed to not proc as often.
- While this guide was made in S3, the build is still functional in S4, and with
- When running away from an enemy, you have to turn around before you can set Kaldr to attack those who're chasing you. Turning around will slow you down, and can get you killed before Kaldr is even capable of giving you that movement speed buff.
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Hopefully you understand what I'm going for here.
Have fun playing SMITE!
Thank you for your feedback. I do agree that
With
However, when relying on attack speed, you're counting on a longer, more consistent battle.
You see, before
Due to Kaldr's low health pool, he can die very fast. This will result in only a very short combat sequence, thus
When sending Kaldr out, you want to get damage in fast, and get him out even faster, as to not get him "killed". Therefore, the lower attack speed, but a lot higher Physical Power will be better, since Kaldr simply won't have enough time to let the lower damage and higher attack speed make up for the power loss.
I'm starting to ramble here, so I'll end it here. :P
Hope that you can make out as to why I believe
Love the build, great work @xZero :p
The boots are specifically for a bit of movement speed. Potions will work but if you can't escape your enemy those potions will be rendered useless faster than one can say he used it. I made a small table on when I think it's better to select which starting gear, and I've also included the potions start as an option. I guess it comes down to preference and situation. If you play safe and conservative enough, the potions shouldn't be necessary.
Thank you for the feedback, though! :)
I didn't include it because
Other than that, I don't see anything wrong.
+1 for nice tables.
And thank you for the +1!
Onto the build; it's really well explained and looks very solid- my only question would be about the
I also have some thoughts about the starting build- when buying
That partially leads to the recommended "first return"- if someone asked me, I think that it would be more beneficial to back whenever you have enough gold to just finish your
With that being said, I am not a
I guess I shouldn't have to mention that's an easy upvote? Keep up the good work!
EDIT:
Looks even better than before with that color if someone asked me.
As for the potions start:
It is entirely possible to do so. You do have to remember that until you get
- Are you facing an enemy that can easily catch up? (e.g.
- Are you facing an enemy that can't easily catch up to you? (e.g.
As for the "first return option", you have to follow its order. Meaning that even though you would have enough money to buy
Last but not least I guess
Thank you for your feedback, and the upvote! :)
Edit: All your feedback had been applied. If the color is yet again not good enough, feel free to let me know.
The reason I placed the Frostbound hammer in is mainly because of it's physical power, but the slow just adds nicely for chases, or when your 1 is on CD. Also if the enemy beads out of your skills the slow can help really well.
But that's beside the point, as