Artemis - The Hunt is On

Hi there and welcome to my 2nd guide for Season 2 and this one will feature another of the oldest gods Artemis the Goddess of the Hunt in this guide i will explain how to overall play with Artemis her Pros and Cons and the many builds she can go into due to her passive giving her some Versatility

short version texts for reference if you dont know them already

AA - Auto Attack

AS - Attack Speed

FG - Fire Giant

GF - Gold Fury

AD - Attack Damage

AP/MP - Ability Power/Magic Power

AoE - Area Of Effect

MIA - Missing In Action

CD - Cooldown

CDR - Cool Down Reduction

HP - Hit Points/health bar

MP - Mana Points

HP5 - Health/hit Point Regeneration per 5 sec

MP5 - Mana point regeneration per 5 sec

DoT - Damage Over Time

HoG - hand of gods

Beads - Greater Purification (cleanses CC)

LoS - Line Of Sight

Pen - Penetration followed by Flat or % to state what type it is

Here i will explain what all her spells do and some Mechanics Behind Them:

Still Target(~) After Landing a AA(Auto Attack/Left Click) We Gain 5% critical Strike Chance for 4 sec stacking up to 3x(times) for a total of 15% crit chance.

Personal Opinion and Thoughts

This is were some of our Early - Mid Game Threat is scoring crits from the very start can deal a lot of damage to enemy gods in case we luck out and land 2 - 3 crits at a lvl 5 or so fight chances are we just won the fight this also lets us go into some more unique item builds but more on that bellow.

Mechanic Advise and Tips

some of its uses areFollowing up the Supports CC as it Ends, Using it to help us escape,using it in combination with our Calydonian Boarto CC the enemy god for a longer period of time.

In other words this is one of our core tools for out playing the enemy god for example you can put this behind a enemy god while fighting and when they try to back off they might step into it which then lets you get a few free hits in or if lucky it might cancel out there dash if they happened to use it without looking properly very deadly if you do this when a enemy is tower diving quite nasty stuff(2-3 tower hits guarantee).

We can Also Use 2 Traps to seal off one Entry Point to our lane this can be useful as junglers without jumps will need to take another route or alert you to there presence while junglers with jumps and teleprorts will need to use them to reach you first.

Finally we can pop this at our feet as we run awayand if the enemy god was right behind us they will be rooted and crippled if there on low HP you can now turn around pop Vengeful Assault and shot them down Late Game this is pretty much a death sentence if they survive with a active you can pop Calydonian Boar to stun them and land those last few AA for the kill.

Vengeful Assault (2) This is Our Steroid on Demand granting 35% - 75% Attack Speed and 20% movement speed for 3 - 5 sec scaling from skill rank 1 - rank 5.

Mechanic Advise and Tips

This Spell is what makes us a monster towards and after the late middle game and what grants us some good Chasing and Escape Potential in combination with sprint its pretty much a 60% movement speed steroid and since sprint at rank 3 lets us AA while Moving without slowing down were a giant Super Fast Moving and Fast Attacking Monster Ending Most Targets that happen to be in the front.

Suppress the Insolent(3) We Shot a Hail of Arrows in the Targeted AoE Dealing Damage and Slowing down Targets hit.

Mechanic Advise and Tips

This is Our Basic Poke and is a very Simple Skill we can use it to Harass The Enemy Gods in Lane,Clear the Archer Minions,Slow Down Escaping Gods or Slow Down Chasing gods the most important thing here is that this spell does not Require Line Of Sight(LoS) which means we can shot it over walls/corners without trouble to catch up to the enemy or to Secure a kill if a Low HP enemy god Jumps Over a Wall to Escape us.

Calydonian Boar (4) We Summon Our Trusty Boar Tusky for 6 seconds who will after a short delay charge the nearest enemy god dealing damage and stunning them after this he will charge towards the next nearest enemy god over the course of his Life Span of 6 Seconds.

a Lot of Mechanic Details Advise and some Tips

Sorry about the cut ups for each tip i had to use it since each one is focused around another scenario

Now This Spell is a Little bit more complicated due to the way Tusky charges the actual range of this spell Is Not As Far As Indicated by the targeterthats the charge range for Tusky after he has made his initial Charge and it moves with Tusky him Self.
Thus you can assume that the range of this spell is about 60% of what its telling you on the first charge then the range of the first charge moves with tusky as he charges again .

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Another Thing of Note Once Tusky Has you Set as his Target and Charges at you he will follow you even if you dash , jump , teleport to your new location and stun you semi global spells and stealth is a exception to this though.
Sometimes he will even ignore a 2nd nearby god when doing this thus this can be Abused by a support by making Tusky charge away from there ADC as he jumps towards/away you.

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Make Sure to be Careful with your timing on this spell dont forget Tusky has a small 0.5 sec or less timer while he targets the enemy god if they jump away or dash away or move out of his range with great movement speed(sprint + something else at some distance) Tusky will in this case not charge at them!

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Finally if your running away and have a Combat Blink and are being chased by a enemy god with a jump Anhur for example you can blink over a obvious wall which he can jump you cast tusky and put down a trap towards his landing location and pop Vengeful Assault and turn the tables.

The Branch off for builds will be marked in a Red Underlined Color also im not doing any unicorn or other builds here since the nerf to Qin's Sais it is overall slightly less effective then the critical strike and similar to critical strike builds

For a Simple Read i made the Builds Clickable so just click the one you want and read on However the Standard build is the build all other builds branch off of So i would Recommend Reading the Standard one First!

• Standard Hunter(all other builds branch off of this one)

  
  

  
  
  • Full Build: take note Qin's Sais was nerfed i would not recommend it on hunters unless vs heavy HP teams
    
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  • Startoff with Bluestone Pendant , Spiked Gauntlet and 1 Healing Potion (health potion) after this we had off to our side's RedPower Buff and Purple Attack Speed & In Hand AA power buff Clearing the Red Buff with the Support and Mid Laner while doing Purple Buff wit the Support Who Should use Hand of the Gods to clear it nice and fast then hit the lane.
    

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  • Devourer's Gauntlet We Stay in Lane Until we have at Least 1400 Gold for Devourer's Gauntlet and ideally we want 100 gold more then that so we can pick up 1 Healing Potion and 1 Ward after we have Devourer's Gauntlet we need to stack it to get its full benefits this means be careful and farm it up.

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  • Ninja Tabi Our 2nd Item is Always Ninja Tabi the attack speed it grants is always a good boost to our DPS(Damage Per Second) and the movement speed is a Simple Must Have.

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  • our next item depends on what we need or want our options are
    

    The Executioner This item grants us a good amount of Attack Speed some ok Physical power and a lot of Pen both % and flat based on the number of times we hit and keep hitting the target and we hit a lot!

    Ichaival this is the 2nd choice we have for a item unlike the Executioner this item offers 10 flat pen a lot of attack speed and its passive reduces the Physical Power of any god were hitting while giving us Bonus Physical power this item is great for boxing or dueling other hunters or assassins its much cheaper the The Executioner so its simpler to pick up if your behind in case your ahead id recommend option 1.!

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  • your 4th item is usually which ever item you did not get as the 3rd item in other words if you took Ichaival as your 3rd item your 4th item is The Executioner but this is not set in stone in case you took The Executioner as your 3rd item you dont have to get Ichaival as the 4th item and can instead rush the rest of your build this is recommend for when your ahead.
    

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  • Branch off from this point on we chose into what type of build we want to go for all the other builds will be going for different items from the 5th 6th and 7th Purchase yes the 7th purchase is what you get to replace Ichaival since it falls of Late Game now back to our build.
    

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  • Rage This is our 4th or 5th item depending on if you chose to build Ichaival its place in this build is simple it grants us a lot of critical strike chance starting at 30% and giving more for every hit that does not crit

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  • Deathbringer This is our 5th or 6th item depending on if you did or did not purchase a Ichaival its purpose here is clear it makes our critical strikes stronger gives us 50 physical power and finally gives us 20% critical strike chance combined with out passive and rage we have a near always 60%+ crit chance

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  • Malice This is our final 6th/7th item (depending on if you did or did not purchase Ichaival that grants us 50 more physical power another 20% critical strike chance and finally it makes our Critical strikes bleed for a % of our total Physical Power now at full build or minimal critical strike chance is 70% with our passive it hits 85% and with 1 rage stack 95%(90% is the cap i think though) either way we will be criting just about every AA

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• Objective Melting Artemis

  
  

  
  
  • from the above Branch Off we continue the build as per the Standard Hunter Build all the way up to our final item at which point we replace Malice with
    

    Titan's Bane This Item grants us Amazing Objective/Warrior/Tank Shredding Potential in case we have a FG + Red Buff we can even 1v1 a Phoenix if our Vengeful Assault is up and ready obviously those stone towers of theirs are now at this point Lego Block Towers as they will be crumbling down within 2.5 sec or less

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• Heavy Critical Rush

  
  

  
  
  • from the Branch Off for this build we as the name would suggest rush critical strike chance as our 4th 5th and 6th items Warning: This build is intended for when your Ahead of the enemy team!
    
    

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  • from the Standard Hunter Build we follow it up to the 2nd item then follow this order Take NOTE this build is intended for when your Aheadof the enemy team
    

    The Executioner as the 3rd item in the build we will Rush Executioner as we will need the pen for what were doing

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  • Deathbringer For our 4th Item we rush the Deathbringer for its massive power spike our critical strike chance might not be high but our pure physical attacks right now will be about 250 - 300 or so base at this stage of the game thats still a lot so we will still hurt and a crit can do 600+ damage so we will have a random element of wooops accidental kills from suprise crits

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  • Malice as our 5th item we will rush Malice for its pure power and critical strike chance with it our critical chance is now at a base 40% and 55% with passive and were hitting a lot with and without crits

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  • Rage if going for single target damage Rage will put us into the const critical strike zone that does just that and with this we are not at the Standard Hunter Build though in a reversed order of some items since were ahead and can afford them

    
    

    Titan's Bane if we need the late game objective shred then we get this bad boy but due to our critical strike rush we will be depending more on RNG for our single target damage this is not ideal but it can work just be careful unlike the above option if the Enemy team does catch up you will in general be doing less then the Enemy ADC/Hunter if they went for the standard build and you will require your team to help you more then with the above

  
  
  
  
  

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  Actives

  
  
  
  

  • Sprint

    Sprint This is one of the most Standard Actives to pick up it grants us a burst of Movement Speed Makes us Immune to slows at rank 2 & 3 and finally at rank 3 we can AA without the AA movement Penalty(when your AA you slow down for a split moment or so for quite a lot feels like 50%) i would run this 9.9/10 times there are a very few scenarios in which you dont get these due to mega high burst combined with Odin since odin often forces Combat Blink and burst often forces Aegis Amulet or Aegis Pendant

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  • Greater Purification This Active Cleanses just about any CC and makes you immune to CC for 3 sec while reducing all coodlowns by 3 sec as well it can be used in many ways any were from making sure you dont get interrupted during Vengeful Assault to withstanding CC or some Executions such as the one from Ao Kuang and ect... i get this 9.99/10 times

    
    

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  • Combat Blink This Active is a great but rare pick up if the enemy team has a ton of burst and wall like spells for example Odin + Thor in these kinds of scenarios unless you have a team that can save you and protect you from some incoming damage Geb for example can save you if not you have little choice but to get this

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  • Aegis Amulet/Pendant Depending on the situation and the amount of burst the enemy has a Aegis Amulet pr Aegis Pendant can be great life saving actives from ults such as several shots from Rain Fire or Release The Kraken! it will usually replace either sprint or Greater Purification its up to you and your teams ability to decide which to replace

Dear god Match ups in duo lane are a nightmare to make this will be a heavily WIP(worn in progress Zone for the guide) as i will need to note a number of hunters and guardians that you see in here!

oh and sorry if some match ups dont have the best advise im still improving my self and im batter on dealing with hunters then supports thus the support match ups may be lacking any feedback on those is welcome

Hunters

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Xbalanque

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strong points: - Very Strong Late Game - Good Poke with Poison Darts & Rising Jaguar - Has lot of Free power with Dead of Night and Branching Bola - has some global presence with Darkest of Nights - Darkest of Nights also grants him Much Greater Movement Speed and Auto Attack Range for its short Duration - Rising Jaguar is CC immune in its Air Portion - One of the Champion Objective Melters

Threat Level:High

Weak Points: + Rising Jaguar is his only escape spell + Rising Jaguar is treated as dash and cant go over walls and you can hit him when he is using it! + Darkest of Nights is simple to counter in a good chunk of situations that he can use it in + Squishy in all stages of the game + Needs to Itemize for Attack speed + Rising Jaguar can be interrupted with nearly any CC spell during its Dash Portion

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Counters:

• Transgressors Fate with good prediction and placement can Interrupt Rising Jaguar
  

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• Calydonian Boar with good timing can also interrupt Rising Jaguar
  

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• Calydonian Boar can counter the stun portion of Darkest of Nights and will then charge into the Xbalanque following/chasing you
  

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• Calydonian Boar is a great tool to burn his beads and if there already Burned and he does not cast his 3 on time or if burned that to then this will out right get him killed
  

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• you have a stronger Mid game and Starting Late game Xbalanque is not online until he has at least a Rage and Deathbringer for 50%+ crit chance you can beat him around these stages once he has Malice he will be critting almost as often as we do but he will crit much harded due to his naturally Higher Physical power but we Attack faster!
  

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• Xbalanque has a lower Attack Speed so having your team get Enfeebling Curse + Witchblade or some other AA speed reduction items and comboes is great having a Odin can also Help!
  

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Cupid

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strong points: - Can Sustain him self & his support with Share The Love - has great poke CC and medium burst in the form of Heart Bomb - one of the longest dashes in game aka Flutter it also grants him attack speed an ally gods moving in the trail of flutter move faster - Large team fight presence in the form of Fields Of Love making a giant cripple AoE that after dealing damage will mez targets as well - has the highest base Auto Attack Speed Scaling from all hunters - for some reason most smite players have the instinct to chase and destroy Cupid like some sort of non exhisting taunt similar to the natural pheonomana LoL players experience with that squirl thing guy whats his Name Teemo i think

Threat Level:Difficult - Hard

Weak Points: + hear bomb is a skill shot and thus we can learn to doge it + Fields Of Love has a short channel time before it lands if cupid takes a form of hard CC during its channel cast animation the spell is canceled + Share The Love will only restore mana if his support or other teammates take the hearts if both supports go to roam he can experience tiny mana issues + the attack speed buff on Flutter would require for cupid to charge in at the start of fight which would usually result in his death but be careful about chasing him when he uses it or running away from him + Squishy in all stages of the game probably the most squishy hunter in the game + none of his spells make him CC immune

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Counters:

• Transgressors Fate can be placed behind or in front of Flutter which will stop him in his tracks

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• Calydonian Boar can be used to withstand or counter initiate Fields Of Love bonus points if cupid used Flutter to dash into you so he can land Heart Bomb

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• due to his supreme undisputed Squishy nature he can be easily nuked with CC and burst Combos if his beads are down he will probably die nice and easy aka get some ganks in and done

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• A Support or teammate that can wall of his escape path or Flutter is always a good thing

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Apollo

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strong points: - Passive steroid in the form of Audacity - Global presence with Across The Sky - medium CC and physical Defense buff in the form of Serenade with perfect timing he can mez our Calydonian Boar right before it hits him - Strong Escape / Chase in the form of The Moves not only dashing and pushing away gods but also granting bonus movement speed to him and his ally's as well it also builds up his Audacity for each enemy hit - Best Split Pusher in the Game can force a god to defend have his team start a fight then just fly into the fight like a hero

Threat Level:Low -Difficult

Weak Points: + Wave Clear with his So Beautiful was nerfed and is now unable to clear the full wave aka we can match his clear or force him under tower + similar to how other hunters can be stopped mid dash with Transgressors Fate so can he + Calydonian Boar is a decent tool against him it can force out Across The Sky for its CC immunity or will stun him letting you burst him down + Across The Sky has a large build up time of around 2 sec or more we can get a lot of free hits in if he uses this infront of Us + Dots can effect him while he using Across The Sky so a Malice proc can kill him in it late game or if you have a teammate with dots it can help secure the kill + Across The Sky had its knock up removed if you notice his landing spot you can actually place down a Transgressors Fate on that spot and he will be stuck for at least 1 sec and will either blow beads or take out Calydonian Boar and then die to our Vengeful Assault

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Counters:

• Abuse all of his Weak Points

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• Coordinated Ganks work well against most gods he is no exception

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• lack of much greater Counters due to his high counter counter potential makes many Apollo players tend to be over aggressive
  
  

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Supports/Guardians

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strong points: - has a CC cleansing shield in the form of Stone Shield aka great peel - Possess a Knock up in the form of Shock Wave - great mobility and potential giant knock back in the form of Roll Out - Tanky as hell vs critical based gods due to Hard as Rock - Great team fight initiation/presence with Greater Blink + Cataclysm

Threat Level:High

Weak Points: + you can Cancel Out Roll Out before it becomes CC immune with most hard CC + does not possess high Damage unless your in melee range and he would have had to chose to max Shock Wave and even then it falls off at the mid game so its kinda pointless for him to max it + his early game is a tad weak before he becomes somewhat tanky + has trouble playing from behind (like most gods) + Shock Wave has a travel time and deals less damage the further it travels

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Counters:

• Greater Purification for Cataclysm is always a good call

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• since geb has low damage with High CC and Peel the best way to deal with him is to force him to cast Stone Shield on one target then switching targets to another key target

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• the best way to deal with geb is to shut down his team and reduce there team fight potential were geb shines
  

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Athena

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strong points: - Has Global Presence with Defender of Olympus - Strong CC with Confound - her Shield Wall deals a lot of damage in combo with Confound to force the 2nd hit - Decent mobility with Preemptive Strike - can Block AA with a Passive Portion of her Preemptive Strike - Confound is fast and wide can taunt many targets at once and since its fast can interrupt many spells such as Rising Jaguar during its dash portion - Massive Base HP scaling

Threat Level:High

Weak Points: + Preemptive Strike has a charge up time making it simple to interrupt or block off with a wall + if the target of Defender of Olympus dies she will ult in place + some spells are able to follow her globally Sacred Monkey is the only spell that can do that for now + Ares's No Escape can pull her back with good timing to his location after she jumps globally + does not possess many weakness but she can be punished with Cripple effects and magic damage if caught out + Shield Wall's 2nd hit is usually avoided

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Counters:

• Cripples work wonders

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• Lack of Specific Counters Makes her Versatile in both hear strong points and weak points thus counter playing her is mostly skill based
• use a wide spread formation so she cant land a good Confound
  

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Ymir

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strong points: - Strong Clear & Poke with Glacial Strike - Possess a Ice Wall that can block escape routes and some spells - Strong CC with Frost Breath - His Passive Frostbite makes his AA hurt more then ours Early game - Glacial Strike also slows by 35% for 3/4 sec - Massive Zone out and potential burst with Shards of Ice - somewhat strong in all stages of the game

Threat Level:Normal -Difficult/hard

Weak Points: + Low Mobility + Can be bursted or caught out in rotations to mid camps/other lanes before he becomes tanky + Frost Breath has a short delay before it fires + Frost Breath can be hard to hit in melee range fast gods can dance around him + Shards of Ice is easy to avoid and or counter + Glacial Strike has a slight delay before it hits and can thus be avoided or countered with Aegis Amulet or Aegis Pendant + a miss placed Ice Wall can kill his team him self or save you and let you escape

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Counters:

• Running Circles around him when fighting him on a 1 on 1 situation can be efficient

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• Purification beads can be used to withstand Frost Breath

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• abusing his weak points obviously works well while fighting him aka interrupt his casting animations

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• counter initiation works great against this god
  

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Overall Artemis can be a very Powerful god in the right hands having some of the best boxing power and potential along with one of the higher team fight potentials from all hunters she can cause a lot of pain melt objectives and bully non sustain based hunters out of lane even early on if she can afford to be aggressive that is thus she is best used with aggressive supports such as:

- Ymir there combo of Frost Breath Suppress The Insolent Glacial Strike + AA from both can be lethal very early on

- Athena due to her versatility she can greatly combo a a Shield Wall Confound into a Suppress The Insolent combo it can deal high damage and do rather quite well

- Sobek his charge pray works quite very well with Transgressors Fate pulling the enemy good into a 2 sec root is a effective 3 sec CC combo after the root ends they take a Tail Whip and fly towards Artemis he can then slow them with Lurking In The Waters or artemis can follow up on his Tail Whip with her Calydonian Boar overall quite the nasty lane though you may want to consider having a jungle Athena or Ymir in solo/jungle to provide additional CC as Sobek is based more around single target CC and multy target slows

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