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Smite God: Apollo

Choose a Build: Triple Crit

Triple Crit Unicorn 4.0

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Apollo Build

Start

Death's Toll

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Crit build

Ninja Tabi

Devourer's Gauntlet

Ichaival

The Executioner

Poisoned Star

Deathbringer

Swap with Ichival vs Magical

Silverbranch Bow

Lategame Sell

Demon Blade

Completed Build

Ninja Tabi

Devourer's Gauntlet

The Executioner

Poisoned Star

Deathbringer

Demon Blade

Apollo's Skill Order

So Beautiful

1 X

1 3 6 7 9

Serenade

2 A

4 8 10 11 12

The Moves

3 B

2 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

4 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

2 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

Apollo Build

Start

Death's Toll

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Penetration Build

Warrior Tabi

Ichaival

Asi

Qin's Sais

Titan's Bane

The Crusher

Swap with Ichival vs Magical

Silverbranch Bow

Possible Lategame Sells

Odysseus' Bow

Hastened Fatalis

Example Build

Warrior Tabi

Asi

Qin's Sais

Titan's Bane

The Crusher

Odysseus' Bow

Introduction

Hello, my name is Duotem and I'm a semi competitive player on PC(ign:Duotem). I've played on two different challenger teams and made it to wildcards in the AVGL Fall 2016 tournament. This guide assumes you know the adc role and deals with the theory around the build.

Pros / Cons

Pros
Great 1v1 potential
High splitpush and rotation potential
Very safe

Cons
His steroid can't be activated whenever you want

Triple Crit

This build is all about blowing up squishies in as few autos as possible. The build is expensive but has a great DPS and kill time. However, this is very much a lategame build and you will lack a bit of damage until you get a few items online.

Start

Death's Toll sustain is amazing and the 100 hp is a huge deal during lane fights.

Boots 1: Since this meta is all about early pressure having access to more potions can be the difference between winning lane or losing it and your jungle.

Potions: You want health and mana potions. I generally go with 4 of each so I can spam the 1 a little more.

Build

These boots sacrifice some early game for slightly higher DPS in the late game. I like these because it allows you to bring up your steroid a little faster, but overall it doesn't matter if you get Warrior Tabi instead.

An extremely good lifesteal item. You sacrifice immediate value for high consistent lifesteal when you have all the stacks. This has great synergy with the crit build as the high lifesteal value allows your healing from crits to be insane.

The penetration for this build. You have to hit autos to stack the penetration, but you'll end up reducing the enemy protections by 36%. It also provides attack speed which is key to your DPS.

One of the most over-statted items in the game. It gives you power, attack speed, and crit while also slowing and reducing enemy damage by 20% when you crit them. This item's cheap cost allows you to keep a nice power curve.

This increases the crit damage multiplier by 40%. The most expensive item in your build which is why you wait so long to get it. This is when you start exploding enemies in just a few autos.

Wind Demon

You want to sell Ichaival or Silverbranch Bow for this once you finish the rest of the build. it increases crit chance, power, and attack speed as well as increasing attack and movement speed when you crit.

Unicorn 4.0

This build is all about dealing non-rng sustained damage and functions on a sharper power curve so you don't have to wait so long to come online. This focuses on Qin's Sais and penetration to ignore enemy protections. This build ends up dealing true damage to squishies.

Start

Death's Toll sustain is amazing and the 100 hp is a huge deal during lane fights.

Build

This build really wants Warrior Tabi because the rest of the items you are building have a high attack speed value so you get more out of the extra power.

This is a bridge item to sharply increase your DPS for a low cost. It steals power from physical characters for each auto hit, up to 3. It will still give you power for hitting magicals, but it will not lower their power. Only build this if you aren't building Silverbranch Bow, and you'll sell this lategame. You want to build this second to abuse your early power curve.

This is a bridge item to sharply increase your DPS for a low cost. It steals power from magical characters for each auto hit, up to 3. It will still give you power for hitting physicals, but it will not lower their power. Only build if you aren't building Ichaival and you'll sell this lategame. You want to build this second to abuse your early power curve.

You want this item over Devourer's Gauntlet in this build because it provides attack speed and penetration in addition to the lifesteal as well as being cheap immediate value.

The item you are building around in this build. It deals percentage HP damage with every hit auto. The percent damage gets reduced by protections which is why we are focusing on penetration this build.

Provides 33% penetration which is extremely good. It also counts against towers allowing you to just annihilate objectives and tanks.

This item provides power attack speed and penetration at a cheap price. It's passive is also valuable as it reduces your cooldowns by 1 second if you hit an enemy god with an auto attack, but it only does this every five seconds. It also brings your flat penetration up to 40.

This is the highest dps item in the game if you are factoring in aoe damage and it bounces 5 times, but its single target damage is a bit lackluster. It is the item that I like the best because it increases your Qin's Sais damage due to attack speed and allows you to shred through the enemy team. This is my preference most of the time.

This item is better if you are having trouble in team fights sticking to targets or the enemy team is diving and no one is able to peel for you. It does make up for the penetration lost by selling Ichaival/Silverbranch Bow but is the lower dps option.

Skills

After 10 successful basic attacks Apollo gains 100% of his base attack speed for the next 5 autos. This is what allows Apollo to be such a dominate boxer as it's a very powerful free attack steroid.

Apollo damages enemies in a straight line in front of him passing through minions and gods.
Max this first for lane clear and damage

Apollo mezzes the area around him and gains physical protections for 5 seconds. A key ability for boxing. You are able to disrupt enemy attacks if close or just pop it for the protections if fighting from a distance.
Max this second for increased protections and mez time.

Apollo dashes forward knocking back enemies he hits, and increases your movement speed while decreasing enemy movement speed. This ability also stacks [audacity] for each enemy hit, including minions. This means that aggressively dashing through a minion wave towards the enemy adc is a legitimate strategy when done smartly.
Max this 3rd for increased damage and movement speed

Apollo rides his chariot across the map for as long as he has mana. When he lands he does damage.
Max this last as it only increases damage on a long cooldown.

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(50) |

What do you think of some ADCs building wind demon and early as 2nd and 3rd items? It was very prominent in the start of S4 but ever since the latest nerf to that type of building, would it still be considered viable? Or do you think it was never viable at all to begin with?

(10) |

2nd was the best build last patch as the item was and to an extent still is extremely bloated. However, the increase to the gold cost and reduced power really hurt that item.

From what I can see I think a more standard build would be the new normal. I do think that Poisoned Star takes the place of Wind Demon cause it is still more gold efficient overall and the damage reduction is amazing. This lets you use Wind Demon in place of Malice because WD allows you higher crit chance and increased dps and utility through the passive

(16) |

No real complaints about the build besides picking up instead of and leveling whenever possible.

's Ultimate is often taken as a joke or an easy in or out of lane, but hitting every tick -- Damage (Max) 680 (+120% of your Physical Power)...yes please!

(10) |

I'm going under the assumption you are referencing Unicorn 4.0 since that's the build specifically listing Warrior Tabi.

Overall the dps difference between boots is negligible and you can comfortably build either in almost any build based on what you value. provides stronger early clear while deals a slightly higher end game dps, roughly 25, outside of audacity, where Warrior Tabi provides roughly 50 during audacity.

Also if you look at the first 4 items, counting Death's Toll, in Unicorn you'll see the boots and Death's Toll are the only things providing constant power early. However, Ichival and both provide a large amount of attack speed each, making the power more valuable. You also need to factor in that this build wants to spike earlier than the crit build, and getting as your first item reduces kill time by roughly half a second and shots to kill by 2 as opposed to .

When leveling you can't just factor in straight damage you also have to look at what utility each ability gives per level as well as usage. So lets break this down.

we know is leveled for clear and provides 55 flat damage a level not really any argument here.

Now looking at you add .4 seconds to the mez, 10 protections to the buff, and reduces the cooldown by 1. This allows you to run from enemies for increased time, stun enemies out of sustained damage more often, and increasingly reduces damage you take from all physical sources for 5 seconds, including objectives. So this allows you to escape, start fights at an advantage, and gives you a chance to better solo things like gold fury, or become able to take that last shot or two from the tower to kill it while split pushing or when your team is diving a fight.

Now onto . For each level this ability adds 45 damage and increases the movement speed swing by 10% if you hit someone while always adding an extra 5% when you use it. This is more likely to safely secure that last bit of damage in lane for a kill because you can still ult out, provides a 50% movement speed swing at max rank when you hit someone meaning they'll have an almost impossible time getting away from you if their jump or dash is down, and gives you greater escape potential with a standard 25% movement buff. So it overall increases your outplay potential and survivability allowing you to keep pressing an advantage and get further ahead.

gives you 100 extra damage per level, provided you hit each tick, and that's it. So it allows you to travel and kill people that's really it. 99% of the time you want this for the rotation or as an escape as using it removes your inherent cc immunity and screams I can't escape super easy for the next 2 minutes to the enemy team. So the having this up dissuades a large number of ganks as they know you'll likely be able to escape very easily from an even position. Then you need to factor in what ulting into the enemy team will do, if you ult on a tank and it does enough to kill they were likely dead anyway or being forced back so your team had an advantage to press on objectives where you're more needed. It'll also put you out of position most of the time as if you ult someone running back to base you're now in the enemy backline likely to die unless every enemy in the area is super weak or you have a huge level advantage. Is it the right thing to do sometimes sure. However, there is generally a better objective based play and by keeping the ult up you make yourself a bigger and harder to deal with threat.

(400) |

This Duotem guy doesn't know what he's talking about... XD +1 Duo, great explanation. TEACH ME.

(14) |

Good guide and builds. 👍

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Pros / Cons

Triple Crit

Unicorn 4.0

Skills

Challenger Apollo - P4.2

Smite God: Apollo

Apollo Build

Start

Crit build

Swap with Ichival vs Magical

Lategame Sell

Completed Build

Apollo's Skill Order

So Beautiful

Serenade

The Moves

Across The Sky

Apollo Build

Start

Penetration Build

Swap with Ichival vs Magical

Possible Lategame Sells

Example Build

Introduction

Pros / Cons

Triple Crit

Unicorn 4.0

Skills

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