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Hydras Lament is my normal first item. It increases your damage considerably from the beginning. First back should be boots, and then finish Hydra.
Assassin's Blessing
Morningstar
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Blink Rune
Aegis Amulet
Purification Beads
The essentials to the crit build is taking Malice first, then Rage, then Deathbringer. After that you can realistically take any items compliment the rest of the build. Titans Bane shreds through protections, so perfect world that will be your 6th item, and crusher increases your damage considerably because you're auto cancelling with your abilities creates a dot on the target much like Loki's Vanish does.
Hydra's Lament
Ninja Tabi
Malice
Rage
Deathbringer
Titan's Bane
The Crusher
Again, Titan's Bane and Crusher are perfect world final two items. But if you want to mix things up, or you possibly are facing a team of healers, you may want to take other options. Brawlers Beat Stick will ruin any and all healing, and is a strong option against teams that may have more than one annoying healer. Bloodforge grants you a large amount of temporary health after killing someone, which can help a lot in a fight against more than one person. Especially if you are trying to pick off someone low on hp, tower diving or anything else where you need all the health you can get. Transcendence can give a large amount of physical power and was the meta and season 6 and is still a top option in season 7. However, because this build is based around crit, it is not included in the main set. But due to its huge boon to damage and mana, I placed it here as a possible replacement for Titan's Bane or Crusher. Arondight is present because it can reveal all gods within a large area of you every time you ult. It can be of huge help if you are being consistently ganked in the jungle, and is a mostly a utility item.
Titan's Bane
The Crusher
Brawler's Beat Stick
Bloodforge
Arondight
Transcendence
Y
B
A
X
Loki at the moment is very under powered, and no one knows how good the coming changes to him are going to be. But despite this, in his present state he is still viable, with a variety of different builds.
I wholeheartedly believe that his best first item is always Hydras Lament. From there you take boots and then decide on what build you want to do. Both crit and pen are strong, but I think with the current state of Loki crit is stronger.
I would just like to point out that this is very similar to Professor Loki's current build for Loki. And should be credited to him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJVSLILfTg
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What do you think about Prof Loki's video? You're probably the best Loki player here.
With you, stuke, I would say you're definitely the best Loki player here.
Now respond to my comment with a stupid, weeb, anime girl picture.
In all honesty, the crit pathway that Prof Loki promoted is probably the best way to try to keep him relevant right now. As we know, he's been nerfed hard, especially to his first basic attack...it was changed from 1 to 0.75 (a 25% damage nerf in effect). Hydra's has also seen some nerfs, and that didn't help any.
The standard build for the longest time has been pretty basic...
And that's where Loki has switched things up, and it's due to the
What you're seeing here is that Rage and Malice are honestly two potentially great items for Loki right now. Malice provides extra CDR (which is basically like a partial Jotunn's in a sense), and even better (3 second CD reduction) when you actually crit, which makes that Aimed Strike available again almost immediately. But it and
In any case, Parzival's alternate build foregoes an early
I would still probably default to Trans myself, but I get this. Also, by not going Trans throughout the main build, it does allow you to get other things (crit, pen) online more quickly. Very interesting, and I hadn't been following this, but yeah, without trying anything out, it sounds viable.
On top of that, while it is essential to having the mana that Transcendence provides to continue fighting enemy gods in the early game, I think that Loki isn't strong enough early game anyway for that to matter. Loki early game jungle should be all about jungle camps, which give mana back with the assassins blessing, and then if you're in solo lane you have mana buff and so the lack of mana becomes mitigated, and the extra damage secured by hydras early I think becomes worth it.