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Bluestone Pendant is Skadi's best starter item, it gives 3/4 of her abilities some extra damage which in mid is usually enough to kill the enemy mid lanner, this start also has deccent sustain from bluestone to allow you to stay out longer and allowing you to ignore any poke from a mage.
Bluestone Pendant is Skadi's best starter item, it gives 3/4 of her abilities some extra damage which in mid is usually enough to kill the enemy mid lanner, this start also has deccent sustain from bluestone to allow you to stay out longer and allowing you to ignore any poke from a mage.
Bluestone Pendant
Morningstar
Healing Potion
Multi Potion
Jotunn's Wrath and 
The Crusher and a lot of percent pen to deal with tanks through Heartseaker and 
Titan's Bane. Bluestone Pendant should be sold at full build instead of 
Bluestone Brooch Bluestone Pendant late for an alternative item like 
Mantle of Discord or magi's blessing if you are being dove and 
Bloodforge or oddyseus' bow if you're not Bluestone Pendant for Bloodforge to give you a little more survivability and a lot of power.
Jotunn's Wrath and The Crusher and a lot of percent pen to deal with tanks through Heartseaker and Titan's Bane. Bluestone Pendant should be sold at full build instead of Bluestone Brooch Bluestone Pendant late for an alternative item like Mantle of Discord or magi's blessing if you are being dove and Bloodforge or oddyseus' bow if you're not Bluestone Pendant for Bloodforge to give you a little more survivability and a lot of power.
Transcendence
Jotunn's Wrath
The Crusher
Titan's Bane
Heartseeker
Bloodforge
Permafrost which increases the initial damage by 120, the radius of the ability and the movement speed you gain from standing on the ice. this is the same for every role.
Skadi's ult is mainly used for the utility it provides though the root and full restoration of kaldr, putting points into this increases the damage by 40 and the root duration by 1 second which isn't too significant, especially compared to Permafrost which increases the initial damage by 120, the radius of the ability and the movement speed you gain from standing on the ice. this is the same for every role.
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Hel, 
Anubis or 
Aphrodite
Odysseus' Bow is to make up for the attack speed lost from going brawler's beatstick over The Crusher Bloodforge or Mantle of Discord if you are either snowballing the fight or in need of protections.
This is your standard build against healers, it gives you slightly less damage than the previous 2, however it allows you to reduce enemy healing significantly and deal with gods who have heavy sustain like Hel, Anubis or Aphrodite
Odysseus' Bow is to make up for the attack speed lost from going brawler's beatstick over The Crusher
You can also go either Bloodforge or Mantle of Discord if you are either snowballing the fight or in need of protections.
Odysseus' Bow
Transcendence
Brawler's Beat Stick
Jotunn's Wrath
Titan's Bane
Heartseeker
Mantle of Discord and 
Magi's Cloak are both helpful for stoping you from being blown up instantly by either hard cc or just general high damage abilities due to their passives and defencive stats. Titan's Bane and 
The Executioner are both helpful at dealing with tanks. Odysseus' Bow is helpful if you need a god with high attack speed on your team Bloodforge is good if you are consistantly getting kills in team fights as the passive will allow you to just steam role the enemy team if you get a kill.
Spectral Armor is only helpful if they have two players going crit on the enemy team, the mana on the item also gives you power when you use it with the item transendence
Mantle of Discord and Magi's Cloak are both helpful for stoping you from being blown up instantly by either hard cc or just general high damage abilities due to their passives and defencive stats.
Titan's Bane and The Executioner are both helpful at dealing with tanks.
Odysseus' Bow is helpful if you need a god with high attack speed on your team
Bloodforge is good if you are consistantly getting kills in team fights as the passive will allow you to just steam role the enemy team if you get a kill.
Spectral Armor is only helpful if they have two players going crit on the enemy team, the mana on the item also gives you power when you use it with the item transendence
Mantle of Discord
Magi's Cloak
Bloodforge
Odysseus' Bow
Spectral Armor
Purification Beads is a mandatory relic
Aegis Amulet is nice against teams with heavy burst
Blink Rune is a nice relic if you get ahead in mid and will allow you to play more like an assassin from the mid lane
Purification Beads is a mandatory relic
Aegis Amulet is nice against teams with heavy burst
Blink Rune is a nice relic if you get ahead in mid and will allow you to play more like an assassin from the mid lane
Purification Beads
Aegis Amulet
Blink Rune
Tainted Breastplate
Transcendence
Jotunn's Wrath
Brawler's Beat Stick
Titan's Bane
Heartseeker
Bumba's Spear
Jotunn's Wrath
Transcendence
The Crusher
Titan's Bane
Heartseeker
From what I've seen with a few skadi players reccently is that they usually upgrade Bluestone Pendant into either Bluestone Brooch for a more damaging option or 
Corrupted Bluestone for a little more utility, in my opinion Skadi should opt into selling bluestone for a different item, usually:
Bloodforge if you are consistently getting kills as it is the second highest physical power item for hunters, it allows you to snowball a fight in your favour and is a better option than Bluestone Brooch for damage or sustain as it gives 30 more power and the 12% lifesteal is much more helpful late game than 30hp5.
Odysseus' Bow is usually bought if you are lacking attack speed on skadi as it gives a large amount as well as 60% scalling on the lightning bolts in the passive which usually equals a lot of damage with a full power/pen build, compared to Corrupted Bluestone which only gives 20% attack speed and 75 damage over 5 seconds.
Mantle of Discord and Magi's Cloak both offer way more defencive stats than Corrupted Bluestone if you need them as they are bulk defence items, they also provide bettter utility passives, both offering cc immunity and mantle giving a stun passive, Magi's Cloak also gives 100 more hp than Bluestone Brooch
Spectral Armor is just a necessity against a team with 2 crit gods on it (like a 
Mercury and 
Jing Wei and offers way more survivability than either bluestone upgrade will give.
I firmly believe skadi's potential in carry is so poor compared to her potential in mid/jungle that there is no point in plaing her there, this is becuase of multiple reasons:
Reason 1:
Skadi's main strength is in a 1v1 scenario where she is face to face against a squishy, in mid she instantly starts off in a 1v1 against a mage (who will most likely have lower base health, protections and auto attack damage than you) allowing you to have instant pressure on that mage, in adc however, you will start off in a 2v2, against a god who has higher base health and protections than you, who will also be with a god who has auto attack damage that is even to yours, this will make it harder for you to gain pressure on the enemy adc, and you will most likely struggle till you both supports rotate.
Reason 2:
Skadi has more access to farm and easier rotations from mid and jungle, this helps skadi as she requires a lead to have a prescence in the late game, in mid she can easily invade farm from the enemy mid lanner and will have the ability to rotate on duo lane or solo in order to push that lead in further, skadi adc is simply unable to gank due to the placement of the lane.
Reason 3:
Skadi doesn't use crit as effectively as most hunters, skadi is incredibally ability based and as of such crit is innefective on her, she also has no attack speed stim or auto attack amplifier to help further aid her crit damage, skadi also does poorly into hunters who buy devourers gauntlet as she won't be able to burst them down due to their sustain.
Your second ability Rune Of The Hunt can body block any ability that won't pass through minions like 
Scylla sic'cem or 
Sobek pluck, it also blocks auto attacks
Skadi's first ability only boosts kaldr's normal attacks, it doesn't boost his dash damage, however it also sets him up for multiple bassic attacks on any enemies who you hit with Piercing Cold
Kaldr does not allow the enemy to lifesteal off of him as he has no health value
Abilities that do their damage over time like Anubis 
Plague of Locusts will only damage kaldr once for the initial hit, however this is not true for jormungundr and 
Izanami basic attacks which will damage kaldr for every instance of damage that they deal.
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