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Kali - the goddess of destruction (yes, she is!)

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by khoRneELF updated November 27, 2014

Smite God: Kali

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Kali Build

Usual Buy sequence

Build Item Boots Boots
Build Item Ancient Blade Ancient Blade
Build Item Fatalis Fatalis
Build Item Hastened Fatalis Hastened Fatalis
Build Item Combat Boots Combat Boots
Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi
Build Item Light Blade Light Blade
2
Build Item Draining Blade Draining Blade
Build Item Asi Asi
Build Item Balanced Blade Balanced Blade
Build Item Qin's Sais Qin's Sais
Build Item Hidden Dagger Hidden Dagger
2
Build Item Short Sword Short Sword
2
Build Item Rage Rage
Build Item Deathbringer Deathbringer

Core

Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi
Build Item Hastened Fatalis Hastened Fatalis
Build Item Qin's Sais Qin's Sais

Useful items (variable)

Build Item Asi Asi
Build Item Heartseeker Heartseeker
Build Item Titan's Bane Titan's Bane
Build Item Devourer's Gauntlet Devourer's Gauntlet

Lategame

Build Item Rage Rage
Build Item Deathbringer Deathbringer
Build Item Malice Malice

Starting items

Build Item Bumba's Mask Bumba's Mask
Build Item Hand Of The Gods (Old) Hand Of The Gods (Old)
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion
Build Item Boots Boots

Useful actives

Build Item Combat Blink Combat Blink
Build Item Fist of the Gods Fist of the Gods
Build Item Enfeebling Curse Enfeebling Curse
Build Item Greater Purification Greater Purification

Kali's Skill Order

Nimble Strike

1 X Y
Nimble Strike
4 15 16 18 19

Lash

2 A B
Lash
1 3 6 7 10

Incense

3 B A
Incense
2 8 11 12 14

Destruction

4 Y X
Destruction
5 9 13 17 20
Nimble Strike
4 15 16 18 19

Nimble Strike

1 X
Kali leaps forward, damaging enemies in the target area. Kali additionally heals herself for a percent of a single enemy's missing Health. Kali always heals from the target that would heal her the most.

Ability Type: Circle, Leap, Damage
Damage: 85 / 135 / 185 / 235 / 285 (+80% of your Physical Power)
Heal: 20/40/60/80/100 + 10% of target's missing Health
Range: 55
Cost: 60
Cooldown: 12s
Lash
1 3 6 7 10

Lash

2 A
Kali throws several blades, that converge upon the target location. Each does damage and causes bleed. Kali gains Physical Lifesteal against targets affected by this Bleed.

Ability Type: Area, Buff, Damage
Damage Per Blade: 37 / 49 / 61 / 73 / 85 (+20% of your Physical Power)
Bleed Damage: 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 (+5% of your Physical Power) every .5s
Bleed Duration: 3s
Physical Lifesteal: 12 / 16.5 / 21 / 25.5 / 30%
Range: 70
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 12s
Incense
2 8 11 12 14

Incense

3 B
Kali hurls her incense at her feet, exploding it. Enemies hit are Stunned, while Kali gains a Physical Power bonus.

Ability Type: Circle, Stun
Stun Duration: 1.2s
Physical Power Buff: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35
Buff Duration: 4 / 4.5 / 5 / 5.5 / 6s
Radius: 20
Cost: 60
Cooldown: 14s
Destruction
5 9 13 17 20

Destruction

4 Y
Kali becomes an unstoppable force of destruction, creating a damage aura around her. During this time, she can be reduced to 1 Health, but cannot die. She is immune to Knockup, Slow effects, and protected from Root, but still vulnerable to Stuns. If Kali is under 15% of her total Health at the end of the duration, she will heal to 15% Health.

Ability Type: Circle, Buff, Damage
Damage: 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 (+10% of your Physical Power) every 0.5s
Duration: 3.5 / 3.75 / 4 / 4.25 / 4.5s
Radius: 20
Cost: 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100
Cooldown: 90s

Introduction

Hello and स्वागत,

this guide will show you my favorite build for Kali, jungling the jungle and destroying all enemies.

Kali needs about 10 minutes to get in the game, but than - holy god - she will become destruction itself.

I hope, that this guide will help you dominating random-conquest and becoming a good ranked Kali.

There she is, pretty girl of destruction (yes, she has four arms...).

With best regards,
khoRneELF
zurueckgenommen

Pros / Cons

Pros:
- High frequency of basicattacks
- Good crowd control
- Selfheal
- Bleed damage
- Short time invulnerability
- Long perseverance

Cons:
- Needs some time to get into the game
- Not an easy god
- Hard to play in teamfights
- Not the highest damage
- Delicate to some gods

Items

- Hastened Fatalis

The most important item in my opinion. Some people would quote, that physical power is more important than speed. But hey: What does high potential damage mean, if you don't bring it to your enemy?

The high frequency of her basicattacks will be worth this item very fast.
- Warrior Tabi

You simply need it. Everyone is buying boots, so you need them too: Just to be fast. Nothing more to say about it.
- Asi and- Qins Sais

What you buy next depends on the game. If you notice, that you need more selfheal in fights: Buy Asi. If you want to have more damage soon, than buy Qins Sais. Buy each other after the first item of them.

Particularly Qins Sais is very useful for Kali, because of speed items and her high frequency of basicattacks. You'll love it.
- Rage

You have to ensure critical hits. Simply to make more damage. After you ensured, that most of your (they are so many...) basicattacks hit critical, you should buy next
- Deathbringer.

More damage on crits, more dead enemies for Kali.

All other items I mentioned above are optional. Play as you like and what your playstyle wants you to play. This is my favorite sequence.

Skills

- Kali marked for death

A very good passive ability: More penetration against the marked enemy and more gold if killing him. But the most important is: If you kill the marked enemy, you will heal 80% of your maximum heal.

That makes her good in teamfights if you know how to play her (and only than). Pentakills are pretty possible. Just ensure, that you kill one marked enemy after the other. You will heal every time and you can chase the next marked god.
- Kali Lash

Beside the ultimate the most important active ability: Damage + bleeding damage + selfheal if you attack the bleeding god. Very nice. Particularly with many basicattacks after using it.
- Kali Incense

The ability for crowd control, like a free fist of gods. In addition a buff of physical power.
- Kali Nimble Strike

The ability to chase the enemy, also a light selfheal.
- Kali DESTRUCTION

A very good ultimate, making you invulnerable for a short time, heals you after it if you get under 15% and makes alot of damage.

Sequence for ganking:
->-> basic attacks, if the enemy runs ->and if available again ->->
Don't forget bodyblocking after you jumped and basic attacks. Because of your items, you should be faster than your enemy.

Usein team fights or to chase a marked enemy under a tower, kill him, get healed and jump away.

Ranked Play

Kali is not very liked in ranked play, that's my opinion. But I like her. And if you know how to play her, you can reach diamond league or higher.

Ensure, that you know your jungle-rotation (as you should know with every jungle-god), be patient until you got your third item. In this regard, ranked play is more useful for Kali than random-conquest, because the games mostly last longer.

Summary

I hope, that you enjoyed this small guide. I just made it, to show you my way to play kali. You need a good focus on enemies, a meaningful use of Kalis abilities and the correct sequence of items. Than Kali is a very good jungler with high potential and a very good KPD.

Just a picture I made for this guide, nearly every game looks that way (overall KPR of about 4 with Kali after around 50 games):

More screenshots to show you what is possible with this build or other builds which are similar (different accounts with different levels, don't show name of my active account):

The screenshots also show how "good" the marchmaking in SMITE works. Sometimes nearly all players in team are platinum or higher, next game nearly all players in team are level 5. That makes the game worse than others. Sadly.

And, it's not Kali, but because it's my personal SMITE record, here what is possible with Anhur:

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khoRneELF (1) | January 24, 2015 8:38am
Last ranked games with Kali:

1
khoRneELF (1) | December 21, 2014 5:48am
It depends. If you die to often, I would buy Asi as next item after Tabi.

But currently I switched to Freya anyway:

1
windmasters (1) | December 7, 2014 8:20am
don't Asi as second item
Qins is like 5 time better it almost doubles her dmg
It almos always shouls be Mask--->Tabi---->Qins
1
khoRneELF (1) | November 21, 2014 8:13pm
Hey, thanks for the feedback. I enjoyed your guides too.

I mentioned all the steps to make it easier for new players.
1
Zilby (132) | November 21, 2014 8:15am
Pretty nice guide ^^ my only comment is that you probably don't need to show the every piece of the item build, just the final ones (ie: show Asi but not Light Blade)
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