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Warrior Tabi
Transcendence
Asi
The Executioner
Rage
Deathbringer
Qin's Sais
Warrior Tabi
Transcendence
Asi
The Executioner
Silverbranch Bow
Qin's Sais
Titan's Bane
Hunter's Blessing
Morningstar
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Warrior Tabi
Silverbranch Bow
Asi
The Executioner
Rage
Deathbringer
Qin's Sais
Bloodforge
Ninja Tabi
Silverbranch Bow
The Executioner
Rage
Deathbringer
Y
B
A
X
Item Notes: In all these builds I put 7 items...but you can't do that?!?! I want you to buy an 
Elixir of Speed and sell your boots late game. There is never a reason to keep your boots late game: the Elixir of Speed gives you the same movement speed as boots, and it does this whether you have boots or not because it speciffically does not stack with boots. We thus replace boots with a better item that gives you higher DPS, but you can also sub in 
Poisoned Star for any of those 6th item choices.
Skill Notes: At level 4 and level 8 I say to level your 3, Suppress The Insolent twice in a row, but you can't. What I really want to say is that at level 4 & 8 you should wait and not use your skill point, then at level 5 & 9, put 1 point in your ultimate Calydonian Boar (Tusky), and 1 point in your 3.
In non-Conquest gamemodes where you don't have to focus on clearing because you have mages and others that do it better, you can really benefit from putting your first and second points in your 3 & 1 respectively, then continuing to level your 2, only prioritizing your ult above it for skill points when possible.
Artemis was my first and only true love. I was smitten since I *almost* got many pentas with her and *did* carry tons of games in my naive, level 10 early days with one of my lovely friends as a great support, so this is actually my third time writing a whole big guide for Artemis! Artemis' skills, gameplay, and especially items! Sometimes I'll go crazy with math and DPS calculations and such, but I'll try to always convey the main idea to y'all and include spoilers to keep things intelligible. The build at the top may be the biggest thing I can give to you, and I think it's really good for Artemis throughout all parts of the game. Artemis also has one of the best late games because she has a h u g e attack speed steroid (80% for 5s!), a powerful team ultimate through Tusky, and strong autos and very very strong crits because of how her passive multiplies with the crit multiplier. To balance this out, she has a weak early game because of her bad clear and, her largest flaw, she's always vulnerable because she has no mobility/escape outside of the movement speed boost from her 2, so she's complete gank bait.
"Let the hunt begin!"Art is cool, and Tusky is too.
Transcendence, but not badly (and you should always build it)0. Passive 
Still Target
We'll talk about this more in the items section, but you'll want to be able to utilize this passive by ensuring that you and your team can keep your current target CC'd. I have found that my abilities, team, and relics like 
Horrific Emblem (I tend to rely on my support, around/with whom I pick my duo lane and with whom I communicate the most. However, it may be worth it to invest in Poisoned Star if you feel like it isn't being utilized enough, though you lose a ton of DPS by losing any item in your build. Nonetheless, it really makes building crit more effective on her, especially Deathbringer, allowing you to deal 264.5% damage on crits!
1. Transgressor's Fate
Your characteristic hunting traps have a lot of uses, making laning a lot safer and helping you secure kills against trapped prey. One easy thing you can do is cover one of the jungle paths into your duo lane. You will need to place 2 traps next to each other to completely cover a path. You can also place these in the minion wave to hide them if you notice that your opponents are standing in them a lot. One of the best ways to guarantee hitting a trap is to put one right under the enemy after any CC, such as your ult or even your 3, to help you in securing a kill.
2. Vengeful Assault
This skill gives you a huge attack speed buff at max level in Smite attack speed boosts always scale off of your base attack speed, which is 0.95* for Artemis. This means at max rank it will ALWAYS add 0.76 (80% of 0.95) to your current attack speed, regardless of your other buffs, items, or even debuffs (as long as you don't hit the cap). With your 2, you only need 50% attack speed from your items to hit the attack speed cap, so we keep that in mind when we choose our items. In game modes other than Conquest where you don't need to be focusing on clearing the minion wave, like Arena or Assault, it can even be useful to level this first.
3. Suppress The Insolent
This circle of arrows is your main damage and clear ability. It has pretty good range and comes out quickly, so it's good for poking against enemy ADCs whose clears are linear and don't reach as far. You can sometimes use it in between the minions to hit the full wave if you've hit the warriors back a bit with your autos while they were marching, but most consistently you'll want to go for the archers and simultaneously poke the enemy.
Sometimes, I would recommend not hitting the minions with this at full health, but rather trying to secure as many last hits as possible. Since this isn't an amazing clear and doesn't have a huge hitbox, you will need help from your support or more basic attacks to completely clear the wave so note that when you pick Artemis and your friendly support. You can use your slow to help you escape, help you with hitting traps on moving targets, and make it easier for your support to hit some of their abilities.
4. Calydonian Boar
Artemis' ultimate will summon Tusky who will attack one person at a time in a circle around you. People in a small cone in front of you will be prioritized. You can use it to help you with escaping if you really need it, and you can also use it to counter other ultimates or hard CC and turn the battle around. Remember that there is delay from pressing the ultimate, to when Tusky actually attacks so you will want to make sure that the enemies can't run, dash, or jump away before they are actually hit. This will often allow you to get a bunch of kills and while the opponent is stunned you will want to place a trap under them to give you more time to kill them and hit them with your 3 to slow and damage them. It is always better to use your ult and survive from a battle or get a kill than to just save it, so don't be too afraid to use it. Also, remember that if your opponent has beads or any other CC immunity they may not be stunned and you might not want to be too aggressive. This ultimate is great for team fights when the enemies are grouped up and distracted because it will hit all of them as long as it isn't killed.
"That's how it's done!"
Transcendence, you want to make sure not to waste all your mana so that you can stay in lane until you need to back. You also would like to always have enough mana to use escape abilities, which for us will primarily be our ult, but also traps and our 2. Early on, you only need to use your 3 to clear once or twice per waves. However, once you've built Transcendece, you should feel free to use your 2 at most waves and if you ever box with the enemies. You should also freely place traps, as you can block jungle routes, catch them by surprise in their wave, or kite around traps close to you. This is especially good when the support has an ability where they charge at you and damage or CC you because you can just stay close and rotate around and they won't be able to get around it. Otherwise, just having them around can sneakily catch unwary opponents, so let them sit around! Transcendence when you have the tier 1, and you will probably want to recall as soon as you have enough because this item is often your stacking item or an important lifesteal item. Remember that you still can recall earlier if the enemies are very aggressive and have the ability to kill you because it's better to not die, but usually you can just stay under tower and be pushed. Throughout the game, you should follow similar guidelines for recalling and use your mana according to when you think you will recall. Remember to also factor in actives you might buy and wards or mana potions. If you are at a point where you are in lane and you don't feel safe, don't have wards, don't have mana or don't have anything else you can safely do in lane and you don't think you should stay there then feel free to clear the wave and recall or even rotate to mid lane or camps or your own camps.
TLDR Takeaways!
Pythagorem's Piece aura, 
Void Shield proc, and causing full 
Stone Cutting Sword stacks, along with an enemy with around 10,000 health to let you fully stack The Executioner and Rage on them. Fun!Here are some principles Hunter's Blessing. Transcendence > 
Devourer's Gauntlet. Transcendence or Devourer's Gauntlet. They serve us well early by being our main source of priority one: PP, and we of course also need to build their stacks through last-hitting minions (dealing the finishing blow to them) to get their full effect, and we want to get this done quickly while we're still completely focused on laning and not rotating, getting kills, or doing objective pushes for Towers, Gold Fury, or Fire Giant. Devourer's Gauntlet also checks a box for lifesteal, which we want pretty early. However, Transcendence gives a lot more power, while also solving Artemis' mana problems (which are actually now not even close to as bad as before!). Because Asi is so great, Transcendence+ Asi will always grant more DPS than Devourer's Gauntlet+Poison Star or [Ichaival]] or Silverbranch Bow or 
Odysseus' Bow, though each still have their own utilities. Along with solving your mana problems and imo having a stronger Power Curve, I also actually prefer Asi's lower base lifesteal and big lifesteal passive over Devourer's Gauntlet more consistent lifesteal Late Game, and that would've been the only reason I might've situationally preferred Devourer's Gauntlet. However, you may find laning a bit nicer from the start if you start with lifesteal rather than waiting until 2nd or 3rd item to have any lifesteal, so you may find it better sometimes. Ninja Tabi -> Warrior Tabi. Warrior Tabi is initially better at level 1 because we desperately need power then, but because we're building it after our stacking power item significantly later, Ninja Tabi adding to the low AS we have to multiply with our currently high power is better than maintaining our low AS and multiplying it with even higher power. It also is 50 gold cheaper and gives us 200 mana, which with Trans' passive is 200*.03=6 PP. So, I'd buy Ninja Tabi first, but maybe switch it our late game if you want to maximize your burst with Vengeful Assault. more incomprehensible math to prove it! Devourer's Gauntlet Asi and Bloodforge are your lifesteal choices if you built Transcendence. Asi is an incredible all-around item and is cheaper, the 15 flat pen excelling at the 3rd item slot while armor levels are still low and the AS excelling as time goes on. It adds so much to your DPS and it is also the best lifesteal item, in my opinion, especially paired with Artemis' highly bursty nature with her crit synergy and Vengeful Assault. Asi, Silverbranch Bow is a really great and surprisingly cheap item that provides lots of power, pen, and attack speed. It's passive also really gives it the edge when you use your 2 because if you build a bow you will definitely overcap on AS by a good amount. However, again, your passive can be a huge boon to your damage, and if you don't feel it's being utilized, then Poisoned Star can fill this flex spot, though you'll actually probably want to build Rage here then Poisoned Star where you would build Rage. The Executioner is always essential because it provides solid stats in 30 power and 25% attack speed for just 2350 gold, and overall your DPS will suffer greatly without pen, since adding just a little bit of protections can kill damage really quickly. At level 20, e.g. Artemis, along with many other hunters, gets from her base stats 72 physical protections, mages on average a bit less, assassins avg similar, warriors a bit more (hovering a bit under 80), and Guardians often going to around 90. Referring to our principles, just 100 protections halves your damage, and with one hybrid item that assassins often build, they'll already be there, while warriors and guardians will be way above that from their items abilities, and passives, possibly making your damage output only 1/4 of what it could be. Now, no one item will normally quadruple or just double your damage, and The Executioner probably won't either, but it'll do a lot. It's also important that you be able to deal damage to these tankier opponents since your jungler and mid are built for bursting people, while ADCs need to have the highest consistent, sustained DPS. Rage & Deathbringer or Bow & Qin's Sais Rage before Deathbringer because their difference in DPS at that point is a completely negligible 8-12 dmg/s, and Rage is much cheaper and more consistent. Afterward, Deathbringer, Rage, your passive, and your overall build play together so beautifully and optimally, also giving you more than the sum of their parts. Silverbranch Bow will actually maximize your DPS w/o your 2 and against squishies. Qin's Sais will have similar DPS that scales upward against enemies with high health. Poisoned Star will always have a bit less DPS, but if your passive wasn't always being procced without it, then it'll definitely increase your DPS. Take your pick! You'll destroy no matter what.
Artemis can give, and because I feel really happy figuring out optimal strategies and noting down all the things I'm curious about. Discussing ideas and receiving feedback from other members of the MOBA, teaching, and gaming community is incredibly fulfilling to me, so I'm so grateful to all the people who have commented their suggestions and their thanks! Here are some extra credits to sources that have been a pivotal part of this endeavor:
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Ichaival
However for most people reading it in the guide they probably aren;t going to care as much or get dizzy from it. honestly would recommend to put it into a spoiler so people that are interested or want to see the proof can read it but also doesn;t clutter up the guide as much.
don;t know if you know how to BBCode however your bold items can be made linkable by the use of brackets (][
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Crit, on the other hand, wants power and lots of it; so going:
Is going crit without lifesteal a good idea? What if the enemy team builds
All AS items are calculated based on the god's base AS. For Art, that's 0.95. At level 20, her adjusted AS is 1.27, so you have to account for her level too.
So, for example,
In your build list at the top, her AS without steroid is 2.315. WITH steroid, it would be 3.075, over 0.5 more than the cap, in which case,
Keep in mind,
As for a non-stacking build, you could go: Warrior, Silverbranch, asi, exe, ichaival, qins.