Bastet - Scratch The Game I Jungle & Solo Guide

Hello there and welcome to my Season 2 Guide for

Bastet The Goddess Of Cats She is and Plays as a Physical Caster focused around the early and mid game but her late game is not bad at all. She has a unique play style making her a great pick against non sustain mages or hunters in the solo lane due to her bleed often forcing them back. She is also great in the jungle due to her early pressure with cat call. Overall she is a powerful Assassin that can make unreal early pressure on most enemy gods especially gods without Escapes such as Artemis and Nox forcing sprint rank 2 very early into the game or risk death to cat call.

Updates:

• 3/4/2015 (10:19pm) - added in the build section as per request from the comments i find the current build options a bit messy so i used a custom build instead Custom Item Build.Also Ill be Putting out some other guides within a week or 2 as i finish them up as you can see im trying to learn to use Anchros batter to make a fully Custom Table Of Contents...
  

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Here I will Talk About the kit some Mechanics and give some tips:

Personal Opinion and Thoughts

This is a Pretty Good Passive Starts out a tad weak but starts showing its effects around lvl 9 - 13 when you are maxing Razor Whip and Pounce a good Bastet will take advantage of this effect by making a combo with DeClaw + Razor Whip and saving Pounce for the Chase of course there are many variations to her combo with Pounce and declaw having some use as there own combo.

Overall you want to Trigger This Effect with Pounce or declaw so that Razor Whip Deals more damage.

Pounce(1) This our Escape and Chasing Spell it also Deals High Damageand lets us move 25% Faster while in the Pounce Back State Only. Casting the spell makes us jump to the targeted AoE then we Enter the Pounce Back State for 4 sec Using the Spell during this time makes us jump back to our Starting Location.

Mechanic Advise and Tips

a few useful ways to use Pounce include Jumping over walls and then if a enemy god follows you with a jump or Combat Blink you can then PounceBack and over the wall again.

Using Pounce in combination with Hand of the Gods and some early wards you can steal the enemy jungle buff camp then rush the Blue Buff with your Solo Laner.

with careful timing Pounce can be used to jump over some spells such as Storm Call or Excavate.

Razor Whip(2) This is our Hardest Hitting Ability it is a Damage Over Time bleed that can scale up to 400+ damage early and can reach 800+ at our late game. its range is a cone In front of us so be careful on your aim its harder to hit at point blank range on a target running circles then it may seem...

Mechanic Advise and Tips

Razor Whip is a simple AoE cone spell that is rather hard to miss at medium range but can be juked by running around Bastet due to it being a cone and all that for this reason you want to usedeclaw to set up the Razor Whip if there trying to juke it.

the bleed from Razor Whip will also Attract Cat Call to the bleeding thargets!So make sure that when going for the kill on a single enemy god try and single them out with Razor Whip other wise the cats from cat call may not go after the target you want to kill!

Mechanic Advise and Tips

There is not much to say about DeClaw as its a simple line ability just keep in mind that it slows and can help you escape chasing enemy gods by slowing them this is another simple spell whose main purpose is a catch up tool or combo tool to open wounds.

Cat Call

Cal Call(4) This is out Ultimate we summon/call forth 3 cats that deal damage and slow enemy gods per hit they are attracted to Targets Effected By Razor Whip.

a Lot of Mechanic Details Advise and some Tips

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This spell can be used for some safe tower dives/kills very early if the enemy god's escape spell is down a Razor Whip + cat call means there forced to sprint if they dont have sprint and if there not immune to slows then they will take a lot of damage/die early game This Damage falls of Greatly Late Game!

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This spell if there are no nearby minions or enemy gods will Attack and Damage Enemy towers and phoenixes since they will be tanking them we can deal massive damage to them all alone since these seem to remove backdoor protections!

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Late Game These can be used as body blocking tools for enemy AA and single target spells or as a form of peel by bleeding targets that are focusing your carry then using cat call for the slow.

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Finally if your careful with the placement of cat call you can make each cat spawn from a different side of the enemy god in this case they can get body blocked from 3 sides by the cats forcing either a movement/escape spell or Combat Blink early on that or they take the full damage of your whole kit in the face!

This is Lethal even Late Game

Click the +For the Detailed Build to Pop UP. Since Many had a hard time noticing these i also added this text here in addition to the build at the top page

• Physical Caster/Objective Scratcher Solo Lane

  
  

  
  
  • Full Build: This is what were aiming for at the Late Game
    
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  • Startoff with Charged Morningstar and some pots i usually go with 3 Healing Potion and 1/2 Multi Potion
    

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  • Transcendence Transcendence gives a large amount of power and mana and since were a physical caster we want both of that in Solo Lane this is always a rushed priority item.

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  • Warrior Tabi Next up we need some shoes and what batter then the higher power Warrior Tabi its just what we wanted.

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  • Jotunn's Wrath After That High Power we sure could use some CDR pen and more Power this is the perfect 3rd item as this is when we start rotating out of Solo Lane much more often then before this point as a tower will probably be down either for your or the enemy team.

    
    

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  • Shifter's Shield The 4th item is usually More Versatile but i love getting Shifter's Shield its such a higher power item and makes us a bit harder to kill when on low HP not a must but a great pick up.

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  • Brawler's beat stick Were a Physical Caster and a Assassin which means we need a lot of flat Pen to take down key targets that build mostly full damage on the enemy team and this item does that perfectly as our 5th item in addition to its higher power and healing reduction!

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  • The Crusher One of the New Items on the Block it may not have been in many builds so far but bastet is a great god for this item not only does it offer yet another wooping 20 flat pen and 40 power its passive makes us hit towers much much faster combined with our cats with this we can backdoor towers and phoenixes all day long the enemy team will almost always need to send 1 god to deal with you maybe even 2 if your feed!

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  • titan's Bane In Case You dont want to go for The Crusher and are focusing more on teamfights Titan's Bane is a overall batter pick up due to its % pen working well on Warriors so get it if a enemy warrior goes out of control otherwise this item is also quite good vs towers and phoenixes as well so were not really losing anything by taking it!

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• Jungle Build

  
  

  
  
  • Full Build: This is what were aiming for at the Late Game
    
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  • Startoff with Bumba's Mask Hand of the Gods rank 2 and Healing Potion x2 or 1x Healing Potion 1x Multi Potion
    

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  • Warrior Tabi In the Jungle Movement Speed cant be delayed at all getting these ASAP is a must!

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  • Jotunn's Wrath since we are the jungler we need to make a presence and with this we can make a lot more cat calls which in return means we make a higher impact on the enemy team!

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  • Transcendence this is a bit tricky now as its not gonna be easy to stack it but if your ahead and can afford to this item gives you the batter DPS boost If your Not Ahead and dont think you will be able to stack it skip this item and follow the rest of the build!

    
    

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  • Shifter's Shield In Case you Managed to get Transcendence as your 3rd item leave this as your final item or skip it it really depends on the match in case Transcendence was 3rd get the next item as your 4th item.

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  • Brawler's beat stick since we have some power now we need to get the Pen online and this item does do that rather well.

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  • The Crusher this it would be coming in as our 5th pen item but it is possible to delay it as item 6 and get Titan's Bane instead or remove it from the build in favor of getting Shifter's Shield last instead. singe in this scenario your the jungler you will need to decide which item is more important in the scenario your facing.

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  • Titan's bane usually this would be our last or 5th item depending on your above choices as we would usually need the % pen as a jungler more so then a solo laner and this item would replace either The Crusher or shifer's shield.

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Here i will explain the Basics of the Solo Lane for Bastet and some basic Conditions for when to pick Bastet for the Solo Lane:

• you can pick Bastet as a counter to any Squishy Non Sustain mage.

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• you can pick Bastet as a counter to Solo Lane Hunters such as Rama.

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• you can pick Bastet to make the enemy team think she will jungle and thus they might pick gods or compositions to reflect that and effect bans ect... this is a team thing though so make sure to talk about it!

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• you do not pick Bastet into solo lane if there is a high chance that she will fight tanky gods such as Osiris and Hercules and dear god never pick her into heavy sustain solo lanes such as Ra Zhong Kui and Chaac even if your chances of getting killed are low you will be forced out of farm!

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  The Start of the Match

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  Sorry for getting a tad long here folks im trying to make a batter presentation for this section but cant decide on a good one advise for this is welcome!
  
  We Begin the match with our starter items mentioned above Charged Morningstar and some Healing Potion & Multi Potion.
  
  we go on to help the jungler clear his Orange(Speed) buff and then we do Blue Buff for us as we will need the mana early on even with the pots we then head into the lane.
  
  while in lane in addition to farming we want to focus on these 3 things:
  
  
  
  • Harassing the enemy god with our Razor Whip and declaw.
    

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  • Warding the Enemy Orange/Speed Buff in Preparation of stealing it when it comes back up depriving the enemy jungle of speed buff will greatly cripple his ganks and rotations.
    

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  • Rotating at any Possible Chance for mid camps and ganks on mid lane if you force back a re-call and they dont get Teleport to Towers you can rotate gank mid lane and help your team with mid camps.
    
    
    

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    Combos for Lane Clear and Poke

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    in order to clear the wave in the fastest possible time you have a few options:

    
    
    • cast declaw on the oncoming wave to slow there front line into its backline and hit Razor Whip.
      

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    • with a very good position and movement of spell during cast you can hit Razor Whip on the whole minion wave this only works if the minion wave was not moved in a un natural way thus if the enemy god managed to disrupt the natural positions of the minions you cant clear with just Razor Whip.
      
      

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    • another option to max Pounce fist and clear the wave by jumping on top of it due to its high scaling this will indeed clear the wave though your using your escape/chasing tool for it but it can work it also works wonders on jungler ganks as most Dont Expect the high Early Burstof this spell.
      

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Here i will explain the few start's you have a Bastet in the jungle but before all that i will count down some important notes:

• Your Job Is To Help The Team Get Ahead Or Gain Advantages Either By Getting The Team Kills,Stealing Camps or Forcing out Enemy Ultimate's and Escaping.

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• You Shall Act As The Second Main Warder After The Support/Tank After Every Back Take 1/2 wards With Any Left Over Gold Or 1 Sentry Ward And Use It To Take Away Enemy Vision This Is a Vital Aspect Of Your Role!

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• Do Not Be Greedy,Do Not Be Selfish,Do Not Fight Bad Fights =(Translation)= Do Not Tower Dive While Not Prepared Or Backed Up By The Team, Do Not Chase Uncertain Kills,Dont Start Fights Your Team Is Not Cool With (They Might Not Follow Up or Worse They Might Miss ect...)

Normal Start

• We get our starting item's aka Bumba's Mask, Hand of the Gods rank 2 and Healing Potion x1 for the jungle with the left over 50 gold i start with 1 Ward

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• First we now decide were we want to put our Ward either a defensive one near the entrance to our buffs or a aggressive one near the enemy buffs this depends if your planning on stealing the enemy blue or if your going for the standard start
  

the aggressive invade ish start If you chose to place the ward near the enemy Blue Buff you need to make sure that your solo laner has a Hand of the Gods and that he needs to use it on yourOrange/Speed Buff and finally you need to rank up Pounce at lvl 1 now after you have your Speed Buff you run either past the FG and towards the enemy Blue Buff. or you run through the jungle path towards the enemy Blue Buff . Once you confirm that they have starter there blue buff and that Hand of the Gods has been used or if the buff is low enough. you Pounce in use your own Hand of the Gods drop the enemyBlue Buffand Pounce out. this way the enemy solo laner will be blue less and your own will have a advantage as well as you will get more exp. if the enemy is on low HP you and the Solo Laner can try to go in for a kill. Finally after doing this your run into the lane Stay for 2/3 minion waves for lvl 3 and our exp bar to be at about half now at around 1:45/2:00 min in at most we go for our 2 Back Camps and then Go To middle lane if mid was pushed we can pass by and try to gank or get some exp from the minion wave before doing the back camps as the 3:00 min mark is coming you want to contest the mid camps as Bastet you can get 1 of the camps Instantly with a Pounce + Hand of the Godslet your Team Know Which Ones your going to getSo they can Secure the Other Ones!you usually want to getThe Mid Camps Next to the Solo Lane. at this point the back camps are back so we pick those up and recall for items at this point buff camps will be Re-Spawning so we want to check with our team what lanes are pushed and how there going you also want some vision on the enemy team if everything is ok you and the solo lanerShould try and Steal the enemySpeed Buff. at this point you simple repeat the above steps and gank/rotate to lanes to your best ability

the Normal Start In this Case Put Down our Ward near the area between out buff camps and FG in order to spot a potential Enemy Invade if everything seems safe by the time the buffs spawn we use Hand of the Gods on our Orange/Speed Buff and then help the solo laner with his Blue Buff. we now Stay in lane for 2/3 minion waves until were lvl 3 we now rotate to mid lane and take 1 minion wave worth of experience and take the back camps. we know rotate back to mid for the mid camps spawning at 3:00 min you can clear them fast with a Pounce + Hand of the Gods combo you usually want to take the camps near the Solo Lane. Back Camps should be coming up again about now if they are we pick them up and recall back to base for items if there not up we still recall back to base for items now as the buff camps are coming back up you can See how your team is doing and decide to either invade and take enemy buffs or just clear your own buffs while rotating between lanes and ganking in between as needed!

The Invading Start

Thanatos

Osiris

Ymir

Hercules

Zhong Kui

Osiris

Bastet

Loki

Bastet

Ward

• Sobek with his Charge Prey can make a easy set up for a kill works great with a Anhur as the adc(though with the nerfs Anhur got he aint picked often).

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• Hercules his Driving Strike and Earthbreaker have great disposition potential and can lead to good pick offs

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• Eset due to her potential long range stun with Spirit Ball or chase potential with Wing Gust

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Hercules

Charge Prey

Driving Strike

Eset

Neith

Cupid

Normal Invade

• first you need to decide who invades who will it be a 3v3 invade at red or a 2v2 invade at speed or maybe both? also make sure you have at least 1 great lvl 1 fighter such as Thanatos Osiris or Hercules / otherwise you need to time your invade right before they can finish there buff in order for them to take as much damage from the buff before you steal it and go for the kill

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• once the decision is made you will need to have vision of the enemy otherwise you might risk it a bit.... in general this part is were you need to know if the enemy has seen your invade or not if they rotate and make the fights 4/5 v 3 or 3/4/5 v 2 you will fall behind greatly so make sure that you know there positions

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• Next part is timing most junglers want to start moving in at 00:08 or 00:09 sec right as the buff spawns and the fight to brake out at 00:12/00:14 sec into the match After The Enemy has Used Hand of the Gods.

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Now As Bastet we have a high steal and escape chance but a lower kill chance

as bastet when invading we usually want to have Pounce and vision we go in with Pounce after they used Hand of the Godsand the buff is at around 30% HP we then use our own Hand of the Gods take the enemy Speed Buff and Pounce back over the wall this also gives our solo laner 3 options:

• he can solo his blue buff hit the lane and you join him then you push the minion wave making the enemy lose farm to the tower

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• prepares to go in as you jump in going for the kill

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• after you steal the speed you can pretend to go to lane only for you and the solo laner to jump them at blue were he uses his Hand of the Gods to steal it

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another option for a invade is after you do speed buff you and the solo laner rush the enemy Blue Buff ideally you want to be the one with the Hand of the Gods you Pounce into there blue and use Hand of the Gods to steal it when its low enough if you make it you will lvl up if the solo laner managed to close the same distance as you then your both now lvl 2 and can attempt to go for first blood just dont tower dive! This is Our Ideal Start

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if all goes well you hit the lane like normal and then go on with the normal jungle route and rotations!

The Pick off Invade

in case your Bastet and are a part of a pick off invade make sure to get Razor Whip as soon and if you manage to find a enemy god to pick off you want to land 1 AA and then cast Razor Whip since these pick off attempts are a team effort you usually wont see these games in most casual or ranked games due to the communication required to combo all of your spells perfectly with each others AA to make one smooth execution

in case you are the one being picked off a Pounce can save you even more so if its over a wall

• Your Job Is To Help The Team Get Ahead Or Gain Advantages Either By Getting The Team Kills,Stealing Camps or Forcing out Enemy Ultimate's and Escaping.

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• You Shall Act As The Second Main Warder After The Support/Tank After Every Back Take 1/2 wards With Any Left Over Gold Or 1 Sentry Ward And Use It To Take Away Enemy Vision This Is a Vital Aspect Of Your Role!

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• Do Not Be Greedy,Do Not Be Selfish,Do Not Fight Bad Fights =(Translation)= Do Not Tower Dive While Not Prepared Or Backed Up By The Team, Do Not Chase Uncertain Kills,Dont Start Fights Your Team Is Not Cool With (They Might Not Follow Up or Worse They Might Miss ect...)

Normal Start

• We get our starting item's aka Bumba's Mask, Hand of the Gods rank 2 and Healing Potion x1 for the jungle with the left over 50 gold i start with 1 Ward

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• First we now decide were we want to put our Ward either a defensive one near the entrance to our buffs or a aggressive one near the enemy buffs this depends if your planning on stealing the enemy blue or if your going for the standard start
  

the aggressive invade ish start If you chose to place the ward near the enemy Blue Buff you need to make sure that your solo laner has a Hand of the Gods and that he needs to use it on yourOrange/Speed Buff and finally you need to rank up Pounce at lvl 1 now after you have your Speed Buff you run either past the FG and towards the enemy Blue Buff. or you run through the jungle path towards the enemy Blue Buff . Once you confirm that they have starter there blue buff and that Hand of the Gods has been used or if the buff is low enough. you Pounce in use your own Hand of the Gods drop the enemyBlue Buffand Pounce out. this way the enemy solo laner will be blue less and your own will have a advantage as well as you will get more exp. if the enemy is on low HP you and the Solo Laner can try to go in for a kill. Finally after doing this your run into the lane Stay for 2/3 minion waves for lvl 3 and our exp bar to be at about half now at around 1:45/2:00 min in at most we go for our 2 Back Camps and then Go To middle lane if mid was pushed we can pass by and try to gank or get some exp from the minion wave before doing the back camps as the 3:00 min mark is coming you want to contest the mid camps as Bastet you can get 1 of the camps Instantly with a Pounce + Hand of the Godslet your Team Know Which Ones your going to getSo they can Secure the Other Ones!you usually want to getThe Mid Camps Next to the Solo Lane. at this point the back camps are back so we pick those up and recall for items at this point buff camps will be Re-Spawning so we want to check with our team what lanes are pushed and how there going you also want some vision on the enemy team if everything is ok you and the solo lanerShould try and Steal the enemySpeed Buff. at this point you simple repeat the above steps and gank/rotate to lanes to your best ability

the Normal Start In this Case Put Down our Ward near the area between out buff camps and FG in order to spot a potential Enemy Invade if everything seems safe by the time the buffs spawn we use Hand of the Gods on our Orange/Speed Buff and then help the solo laner with his Blue Buff. we now Stay in lane for 2/3 minion waves until were lvl 3 we now rotate to mid lane and take 1 minion wave worth of experience and take the back camps. we know rotate back to mid for the mid camps spawning at 3:00 min you can clear them fast with a Pounce + Hand of the Gods combo you usually want to take the camps near the Solo Lane. Back Camps should be coming up again about now if they are we pick them up and recall back to base for items if there not up we still recall back to base for items now as the buff camps are coming back up you can See how your team is doing and decide to either invade and take enemy buffs or just clear your own buffs while rotating between lanes and ganking in between as needed!

The Invading Start

Thanatos

Osiris

Ymir

Hercules

Zhong Kui

Osiris

Bastet

Loki

Bastet

Ward

• Sobek with his Charge Prey can make a easy set up for a kill works great with a Anhur as the adc(though with the nerfs Anhur got he aint picked often).

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• Hercules his Driving Strike and Earthbreaker have great disposition potential and can lead to good pick offs

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• Eset due to her potential long range stun with Spirit Ball or chase potential with Wing Gust

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Hercules

Charge Prey

Driving Strike

Eset

Neith

Cupid

Normal Invade

• first you need to decide who invades who will it be a 3v3 invade at red or a 2v2 invade at speed or maybe both? also make sure you have at least 1 great lvl 1 fighter such as Thanatos Osiris or Hercules / otherwise you need to time your invade right before they can finish there buff in order for them to take as much damage from the buff before you steal it and go for the kill

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• once the decision is made you will need to have vision of the enemy otherwise you might risk it a bit.... in general this part is were you need to know if the enemy has seen your invade or not if they rotate and make the fights 4/5 v 3 or 3/4/5 v 2 you will fall behind greatly so make sure that you know there positions

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• Next part is timing most junglers want to start moving in at 00:08 or 00:09 sec right as the buff spawns and the fight to brake out at 00:12/00:14 sec into the match After The Enemy has Used Hand of the Gods.

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Now As Bastet we have a high steal and escape chance but a lower kill chance

as bastet when invading we usually want to have Pounce and vision we go in with Pounce after they used Hand of the Godsand the buff is at around 30% HP we then use our own Hand of the Gods take the enemy Speed Buff and Pounce back over the wall this also gives our solo laner 3 options:

• he can solo his blue buff hit the lane and you join him then you push the minion wave making the enemy lose farm to the tower

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• prepares to go in as you jump in going for the kill

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• after you steal the speed you can pretend to go to lane only for you and the solo laner to jump them at blue were he uses his Hand of the Gods to steal it

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another option for a invade is after you do speed buff you and the solo laner rush the enemy Blue Buff ideally you want to be the one with the Hand of the Gods you Pounce into there blue and use Hand of the Gods to steal it when its low enough if you make it you will lvl up if the solo laner managed to close the same distance as you then your both now lvl 2 and can attempt to go for first blood just dont tower dive! This is Our Ideal Start

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if all goes well you hit the lane like normal and then go on with the normal jungle route and rotations!

The Pick off Invade

in case your Bastet and are a part of a pick off invade make sure to get Razor Whip as soon and if you manage to find a enemy god to pick off you want to land 1 AA and then cast Razor Whip since these pick off attempts are a team effort you usually wont see these games in most casual or ranked games due to the communication required to combo all of your spells perfectly with each others AA to make one smooth execution

in case you are the one being picked off a Pounce can save you even more so if its over a wall

Ill be Working on this as play against them in solo lane i often dont call solo fast enough and often im forced to jungle instead of solo as i called due to my team threatening me to afk(i get a ton of try hards) thus this will be a WIP section

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Threat Level:Hard/Dangerous

strong points: + High Burst + Strong Slow/Speed up For a escape + Crushing Wave + Water Cannon can counter cat call aka kills it with just a bit of magic power on his side and it may kill you as well... + strong poke with water sprout

Weak Points: + Mega Squishy + Easy to poke with Pounce + Razor Whip + Cat Call Can Force out Crushing Wave + Has Mana Issues without Blue buff

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Counters:

• Poke a lot with Pounce + Razor Whip he will either invest into a lot of Healing Potion's or go back to base often and lose out gold and exp

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• Coordinate Jungle Ganks to Burst him Down before he can React

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• Steal his Blue Buff Often

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