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Starter upgrade as soon as possible
Starter upgrade as soon as possible
See "Situational Items" section.
Dont level an ability at level 8 to get a point in Pyroclast and Volcanic Lightning level 9
Tap each threat level to view Pele’s threats
Overall Pele is a strong god, with lots going for her. Some of her biggest strengths are:
+ Tons of burst damage, both single target and AOE.
+ Strong mobility with the movement speed on Magma Rush and the dash on Volcanic Lightning
+ Decent cc with the knockup on Eruption and the slow on Volcanic Lightning
+ Amazing early game pressure without really falling off lategame
Pele's downsides are few, and not too glaring. She lacks instant mobility outside of her ult, her passive is prone to antiheal, she can suffer against knockup immune gods, and her cc isn't great, but that's about it.
Here's a quick rundown of all of Pele's abilities and their uses:
The starting build is pretty self-explanatory, and is what you should be building on every ability-based jungler like Pele:
I'll briefly describe the use of each situational item and when you should build them:
Purification Beads. Blink Rune. That's it. Order is up to you.
Please don't build anything else. This is true for almost all junglers.
Some junglers can skip Blink Rune for Aegis Amulet, for example gods like Thor who has his ult and hammer to engage, but Pele needs blink to engage without Volcanic Lightning so she cant really skip it.
Go Purification Beads first if you think cc will either get you killed or stop you getting kills early game (like a ***bakharna), or rush Blink Rune if you are confident you can get kills with it early.
If I had to give you only one tip for playing Pele, it would be this:
Hopefully after reading some or all of this guide you've learned something about playing Pele. If you have any questions about the guide feel free to comment, dm me, or find me on discord DiscoFerry#6038 and I'll do my best to answer. Thanks for reading!
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"See that enemy? GONE!"
"That one escaping? Roasted and toasted"
"The one trying to kill me? Scrambled with a side of toast."
"That other guy trying to kill me? Burnt like my toast."
"See that other guy also running away? Prepare their funeral."
If your timing is off you're likely dead without getting half your damage off, which if it happens just too often puts you to behind that when you do get your damage off it feels lackluster.
Timing is crucial and that makes assassins very difficult to play in most teamfight from the start modes.