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These are what you are going to be building at the start of a Loki jungle game.
Build Bumbha's Dagger instead of Eye of Jungle if you are going for any builds that contain Bumba's Hammer!
Decide on the enemy comp wherever or not you will pick up blink or beads first. Either way in the end you will be picking both of these up at some point in the game. Beads is a must-have on Loki as he can be CC chained into oblivion, and Loki isn't into that.
Eye Of The Jungle
Mace
Healing Potion
Blink Rune
Purification Beads
This build is used to burst out damage on not only squishies but also tanks, this build contains high penetration and power which is all a Loki needs to thrive. Upgrading Eye of the Jungle to Seer of Jungle is situational, if you are feeling like you are being blown up in teamfights, be sure to pick up Void Shield instead of upgrading your starter item.
Seer Of The Jungle
The Crusher
Jotunn's Wrath
Hydra's Lament
Serrated Edge
Titan's Bane
If you are being blown up by mages, feel free to pick up Ancile or Shifters Shield in place of Protector of the Jungle, though you will lose out on protections, power, and some attack speed (attack speed is not a big deal on Loki).
This build provides a decent amount of flat pen, pen, high power incl. burst damage and decent tankiness against ADCs.
Seer Of The Jungle
The Crusher
Transcendence
Shifter's Shield
Ancile
Void Shield
I hate to do this but...
If you're looking for a disgusting one-shot build, here you go. The ADCs will BM you in whispers, beware.
We will be upgrading Bumbas as it gives us practically unlimited invisibility through auto canceling through our kit.
An alternative route for this build is to build bloodforge and sell Bumbas Hammer. I find myself doing this a lot to improve survivability through the Bloodforge shield and also for the 75 power that results in crits hitting over 1k damage. Through Malice you still gain a ridiculous amount of CDR so you can spam abilities, just a little slower.
Bumba's Hammer
Transcendence
Hydra's Lament
Rage
Malice
Deathbringer
To be honest, I don't see myself building a hybrid Loki much in the jungle, it just doesn't feel right. Adding the Void Shield or whatnot in the burst build is great but not going all-in on Loki sucks. But if you are in high-level play and you want to survive the fights, this is a good build to get started with. This would probably be more of a solo build than anything, but I will list it here nonetheless.
Bumba's Hammer
Transcendence
Void Shield
Ancile
Gladiator's Shield
Heartseeker
For jungle, you should be leveling in this order: 4-1-3-2
Vanish has more realistic damage output, especially in the early than Flurry Strike.
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Hello, I am Pwuntahs, Loki is my most played character, with 3 stars on the man himself not including the tedious amount of scrims I utilize him in. I am known for making Loki mid great again and today I will share with you some Loki builds that I feel maximizes Loki's kit. I will include builds for Solo, Jungle, Duel, and hell, I'll give you a mid-build if you're feeling spicy. Loki is incredibly versatile in his playstyle and the way you build him. Besides the versatility of his build potential, I want to make one rule out here and say NO ARONDIGHT. I am personally offended when I see that someone has bought Arondight on Loki. This is NOT a good item on him, despite ****-tier build sites like W3aken's saying it is. Loki's ult is used 95% of the time for escaping or securing a kill when in the jungle, and you will not be buying Arondight on a tanky/bruiser build, In these scenarios, the arondight passive is completely useless and there are far superior items you can pick up.
With the removal of boots, you are now able to get to that sweet one-shot potential that Loki is renowned for.
Loki has been played very frequently in the SPL although he had a halt to his presence in the Smite Pro League for a month or two because Titan took about 5 years to fix a bug that was deemed to be game-breaking. But Loki is back, and ready to produce salt in large quantities.
I want to create a video demonstrating different playstyles you can utilize in order to adapt to different scenarios in the game that is going on. This may be something I make in the future as I do not wish to type out all of my ideas onto this guide because my arms hurt as it is :)
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I do however have a few questions/things I dont agree with, and just to point out I have somewhere around 23 stars on Loki so he is my main.
1. Does the "Burst Jungle" build you presented actually work? Because I've tried running A Pen build multiple times in Master's ranked MMR and I can tell you it doesn't work. Once you hit late game its much harder to 100 to 0 someone and simply takes too long to kill and if you initiate with your ult you're dead right after you kill the target. Again this is from personal experience and never had success with a Pen build. Typically my route is always Crit if I wanna carry or Bruiser.
2. whats your reasoning behind Seer of the Jungle? That Item in my opinion it garbage, it doesnt benefit you at all late game, id be going Protector of the Jungle or Bumba's 9 times out of 10.
Nice guide though! You got the upvote from me.
2. I feel
Thanks for the feedback! In conclusion bruiser is definitely the better build to go at higher ranks, but burst can work in a well-coordinated team in my opinion. I usually use the ult to try and escape after bursting down their ADC/Mage.
Do you use the same build as mine? Sometimes I feel like it doesn't do enough damage unless I sell
Are you auto canceling your 3? maybe that's why you're not doing enough damage?