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Arena(LifeSteal Build)

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Smite God: Apollo

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Apollo Build

Warrior Tabi

Soul Eater

Asi

Devourer's Gauntlet

Bloodforge

Deathbringer

Apollo's Skill Order

So Beautiful

1 X

1 3 6 7 9

Serenade

2 A

2 8 10 11 12

The Moves

3 B

4 13 14 15 16

Across The Sky

4 Y

5 17 18 19 20

1 3 6 7 9

So Beautiful

1 X

Apollo strums a single cord on his lyre. It's so beautiful it hurts, and all enemies in a long range line take damage.

Ability Type: Line, Damage
Damage: 90 / 150 / 210 / 270 / 330 (+90% of your Physical Power)
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 11s

2 8 10 11 12

Serenade

2 A

Apollo uses his amazing voice to mesmerize all nearby enemies and bolster himself with additional Protections. Any damage done breaks the effect.

Ability Type: Circle, Mesmerize
Mesmerize Duration: 1.5 / 1.7 / 1.9 / 2.1 / 2.3s
Protections: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30
Buff Lifetime: 5s
Radius: 20
Cost: 60
Cooldown: 15 / 14.5 / 14 / 13.5 / 13s

4 13 14 15 16

The Moves

3 B

Apollo runs forward and slides on his knees, dealing damage, knocking aside all enemies and adding a stack of Audacity for each enemy hit. At the end of the slide, the movement speed is decreased for enemies and increased for himself and allies.

Ability Type: Dash, Buff, Damage
Damage: 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+60% of your Physical Power)
Movement Speed Buff/Debuff: 15 / 17.5 / 20 / 22.5 / 25%
Buff Duration: 5s
Cost: 70
Cooldown: 15s

5 17 18 19 20

Across The Sky

4 Y

Apollo rides his chariot across the sky, choosing when to land, dealing damage every .15s for .6s as he lands. Enemies hit by the last tick of the landing will also be knocked up.

Ability Type: Circle, Knockup, Damage
Damage Per Tick: 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170 (+25% of your Physical Power)
Range/Radius: 60/20
Cost: 20 + 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 per second
Cooldown: 110s

Summary

You want to purchase warrior Tabi up to the 900 build boots, Then purchase the gauntlets for 600, Depending on how you play with Apollo, this can be purchased next (Asi),You may say why this one next, I usually try to manage to get all of my items to one part of the build (set) to deal more damage to enemies without focusing on completing and item, Then, you can build (Deathbringer) this one early but late as possible depending on the kills and coins you manage to save from either the minions or the little enemies.

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Also guys this is a build for arena it’s meant to have fun

(401) |

I'm cool with builds targeted at just having fun. That said, I just don't see anything here where there's any real strong function. What exactly is making this fun compared to an adjusted build? Yes, you've got high lifesteal, but that by itself doesn't make it fun IMO, and the second someone applies anti-heal to you it's significantly reduced in effectiveness. You have only 25% crit chance...when you crit the lifesteal will be higher, but the chance of critting isn't high. When you do crit, it'll do some damage but not as much as it could because you don't have much pen. And you won't get a ton of chances because you build almost no attack speed. So I still just don't really get the point much here.

Concepts of "fun" to me might be something like a tanky build where people aren't expecting it, and attack you but find it super difficult to kill you. Or maybe a strong CC build using Frostbound and other things that work synergistically with it. Or maybe a high movement speed build where you can dash, run around having people chasing but never catching you. But this isn't doing anything special other than building high lifesteal, with not enough crit/pen/attack speed.

(81) |

I'm downvoting this guide because of the concerns Bran mentioned. That much lifesteal isn't really needed in arena and having 4 items devoted to it with absolutely no penetration items means you're really compromising the power of this build. Also having that much lifesteal is just begging your opponents to build anti-heal, which will really eat into your sustainability.

Because of 's passive, , you can either go with a crit build or a build depending upon the enemy team makeup: crit for squishy combinations with little to no protection or extra health items built and qin's for tankier combinations that build high health and protections.

We'll be glad to provide viable build examples, but as this build currently stands, I cannot in good faith recommend it to anyone, especially not to newer players just learning how to play Apollo in arena.

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Regarding apollos nerf when testing this build crit didn't work out as much as this build did,Apollo is overall squishy this doesn't make up for that, if utilizes well, found it to be more suitable to his play style. Thank you for the information though.

(81) |

Of course crit doesn't work if you're only building one crit item and/or aren't building or for pen. Apollo's job is to output damage, not take it. I can understand building a bit more lifesteal in assault, but it's not really all that needed in arena since the fountain is so close.

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When referring to crit items I mean like overall 50-70, this build for arena is to have other people test other parts of abilities items, He does significant damage testing this build hitting 400-600 damage, its an overall fun build just though I share what I found works

(401) |

I'm just curious what nerf you're referring to. As of all of season 5, he's only ever gotten buffs. See changelog: https://smite.gamepedia.com/Apollo

And my bad... 4x lifesteal (which is even worse than 3x) gets shut down hard with any anti-heal. Also, when you're playing ADC, your team is relying on you to output damage... With no significant pen, you're really hurting your damage output potential.

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Just season 5 changes overall, from season 4. Damage is being dealt overall as a team in arena, I get the role of an ADC, the damage potential should not hurt at all when you can build base on items of choice which I thought I share

(401) |

Ugh... No offense Sylens (and that's a game for another post), but no major pen (E. G. Exe), 3x lifesteal, and one crit item. This is not an optimized build at all.

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You'll be surprised with the advantage of 3x lifesteal would do in the game, Creating a build that's skillful enough to the nerf they been giving to Apollo lately, this build is substantial

(7) |

BranMuffin's points still stand. Your build needs improving.

Try this instead:

wind demon

This is a off meta build (and non optimal), but since you like lifesteal so much, you could do:

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You can build what ever you like if I find due to more testing that I can't succeed with this build I will improve it most definitely. Thank you for the input

(81) |

4x lifesteal, Bran, not 3x (Asi, BF, SE, and Dev).

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Arena(LifeSteal Build)

Smite God: Apollo

Apollo Build

Apollo's Skill Order

So Beautiful

Serenade

The Moves

Across The Sky

Summary

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