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Smite God: Achilles

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Achilles Build

Starter

Warrior's Blessing

Round Shield

Healing Potion

Multi Potion

Teleport Fragment

Core

Gladiator's Shield

Warrior Tabi

Counter - Life steal

Notes If against physical Solo laner choose "Brawler's Beat Stick", if against magical Solo laner choose "Pestilence"

Brawler's Beat Stick

Pestilence

Counter - Guardians

Notes Choose this item if the god is naturally a strong character but is not build a defence

Jotunn's Wrath

Counter - Defence

Notes Build "Titan's bane" if you are not taking damage, build "Void Shield" if you are taking damage.

Titan's Bane

Void Shield

Counter - Damage

Notes If you are dying incredibly quickly press "y" to see who is dealing the damage if it is a physical god build "Breastplate of Valor" if it is a physical god build "Bulwark of Hope"

Breastplate of Valor

Bulwark of Hope

Full build - Example (King Arthur)

Gladiator's Shield

Warrior Tabi

Jotunn's Wrath

Brawler's Beat Stick

Void Shield

Bulwark of Hope

Chalice of Healing

Teleport Fragment

Magic Shell

Achilles's Skill Order

Shield of Achilles

1 X

1 3 8 9 12

Radiant Glory

2 A

4 7 11 13 15

Combat Dodge

3 B

2 6 10 14 16

Fatal Strike

4 Y

5 17 18 19 20

1 3 8 9 12

Shield of Achilles

1 X

Achilles punches forward with the of his Shield, inflicting massive damage and stunning enemy targets hit by the impact. The force of his punch continues to radiate past his initial target area, dealing 70% damage to targets farther away. Lane Minions take an extra +15% damage.

Ability Type: Cone, Stun, Damage
Damage: 100 / 155 / 210 / 265 / 320 (+80% of your Physical Power)
Stun Duration: 1s
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 14s

4 7 11 13 15

Radiant Glory

2 A

Achilles is blessed by the gods, giving him bonus Physical Power, Protections, and Crowd Control Reduction for 6 seconds. While this blessing is active, Achilles will heal himself upon successfully damaging enemies with abilities.

Ability Type: Buff
Heal: 18 / 21 / 24 / 27 / 30
Max Heals Per Ability: 4
Physical Power: +6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10%
Protections: +10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20%
Crowd Control Reduction: 20%
Cost: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60
Cooldown: 9s

2 6 10 14 16

Combat Dodge

3 B

Achilles dodges his enemies' attacks before striking them in swift response. If Achilles successfully hits an enemy god with this strike, Achilles can use this ability once more before it goes on Cooldown.

Ability Type: Line, Dash, Damage
Damage: 65 / 100 / 135 / 170 / 205 (+45% of your Physical Power)
Range: 35
Cost: 22 / 24 / 26 / 28 / 30
Cooldown: 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10s

5 17 18 19 20

Fatal Strike

4 Y

Achilles winds up a large attack and dashes forward. While dashing, Achilles will pass through minions, stop and hit the first enemy god he encounters, dealing damage to all he hits and executing gods below 30% Health. If Achilles kills a god with this ability, he can use it again, up to 5 times.

As Achilles successfully Executes his enemies, he becomes more reckless in combat and leaves his heel exposed. Achilles will become more susceptible to damage, stacking up to 5 times.

Ability Type: Line, Dash, Damage
Damage: 180 / 270 / 360 / 450 / 540 (+100% of your Physical Power)
Execute Threshold: 30%
Damage Taken Increase: 5%
Range: 35
Cost: 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100
Cooldown: 90s

Achilles Threats

Tap each threat level to view Achilles’s threats

Max

Major

Even

Minor

Tiny

Chapter Title

Achilles - Hero of the Trojan War

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(13) |

A few considerations:

1. This build is too squishy for the Solo lane.
2. doesn't exactly needs CDR on his build, so you can skip items like and .
3. and should be your priorities, and not .

An example-generic build would look something like this:

> > > > > > > .

(143) |

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3. and should be your priorities, and not .

I thought priority was > > > ?

(13) |

I prefer over for the increased protections, power and healing. should be used mainly for CC, not damage.

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(143) |

Is this because of Radiant glory's last buff to the healing?

Anyway Shield of Achilles is still useful for waveclear (are you sure the power from radiant glory outweighs the extra damage from ranking shield of achilles?)

Also not to mention that you don't put further points into the ult so it's not like you would max Radiant glory that late in the levelling I proposed.

At least for jungle you would use my levelling priority surely?

(13) |

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Is this because of Radiant glory's last buff to the healing?

Its because I started playing more with him and realized how busted this ability is. The buff only made it better.

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Anyway Shield of Achilles is still useful for waveclear (are you sure the power from radiant glory outweighs the extra damage from ranking shield of achilles?)

I won't deny that its useful for waveclear, but Achilles' early clear is trash no matter what.
And the main reason I prioritize Radiant Glory is the healing and protections, the power is secondary.

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At least for jungle you would use my levelling priority surely?

Yes, since will be your main clear in jungle and you won't be fighting that often for to be useful. You could also do something similar to and and put 2 points in to help with early clear and then prioritize afterwards.

(143) |

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Its because I started playing more with him and realized how busted this ability is. The buff only made it better.

Not just the ability buff but the extra health in the build from building blackthorn. Achilles was fine but Hi Rez decided "lets buff Achilles" because why the hell not. Probably had a skin released when the buff came as well.

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You could also do something similar to Pele and Da Ji and put 2 points in Shield of Achilles to help with early clear and then prioritize Combat Dodge afterwards.

Why would you do that? Surely you have better clear with 2 abilities, and not 1? Even 1 combat dodge on it's own is surely better for clear than just putting an extra point at level 2 for shield of achilles.

(13) |

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Knight of Mordred was released that time, I believe.

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"You could also do something similar to Pele and Da Ji and put 2 points in Shield of Achilles to help with early clear and then prioritize Combat Dodge afterwards." - why would you do that? Surely you have better clear with 2 abilities, and not 1? Even 1 combat dodge on it's own is surely better for clear than just putting an extra point at level 2 for shield of achilles.

I don't think I made myself clear.

With Pele and Da Ji I put two points in their clear abilities before level 5, but prioritize the other damage ability after that.

:
First 5 levels: > > > > .
Skill Order: > > > .

:
First 5 levels: > > > > .
Skill Order: > > > .

So, my skill order for jungle would be:
First 5 levels: > > > > .
Skill Order: > > > .

Does it make sense now?

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(105) |

I don't think will give you better jgl clear like it does in solo. Or does the reset proc on jgl camps?

(143) |

Oh I messed up, I meant to say 1 > 3 > 1 > 2 > 4

(143) |

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2. doesn't exactly needs CDR on his build, so you can skip items like and .

doesen't mean CDR is bad on him, you could do well with a cdr focused build.

(13) |

Well, yes, but his cooldowns aren't that long and Glad Shield/Blackthorn/Blue Buff will already put you at 30% CDR.

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(143) |

I meant if you weren't building blackthorn, e.g. Warrior, glad, genji's, breastplate, sell glad shield late and breastplate late for like a power/defense item and mantle.

(13) |

There's no need for Breastplate in this example you listed, since you'll overcap CDR with blue buff.

(143) |

Ok I just realised what the problem was, remove glad shield from the build. You can start warrior's blessing and tier 1 boot + chalice anyway.

(13) |

Do you really want to skip Glad shield, though?

(143) |

I mean, you don't need it that badly, and they buffed the healing on his 2. Not saying that what I suggested is the best build path, just another option.

(143) |

glad, warrior , blackthorn, void , urchin, masamune, sell boots for spirit robe. You have so much health that you can still use glad shield pretty well into the lategame.

(13) |

No dedicated magical defense?

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(143) |

The build I saw had genji's late taking the place of void shield. Wasn't what I built, just what I saw, and they had plenty of health while keeping glad shield late that they were sustaining themselves pretty well in fights (then again they probably skipped void shield because I was Bellona ADC and not a hunter building qins).

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Achilles - Hero of the Trojan War

Smite God: Achilles

Achilles Build

Starter

Core

Counter - Life steal

Counter - Guardians

Counter - Defence

Counter - Damage

Full build - Example (King Arthur)

Achilles's Skill Order

Shield of Achilles

Radiant Glory

Combat Dodge

Fatal Strike

Achilles Threats

King Arthur | Maximum

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