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Hand Of The Gods (Old)
Tabi
Fatalis
Healing Potion
Fatalis
Tabi
Warrior Tabi
The Executioner
Hydra's Lament
Qin's Blades
Rage
Warrior Tabi
Fatalis
The Executioner
Hydra's Lament
Qin's Blades
Rage
Hand Of The Gods (Old)
Potion of Power
Healing Potion
Heavenly Wings
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B
A
X
Hello! I am MysticBadger and I have a lot of Jungle and Support experience in League of Legends. My favorite jungler in LoL is Shaco, who plays very similarly to 
Loki. I haven't been playing Smite for very long, but the general concept of jungling is almost identical in both games.
I love feedback and suggestions, so if there's something you disagree with in my guide, leave a comment instead of just downvoting. This is my first guide, but I want to make a perfect guide on Loki for everyone :)
I will be updating this more as I learn more about Loki and jungling in general, as well as when i have more free time.
Note: This guide is based off my personal playstyle of Loki. There are many ways to play him, but this is my personal favorite.
Loki is a high-damage nuking assassin. In my opinion, he is one of the best gods in the game. The purpose of this guide is to teach you a little bit more about how to play Loki and how to jungle him efficiently.
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Early Game
His main goal in the early game is to provide intense map pressure by ganking lanes that are pushed. You want to spend most of your time roaming and ganking for your lanes. When you can't, secure a buff or two and help either mid or your solo lane push. |
Mid Game
This is when teamfighting begins. Here, you want to quickly assassinate their squishiest member to turn the fight in your favor. After you succeed, quickly get out, and regroup with your team. |
Late Game
Hopefully by now your team is strong enough to push a lane and hold their own. This is the time for you to split-push another lane. This adds incredible map pressure, and soon they'll have to come deal with you, letting the rest of your team to push for free. |
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Pros
+ Incredible damage output + decoy can tank tower shots + Can heavily pressure the map + Good Pusher / Splitpusher + Vanish and Assassinate make him incredibly mobile+ Chaining a full combo is most often a guaranteed kill |
Cons
- Can be hard to come back if you get really behind - Often focused in teamfights - Somewhat squishy - High skillcap - Messing up your combo can put you in bad situations |
Passive: Behind You!
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Loki deals more damage from his basic attacks when hitting enemies from behind. His basic attacks also utilize a five swing progressive chain. Bonus Damage: 20% Melee Progression: 1/.5/.5/.5/1.5x damage and swing time |
Loki such an amazing ganker. When you gank, their first reaction is to run, but by running it allows you to deal more damage. This also synergizes well with your ultimate because it automatically puts you behind them.
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Loki disappears in a puff of smoke. While invisible, he is immune to slows and moves faster. His next basic attack from stealth (or for 2s after) applies a bleed to his target, dealing damage every .5s and reveals Loki. Damage per Tick: 30/45/60/75/90 (+25% of your physical power) Damage Duration: 2s Stealth Duration: 4s Stealth Movement Speed: 35% Cost: 70/75/80/85/90 Cooldown: 18 s |
| Decoy |
Loki spawns a decoy version of himself that taunts all nearby enemy minions. After a short time, the decoy explodes dealing damage to all enemies in the radius. Damage: 90/155/220/285/350 (+80% of your physical power) Decoy Lifetime: 3s Cost: 60/65/70/75/80 Cooldown: 14s |
| Aimed Strike |
Upon activation, Loki's next basic attack does additional damage with a short time. The enemy hit is also slowed. Damage: 60/100/140/180/220 (+100% of your physical power) Buff LIfetime: 5s Slow: 25% Slow Duration: 3s Cost: 50 Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8s |
Fatalis passive, allowing you to keep landing auto attacks on whoever you're ganking.|
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Upon activation, Loki teleports to his ground target location. If an enemy god is within the radius, Loki will backstab that target doing damage and stunning them. Damage: 150/225/300/375/450 (+120% of your physical power) Stun: 1s Cost: 100 Cooldown: 90s |
Assassinate -> aimed strike -> Vanish -> decoy Vanish is because the added damage from aimed strike will help your ganks be far more devastating. Sure, the bleed effect is nice from Vanish, but with aimed strike, you get increased damage for a whole 5s, instead of an increased damage over time effect. When you take into consideration how little time an individual gank takes (sometimes not even 5s), its clear that aimed strike will maximize your damage.When ganking with Loki there's really only 2 combos you'll use.
The Standard (almost guaranteed kill):
-> Aimed Strike ->
-> Auto Attacks
The Other (not guaranteed kill):
-> Aimed Strike -> Auto Attacks ->
(where
is used as a gap closer for them running away)
So whats the real difference between these 2 combos?
The first is more of a safe way to gank, while the other is a bit more risky. With the standard gank, it puts you right behind them, stuns them, and guarantees damage from your Vanish bleed and Aimed Strike buff.
The other combo is more for when you are ganking someone who can escape you after your initial appearance, such as 
Neith. Waiting to use Assassinate can help you stick to your target better and make sure they don't get away. The downside is that it will not contribute to your initial burst, so it's better to use this combo against an underfed opponent or someone who is naturally squishy.
Starting Items
I have done quite a bit of experimenting with starting items and to me, it seems this is the most efficient route. If there's a more efficient start, by all means let me know in a comment :)
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This helps you clear the jungle camps faster in the early game, and helps your push lanes faster in the mid-late game. This active paired with your level 2 decoy should be able to clear an entire lane wave. |
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Taking these early on will help you clear the jungle camps by giving you increased attack speed and physical power. They will also build into Warrior Tabi later on.
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Taking Fatalis early helps your clears a lot. The added attack speed helps with clearing individual camps and the increased movement speed helps you get to the next camp faster.
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Pretty self-explanatory. This heals you up in the jungle so you can clear more camps. |
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Fatalis synergizes very well with Loki's kit. With the passive slow from aimed strike, the Fatalis passive ensures that when you gank, the enemies don't simply walk away laughing at you because you're slower than they are. Also, when chaining your combo together, this guarantees a good 2 auto attacks right after you stun them with Assassinate.
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The Warrior Tabi help with your burst damage by giving you increased physical power, attack speed, and physical penetration. These boots help you get through a tankier god's armor.
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This item helps you shred even tanky gods' health. This helps towards mid and late game when other gods are getting more items too. With the passive of The Executioner, no god is unkillable.
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This items works amazingly with your combo, while also providing cooldown reduction. You will deal an insane amount of burst damage when chaining your skills thanks to its passive. The cooldown reduction simply lets you use your skills more, increasing your threat as well as how often you can escape situations. |
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Late game is when gods like Ymir start getting really tanky, but with this item that never becomes an issue. This helps you absolutely shred anyone's health.
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This is a massive power spike in your build. With this paired with all previous items, you'll be able to melt everyone. Because your attack speed is so high with all the other items, the Rage passive helps you to 100-0 most everyone in a few quick seconds. There's really no reason not to get this on Loki.
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These things are what I plan to add in the future. If you have any requests, let me know in the comments!
- Alternate builds based on situation
- How to jungle
- What the best jungle routes are
- Gameplay Footage
- How to gank (video)
- Tips and Tricks
[8.25.2013]
- Added "CDR and Penetration" Build
[8.24.2013]
- Added subcategory "What to Max First and Why"
- Added "Your Gank Combo"
- Added "Items"
- Added "Future Content"
[8.23.2013]
- Rewrote "Introduction"
- Rewrote "About Loki"
- Added "Pros and Cons"
- Added "Abilities"
- Added "Change Log"
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Build
Eh... Fatalis on Loki is a bad item in general since he gains very little benefit from attack speed compared to getting pure power, especially when Loki is a god who relies on dealing massive damage with one basic attack.
Not to mention you get
Item Explanations
This is where the flaws in your build begin to show. I can replace
So yeah, I think it's bad.
Skill Explanations
Pretty good. You explain what each skill is used for, and why you level it up. But the explanation for why you level aimed strike over
Guiding/Gameplay
Gank combo, that's it. Pretty bad, nothing on creep clears or counterjungling or contesting camps. Or a general counters section.
Details
Beautiful BBC coding, but judging by the sheer amount of chapters and the lack of useful content, I think you can be more concise.
Summary
This guide is lacking solid fundamentals, such as gameplay or a well-explained build, so I must downvote.
As far as making a "perfect guide" is going, you are far off.
This is what you have:
Intro saying that you will teach us a little bit about Loki
About Loki: ...There is nothing here.
About Me: Why do you have a section on your face? Put that goodness in the intro or something.
THOU HAST INFORMATION IN THE LEAST! You should be giving your take on the abilities, explaining why you picked the items you chose (which I question your use of [[Fatalis] so please do that), and give an ACTUAL gameplay section. Aside from that, add pictures, BB coding, color, and give as many tips to new users of Loki as possible.
'Twill not downvote as was requested, but I 'twill certainly receivith an upvote not.
JararoNatsu,
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it! I definitely need some constructive criticism as this is my first guide ever. I do plan on constantly updating it and making it better regarding content as well as appearance.
I will try to incorporate all they suggestions you gave me into the guide. Once again, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me with my guide! :)
This is what you have:
Intro saying that you will teach us a little bit about Loki
About Loki: ...There is nothing here.
About Me: Why do you have a section on your face? Put that goodness in the intro or something.
THOU HAST INFORMATION IN THE LEAST! You should be giving your take on the abilities, explaining why you picked the items you chose (which I question your use of
'Twill not downvote as was requested, but 'twill certainly receivith an upvote not.