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Full solo lane build. Power spike after second/third item, even when getting items out of order.
Warrior Tabi
Jotunn's Wrath
Transcendence
Hydra's Lament
Titan's Bane
Heartseeker
Recommended solo start.
Mage's Blessing
Boots
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Transcendence. NOTE: More easily punished early without movement speed.
Rushing Transcendence. NOTE: More easily punished early without movement speed.
Mage's Blessing
Morningstar
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
The Crusher
Brawler's Beat Stick
Purification Beads
Teleport Fragment
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Tap each threat level to view Loki’s threats
My Stats - CLICK PICTURE TO SEE OVERALL LOKI STATS
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+ Insane Burst + High Mobility + Vanish + Split Push |
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- Weak to CC - Squishy - Teamfight presence - Push early game |
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Cons Explanation
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A unique passive that synchronizes well with both Vanish and Assassinate. This is a simple yet great passive where the power of basic attacks behind the enemy are buffed by 20%.
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One of the most unique abilities in the game of Smite. This ability can be used for ganking, escaping, chasing, and damage. The bleed damage is nice, because many times I just vanish behind an enemy, apply the bleed and instead of auto attacking to secure the kill, I just run away. |
Vanish. Meaning while they're chasing you, Vanish and while you're invisible, turn and run the other way. Make sure not to keep going that way, go left/right or you'll most likely find another enemy. If you're ganking, try to vanish a bit farther away from the enemy since it also has a distinct noise which will cause an enemy to run away. Be careful! Many things break this ability and cut your Vanish like potions, Assassinate, and some relics.
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A simple clearing ability which taunts minions to attack it. Place decoy on archers so because they will not move in range of the ability to attack it like melee NPC's will. decoy can also be used to "body block" AA's & some abilities, dive towers, and just "distract" enemy minions while you go in for the kill. decoy however, DOES NOT get rid of backdoor protections. |
Assassinate is under cooldown, dive the tower with decoy. Before going in, put the decoy anywhere in the tower's circle (put it on the side so it won't get in the way of you running in/out) and decoy will take damage for 3 seconds. Keep in mind, the moment you attack the god, the tower will start shooting at you, so be prepared. Vanish oppurtunity and you have a much better chance of escaping (make sure enemy's CC is on CD). You can also put this ability down on the enemy and ult on them. That way, they'll receive the damage of decoy as well.
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Loki's steroid. Not only does it grant you extreme additional power on top of your burst, but it slows the enemy god. This helps you apply the rest of your burst and other AA's. This is also Loki's only ability which the CD goes down as it is ranked up. |
Assassinate. Alternatively, depending on the situation, you could use aimed strike before you use Assassinate. Assassinate doesn't break this ability. Also be careful when sneaking up on people. This ability is known for its obnoxious noise so if you can confirm a kill without it and your enemy doesn't know you're there, refrain from using it as it will be a waste of mana and it is possible your enemy may escape.
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This can be used to initiate (single god), to finish off an enemy god, to protect an ally (stun), and to escape. The reason why Assassinate's damage is rather low compared to a lot of other god's ultimate numbers is because Loki heavily depends on the burst damage right after Assassinate.
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Assassinate on a god. If you just use Assassinate to teleport to avoid an Ares' ultimate, you'll get pulled. However if you ult the Ares or another god at the right time, you won't get pulled by 
No Escape!
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Vanish since you have no escape after this. Note this is not the most efficient combo, those are listed after skill combo #2.| aimed strike |
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Assassinate to initiate instead of cleaning up the kill. The reason you use aimed strike before you go into Assassinate is because you save time instead of ulting, auto attacking, then using aimed strike and then giving out that basic. Vanish as a chase. Try not to waste Vanish because it is extremely helpful for your escape.
Breastplate of Valor) Vanish and aimed strike, you could instead Vanish, auto attack, then aimed strike auto attack. It does get some getting used to and the gap between you and your enemy has to be a tad bit closer even if you get it down instantaneously.
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All of Loki's abilities have 100% or more scaling on his abilities (his Vanish ticks add up to 100%). Loki is the only assassin with 100% or more scalings on all of his abilities. By building pure power on Loki, his abilities' damage will skyrocket, even to the late game. |
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| Power is great, but physical defense is a huge barrier to Loki's burst potential. Penetration allows you to "ignore" a certain amount of protections your enemy has. This will allow you to shred through base protections and have an easier time against those bully warriors in lane. |
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Relics are very important in gameplay. Some are essential such as Purification Beads, and others are more on the fun side like  Blink Rune. |
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relicsLane Phase
Transcendence up as fast as you can. Transcendence right after clearing the wave. If your enemy solo is giving you too much trouble, back and teleport glyph to get the xp from that next wave. Keep farming and try to take advantage of small mistakes of your enemy solo to get ahead of them.
Wards are well worth the money. They let you play up with less worry, and also serve the purpose to teleport to take a structure later. Should be thinking, "Oh Anhur definitely backed when he saw me take a tier 2 tower". If you know how many people are heading your way you can make the choice to fight or run. Hydra's Lament proc / decoy Hydra's Lament online, you will gain the passive power bonus when using an ability. This will affect your structure damage. decoy can be used to tank a tower but be careful because it does not remove backdoor protections so you will hit a tower or phoenix for less until minions come into proximity of the structure.
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loki's strongest (although he's not very good at it) role is jungle, so you shouldn't be playing him adc... and solo is not really good but eh its okay.
also,
Also you should include Bastet in the threads list. Her tick damage can reveal you, and once you're out of your stealth she can chase you out with the cats and kill you really easily. even if you ult away, she can re-engage with
That's all! X
In Jungle, he doesn't have the most efficient clear, which is important to some of the strongest junglers. Decoy can definitely do a lot of damage, but some gods can clear in 2 seconds or less at a certain stage of the game. His Decoy takes 3 seconds to deploy, and that can potentially slow things down.
Starting
But overall, it's sort of best right now just to not play him (unless you really want to in casuals). He's just pretty weak right now. HR nerfed him pretty badly.
Also yes, loki has a terrible clear, but what i meant with "jungle" is that he is an assassin, so he is technically made to be jungle, he has some gank potential and good burst damage. Anyways, he has the worst clear in the game period. Like if you think of the slowest clears in assassins right now like
And he can get abused, snowballed from, and easily outrotated and outfarmed. Its really easy to steal loki's jungle, since he has poor presence in the early game.
I'm not sure why you mentioned
For Solo/ADC, the early priority is lane waveclear, and this is where you're seeing Decoy maxed first, with significantly less emphasis on burst damage.
For Jungle, he only has 1 point in Decoy until level 15, and this is because he's going to be looking to gank. In that case, he has Aimed Strike maxed first (which is also important for camp clear), followed by
You could level
One other option you could do, if you really wanted
Also I would recommend the last option, going a little into decoy then prioritizing the other skills.
One thing I noticed, for S4, you'll need to update your relic terminology. You may also want to talk about how you can upgrade them, and which ones/when to upgrade. (Besides the relic section, you talk about "Teleport" in the Split Pushing section below it)
Also, you'll need to update your wording on some of the items. For example, I think you're still hinting at the S3 version of
This is a long-standing guide that has aged very nicely.
Only problem now is with the jungle section, since due to the new changes you can't get red power pots at the start of the game. I'm gonna try out a few things myself to see if there is a good item to make Loki viable starting in the jungle.
Hey man, got any phases for jungling? or general tips with loki?
Well I included a jungle build for Loki and I initially intended to provide a jungle gameplay guide as well. As of now, I don't plan on adding anything for jungling just because you have to be pretty confident with Loki or jungling in general to be able to jungle with him.
Jungling with Loki is almost the same play style except you focus a bit more on rotations & ganks than in the solo lane. Although you still want to concentrate on farming in the jungle, split pushing isn't a priority. This is why you look for
Very nice guide, loving the video explanation! +
Thanks!