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Shoes of Focus
Breastplate of Valor
Chronos' Pendant
Void Stone
Obsidian Shard
Bancroft's Talon
Divine Ruin
Polynomicon
Rod of Tahuti
Hide of the Nemean Lion
Pestilence
Bulwark of Hope
Magi's Cloak
Soul Reaver
Ethereal Staff
Gem of Isolation
Warlock's Staff
Improved Sprint
Greater Purification
Combat Blink
Aegis Pendant
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Pros:
High burst damage.
You get to use your ultimate multiple times if it kills.
Ultimate gives CC immunity.
Your 1 cripples for a very long time, and can cripple multiple enemies.
Free magical protection reduction from your 2.
Has a relatively quick escape.
Cons:
Extremely squishy.
Easily focused on (especially if you're using your ultimate).
Dependent on landing skills (particularly your 1).
Ultimate has a VERY long animation and is hard to land.
Credits to luism-art.blogspot.com for image.
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Quick Learner Scylla's passive allows her abilities to gain additional effects when maxed and gives her 20 magical power per maxed ability. |
at 9 and Sic 'Em
at 13 instead of levelling I'm a Monster
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Sic 'Em Scylla sends her hounds in a straight line. If it hits, it will cripple (meaning they cannot move or use movement abilities or combat blink) the enemy. At max rank it will cripple 2 additional enemies nearby. |
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Crush Scylla sends a magic circle which she can remotely detonate by pressing the button again. While not detonated it slows the movements of enemies in it. At max rank, it slows for 1 second even after detonation, and it reduces the magical protection of enemies in it. |
right up to their face, and use crush right on yourself, then detonate immediately.|
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Sentinel Scylla sends her hounds at a distance, giving her vision. Upon pressing the button again, she can teleport to the hound. At max rank vision is granted through line of site blockers, and placement distance is increased. |
, and your beads and ultimate are on cooldown, you should place the sentinel before you get dragged off by him so that you can immediately teleport away after the stun if you're still alive. If possible, try to place your sentinel so that it goes through some sort of wall for faster escape. You can also use it to teleport behind a tower to catch unsuspecting victims trying to return to base.|
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I'm a Monster Scylla transforms into a monster, during which you gain movement speed and you can strikes with her hounds in a circle AOE. If she kills with this attack, she may attack again. At max rank, the movement bonus doubles. |
. There is an animation for returning to normal form, during which you may die during the cancel animation.
or Hades' ultimate
when you don't have beads/sentinel available ).Though I didn't list it in the build, I always like to buy some potions to start the game (except in arena). 3 health potions and 0/1 mana if I get the mana jungle buff, or 2 health potions and 2 mana if I don't get the jungle buff.
is also a great item for conquest.
Shoes of Focus
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Cooldown is very important for Scylla. It helps you both escape and attack. With the 15% cooldown reduction from Shoes of Focus, and the 25% from Breastplate of Valor/ Chronos' Pendant, you can get 40% reduction ( which is the maximum amount possible). |
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This item is your lifesteal and sustain. If they have one or more healers such as Hel, Ra, or Aphrodite that are giving you trouble, then Divine Ruin is a good choice as enemies hit by your abilities will have their healing reduced. Otherwise your choice is between Bancroft's Talon and Polynomicon. |
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With a whooping 25% power increase, this item is a must. When you think you have enough protection, and want to start focusing on power, you can get this item. |
| warlock's sash | Warlock's Sash gives you health and magical power with minion and enemy kills. If you're getting Warlock's Sash, you need to get it fast, to start stacking it, usually as your 3rd item, after your boots and defense item. I get this when I'm not having trouble with magical attackers after getting Breastplate of Valor, or vice versa with Void Stone, just to make myself more tanky and increase my attack power at the same time. |
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Gem of isolation slows enemies hit by your abilities. This is particularly useful when you have trouble hitting your enemies. Just ask yourself whether you have been missing all your Sic 'Ems and ultimate strikes. If the answer is yes, you probably need this item, and should start engaging with crush followed by Sic 'Em. |
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If you're still dying a lot after Breastplate of Valor/ Void Stone (or both), then you need another defense item. Hide of the Nemean Lion for is physical defense. For magical defense, you can choose between pestilence (its passive reduces healing from those healers you may be having trouble with) and Bulwark of Hope (the superior choice if there are no healers). The range of the pestilence aura is 55, which is only very slightly below the max range of your Sic 'Em. |
| magi's blessing |
If you're getting picked off by CC abilities that occur too fast for you to use beads (for example, Arachne's Cocoon
, Tyr's Fearless
, etc), then you can get this.
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If you're doing really well, not dying at all, and find yourself thirsting for power, then this item is for you. Its passive lets you take off 15% of someone's health using an ability, possibly letting you one-hit-KO someone with just your ultimate. |
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On the other end of the spectrum, if you're REALLY not doing so well, then you get this item. This item is your last resort if you can't stop dying. Should be gotten along with Gem of isolation and Warlock's Sash so that you have enough health to make use of the passive (which gives power as a percentage of your health). |
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You can upgrade this to Heavenly Agility if you want, but I generally just leave it at the 2nd tier. Improved Sprint gives slow immunity, which is very important and why it's vastly better than the regular sprint. Considering how many gods have slows, I almost always get this item. Just your Sentinel
is not enough to escape when you're slowed. Sprint can also be used during monster form to chase someone down.
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Also known as beads. Whether you get this depends of course, on who you're facing. You should get it if you see any of these gods: Ymir (his stun lasts forever), Ares, Apollo (his mesmerize can kill you), Kumbhakarna, etc. If you play the game long enough, you will know who those gods are. |
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Aegis Pendant is mostly used to deal with ultimates that would otherwise one-shot or gravely injure you. Poseidon's Release the Kraken
and He Bo's Crushing Wave
are the worst offender. Vulcan's Earthshaker
can also deal severe damage to you, though in reality, this skill is really easy to avoid if you know he's using it. You can sentinel basically anywhere to avoid it. Aegis Pendant can also be used during monster form (before you make the strike) if you see people trying to ult you during your ultimate. Though if you do use it this way, remember that your cripple from Sic 'Em will be lost by the time you can strike with your ultimate. With your enlarged hitbox during your ultimate, this gives you another way to use your ultimate: body-blocking with Aegis Pendant to save near death allies.
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This item has a very long cooldown but it's very good. It lets you teleport instantly so you don't have to live with the delay from sending out your hound when using Sentinel
. This item is a solid buy if the enemy team has Ne Zha
or Kumbhakarna
. Both their ultimates will send you flying, and the enemy team will be waiting to nuke you as soon as you land. But with combat blink, you can escape immediately after landing. Beware that combat blink won't work if you're crippled (say if you're in Poseidon's whirlpool). If you don't have trouble with CC or burst ultimates, this is the active to get.
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Quick kill:
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--> Immediately hit with ultimate
A combo for killing enemies on low health. At rank 1 Sic 'Em (depending on the distance you landed it and your reaction), the enemy might have a split second to escape your ultimate. But this is not likely unless they have combat blink. At rank 2 and above Sic 'Em, your ultimate is guaranteed to hit if they don't CC immunity their way out of your cripple.
Full kill:
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--> Detonate Crush --> Hit with ultimate
Near end game this combo should be enough to kill squishies at full health. This combo will require level 4 Sic 'Em for a probable hit (depending on reaction time and whether they have an escape), and level 5 for a guaranteed hit. You can detonate the crush during the split second you transform into a monster (which is faster than detonating it and then transforming into a monster), and then hit them. To make this clear, you hit them with Sic 'Em, hit your crush while they are crippled, transform into a monster, detonate the charge, then hit them with your ultimate strike. Note that crush cannot be detonated during the hit from your ultimate. You need to detonate it before you make the strike or afterwards.
1 vs 1:
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--> Hit with ultimate --> Detonate Crush
The advantage of detonating crush last is the magical protection debuff it provides (at max rank) when you hit your ultimate. If there's no one else to hit with your ultimate anyway, there is no point to killing with it. This combo does more damage than the last simply because of the protection debuff. And if you have any magical allies with you, they will benefit from this debuff as well. But you cannot detonate your charge until after the very slight animation where you change back after landing your ultimate, so at level 4 Sic 'Em, the enemy will have a chance to escape your crush using combat blink or any movement abilities they have. At maxed Sic 'Em this combo is guaranteed.
Gem of Isolation combo :
--> Detonate Crush -->
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--> Hit with ultimate
When you're facing enemies that won't stop dancing around, it is hard to hit your Sic 'Em, so instead you start off with crush. If your crush is maxed they will be additionally slowed along with the stacking slow from gem of isolation. This will make it easier for you to land your cripple. This combo also allows you to judge whether you can get the kill with your ultimate after landing your crush and Sic 'Em, and you can opt to wait for your skills to cooldown, rather than continue the combo.
Against tanks :
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--> Auto-attack --> Detonate Crush before they leave the Crush circle
This combo is mostly used on tanks and people you can't kill with the "Full kill" combo. Landing crush first will let your Sic 'Em benefit from the protection debuff. If they don't have an escape, they will be forced to walk through the circle (while will slow them) during which you can auto-attack them (and then detonate just as they almost leave it). If they do have an escape, you will need to detonate it before the cripple from Sic 'Em ends, so they don't fly off.
Allies
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Ares' ultimate
and gathers a ton of enemies together in one spot and stuns them. This gives you an opportunity to land your skills. Even if your ultimate isn't going to kill, you should still use it, because the benefit of hitting an entire team with your ultimate is too great. If they only landed 1 person (or 3 if you have Sic 'Em maxed), then you can simply use Sic 'em, and follow up with your usual combo. Be wary of enemies who have bought beads, as they will escape Ares' ultimate and waste yours. But Ares' ultimate cooldown is only rivaled by max-ranked beads, and an Ares' who've bought any cooldown reduction will have a chance to use his ultimate before their beads cooldown ends.
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Hades' ultimate
will also gather enemies in one place, but anyone with an escape will usually escape immediately. But when Hades does manage to get someone without an escape, you can (with discretion) either immediately ultimate them or use your entire combo.
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Both their ultimate will result in someone falling from the sky in a little while. You just have to time it right so that your ultimate lands before they can escape. ***bakharna's yawn is especially good for landing your ultimate and crush combo. |
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I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm still not sure how to deal with this guy. If you get close enough, he will dive you, and if you don't, then you're left sitting in the corner and watching him farm while you don't get any farm. Even when you hit him with Sic 'Em and Crush after he dives you, he just heals it all with his 3rd skill
. Worse yet, his 2nd skill
will completely immobilize you. My only advice is to change lanes and stay far far away from this guy.
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If you don't have any magical defense, once he hits level 5, his Whirlpool
into Release the Kraken
will literally take off 90% of your health (upon which he will finish you with his 1). You should get Aegis pendant if you're facing off against him.
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While Hel vastly out-sustains you with her healing, that is not the reason she is here on this list. She is here because of her Cleanse
. This ability allows her and her allies to escape your Sic 'Em
without beads. This means that against a good Hel, you will never cripple her long enough to land your ultimate. Of course a bad Hel will simply stand there and die.
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Both of them have CC immunity on demand. Chang'E has Moonlit Waltz
and Xbalanque has Rising Jaguar
. Like, Hel, this means that you won't cripple them for long. At max cooldown reduction, Moonlit waltz can be used every 7.2 seconds, and Rising Jaguar every 9.6 seconds. For comparison, your Sic 'Em's cooldown is 6 seconds at max cooldown reduction. This means you will either have to wait for them to waste this ability or to land 2 Sic 'Ems near consecutively. Worse comes to worse, you will land to land your ultimate without Sic 'Em. Regardless, Gem of Isolation
is a solid buy against theses opponents to help you land your ultimate.
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June 11, 2014
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I would never recommend Pestilence on Scylla. You should never be in near-melee range of a mage to have it active, or you're playing Scylla wrong. She's a long range nuker than only moves in for a kill to assure a polynomicon hit or when chaining kills on her ultimate.
I would call Ares a trap ally, because many people would blow their ult as soon as he does to prepare the strike, but anyone with beads will avoid his ult and thus make yours useless. Also wouldn't call He Bo a particularly dangerous enemy should you play smart. I'd consider Agni's sustain damage and heavy wavepushing much more dangerous.
Also against a Tank, you'd never go
Also, Rod of Tahuti is a *must*, not a pick one. She's a burst mage based around one shotting someone in a combo, or else you have to wait around 6-10 seconds to do anything else. That's 6-10 seconds you CAN"T wait on if you're being focused. It's an absolute necessity to get Rod if you're a burst mage, staying alive after you use your abilities doesn't matter when you're only prolonging yourself a second or two.
Otherwise...decent guide. I'd clear up the Aesthetics on the skill section but things flow nicely. You know the god well and put effort in, I'd call it an overall decent guide.
I agree with you on most things, but I disagree with your opinion on pestilence. Using the ruler tool, I see the max range of Sic 'Em is around 62.5 (just eye-balling it), and the range of pestilence is 55, which is not far off. If you're landing Sic 'Em at max range, it is extremely predictable and hard to land due to the slight delay in travelling time. I have never had much trouble with agni, so I will refrain from making a section on him until I have more experience. Regardless, thank you for the feedback and I will change my guide accordingly.
I would call Ares a trap ally, because many people would blow their ult as soon as he does to prepare the strike, but anyone with beads will avoid his ult and thus make yours useless. Also wouldn't call He Bo a particularly dangerous enemy should you play smart. I'd consider Agni's sustain damage and heavy wavepushing much more dangerous.
Also against a Tank, you'd never go
Also, Rod of Tahuti is a *must*, not a pick one. She's a burst mage based around one shotting someone in a combo, or else you have to wait around 6-10 seconds to do anything else. That's 6-10 seconds you CAN"T wait on if you're being focused. It's an absolute necessity to get Rod if you're a burst mage, staying alive after you use your abilities doesn't matter when you're only prolonging yourself a second or two.
Otherwise...decent guide. I'd clear up the Aesthetics on the skill section but things flow nicely. You know the god well and put effort in, I'd call it an overall decent guide.
An upvote from me.