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Whirlpool. The reader can easily get that information from a link like that or an icon, so copying it into text is a waste of your and their time.
Warrior Tabi over 
Ninja Tabi, when to use 
Chronos' Pendant rather than 
Breastplate of Valor, why you built 
Obsidian Shard before 
Rod of Tahuti, etc, etc. If you find it useful, you can also divide this section into several if you want to discuss different builds separately, just do what you think makes the most sense. As is the same with the skills section, avoid repeating information about an item that can be found by mousing over a database link.chapters
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Artemis and for my more complex, I'll use 
Bellona.
template Artemis remains my favored adc by far, thus this is a guide for Artemis in the duo lane.
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General Health: 490 (+81) Mana: 210 (+35) Speed: 365 (+0) Range: 12 (+0) Attack/Sec: 0.85 (+1.4%) |
Regen HP5: 6(+0.75) MP5: 4.5 (+0.43) Protection Magical: 30 (+0.9) Physical: 19 (+3) |
Basic Attack Damage: 38+1.5(+20% of Magical Power) Progression: None . . . . |
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Sobek and for my more complex, I'll use Chang'e.
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Passive - Blessing of the Nile
Blessing of the Nile simply provides protections upon successful basic attacks and abilities. Overall, it's a great passive for a tank and helps Sobek make up for his somewhat lackluster defensive stats.
1 - Charge Prey
Charge Prey is an incredibly simple ability in concept, but incredibly diverse in application. This ability is Sobek's go-to engagement tool, charging the enemy and throwing them backwards towards your allies. You are then free to follow up with your other abilities as they try to get back into a favorable position. However, this isn't its only use. If enemies are engaging on a teammate, you can pull whoever is more dangerous away from them and give them some time to escape. You can also use it to escape yourself, either tossing people behind you or using it as a quick dash. This dash can also be useful for roaming around the map in a pinch (although it is mana consuming). However, this ability does have its downsides. It can be stopped by hitting an enemy minion or by hard CC, it can be difficult to land if the enemy is anticipating it and it leaves you vulnerable if you use it as an engage since you're left without an escape. I generally keep it on instant casting since it engages in a straight line and enemies tend to anticipate that you're about to use it if you take time aiming it whilst not using any basic attacks or abilities.
2 - Tail Whip
Tail Whip is an essential part of Sobek's kit. Its knockup plays an important role both in his utility and play style. Generally this ability is best used in tandem with Charge Prey. If you hit an enemy and pull them, this ability can be used to hinder their retreat and deal some damage. If you're having trouble hitting an enemy because enemy minions are in the way, you can use this ability to smack them out of the way to get a clear line to engage. In the event that you miss while using Charge Prey, this ability is also great for disengaging and allowing you to make your escape. Finally this ability is also good for giving your ally some time to escape if you use it to knock up their attacker.
3 - Sickening Strike
Sickening Strike is an interesting ability. It deals damage in a semicircle, heals you and reduces enemy healing by 50%. Because of its decent damage and healing, I recommend leveling up Sickening Strike before Tail Whip since their damage difference is not very large and Sickening Strike gives you increased healing. I generally find that Sickening Strike is your best poking tool with its damage and healing reduction (since most adcs get their health back via lifesteal), but since you're usually so mana hungry during your early game, I would recommend only doing this if you need healing as well. Always make sure to hit at least 3 targets, otherwise you will not receive full healing. Additionally, this ability is the final part of your core combo ( Charge Prey -> Tail Whip -> Sickening Strike).
4 - Lurking In the Waters
Lurking In The Waters is the figurative icing on Sobek's cake. It's an incredibly ult that slows any enemies within its radius, makes you CC immune, restores your mana and deals a great amount of damage. It's generally best used to trap enemies out of position after using Charge Prey, but it can really be used at any time you want to hinder enemies' retreat or help your team in a teamfight. With maximum CDR, it also has a pretty short cooldown and can be used in a pinch to restore your mana and/or clear a minion wave. One important thing to note is that this ultimate is also your only form of CC immunity unless you buy 
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Passive - Jade RabbitAnalysis
Jade Rabbit is an essential passive to Chang'e. It allows you to purchase items while in lane (although you do have to wait a bit for your rabbit to run back and forth). This allows you to sit lane all game and feed off of minions, granting you potentially higher levels and gold than other solo laners. You can also buy potions and wards while in lane, which is incredibly useful. This makes Chang'e one of the very few solo laners that can stay in lane with wards at all times.
1 - Crescent Moon DanceAnalysis
Crescent Moon Dance is Chang'e's go-to ability. It does solid damage, has a wide arc, and has an extremely low cooldown. This will essentially replace your basic attack for most scenarios, and is the highest priority to upgrade first. (I would however avoid skipping 
Moonlit Waltz in order to get this to level 3 by the time you're level 5, as Moonlit Waltz is essential to avoiding being ganked once assassins have their ultimates). You can also extend the range of this ability by moving to the right as you cast it due to the way the ability moves from left to right. This is best for clearing waves quickly or extending your reach to hit multiple enemies.
2 - Moonlit WaltzAnalysis Moonlit Waltz is an amazing ability that gives you mobility, along with immunity from all CC/damage for 1 second. It is essential to learn the timing for this ability, so you can escape even the most difficult of ganks. Despite this ability's usefulness, I would not prioritize upgrading it to higher levels, as the benefits are low compared to your other abilities.
3 - Moonflower DanceAnalysis
Moonflower Dance is great in three ways. It heals you and your allies a decent amount, it deals damage in a large radius to anyone caught within it, and it reduces the healing of enemies. For damage, this is a great 1,2 with her Crescent Moon Dance. Moonflower Dance also increases her mobility like her other abilities, so it can be helpful for both escaping and pursuing enemies. Finally, this ability paired with 
Divine Ruin can really shut down enemy healers such as 
Ra, 
Hel and 
Chaac. Use it wisely!
4 - Waxing MoonAnalysis
Waxing Moon is the metaphorical whipped cream and cherry to top Chang'e's wonderful set of abilities. It offers impressive damage at long range, and a long stun (made longer depending on the number of enemies caught within it). This is an excellent setup for allies ganking your lane, stunning entire enemy teams in teamfights, or stunning assassins to avoid being ganked in lane. Always upgrade this when possible and NEVER WASTE THIS ABILITY. Unless you're definitely going to kill an enemy, save this ability so that you won't be ganked while this ability is on cooldown. If you do, you're practically invincible.code
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Shoes of the Magi is my preferred choice for boots with this build. They provide needed movement speed, mana, and good magical power. This extra power helps boost your burst potential as a mage.
Eset is a champion at building stacks. Her awesome waveclear can help you max out Warlock's Sash very early in the game, giving you a huge health and damage boost, as well as additional mana. However, do note that even with maximum farming, the earliest you can max out this item is 8.5 minutes after completion.
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Mark of the Vanguard is great for providing some extra protections so that you can engage without worrying as much about taking too much damage. I typically prefer this over 
Watcher's Gift on Sobek since you want to have an aggressive early game.
Shoes of Focus are my definitive choice for my first item. They provide decent magical power and an essential 15% CDR that is incredibly important so that you can engage as often as possible. Their movement speed is also important so that you can rotate more often to have the most utility to your team as possible. Because of their cheap price, Shoes of Focus always take my first priority over a tank item.
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Shoes of the Magi is my preferred choice for boots with this build. They provide needed movement speed, mana, and good magical power. This extra power helps boost your burst potential as a mage.
ALTERNATIVE Shoes of Focus can fit your playstyle better if you want to have more cdr rather than power. If you think that you will likely want to be using your abilities more often, either offensively or defensively, these may be a better choice.
code Sobek here. I had several builds and alternative options for him, so it really shows how in-depth an items section can be. Don't think that you necessarily have to have such a complicated items section though. Only use what you need! (For a more simple items section, just look at the "solo build" section).
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Mark of the Vanguard is great for providing some extra protections so that you can engage without worrying as much about taking too much damage. I typically prefer this over Watcher's Gift on Sobek since you want to have an aggressive early game.
Shoes of Focus are my definitive choice for my first item. They provide decent magical power and an essential 15% CDR that is incredibly important so that you can engage as often as possible. Their movement speed is also important so that you can rotate more often to have the most utility to your team as possible. Because of their cheap price, Shoes of Focus always take my first priority over a tank item.
Enfeebling Curse reduces enemies movement and attack speed making it a great follow up to Charge Prey. It can also help you catch up to enemies that have moved out of the radius of Lurking In The Waters making it an incredible tool for your kit. I often like to start games with 
Creeping Curse as my starter active for great engages as the game starts.
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Weakening Curse is the same as Enfeebling Curse, only reducing enemy's healing rather than attack speed (note that this affects lifesteal as well as regular healing). Use situationally.
Hand of the Gods is often my second active with Sobek because it provides an easy way to take out jungle camps to help your teammates. Mid/late game 
Wrath of the Gods can be excellent for securing Gold Fury and Fire Giant. Make sure to upgrade this relatively early in the game if you decide to use it because Gold Fury usually begins to be contested before or after completing your second item.
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Greater Blink can greatly enhance your gank potential while rotating and can be useful for engaging enemies that are out of range of your pull. This item can also be fantastic for leaping into a teamfight with your escape intact, or even used as an escape situationally.
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Heavenly Agility is great if the other team has a lot of slows. It's great for pursuing and escaping just like Weakening Curse and Enfeebling Curse but doesn't offer their other benefits ie: attack speed and health regen reduction. I prefer buying this item over 
Winged Blade to counter slows since Sobek isn't reliant on his AA and because this benefits the whole team late game.
ALTERNATIVE Purification Beads can be essential for Sobek if playing against a team with a lot of hard CC. Do note however that this can be substituted for Magi's Blessing.
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Greater Aegis is used basically the same way as 
Greater Purification, the only difference being damage avoidance. This is entirely dependent on who you're fighting. Aegis is generally better against gods with high burst damage like 
Anubis, 
Poseidon and 
Scylla to block their ultimates.
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Girdle of Support is a good active if you already have a way of slowing people (like 
Gem of Isolation) or just as an alternative. Its use is pretty simple and it's guaranteed to help your team in a teamfight.
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Shield of the Underworld is very useful if you're being singled out a lot. It also works great when paired with 
Hide of the Nemean Lion since you may be able to force an ADC to back off from you just through this active's use.
Breastplate of Valor is my initial tank item of choice on Sobek. It provides great CDR as well as a huge boost in mana and physical protection. In contrast with buying 
Sovereignty first, Breastplate of Valor will allow you to use your abilities more often and have better mana and health sustain, while Sovereignty will give you more health allowing you to face-tank the enemy more and give more protections for your ADC with its aura. Buying Breastplate of Valor second is a more offensive choice and is my personal preference. Oppositely, purchasing Sovereignty second is a more defensive choice, but one that I still use depending on the situation of my current game.
Heartward Amulet is a great follow up providing health and magical protections, as well as an aura that helps your ADC box the enemy team's. It's aura is also more useful at this stage in the game since you will be engaging in more team fights and providing the aura to more people.
Sovereignty is still one of the best support items in the game. It provides more physical protection and a magical protection aura, basically the counterpart to Heartward Amulet. The combination of Sovereignty and Heartward Amulet's auras gives your team much more defense in teamfights in general. If you don't want to play as aggressively earlier on, switching the order of Sovereignty and Breastplate of Valor is beneficial for more defensive play.
Void Stone will not only give you a bit of a power/penetration boost now that you've built protections (with Void Stone's magical protections rounding out your build), but it will also give any of your team's mages a penetration boost as well.Item 6
Gem of Isolation's passive gives you a lot more control in a teamfight and helps to prevent enemies from getting away. It's also a great item because of its great power, health and mana, all of which help Sobek be more effective late game. Do note however that buying an active like Enfeebling Curse on top of this item can be a bit excessive, especially if enemies start counterbuilding items like Winged Blade. Purification Beads to a degree. (Do note that you may not need either if you go with the Counter CC build.)
Witchblade is simply a good item to have against a team with a lot of basic attack users. It should probably be bought closer to the midgame and is most effective against gods like 
Bakasura and Artemis. Replacing Sovereignty with Witchblade is an option as well.
Spear of the Magus isn't very viable competitively on Sobek, but can be a fun item to pop if you want to go for some kills while still being an effective teammate by further lowering enemies' magical protections.Alternative Magical Defense
Pestilence is typically a useful buy when facing a lane with enemies like 
Aphrodite and 
Sylvanus. Do note however that this is still an optional buy since you can reduce enemies' healing with Sickening Strike.
Stone of Gaia is useful if you want to level up Tail Whip instead of Sickening Strike for more damage. This item will give you the sustain to replace Sickening Strike's healing as well as some MP5 so that you can use Tail Whip more often. Do note however that this item's health is lackluster compared to your other magical defense options.
Bulwark of Hope is definitely your best personal defensive option since it provides the best health, magical protections and passive for its cost. Do note however that this benefits your team less than Heartward Amulet and since your role is support, you really should be supporting your team as much as possible. I would only recommend Bulwark of Hope if you'll be dying too often without it to be of any use.Alternative Physical Defense
Dynasty Plate Helm is a good replacement for Void Stone if playing against a primarily physical team. It essentially provides the same benefits (although it doesn't give your teammates additional penetration) but with physical rather than magical protection.
Hide of the Nemean Lion is essentially a counter to squishy basic attack users. It's best if enemies are trying to use basic attacks to poke since you can use this to essentially poke them back (although I do generally prefer Witchblade)
Midgardian Mail is my preferred counter to enemies reliant on using 
Hastened Fatalis. Midgardian Mail's passive will essentially render this item useless since they will not be able to catch up to you while basic attacking.
Mystical Mail is great if you decide to go full tank and not build any power items. Since you have so many slows and general CC, it's very easy to stick to enemies and deal the damage from Mystical Mail's passive for a long amount of time. Since the damage is constant, it won't scale with your power if you haven't bought any items (although it is affected by how much penetration you have).
Mail of Renewal is essentially your alternative to Breastplate of Valor. Although it gives less CDR, physical protection and power, Mail of Renewal gives a ton of health and a useful passive. I would recommend this item if you plan on investing in less health but more protections later on, or if the enemy team has lots of penetration that will bypass your protections regardless. A good alternative combination is to buy Shoes of Focus, Mail of Renewal, and 
Spirit Robe since this will max out your CDR and provide a lot of health and protections as well as two useful passives.Counter CC Build
Reinforced Shoes and Spirit Robe rather than Shoes of Focus and Void Stone is for countering teams with large amounts of crowd control, especially during the early game. Late game this can somewhat be countered with Magi's Blessing, but this build will still be more adept at countering teams with large amounts of hard CC.
Reinforced Shoes give you additional health and CC reduction compared to Shoes of Focus, but lacks CDR and has 10 less power. This will give you a more defensive early game, but leave you more prepared to handle hard CC in lane and later in the game.
Spirit Robe works wonderfully paired with Reinforced Shoes. Its CDR maxes out your stat at 40% in place of Shoes of Focus and its passive makes you extremely resistant to CC combos (especially working alongside the passive from Reinforced Shoes). Despite this, I still prefer to buy this item later on since you really need to complete Sovereignty and Heartward Amulet to get the auras for your teammates before you start investing in your own protections. It's best used to replace Void Stone as your 5th item, but take note that you can still buy Void Stone as a 6th item regardless.Core Build
Vampiric Shroud is great for providing some extra health so that you can clear without worrying as much about taking too much damage, as well as some additional sustain.
ALTERNATIVE Mark of the Vanguard leaves you with less mana sustain, but much more tanky allowing you to take more damage clearing waves early and not have to worry as much about using your mana to heal up. This item is useful against enemies that are capable of safely dealing damage to your early on and can help you if you're getting poked out of lane.
Shoes of the Magi are my preferred choice for my first item as Solo-bek. They offer essential movement speed, power, penetration which greatly helps your base damages, and mana which Sobek is incredibly dependent on.
Shielded Teleport is essential for pressuring your lane as Sobek in the solo lane. This item not only gives you the extra sustain and lane pressure from returning to base more quickly, but it also allows you to rotate from solo island later on to help in teamfights, and helps you move around the map later in the game. This item is a must have.
Greater Blink over other actives. It can allow you to close in on an enemy incredibly fast, leaves your Charge Prey at the ready and overall gives you incredible engage potential.
ALTERNATIVE Enfeebling Curse reduces enemies movement and attack speed making it a great follow up to Charge Prey. It can also help you catch up to enemies that have moved out of the radius of Lurking In The Waters making it an incredible tool for your kit. Its attack speed debuff is also excellent for reducing damage from warriors, hunters and assassins.
ALTERNATIVE Weakening Curse is the same as Enfeebling Curse, only reducing enemy's healing rather than attack speed. This item can be great for countering solo laners dependent on their healing to survive.
Breastplate of Valor is my go-to second item against any physical solo laners. It provides awesome CDR, mana and physical protection for a cheap price, giving you everything you need to sustain your lane and reach mid-late game where you can begin to wreak havoc. Alternatively, if you're playing against a magical solo laner you may want to go with 
Ethereal Staff first.
ALTERNATIVE Heartward Amulet is your best option. It has essential MP5 and gives you an awesome amount of health, magical defense and some physical defense. This item does not REPLACE Breastplate of Valor, only its spot. You should move up every item of your build one place. Do note however that you will need to speak to your support before building this since its aura does not stack, so having more than one per team can be less than preferable.
ALTERNATIVE Heartward Amulet due to not being able to negotiate with your support, Void Stone may be a better purchase since it gives such a power advantage to the user. Like Heartward Amulet, this item does not REPLACE Breastplate of Valor, only its spot. You should move up every item of your build one place. However, this item gives you less of a presence late game and should usually be sold for Spirit Robe if the game progresses to that stage.
ALTERNATIVE Hel or Chang'e, Divine Ruin may be a situationally better purchase since it gives allows you to cancel out their healing. Like the previous alternatives, this item does not REPLACE Breastplate of Valor, only its spot. You should move up every item of your build one place. However, this item gives you less of a presence late game and should usually be sold for Spirit Robe if the game progresses to that stage. Alternatively you can also buy Weakening Curse to counter healers rather than Greater Blink.
Ethereal Staff gives you an fantastic amount of health and mana as well as some power to boot. This item will give you the perfect blend of tanky power to annihilate your enemies while preventing them from bursting you down.
ALTERNATIVE Gem of Isolation can provide you with more power and utility than Ethereal Staff, at the cost of some health and mana. In some situations this can be better, especially if your team lacks slows. Otherwise, this item lacks statwise in comparison to Ethereal Staff. You can also accomplish a similar effect with the Creeping Curse active rather than blink.
Mystical Mail provides you with more essential physical protections as well as health and a passive that does damage over time. Since Sobek is so great at sticking to people, this passive actually does an incredible amount of damage that can be used to your advantage. While this item is better earlier in the game, Sobek suffers too much from mana deficiency to really take advantage of it until 4th item.
Sobek has to get his damage from more than just his base damages. 
Soul Reaver does just that, giving him a passive that will allow him to chunk enemies' health at any appropriate time. To use this item to its maximum effectiveness, you should make sure not to waste its passive poking the enemy. Avoid this at all costs.
Spirit Robe is the final piece that ties your whole kit together. Its combined defenses as well as its CDR and passive allow you to aggressively stay in the middle of teamfights, utilizing your abilities as often as possible and being as unaffected by CC as you can without beads or aegis.
ALTERNATIVE Spear of the Magus. This item will give you the appropriate penetration to still do damage to them, at the cost of additional tankiness and CDR. Only use this item if you have to.code
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Sentry Ward on GF, but it is acceptable to use a regular one as well. Try to always have eyes on the GF, if your ward goes down, it is likely that the enemy team is going for the objective.Objective Warding
Sentry Wards (they themselves can be either regular wards or sentry wards). This can allow you to surprise the enemy team after they believe you have no eyes on the objective. However, these wards are risky since you sacrifice direct vision on the objective.Late Warding
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Chang'e here.
templateTactics Waxing Moon is fantastic in teamfights, allowing you to stun the entire enemy team so your team can take advantage of them. While you shouldn't necessarily be on the front lines, you do have good escapes, so don't be afraid to fight the other team aggressively. Make sure to heal as many teammates as possible while you fight for objectives and try to push lanes to eventually take down the Titan. You may not rack up that many kills, but you should help most of your team's, lending you many assists. Additionally, you are also the best at saving your teammates, as your Waxing Moon and Moonflower Dance can stun an enemy and heal your teammate, easily turning a teammate's death into that of an enemy's. By the very end game, Chang'e has incredible healing, fantastic escapes and immense damage output. This is the stage that every Chang'e should try to achieve.
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Bellona's. You may only need one section depending on how varied your lane is (eg: solo lane has many matchups, while Mid has fewer).
template Bellona can be strong in 1v1s or teamfights depending on how you build her. As a result, the opponent you're laning against has an impact on which you may want to choose. Here are the matchups of some typical opponents you may find in the solo lane.
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Chronos is very similar to an adc making him easily countered by Bellona. He's got a poor early game and is reliant on his basic attacks for damage. Regardless, he still does have quite a bit of burst damage, so beware of falling prey to that. He can be hard to pursue because of his movement speed buff and his ultimate, but overall you should be able to overpower him in lane.
EASY Aphrodite has an insane amount of healing and sustain making Pestilence or 
Brawler's Beat Stick highly advisable. However, that's really all she has. She has no escapes except for using a stun and a knockback/slow. Her ultimate can only be used every so often, so once it's down feel free to go in for a kill. All in all, don't be stupid. If you're low on health return to base. Aphrodite's main source of damage (
Love Birds) can easily chip you to death if you're not careful.
MEDIUM Hel has an incredible amount of healing and damage, but is also incredibly squishy and lacks an ultimate. Do NOT stay in lane with her if you are at low health and play defensively if she gains an advantage. Both of you clear minions best from the middle of a wave so whoever controls this has a huge advantage over the other. Attaining this advantage can be done by either getting an early game lead, or buying direct counter items such as Pestilence and Brawler's Beat Stick. Once you gain an advantage, Hel is an easy target. Outleveled, her damage is pitiful compared to your defenses and she has no escapes making her a free kill.
MEDIUM Ra is strong. He has healing, waveclear, and a huge amount of damage potential. However, Ra is also squishy and has no escapes. Overall, be careful when fighting this god. He will outpush you in lane, but that's okay. Try to deal damage to him while clearing the wave (and optionally buy Pestilence or Brawler's Beat Stick so that the damage doesn't get immediately healed). If he stays in lane while he's still low, then he's an easy kill. If he pushes you to tower all game, then he's an easy gank for your jungler. However, most importantly AVOID HIS ULTIMATE. Getting hit by this is like getting steamrolled by a truck. Avoid at all costs.
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Hades is a strong solo laner with a lot of sustain. My biggest piece of advice is to buy Purification Beads, otherwise you are at the mercy of his ultimate 
Pillar of Agony. Generally when facing Hades it's a battle of who controls the center of each minion wave since you both need to be in the middle for the best clear. Generally, try to poke Hades down and finish him if he continues to stay in lane.
HARD Chang'e, like Hel is another healer. However, her healing isn't as large in quantity as Hel's and she relies more on her evasiveness for health sustain, so investing in Pestilence or Brawler's Beat Stick is not always as necessary. Chang'e has a weak early game which you can take advantage of. She needs to be close to waves to clear, so try to attack her and her wave at the same time. If she takes too much damage she'll be forced to return to base. Otherwise Chang'e has incredible sustain and can stay in lane for the entire first half of the game. Try to send her back to base whenever possible. Aside from this, Chang'e is a tricky opponent to deal with. Her Moonflower Dance reduces your healing from 
Scourge and that and her Crescent Moon Dance allow her to chip away at your health consistently. Do not stay in lane if low on health because her combo of Crescent Moon Dance into her ultimate Waxing Moon into a Moonflower Dance and another Crescent Moon Dance (both of which can be executed before you are out of stun) can be enough to easily take away a quarter of your health, and she won't be afraid to tower dive you. All her dances also give her passive movement speed and her Moonlit Waltz allows her to avoid damage, stuns and slows making her almost impossible to chase (especially if she still has her ultimate ready). Your best chance at taking Chang'e down is if she is overly aggressive and still fighting at low health. She's incredibly squishy, so just landing a few abilities can be enough to take her out.warriors
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Vamana is an interesting god, but is very basic attack focused. He has better lane clear than you mid game with his 
Umbrellarang and he has incredible sustain. However, he has a hard time dealing damage to you unless he uses his ultimate. Generally this is easy to get away from with 
Eagle's Rally, but if this is not available try to use 
Shield Bash to get out of his range and move to tower. I would advise against attacking him while he is giant since it will only prolong his ultimate.
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Sun Wukong is a very easy god to lane against. It's easy to dominate the center of his minion waves with 
Bludgeon because Bellona can shrug off his 
The Magic Cudgel and replenish the damage with Scourge (and use it for poke as well). Sun Wukong is all about sustain. He will deal sustained damage to you over a long period of time while at the same time maintaining his own health, he has very little burst potential. On the other hand, he is hard to pursue and kill due to his 
72 Transformations, 
Master's Will and 
Somersault Cloud so you may not get an advantage against him in lane without the help of your jungler.
MEDIUM Chaac is more or less an even match if he plays correctly. Avoid getting hit by his 
Thunder Strike as it is his main method of poke, and make sure to harass him with Scourge to give him a hard time utilizing his passive 
Overflow. If he has too much sustain, you may want to invest in purchasing Brawler's Beat Stick. Do note that he does have quite a bit of burst potential with his ultimate and can pursue you with 
Rain Dance's slow, so avoid confronting him when at low hp. Chasing him can be difficult due to his teleport, but as long as you keep Eagle's Rally at the ready, you should be able to finish him off.
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Guan Yu can be a tricky opponent. He has a dash/slow, protections shredding and great abilities for pursuing you as well as a heal. His heal is not particularly noteworthy but it does give him some added sustain. Avoid attacking him after he uses his 
Taolu Assault since he will have stolen your protections for 3 seconds making him harder to kill while simultaneously making you easier. Generally he's not terribly hard to counter, but avoid going too far up lane if you're below half health since his slow from 
Warrior's Will and his ultimate 
Cavalry Charge allow him to pursue you all the way to your tower.
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Odin is an interesting pick. He's reliant on using 
Raven Shout and 
Lunge to clear waves. Avoid getting hit by this at all costs, it deals a ton of damage. However, once he's done that he's very vulnerable. It's usually best to try to hit him and his minions with a Bludgeon or a Scourge to retaliate. His ultimate is easy to counter, just make sure to save Eagle's Rally, and if not use Scourge to limit his damage potential. Winged Blade is advisable to escape his slows.
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Osiris is a hard god to lane against. Most of his abilities are strong against gods and are centered around his slow, so prioritize attaining Winged Blade. Generally using Bludgeon to clear minion waves is safe since he cannot get too close to you without risking getting hit, but he can still chip away at your health using 
Spirit Flail. I typically find that Osiris has more kill potential than Bellona, but he has worse sustain, so try to outlast him in lane. Avoid getting hit by his 
Sickle Strike, and save your ultimate unless his 
Lord of the Afterlife is already on cooldown.
HARD
Hercules is a great counter to Bellona because of his skill set. He can stop you mid Bludgeon with either his 
Driving Strike or his 
Earthbreaker making clearing waves a pain, or even hit you with Earthbreaker if trying to clear with Scourge instead. He's too tanky to wear down easily from your attacks and he can pull you out of your Eagle's Rally with Earthbreaker as well. His lack of basic attacks for damage also make your Scourge and 
Master of War less useful My best advice is to play it safe for early game and wait until you have enough defenses to tackle this monster. Level up and use Scourge to clear waves and try to avoid Earthbreaker as much as possible. Generally if using Shield Bash to dodge it, dodge to the left or right since the hitbox is larger away or towards him. However, do note that if dodging using Shield Bash fails, you've used up your best escape. If you lose some gold by having your minions under tower, that's okay. Just try to outsustain him and get more xp. If he pushes you to tower for long enough, your jungler will have many opportunities to gank him as well.Assassins
EASY Bakasura is probably the easiest god for Bellona to counter in the game. Her passive Master of War along with Scourge's disarm make his damage output pitiful. If you're really having trouble, buy Witchblade in place of Winged Blade, but there's no real scenario in which this should happen. Do be aware that his 
Butcher Blades will still go through all the defenses provided by Master of War and Eagle's Rally, so make sure to always disarm him when you see him activate this.
MEDIUM
Loki can be somewhat difficult to play against. His wave clear is hard to punish and he's hard to predict due to his 
Vanish. He's not basic attack reliant, but Scourge can still come in use. If being pursued, Scourge and hitting him with Shield Bash are your best shot aside from using your ultimate. Overall, try not to let him burst you down and punish him for his squishiness. With only moderate poking you should be able to force him to return to base.
MEDIUM
Mercury is obnoxious to lane against. He has decent wave clear and poke with 
Made You Look and is nearly impossible to pursue due to his 
Special Delivery, 
Maximum Velocity, 
Sonic Boom... you get the point. Avoid letting him land his Special Delivery and poke you down. Generally once he uses this you want to land a Scourge since it leaves him much less able to punish you. Poking him down is your best chance at winning the early and mid game. Finally, YOU ARE NEVER SAFE. His ultimate can be coming at any time so be ready and prepared for when it may hit. Don't get cocky recalling under tower with low hp.
HARD
Bastet is a HUGE pain in the *** to fight. Being ability based Scourge is more or less ineffectual against her kit. She will chip you down until you are nothing if you let her, so play defensively and poke when you can. Always buy Winged Blade to reduce how often you are slowed by Declaw and to avoid her ultimate Cat Call. However, she is still an easy kill if she is low on health. She only has one escape and you can easily pursue her using Eagle's Rally if she chooses to use it. Being very squishy, an overly aggressive Bastet can easily be your own prey.Hunters
EASY
Neith as an adc is heavily reliant on her basic attacks for damage. However, she is relatively ability based for a hunter. Her 
Spirit Arrow does a lot of ranged damage and roots you, take this into account when using Bludgeon. Her backflip while good at avoiding your chip damage is easy to counter with your ultimate Eagle's Rally. Overall, Scourge along with Neith's squishiness should make her an easy match in lane.code
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Smite is an online battleground between mythical gods. Players choose from a selection of gods, join session-based arena combat and use custom powers and team tactics against other players and minions. Smite is inspired by Defense of the Ancients (DotA) but instead of being above the action, the third-person camera brings you right into the combat. And, instead of clicking a map, you use WASD to move, dodge, and fight your way through the detailed graphics of SMITE's battlegrounds.
SMITEFire is the place to find the perfect build guide to take your game to the next level. Learn how to play a new god, or fine tune your favorite SMITE gods’s build and strategy.
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I don't know why, but when reading I totally skipped the Accessory section for some reason.
It's cool then, more reading to do :)
Wonderful guide of course
EDIT: Ok I read the section, and it is clearly explained what are those b's.
However, I would suggest to put that text more apparent, as I find it easy to miss.
Do note: for the coding sections, code blocks do not show new lines, so these will be indicated with a b (ie: line break). To get the same code you see here, just delete the b's.
This code is taken from the section "Template - Introduction / Template 1 / Code", but it happens often in your guide.
I noticed that there are often lines with only a "b" character.
I think it's supposed to mean an empty line.
I was wondering if that is the right way to do it, or if it is an output mistake ?
Wow Zilby! Quick and good work! You have all the useful info here, your work will certainly be seen in the future guides.
I'm upvoting this and I'll link this in my guidecrafting guide whenever I get it finished. But it might take longer than 2 days to get it published ;)
Thanks :)
And yeah, we still need a guidecrafting guide, I gave a really brief overview of each section, but this guide is really more on just how to use the templates than anything else.
(just a small point a build guide does need to explain skill order that's it)
I don't have a template for just explaining skill order so I'm just not going to mention that :P
I'm upvoting this and I'll link this in my guidecrafting guide whenever I get it finished. But it might take longer than 2 days to get it published ;)
*edit: finished doing stuff mentioned above, also added a section for the headers I used in this guide, and edited the code so that it indicates empty line breaks with 'b' rather than not showing them at all.
@Bran, I didn't notice that, I added on those blue headers at the last second, I guess I messed some of them up. *This guide was done in 2 hours so it may not be my best formatted*
FYI, you probably noticed, but you've got a lot of incomplete [/center]s in the summaries at the tops of many sections.