Smite Sol Build Guide: Stare Into My Sol (Conquest - Mid

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Smite God: Sol

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Sol Build

Core

Soul Stone

Shoes of the Magi

Chronos' Pendant

Spear of the Magus

Polynomicon

Demonic Grip

Rod of Tahuti

Alt. Lifesteal

Divine Ruin

Pythagorem's Piece

Alt. Power

Soul Reaver

Book of Thoth

Alt. Defense (winning lane)

Void Stone

Telkhines Ring

Actives

Greater Purification

Aegis Pendant

Alt. Actives

Greater Aegis

Heavenly Agility

Sol's Skill Order

Radiance

1 X

1 8 11 12 14

Stellar Burst

2 A

2 4 6 7 10

Disapparate

3 B

3 15 16 18 19

Supernova

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

1 8 11 12 14

Radiance

1 X

Sol burns bright, gaining a large amount of Heat, Healing herself over time, and igniting the ground around her. Enemies that walk onto the fire take damage over time. The damaging area persists for 3s.

Ability Type: Circle, Heal, Damage
Damage: 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 (+25% of your Magical Power) every 1s
Healing: 18% of missing Health over 5s
Heat: 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70%
Cost: 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100
Cooldown: 11s

2 4 6 7 10

Stellar Burst

2 A

Sol's next basic attack explodes, creating a shockwave that travels out, dealing damage. At full size, the wave retracts, dealing damage again and slowing enemies.

Ability Type: Area Basic, Slow, Damage
Damage: 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 (+40% of your Magical Power)
Slow: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35% for 1.5s
Heat: 10%
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 10s

3 15 16 18 19

Disapparate

3 B

Sol burns down her manifestation, gaining movement speed and immunity to Slows while leaving a trail of fire behind her that damages enemies. After 3s Sol loses corporeal form for a short time. Sol may leave her incorporeal form early.

Ability Type: Line, Buff, Damage
Damage: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+25% of your Magical Power) every 0.5s
Movement Speed: 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30%
Heat: 10%
Cost: 60
Cooldown: 16s

5 9 13 17 20

Supernova

4 Y

Sol unleashes all her flame and fury from the sky, striking 8 times along a moveable ground target location. Enemies are knocked back on the first strike, and take only 30% damage on successive hits.

Ability Type: Circle, Knockup, Damage
Damage: 150 / 200 / 250 / 300 / 350 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Heat: 40%
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

Introduction

Welcome to my guide for Sol, Goddess of the Sun

My name is Zilby. I am a semi-casual player who primarily plays conquest. My preferred role in conquest is the solo lane, but I do play all the roles relatively evenly. has inspired me to once again craft guides due to her unique and addictive playstyle. She's captured my heart in the mid lane with her powerful AA based attacks, and awe-inspiring speed. Thus, this is a guide for in the mid lane.

This is my twelfth smitefire guide, and I intend to update it, so feel free to comment things that should be added/edited.

Regardless, lets move on to the fiery goddess herself, Sol!

Stats

General
Health: 400 (+75)
Mana: 300 (+57)

Speed: 370 (+0)
Range: 55 (+0)
Attack/Sec: 1 (+1.8%)

Regen
HP5: 6 (+0.45)
MP5: 5 (+0.4)

Protection
Magical: 30 (+0)
Physical: 9 (+2.6)

Basic Attack
Damage: 34 + 1.45 (+ 20% of Magical Power)
Progression: None
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Pros/Cons

Pros:

Very fast
Relatively versatile, can fit into most team comps
Slippery due to her frequent immunity to slows and invulnerability
Good jungle clear, decent wave clear
Amazing tower push
Fast rotations
Strong auto-attacks and sticking power
Great single target damage
Good sustain in fights due to heal
She's pretty hot
She's got soul

Cons:

Very Little CC
Very squishy
Smaller Area damage compared to most mages (outside of ultimate)
Relatively Close Ranged abilities
Not as bursty as some mages
Somewhat dependent on teammates to unleash her full potential

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Skills

Passive - Unstable Manifestation

Analysis

1 - Radiance

Analysis

2 - Stellar Burst

Analysis

3 - Disapparate

Analysis

4 - Supernova

Analysis

Items

SoulStone

Main Build

Common Alternative Options

Overall Gameplay

tips

The gameplay behind is rather unique to her. Overall, she's very bursty, short ranged, and fast on her feet, probably most similar to blended with , but still not at all the same. It's always important when engaging an enemy or a teamfight to be aware of your passive. Your passive will not only make your basic attacks more damaging, but also your abilities. The best way to get your passive to maximum heat is to use followed by some basic attacks. Generally it is best to do this before getting into the fight, but it requires you to really commit. Because is on a 15s cooldown (~11 with 25% CDR) you have to choose between starting a fight with greater heat or having the ability to heal, deal damage and get maximum heat with later on.

In general you should try to take advantage of 's mobility. Her allows her to rotate lanes incredibly fast, as well as do circles around her enemies (if done literally you can get a stun off as well). However, not only does 's allow her to move at a quick pace, but none of her abilities require her to stop moving, with allowing you to keep moving at full speed even while using your auto-attacks. This can make you incredibly difficult to lock down, and if used correctly, a juking master.

Compared to other mid laners, it's also important to note that you have a very small range despite being so squishy. Unlike gods like or that can attack enemies from long distances, every ability you have only affects the short range within your basic attacks (except for your ultimate). This generally requires to dance around opponents at a very close range like , despite being so squishy herself. Avoid engaging enemies that can outrange you like if your distance is unfavorable.

Finally, maintain your heat in a fight! Remember that staying on the sidelines will cause you to lose heat quickly, if you need to attack some jungle camps that are out of range or use your to heal and get more heat before reengaging the enemy, any time you spend in a fight at lower than maximum heat is a time when you're doing potentially over 40% less damage.

Early Game

tactics

I always start out my build for with , soulstone, and two health potions (one of which I may substitute for a ward if playing against early game assassins like Thanatos). Like most mid laners, you and your teammates should take out the red buff jungle camp before going to lane. After the first wave you'll want to clear the mid camp on the solo lane side with your jungler, clear the mid lane, clear the other mid camp and then rotate between clearing the mid lane and the back fury camps with your jungler. Once in lane, you have a number of objectives: If you have superior clear you want to clear the lane fast enough with so that the enemy mid laner is pushed under tower, sacrificing precious experience and gold, you want to damage the enemy mid laner so that they have to return to base, to conserve mana and avoid damage so that you can stay in lane as long as possible, to watch for enemy ganks and not push so far that you're vulnerable (avoid targeting the tower too much during the early game), and you want to set up your jungler so that they can gank your lane.

Learning to balance all this is essential. Early game, has rather mediocre clear, but is very mobile and can quickly burst down opponents with the help of her jungler. is not all that mana hungry compared to many mid laners, so she can take advantage of this to use her abilities more often to poke down her opponents. However, being too aggressive with early is dangerous. She lacks a strong escape or CC and she's very squishy, so being ganked early is a bad situation if you're not prepared. Another thing lacks is a long range clear or poking tool. All of her attacks require her to be within basic attack range of an enemy (aside from her ultimate) so be aware of your enemy's zoning tools when engaging them.

If you've done this successfully, your enemy will be at low health before too long, and you will still have a good amount of health and mana to spare. This opens you up to use your and to get in the enemy's face with full heat basic attacks following up with your and ultimate once they move out of range (alternatively you can begin the engage with your ultimate if you know you can then secure the kill, just avoid wasting an ultimate if an enemy has an escape handy). If you've only been moderately successful, you and your enemy should still be in lane with around half health. Encourage your jungler to come gank in this scenario, because you can deal a good amount of burst damage with your abilities giving your jungler an easy kill.

Mid Game

tactics

Late Game

tactics

Conclusion

is a powerful mage with an interesting blend of auto-attacks and abilities unique to her kit, making her truly a joy to play.
She is by far the hottest god in Smite (although might like to argue against that statement).

I hope you liked this guide and that it helps you to become a better Sol player.
Happy smiting!

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You make the most awesome guides and you have taught me how to play smite much better! But can you please do a guide for Nu Wa?

If you feel too squishy use mediatation from the very start it's OD with your passive and your regular heal especially when you keep killing minions

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Thanks Branmuffin :) and yeah fire gifs were fun to use XD

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Yeesh, just here to give my upvote. Great detail, organization/presentation, etc., as always with your guides. That fire .gif brings the heat!

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These respones are in regard to 2, then 3.

You mention how you will be averaging 2 poly procs, while this can be true the problem with Poly in general is that your first AA is the poly proc. Miss it, and it disappears. Then, you also have to take into account that since Poly procs on your 2 you could just end up hitting a minion. Just doesn't seem to offer enough for what it does. (Also could be better if you change dem with poly in placing)

Telk can offer good damage, but the problem with mid is the meta is passive in mid lane. You never really poke, otherwise you'll die. Ontop of that, I think she'd contribute more from the power rather than the extra basic damage.

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@Greenevers, are you saying that just for the dps? I choose for that spot since at that stage in the game it gives you a extra mana and lifesteal for sustain in lane. Would higher dps really be preferable to that at that stage in the game? (on top of 's pen no less)?

@Covertactician, hello again :)
soulstone helps 's early clear and poking potential, which I find can be very valuable. However, the points you brought up are very valid, if you're afraid of getting ganked early or if the enemy has a much stronger early game (eg: ) that they can use to bully you out of lane, is a much safer pick. I'll see if I can add that in as an alternative.

As for , since AAs are so integrated into 's kit, you're averaging 2 procs per engage. Even if your power isn't enormous, all those procs add up and do help your dps quite a bit (more so than the measly extra power you get on average from unless you're at 25% health). However even then, I also like that item for the lifesteal and mana at that stage in the game (although according to green I might change this, idk).

paired immediately with a can give you a fair amount of damage early game, especially for the small price. Overall, it's very cost effective for the damage it gives at that stage in the game. If you're not experiencing that you're probably not utilizing it quite right. Regardless, it's not an AMAZING pickup, hence why it's mentioned after an already niche pickup voidstone.

Thanks for the good feedback guys <3

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So there's a lot of comments on this thread, so here I am to contribute my 2 cents. Well, here I go. (Sorry if theres a lot of repeated questions/points...)

1. Why soulstone? It is not a bad starter, but I feel since is so fragile that the extra health from is way more valuable than the extra mana and power soulstone gives. The difference from soulstone's passive isn't noticeable enough for me, and mana shouldn't be a problem since doesn't really use many abilities outside of her 2.

2. So I think this might be something commonly pointed out, but I don't think that Poly is worth it on too. I don't think it's terrible on her, but realisticly the only time poly is good is when you have good amounts of power. You would be much better replacing it with any other magical power item, Bancrofts, Ethereal, etc. Don't think it's terrible, just that there's better options.

3. Telek shouldn't be listed really. It doesn't really make an impact, even with sol's 3. Just better items really

Other than that, it's a good guide! Visually pleasing, informational, and very useful! +1

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I would say so too, but her 2 is basically made for that. It deals alot more with it. And besides he has two pen items afterward, with the boots.

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idk about but you definitely want a pen item in that item slot (3rd) either or .

I haven't played her that much so I can't say too much about the rest :(. Looks nice though!

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@vithaliy, 's kills 's sticking power. You really need a lot of cc like serq, Thor or Hun batz

@devampi, I had to use online tools to create the transparent fire gifs from pre-existing fire gifs with black backgrounds. They're cheesy but I like 'em ^^

If you wanna use them you can just copy the image location and use the image tag on them since they're just gifs (do note the original gifs aren't as wide as they are in my guide, I just set their dimensions manually.

*forgot to mention, I also have a faster moving fire gif I experimented with below if you're interested in that (looked to busy in the guide so I didn't end up using it)

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(sounds like Dota 6.84 release most matches were around 20 mins because of deathball comps and if it didn't go well it dragged out till the good 50 mins XD)

Gotta say those flames are so epic teach me how to use those flames I want them in my sig

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Maybe my little will be back in higher tier to get rid of this ! :D

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Stats

Pros/Cons

Skills

Items

Overall Gameplay

Early Game

Mid Game

Late Game

Conclusion

Other Guides

And More!

Stare Into My Sol (Conquest - Mid - S2)

Smite God: Sol

Sol Build

Core

Alt. Lifesteal

Alt. Power

Alt. Defense (winning lane)

Actives

Alt. Actives

Sol's Skill Order

Radiance

Stellar Burst

Disapparate

Supernova

Introduction

Regardless, lets move on to the fiery goddess herself, Sol!

Stats

Pros/Cons

Skills

Items

Overall Gameplay

Early Game

Mid Game

Late Game

Conclusion

Other Guides

And More!

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