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Rama - Sniped From Across the Lane (S4!)

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Smite God: Rama

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Rama Build

Starter

Death's Toll

Boots

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Core

Ninja Tabi

Ichaival

Devourer's Gauntlet

Demon Blade

Deathbringer

Titan's Bane

Damage Items

The Executioner

Qin's Sais

Poisoned Star

Malice

Soul Eater

Silverbranch Bow

Defence (Only get if needed.)

Shifter's Shield

Magi's Cloak

Relics

Purification Beads

Aegis Amulet

Heavenly Wings

Magic Shell

Rama's Skill Order

Astral Strike

1 X

1 4 6 7 10

Infinite Arrows

2 A

3 8 11 12 15

Rolling Assault

3 B

2 14 16 18 19

Astral Barrage

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

1 4 6 7 10

Astral Strike

1 X

3 8 11 12 15

Infinite Arrows

2 A

Passive: While this buff is active, every 3rd successful hit on an enemy god will immediately generate an Astral Arrow.

Active: Rama gains increased attack speed.

Ability Type: Buff
Attack Speed Increase: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60%
Attack Speed Increase Duration: 5s
Cost: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60
Cooldown: 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11s

2 14 16 18 19

Rolling Assault

3 B

5 9 13 17 20

Astral Barrage

4 Y

Rama launches into the air and shoots 3 powerful arrows at the ground, each successive shot increasing in damage: 70%, 85%, 100% and decreasing in AOE size: 30, 20, 15. Every time Rama generates or picks up an Astral Arrow, the cooldown of this ability is reduced by 0.2s (includes passive regen + picked up deployables + generated arrows during stim).

Rama will fall down as soon as the 3 arrows have been used, or after 5s have passed. He is untargetable for the duration.

Ability Type: AoE
Damage: 190 / 280 / 370 / 460 / 550 (+55% of your Physical Power)
Damage (Max): 459 / 688 / 918 / 1147 / 1377 (+135% of your Physical Power)
Radius: 15 / 10 / 7.5
Cost: 80
Cooldown: 90s

Changelog

9/4/16:

Adjusted Qin's Sais explanation
Adjusted Transcendence explanation
Added fancy picture to the introduction
Updated build
Adjusted Items chapter
Updated Pros & Cons

6/2/17:

Updated guide for Season 4
Updated build
Changed tips and tricks
Changed Matchups
Added Levelling order

8/2/17:
- Updated Skills to look more appealing
22/2/17:
- Changed the build to feature devourer's gauntlet
- Removed Bloodforge from alternative items
- Updated description for abilities and items

Introduction

Hello one and hello all! I'm Sodsboy and I'd like to introduce you to my favourite hunter in Smite...Rama!

Pros & Cons

PROS
Easy to use
Strong Attack Speed Steroid
Strong escape
Has a great amount of CC for a hunter

CONS
Below average early game
Hard to master
Dependant on player's ability to aim
Requires great reflexes to use his escape

Abilities

Pick Me Up

Passive: Astral Quiver

Rama's Astral Quiver generates an Astral Arrow every 12s. Also, every basic attack that Rama lands will reduce the amount of time to generate an arrow by 2s. Astral Arrows are used with Rama's other abilities.

This passive is basically just a little reminder for the main use of the god. You're going to be using his Astral Arrows a lot so make sure you always stock up before going into battle.

Ability 1: Astral Strike

Rama switches to a more powerful arrow that pierces and slows enemies. This ability consumes 1 of Rama's Astral Arrows and deals bonus damage with every shot. Damage from this ability is reduced to 75% for each enemy hit after the first. Rama cannot toggle this ability if he has no Astral Arrows. The slow can be stacked up to 3 times.

Ability Type: Buff
Bonus Damage: 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 / 55
Slow: 10% (Stacks up to 3 times)
Slow Duration: 2s
Cost: 20 + 1 arrow per shot

This is your main wave clear ability with . By using your Astral Arrows you'll be doing bonus damage on your AA and slowing for up to 30% which is quite a lot if you're a slow support or a mage with no mobility.

Ability 2:Pick Me UpPick Me Up

Passive: Any time an enemy is hit by an Astral Arrow there is a % chance that an Astral Arrow pickup will appear on the ground (Only procs on the first enemy hit by Astral Strike). The pickup adds one Arrow to Rama's Astral Arrow count.

Active: Rama gains increased attack speed.

Ability Type: Buff, Pickup
Drop Chance for Arrow Pickup: 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50%
Attack Speed Increase: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50%
Attack Speed Increase Duration: 5s
Cost: 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100
Cooldown: 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11s

This really allows you to pump out damage when it comes mid to late game. The simple fact you gain 50% attack speed allows you to hit the 2.5 cap with 2 or 3 attack speed items. Do mind that the arrows dropped from the passive can be seen by enemies as well so they will try to bait you to pick them up before ambushing you.

Ability 3: Rolling Assault

Rama performs a roll in the direction he is currently traveling. After performing a dodge roll, for 5s Rama's next basic attack will consume an astral arrow that cripples the target and deals bonus damage. Rama incurs no movement penalty during this shot.

Ability Type: Dash
Bonus Damage: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100
Cripple Duration: 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2s
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 11s

The roll can be considered a very strong escape due to the fact you don't need to face the way you want to roll in order to use it. If you're boxing with your enemy and see their support trying to come over to CC you, you can simply backpedal and roll away to find yourself a safe distance away. The cripple afterwards is also great for rather aggressive plays so this is a very versatile move.

Ultimate: Astral Barrage

Rama launches into the air and shoots 3 powerful arrows at the ground, each successive shot increasing in damage: 50%, 75%, 100% and decreasing in AOE size: 30, 20, 15.

Ability Type: AOE
Damage: 200 / 300 / 400 / 500 / 600 (+60% of your physical power)
Radius: 30 / 20 / 15
Cost: 100 / 110 / 120 / 130 / 140
Cooldown: 90s

This ability is probably the best skill shot in the game to master. You can impress anyone by using this. Enemy running away with a slither of health? Channel your inner Saiyan, scream "UGGHHHAAAAAA!" and start flinging high velocity arrows their way and 10 episodes later you'll win.

Items

is the boots I recommend for this build mainly due to how effective AS is on Rama. You could use If you wish to have the damage but late game the AS will be much better.

The next item allows for your early game to be much easier against physical hunters but with and showing up here and there you might want to invest into instead to steal their power.

Picking this up early on and getting to stacking allows you to benefit from the power and lifesteal late game for those rather rough teamfight. Just do not delay picking this item up otherwise you may find yourself un-able to stack it.

Wind Demon

This item has been in the meta for a good while now and for the good reason. It has crit, attack speed and a movement speed buff that can make landing shots more easier. For this build we're going to be focusing more on crit then pure penetration.

40% increased crit damage?! Sign me up! But no seriously, between this and it's really up to you with Malice rewarding consistent shot landing and DB allowing for solid trading in lane when mid-late game shows up.

We do Titan's bane last to make sure that our crits are able to easily punch through defence. If you want to you could trade this for but you will be even more reliant on your AA for the damage to amp up.

Alternative Items

Now this mainly comes down to what you feel most comfortable using and how many tanks they have. If it's one or two I can say Executioner is much better choice since you can focus on shredding their protections. However if they have a very tank heavy line-up then I'd keep with since you won't be needing to stack the protection shred on everyone.

Swap the crit build for a Qin's build and watch as that extra physical damage rip right through some tanks. Do note that mitigation effects can counter-act this.

When you're getting beaten in lane and don't have enough for the bigger brother of Wind Demon then you can switch over to this to have crit and damage reduction along with a slow which should give you a fighting chance.

Once again, I'd pick up Malice over DB if you're struggling to make the gold up. and is a rather nice combo as you'll be able to land more shots and the DoT should allow your DPS too soon rack up on any enemy.

With season 4, got a rather nice change to it allow you too easily regain health from fights by constantly auto-attacking and at 2200 gold it's pretty cheap.

Once again building this as a replacement to allows you to box magical ADC's such as and . Plus with it being just as cheap as it's little brother it is pretty great!

The Defence Items!

It's cheap and it provides fairly decent protections along with added power. This is probably the only real defence item I'd recommend for any ADC due to it's sheer versatility.

Magi's Blessing

Along with the other defence item this is quite good for team's that have waaaay too much CC for an ADC to handle. Sure you can take but this just adds that little bit extra.

Tips and Tricks

TIP #1: Calm and Steady Wins the Race!
Aim your ultimate! Trust me, I've gone against so many Rama players just to see them mess up all 3 shots of their ultimate. It's quite embarrassing so note then when you go up into the air you've got time and patience is your best ally. 6 seconds to fire 3 shots is pretty long.

TIP #2: Dodging Daringly vs Dodging Carefully
We've all been there. Duo lane and your chasing the enemy ADC in order to catch up and deal the last blow but their support is hastily running back from fountain. Your ult is down but your roll is up. Do you waste it to probably get that last shot in or do you just let them go so you can dodge any incoming ganks? To be fair it's all about judgement at this rate but just make sure you don't try and make sick plays only to get bombarded on by all 5 of the enemy team.

TIP #3: Press 2 and Go Pew Pew!
YOU SHOULD ALWAYS USE YOUR 2 OFF CD WHEN IN A FIGHT!

No I'm serious, the DPS increase from your 2 is practically allowing you to get to 2.5 attack speed so please just abuse it. Rama isn't as mana hungry late game as other hunters so just make sure your using this all the time!

Matchups

Ramavs Chiron Difficulty: Average
Chiron has as much range as you let him have. It's all about lane dominance so having an aggressive support such as Ymir and Kumbhakarna can help immensely at shutting him down. Just watch out for backing in case he decides to use Centaurus to finish you off.

Ramavs Neith Difficulty: Easy
Fighting a Neith comes down to whether she lands her Spirit Arrow on you or not. If she does then she'll easily burst you down with a few AAs but if she misses it then you can easily punish her. Rolling Assault can easily counter her Backflip before and after she uses it so use that to your advantage.

Ramavs Ullr Difficulty: Hard
Ugh....This guy...This guy right here is a nuisance to deal with in lane. His trading is off the charts with his 1 and 3 in bow stance being able to do half if not 3/4 your health. Best thing to do is to use Rolling Assault in order to dodge and use the cripple to allow you to get a few AA's in. JUST BE READY TO BEADS HIS STUN!

Conclusion

Rama is probably one of the hardest gods to properly nail down as you need to have practically Barracuda levels of aiming. But once you get that aim there is no shot you can't aim and no shot you can't miss.

Hope you guys enjoyed my guide to Rama! Make sure to check out my other guides and as always...
Happy Hunting,
-Sods

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No transcendence?

(81) |

is better for ability based hunters like and . is a basic attack hunter, so he needs attack speed more than he needs mana.

Bran makes some good points in his post below.

(3) |

nice build for rama!

(400) |

Alright, your S4 version of your guide:

Is Orange Your Color?

You used the same orange in your SWK guide. Change it up a bit, why don't ya? Go for that horrible zombie green of his skin, or the red of his sash and feather tips, gold for all that bling he's wearing, etc.
I don't know that I'd call it the "best escape in the game." Doesn't seem very accurate to me, so would consider dropping that claim, personally. Also "mainly AA based" isn't really a pro. Things you might point out instead...strong attack speed steroid, long distance ult, cripple & slow in his kit, easy to use escape, etc.
In the writeup of the passive, it's a passive and uncontrolled to an extent, so saying "stock up before going into battle" isn't really functional.
Astral Strike pierces through the entire wave, right? So I'd say it's not your main damage, but rather your main wave-clear. Yes, it also enhances damage, but if I were to consider what his main damage boost would be, it would be from Pick Me Up due to the steroid...just a matter of how you word things.
For Rolling Assault, you can more specifically point out that it's a unique escape in that you don't have to face the direction you want to move. So you can be boxing an enemy and if you need to create space, you can just be backpedaling and you don't have to turn.
Regarding build, I see no problem overall. I will say that I think standard crit build right now (Patch 4.1) is Ninja Tabi, Devourer's Gauntlet, Ichaival / Silverbranch Bow, The Executioner, Wind Demon, Deathbringer. However, I'll make the following points to consider...
Warrior Tabi is actually a decent pickup for him. Normally I'd say Ninja, but since his Astral Strike pierces, I think he can benefit from stronger early wave clear when using it. If you do choose it, definitely better to replace late game with Ninja.
Right now, I think the general preference is Devourer's Gauntlet over Asi. Rama has one of the better steroids, and you'll get plenty of attack speed with Ninja Tabi if you choose that, Ichaival early, and Wind Demon will also add a good amount, especially when it crits. You'll also get more power and lifesteal. That said, your general order is okay, and the flat pen from Ich/Asi allow you to sort of delay pen till later. Would suggest Exe over TB though, at least in some situations. In essence, there are options for deviations, but if you feel your order is best and provide the reasons why, cool.
With the lack of attack speed, I'd argue that Soul Eater, at least for Rama, is NOT a "new and improved" item.
Definitely don't even suggest Transcendence as an option...my opinion. Also don't think there's a reason to get Malice as an alt to DB...with his steroid, if you're critting multiple times, it's just resetting the DoT, not adding to it.
I don't think Qin's Sais' passive does true damage.
As with the SWK suggestions for additions, pretty much the same applies here.

Cheers!

(10) |

I noticed it, changing it now since I haven't had much time to do so.

(41) |

u didnt notice my comment :(

(41) |

Hey Sods! It's nice that we finally have a guide, but there are some things you need to fix.

1) picking up and crits in the same build won't benefit you as much.

See, hunters have two possible build path: The first one is the "Unicorn" build. it basically consists of power and penetration with attack speed but no crits, is used for that build, since it focuses more on sustained damage.

The second one is crits, which is self explanatory.

Mixing them up won't do you much good, i recommend give each build it's own section.

2) Don't pick if you already have .

Pick another pen item, it's that exe limits titan bane and you could pick up a much better penetration item if you want it.

3) A Basic gameplay section would be great, After all, were doing this for the beginners, right?

anyways, iil go and upvote once you update.

-DucksRock

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Table of Contents

Changelog

Introduction

Pros & Cons

Abilities

Items

Alternative Items

The Defence Items!

Tips and Tricks

Matchups

Conclusion

Rama - Sniped From Across the Lane (S4!)

Smite God: Rama

Rama Build

Starter

Core

Damage Items

Defence (Only get if needed.)

Relics

Rama's Skill Order

Astral Strike

Infinite Arrows

Rolling Assault

Astral Barrage

Changelog

Introduction

Pros & Cons

Abilities

Passive: Astral Quiver

Ability 1: Astral Strike

Ability 2:Pick Me UpPick Me Up

Ability 3: Rolling Assault

Ultimate: Astral Barrage

Items

Alternative Items

The Defence Items!

Tips and Tricks

Matchups

Conclusion

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