Scylla's Savage Power! - Mid/any Mode guide

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Scylla is a burst mage with high damage potential and excellent crowd control. This build will focus on maximizing her burst damage while maintaining some survivability. The chosen items will enhance her mana pool, magical power, and penetration, allowing her to deal massive damage in both early and late-game scenarios.

Abilities Overview
1. Sic 'Em (1)

Description: Scylla sends two hounds forward, damaging and rooting enemies hit.
Usage: Use this ability to initiate fights, root enemies, and set up your other abilities.
2. Crush (2)

Description: Scylla creates a magical field that slows enemies and explodes for high damage.
Usage: This is your main damaging ability. Use it to poke enemies from a distance or to deal significant damage in team fights.
3. Sentinel (3)

Description: Scylla summons a sentinel that grants vision and can be activated to teleport to its location.
Usage: Use this ability for vision control and as an escape tool. It's also useful for quickly repositioning in fights.
4. I'm a Monster (Ultimate)

Description: Scylla transforms into a giant monster, gaining increased movement speed and damage. If she kills an enemy god, the ability refreshes.
Usage: Use this ultimate to secure kills and potentially chain multiple kills. Its high damage makes it a fight-changing ability.
Item Build
Starter Items
Conduit Gem:

Provides magical power, MP5, and cooldown reduction.
Helps with early game wave clear and mana sustain.
Core Items
Book of Thoth:

Stats: Provides a large mana pool, magical power, and MP5.
Passive: Converts mana to magical power.
Usage: Start stacking this item early. The increased mana and power will significantly boost your damage output.
Spear of Desolation:

Stats: Provides magical power, penetration, and cooldown reduction.
Passive: Reduces all cooldowns upon getting a kill or assist.
Usage: This item ensures your abilities are frequently available and effective against enemy protections.
Polynomicon:

Stats: Provides magical power, lifesteal, and mana.
Passive: After using an ability, your next basic attack within 8 seconds deals bonus magical damage.
Usage: This item synergizes well with Scylla’s abilities, allowing you to follow up abilities with powerful basic attacks.
Soul Reaver:

Stats: Provides magical power and health.
Passive: Abilities deal additional damage based on the target's maximum health (with a cooldown).
Usage: This item enhances your burst damage, especially against tanky targets.
Obsidian Shard:

Stats: Provides magical power and a significant amount of magical penetration.
Passive: Increases magical penetration based on enemy protections.
Usage: This item ensures you can shred through enemy defenses, making your abilities more effective against high-protection targets.
Additional Items
Chronos' Pendant: Provides cooldown reduction, magical power, and MP5, ensuring your abilities are always ready.
Rod of Tahuti: Increases magical power and provides a passive that increases damage to targets below 50% health.
Divine Ruin: Provides magical power and penetration, along with a passive that reduces healing on enemies hit by your abilities, useful against healing-heavy compositions.
Relics
Aegis Amulet: Grants invulnerability for a short duration, useful for dodging high burst damage.
Purification Beads: Removes CC effects and grants brief CC immunity, essential for avoiding stuns, roots, and other control effects.
Blink Rune: Allows you to initiate or escape, providing crucial mobility for repositioning.
Ability Leveling Priority
I'm a Monster (Ultimate): Level up whenever available for its game-changing potential in fights.
Crush (2): Maximize first for its high damage output.
Sic 'Em (1): Maximize second for the root and setup potential.
Sentinel (3): Level up last, prioritizing its utility for vision and escape.
Gameplay Tips
Early Game
Lane Phase: Focus on farming and poking enemies with Crush. Use Sentinel to keep vision on jungle entrances and to escape ganks.
Positioning: Stay safe and maintain a distance from enemies. Use Sic 'Em to root enemies and set up kills for your jungler.
Mid Game
Roaming: Start participating in team fights and objectives. Use Crush and I'm a Monster to secure kills and provide significant burst damage.
Team Fights: Position yourself at the edge of fights, using Sic 'Em to root key targets and Crush to deal damage. Keep Sentinel ready for quick escapes.
Late Game
Team Coordination: Stay with your team and focus on bursting down key targets. Use your abilities in combination to maximize your damage output.
Objective Control: Use your damage to help secure objectives like Fire Giant and Gold Fury. Keep wards up to maintain vision and prevent enemy ambushes.
Warding
Early Game: Place wards near jungle entrances and mid-lane sides to spot enemy rotations and potential ganks.
Mid to Late Game: Ward key objectives like Fire Giant, Gold Fury, and enemy jungle paths to maintain vision control and prevent ambushes.
Communication and Teamplay
Callouts: Communicate enemy positions, cooldowns, and objective timings to your team.
Positioning: Always position yourself safely in team fights. Use your range and abilities to poke and burst enemies without exposing yourself to danger.
Engagements: Coordinate with your team for engagements. Use Blink Rune to surprise enemies and follow up with your high burst damage abilities.
Summary
Scylla in Smite excels as a high burst damage mage with excellent crowd control and mobility. Focus on building items that enhance her magical power, mana, and penetration to maximize her damage output. Use your abilities strategically to root, poke, and burst enemies while maintaining safe positioning. Effective communication, warding, and team coordination will be key to dominating with Scylla.

Pros and Cons of Playing Scylla with This Build in Smite
Pros
High Burst Damage

The build focuses on items like Book of Thoth, Spear of Desolation, Polynomicon, Soul Reaver, and Obsidian Shard which significantly enhance Scylla's magical power and burst potential. This makes her capable of deleting squishy targets quickly.
Mana Sustain

Book of Thoth provides a large mana pool and mana regeneration, ensuring Scylla can continuously use her abilities without worrying about mana issues.
Cooldown Reduction

Spear of Desolation and Chronos' Pendant (if included) reduce cooldowns, allowing Scylla to use her abilities more frequently. This is crucial for maintaining consistent damage output and crowd control.
High Magical Penetration

Obsidian Shard and Spear of Desolation provide significant magical penetration, enabling Scylla to deal substantial damage even to tanky opponents with high magical defenses.
Enhanced Basic Attacks

Polynomicon adds a powerful burst to Scylla's basic attacks after using an ability, providing an extra source of damage that synergizes well with her kit.
Anti-Tank Capabilities

Soul Reaver deals additional damage based on the target's maximum health, making it effective against tanky enemies with large health pools.
Cons
Fragility

Scylla is naturally squishy and can be easily targeted and killed if caught out of position. This build does not include many defensive items, making her vulnerable to burst damage and crowd control.
Positioning Reliant

Scylla's effectiveness heavily depends on her positioning. To maximize her damage output, she needs to maintain a safe distance while still being close enough to hit her abilities accurately.
High Skill Cap

Scylla’s abilities require precise aiming and timing. Missing key abilities like Crush or Sic 'Em can significantly reduce her damage output and leave her vulnerable.
Reliance on Cooldowns

Despite the cooldown reduction from items, Scylla’s abilities have relatively long cooldowns. If her abilities are on cooldown, her damage output is greatly diminished, and she becomes an easier target.
Early Game Vulnerability

Scylla is relatively weak in the early game and relies on item power spikes to become effective. This build requires careful farming and avoiding unnecessary deaths to reach her full potential.
Dependence on Team

Scylla benefits greatly from a team that can provide peel and crowd control. Without proper support from her team, she can be easily focused down by the enemy.
Summary
Playing Scylla with this build in Smite offers immense burst damage and strong mana sustain, making her a formidable mid-to-late-game mage. However, her fragility, reliance on positioning, and high skill cap require careful play and good team coordination to maximize her effectiveness. Balancing her offensive power with situational awareness and positioning will be key to succeeding with Scylla using this build.