For starters - the starting items are very important. You want
Bumba's Mask, tier one
Hand of the Gods, and
Boots. You'll have a bit of extra gold you can use to buy 2 healing potions, which help a lot early game, how ever they ARE optional. I find it better to save, so that as soon as you hit 1350 gold, you can immediately buy
Heavy Hammer. First thing you'll want to do is run to the jungle on the side of the solo lane, and have them help you grab your buff - it'll be a power buff if solo lane is right, or a speed buff if solo lane is left. Speed is more effective for jungle early game, and you'll wanna focus that as a buff. However later in the game when group fights are more predominate and wandering is a thing, you'll want to aim for the strength buff - especially since this build gives crits and attack speeds, but little actual damage. (Don't shy away, now - with high attack speed and the ability to crit on almost every attack, even tanks melt away like butter. Raw damage isn't everything.)
Edit to this: With the new build, it's better to focus speed as much as possible - counter jungle the enemy speed camp as often as possible, and save your own damage camp for the mid laner. VSBT! Make sure they know you dropped it for them!
Anyway.
As always with a jungler, once you get your speed/power buff, help the solo lane grab their mana buff, then help their lane. You'll want to assist them into one of three things happens - 1) You kill the person in their lane, 2) you reach level 4, 3) The game hits 3 minutes in.
Keep in mind, when taking the FIRST camp, it's a good idea to use
Hand of the Gods - you wont need it as much on the second camp, as either the solo laner will have their own, or your buff will be enough to take it down quicker.
Either way, once you leave, you'll wanna go straight for the mid camp closest to you - assuming it was taken at the beginning of the game, like it should have been, it will respawn roughly around 3:15. Note that the tact of this part covers ALL jungling, not just Bakasura.
Once you have hit that mark, and taken the mid camp, you'll likely wanna move on to the next buff camp - if possible, go to a speed camp that either just, or is about to, respawn. From here, all you'll need to do is run around killing camps - focus the mid camps as often as possible, and try to share them with the middle laner - ping the map when you are taking it, and command them to take the buff - IE, VSBT. If they are paying attention, they will come help you grab it - but you don't have time to wait, as you have to keep up in levels. If they show no signs of coming to get it, grab it and move on.
Note:
Hand of the Gods is your best friend in stealing camps from other junglers, as well as taking out mid camps quickly. Know when to use it, but also save it! The one time you need it and it is on cool down can tip the advantage in the hands of the other jungler, and get you killed.
Another note:
Fist of the Gods can also be a good alternative to HoG; it can't take down camps as well late game, but it gives you that stun that Bakasura is completely lacking
Try baka solo and see if you can make an extra build/segment on it to make the guide better/more expansive. But that's nitpicking, this is a great guide with a good build.
Thanks a lot! I haven't actually been playing Baka, nor have I touched the guide in quiet awhile, but due to the Baka remodel started playing him again - that being the case, I will be updating the guide more. c:
... in the usual final build you don't have Quins or lifesteal ...
Personally I love the crit, and that's how I usually build baka, but I would never take executioner over Quins or to be honest the magi's over Asi.. cause ya gotta max that attack speed man. I really like the desciption of the abilities, but you should take away the fact that you shouldn't use your Ult without atleast 3 minions in the description of Regurgitate just because if it gets to late game your cone attack will win you any 1 vs 1 fight if you play it correctly against any other melee with burst (Loki, Mercury, Serqet,Kali,etc.) since it allows you to stay out of their basic attack range while you can still hit them, and you're also CC immune for a short duration so loki, merc serqet or kali cant do **** to stop you from eating their faces. And then of course fatalis lets you back up away from them just as fast as they run towards you. So either they try to run away which they can't because cripple , slow and fatalis combo OP,meanwhile you can burst them down easily within that duration due to the quins and 2 crit, and if you get low and only then pop your ult... well Asi'll save your booty.
I don't like to take asi, the passive is useless for squishy characters; it can help if you are gonna escape anyway, and that's where consume minion comes into play. As far as Magi's goes, it is a necessary item on every god if you know what you are doing. As for kiting, that gets you killed. Baka's strength is being able to easily stay behind a target and not take damage at all. And as far as the consuming for your ult bit goes, you have more than enough time for 2 or 3 devours between uses; if you are dying alot and are respawning during cool down, then by all means, dont consume. But you should at least get 1, its not hard to do.
Edit: As far as Qin's vs executioner, Qin's is only good against HP tanks; executioner is good for everyone.
Personally I love the crit, and that's how I usually build baka, but I would never take executioner over Quins or to be honest the magi's over Asi.. cause ya gotta max that attack speed man. I really like the desciption of the abilities, but you should take away the fact that you shouldn't use your Ult without atleast 3 minions in the description of Regurgitate just because if it gets to late game your cone attack will win you any 1 vs 1 fight if you play it correctly against any other melee with burst (Loki, Mercury, Serqet,Kali,etc.) since it allows you to stay out of their basic attack range while you can still hit them, and you're also CC immune for a short duration so loki, merc serqet or kali cant do **** to stop you from eating their faces. And then of course fatalis lets you back up away from them just as fast as they run towards you. So either they try to run away which they can't because cripple , slow and fatalis combo OP,meanwhile you can burst them down easily within that duration due to the quins and 2 crit, and if you get low and only then pop your ult... well Asi'll save your booty.
nice guide and build. I myself don't build that much of crit overkill (I like
Honestly, if you read the top part, I only build two crit items. Depending on the situation I'll go
The only situation where I use all 3 crit items is when I -really- need crit, but I want the bleed effect of
Dude this is a great guide, highly detailed and lots of info, although maybe for items put icons instead of text form, because it doesnt look very appealing. Just a recomendation.
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It actually was the icons initially, but it stretched out the text, and most people don't like guides as ... Wally as mine.
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I helped clean up you're guide bro. Made it look good, though you need to fix you're text it's to blocky. Good luck.
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