Item explanation
Starting items
Bumba's Mask Gives HP,
recover your HP when you kill jungle camps, and
full gold bonus even with allies near, the best item for jungle for gods like
Loki
Hand of the Gods Give you speed for kill camps early game with the solo laner and later, helps you to kill camps with buffs faster, also,
Fist of the Gods, the last item on the
Hand of the Gods tree,
stun enemies, or
Wrath of the Gods kill automatically Fire Giant or the Gold Fury.
Get level 2 at the start of the game if you do not want to buy boots.
Potion of physical might More damage, very usefull when you just started jungling,
do not buy another one until you have all your items and actives done.
You can not buy this item, the price now is for 450.
Mana Potion You can not buy anymore the physical damage potion, so, you need to change your starting build. Get as always
Bumba's Mask,
Hand of the Gods until level 2 (or level and boots level 1) and one
Mana Potion and one
Ward, why mana and not
Health Potion? Because
Bumba's Mask already heals you, and you will need mana more than HP.
Ward Get this one to prevent Early ganks to mid lane and solo lane,
you should not put this
Ward on the jungle side of Mid Lane - Duo Lane, because Duo Lane should have already Wards, though, usually Mid and Solo lane does not.
Starting items, conquest solo/mid and Joust
Morningstar You want buy your
Heartseeker faster as possible, then, you should buy this item first.
Hand of the Gods I play this active while in mid lane also because I like to steal the enemy mid camp at the begining of the game, giving you half of Level 1, and, the enemy, 0.
Early game items
Heartseeker, you
must buy this item fist if you are going to use it, the faster you get your 50 stacks, faster you will kill. This item
gives physical power, a lot of it,
25 at max rank,
plus 1 for stacks(max 50), that makes a total of 25 + 50 =
75 physical power, and,
movement speed, thing that help you to survive without the boots at the begining.
If you do not like HS (because it is too dangerous, when I fight against gods that can give me problems, I change it) and want put another item, you should put
Hydra's Lament, as the 3 item after
Jotunn's Wrath (Tabi > Jotunn > Hydra)
Warrior Tabi, before all, sometimes I see some
Loki players using
Ninja Tabi, for me, that item for
Loki is not good,
if you want CDR, just buy Jotunn's Wrath or
Hydra's Lament.
Warrior Tabi Gives you attack speed, movement speed and penetration, is a very good item, must buy this one.
Mid game items
Jotunn's Wrath This is a core item for
Loki,
it gives CDR, something that goes very good on
Loki, after all, you need
Vanish for engage, and also for run away, some CDR is great for this skill. Mana, you need this for do not run out of mana easily with
Loki and penetration, having penetration mid game is a nice advantage, and more with a burst god like
Loki. You must have this item on your build.
Deathbringer Must item for
Loki, some people buy first
Malice, but I like buy
Deathbringer first, becaue it gives you
50% strike damage when you hit a critical, this meeans, that your critical hits will hit the double, also, the
50 physical power and 20% critical strike chance, makes this item awesome, you must buy this.
Late game items
Malice Give you 50 physical power and 20% critical chance, also, the passive,
when you hit a critical strike, the 75% of your physical power is inflicted, over the next 3 seconds... awesome. I like this item a lot, after all, critical chance and damage is always welcome, but if you do not feel good with it, maybe you want to change it and put
Hydra's Lament, giving you even more burst damage, CDR and nice physical power.
Titan's Bane Not a lot to talk about this item...
lot of penetration, why you want more?
Situational items
When I want to replace some item,
I usually replace the
Heartseeker when I can not build the stacks, and put
Hydra's Lament, the another ones are more in specific games, explained with the item right down.
Brawler's Beat Stick You should buy this item when you have an enemy healer like
Hel, the heals from her are just awesome, you can have a lot of problems with her, and more, if you are solo with her.
Hydra's Lament 50 physical power and 15% CDR, awesome physical bonus and the CDR is not bad, also, what makes this item very good with
Loki, is the active,
giving you 175% more of your physical power in the next hit after you use an ability.
Hastened Fatalis The attack speed this item gives (30%) is just awesome, also the passive, is one of the best for me,
slow the enemy you are hitting and increases your movement speed, good item when your slow with Aimed Strike is not enough.
Magi's Blessing on Arena when you need some help with the CC is pretty good, specially against
Ymir, good stats and passive. On Joust 1v1, sometimes you find a lot of CC, then, it is time for Magi's Blessing, counter it and kill them.
Void Shield This item works very good against Warriors, giving you physical power, protection and reducing their protection by 15.
Runic Shield This item is good when your enemie team has a lot of magical gods, take this for additional magical protection, but, you do not lose physical power, something that is pretty good for
Loki
Bloodforge Well, lifesteal on
Loki is not very recommended, but you can still use it if you need it,
the lifesteal that
Bloodforge gives is a lot, and just with 2 or 3 hits, something very good on
Loki, after all, you just need around 4 hits to take down a god, or 2 when the god is squishy.
Shifter's Shield Item that gives general protection and 40 physical power is very very good, but the most interesting thing is the passive it gives,
when you do not need the protection, gives an additional physical power of 20 (giving you 60 physical power) but when your HP is below the 50%, you gain 20 protection, magical and physical.
Actives
Greater Aegis Gives you CC immune, and prevent incoming damage for 2 seconds, very good active against:
Poseidon
Ares
Ymir, and sometimes, if you use it correctly,
Fenrir, this active has a lot of uses, thanks to the damage and CC immune.
Combat Blink Another
Loki ultimate with 180 seconds CD, sweet.
Fist of the Gods I usually get this one against gods like
Kali, when she uses his ultimate, stuns are a nice defense, if not,
Wrath of the Gods,
Vanish, sneak into the Fire Giant and steal it.
Greater Purification CC immune for 3 seconds and reduces all CD with 5 seconds, very good active agains
Ares, but
REMEMBER THIS: YOU STILL HAVE INCOMING DAMAGE.
Sprint Your slow immune with
Vanish is not enough? buy this active, it helps you a lot against gods like
Bakasura with Fatalis and his ultimate, and more slow abilities that you can not counter with
Vanish
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Jotuns is on the core, on all the builds, I dont see why you say it is not on core, about the Malice maybe you have the reason, if you do not like Malice, you must replace it with Hydras, or replace HS if you can not get the stacks correctly for Hydras, after all, HS without 50 stacks is not useful.
Thanks for your comment, I will check the items once again and see how can I change them, but I wont put Hydras on the core, after all, with those items your burst should be more than enough to take down enemies with 1 or 2 hits, and the CDR well, a lil bit less CDR but it is ok. I hope you change your vote for upvote someday. Thanks for all the contribution until now guys, thanks for make this guide grow up. :)
Also, I will fix the starting items for jungle when I see what can I do, right now I can not connect, too busy, but soon I will fix it and add Warriors and Hunters to ''Loki Against..'' section
Maybe some columns like Greenevers said but it is ok the BBcode like it is now, the rest is pretty good. Item explanation and skill explanation is good, I liked it. And the last thing, you should change the starting items for jungle, after all, now physical damage increased potion now is for 450g. Nice guide, liked it. Wanted to comment on this guide because I play a lot
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I'm agree with your opinion about
About the lifesteal items, I said on the item explanation that they are totally optionals, I use them on
About Joust, it's true sometimes you max Decoy first of all, but I like to harras my enemy all the time, and that's why I max Aimed Strike, sometimes with gods like
I will fix all that, and I will add teamwork section and ways to counter Loki's enemies. Thanks for your contribution, I hope your vote change with the changes I will add now, thanks again.