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Warrior Tabi
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
Devourer's Gauntlet
Frostbound Hammer
The Executioner
Titan's Bane
Voidblade
Rage
Deathbringer
Ankh of the Golem
Breastplate of Valor
Witchblade
Bulwark of Hope
Magi's Cloak
Stone of Gaia
Aegis Amulet (Old)
Creeping Curse
Purification Beads (Old)
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Pros
Clear The Path+ Good Survivability + Large Damage + Insta Cast Damage + Slow with Umbrellarang+ Tower Dive + Could be built multiple ways |
Cons
- Playing Too Aggresively - Using Clear The Path at wrong times- Rushing into things - Map Unawareness |
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Umbrellarang.
Armored Umbrella this attack also allows the player to go into Ultimate, and autoattack an enemy to death.
Finally, here we are at last, items for Vamana. After this information, the player has to decide which item suits Vamana at what time.
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This item increases the amount of Damage he does, the attack speed, and critical. He also moves faster in and out of combat allowing a more deadly damage Vamana. |
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Frostbound Hammer is good for you and your partner to secure kills, creeping curse will do the same thing, but this adds health and a little physical damage as well. Take it when you're feeling that you're not successfully securing the kills. |
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This tool is a must-want for all AD physical units. With this item, Vamana can kill gods easier with his autoattacks. |
| Devourer's Gloves | Only consider (Do not have to choose) this when midding, since most of the time you're on minions, in the long run, this item will be doing you a favor by constantly stacking depending on the minions you have killed. |
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Physical Penetration, get this when your opponents got some physical protection. |
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This item adds even more power while increasing penetration. It's passive is great, and if you feel like you need it, take it. |
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Late game, building critical allows for even more damage output, these hits allow the enemy to die in just three to four autoattacks. |
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By this time, with the deathbringer you will always be constantly dealing critical damage, roughly 600+ per hit, and 700+ per colossal fury. By now, the player is near invincible in damage, and if not. Vamana can either escape, or heal up using his Ultimate. |
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This attack allows one to become faster at autoattacks, while having physical protection against enemy ADs. |
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Allows Vamana Physical Protection while giving him more mana, cooldown times are reduced allowing faster output of Armored Umbrella
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| Witch Stone | No reason not to have this as a protection item on Vamana. Great help for all of what he should be built for. |
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A generally good item for Vamana, allowing Magical Protection. |
| Magi's Blessing | Absorb an ability and Magical Protection, very useful as a Protection Item for Vamana. |
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Good Magical Protection item for Vamana, allowing him to have a better MP5 and HP5 as well. This item is super viable for a tank like Vamana with the supported addition regeneration, especially in Colossal Fury mode!
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Colossal Fury to escape it when your Aegis is on Cooldown.
Aegis Amulet won't do.
Umbrellarang as a lane clearer during a player's first ability. After receiving the buff, head back into the lane, and spam Umbrellarang to help clear waves, progressing on, once all the abilities are unlocked. Harass the enemy with the player's Armored Umbrella as often as possilbe, remember to hit the lane's carry. Always, remember to save your Ultimate or Clear The Path. Keep an eye on the mana bar, make sure you have enough mana to use your escapes. Armored Umbrella. To make sure kills will be secured, use Umbrellarang or Creeping Curse. These abilities allow you or your lane partner to secure kills. Save Clear The Path and Colossal Fury during possible gank situations from a 
Loki, 
Anubis, or other powerful gods. If, you use Colossal Fury make sure to hit the enemy a few times as your physical power will be increased, but keep an eye on the time of Colossal Fury, and prepare to back up and get out ASAP once it's on Cooldown.
Vamana can possibly make or break his team. During one of the matches I've been in as a Vamana is that I can easily distract the enemy team to my attention by trying to take down a tower. During this time, my allies could easily go for the Fire Giant or Gold Fury. As the enemy team attempts to gank you, remember to start your Ultimate immeditetly after they come towards you. Do not wait! That is a crucial benefactor of Vamana. Due to his nerf, waiting until half health with Colossal Fury's regeneration will not make you invincible. Instead, use Ultimate as soon as you can. This allows more of a chance, and if they do indeed get your health down to low enough, by this time your allies will have already secured the major buff camp. Use Clear The Path to make a great escape. Umbrellarang late game as a far away harass. As someone initates, or yourself. Head in like the video below, and clean up enemies after enemies. Perhaps don't get too greedy, and let other teamates feed.
Vamana accels in harassing opponents at far range, and slowing them down. Remember! When you're playing this Vamana you're a tank, not the carry. Help your ally get those kills with Frostbound Hammer or Umbrellarang. Remember in early game to spam Umbrellarang and save enough mana for Clear The Path and Colossal Fury. Clear The Path to knock enemies that are chasing your ally. Also use Umbrellarang often to slow them down. Don't worry, your Colossal Fury will save yourself. For now, concentrate on helping your allies out as often as possible.Many gods work well with Vamana, however, do not lane with other tanks. Even if they're building magical or physical like 
Odin. Here is some of the combinations a player could work with on duo lanes.
Vamana's physical damage output. The two gods can easily secure kills. Guan's 
Tranquil Gift can help Vamana heal up during the Early Game, and keep opponents at the tip of their heels with his slows and his Ultimate 
Tactician's Advantage. On top of this, a Vamana player could use his autoattacks, and abilites to further bring the enemy down on health allowing for an easy, no escape kill.
This god's abilities to push a lane are amazing, the physical enemies will try to attack him instead of focusing on you, allowing your Armored Umbrella to easily take down their health. A good 
Ao Kuang knows the perfect time to place down their Tornadoes on top of them or to conserve it for you. With your Umbrellarang the enemy will be slowed for Spirit's Tempest to strike. If he doesn't get the kill, your Armored Umbrella and autoattacks will easily knock down the enemy.
Great pusher, like Ao. His heal, however, will keep you on the battlefield longer due to his 
Solar Blessing, his 
Divine Light provides a great slow so that you can ultimately land your hits on the enemy without ever using Clear The Path incase the enemy god does not die. Vamana those are just some of the better gods to lane with against enemies so that your friend can help you push, be agressive, and deal massive damage. Vamana doesn't have to fear enemy physical gods because of Colossal Fury. He gains more physical power than usual enemies, and he gains physical defense. One can even survive from Loki's high damage output with the ultimate included because of Vamana's ability to heal and dish damage back.
Below are some of the choices that Vamana would win 9/10 situations. Here are just some of the gods that Vamana could easily outmatch.
Odin will put Vamana in a greater advantage. In Odin's damage builds, with the addition of trapping a Vamana in 
Ring of Spears he'll be doing the Vamana a favor. There is only one thing to avoid during this fight. Saving Colossal Fury at the same time Odin uses his ultimate. Even with the addition of a 
Zeus in the same lane, Vamana's defense during his ultimate, and the build itself will offer a survival of Ring of Spears, 
Lightning Storm, and full charge on Detonate Lightning. Infact, because of the passive, since the enemy is continously hitting you. The Vamana will 6/10 times kill the Odin on the inside if you're aggressive enough. If not and you're a rather cautious player, try to avoid Lightning Storm's radius, and let your heal up. Vamana against an Anubis, especially in mid lane. Be as aggresive as possible. Poking Anubis with Armored Umbrella, and each hit, Anubis will lose roughly 1/3 of his total health. If this god even dares to use 
Death Gaze on you, go into Colossal Fury, while healing and making it last longer, autoattack the enemy god to death. In general, the best way to avoid Death Gaze is to run close to Anubis and circle around him. It sounds like a ridiculous idea, but it makes the enemy focused on killing you allowing your autoattacks to hit the still target even easier. Clear The Path. Making those two abilites on cooldown while an enemy is ganking your lane is definetly not wise.
This might be surprising, but Vamana can indeed Jungle. With his Armored Umbrella and Umbrellarang he can easily take out camps mid game. Do not jungle with him early game.
Here is a map showing what buffs should the Player should take into account.
Hand of the Gods so if they do, then take out the xp buff, then let them take care of the mana camp by themselves. Armored Umbrella proceeded by Umbrellarang
Here are some of the combos that I'd like to use.
Umbrellarang and Armored Umbrella
Vamana should be wary of. Such as going into a teamfight, and getting out of it alive. Sonmetimes running away with Clear The Path incase a team loses.
Vamana that will die unless killing off two out of the four or five enemies during a teamfight. This way, the enemy will retreat once your allies get into the action.
The worst thing Vamana would ever do is going up against a gang by youself, or getting granked by them. Even the Lil Mana' skin won't help with this, no matter how much Swag Vamana can carry, four against one is never good.
Check the map! Most important thing, sounds like logic, but it seems as if no one bothers to check the minimap when they are solo-pushing, and most of the enemy are missing in action. Once you find this situation do this.
- Clear The Path as soon as possible, most likely head into the jungle as it'll be much less likely for them to find a player in the mist.
-If this occurs, and the enemy already spotted you. After the duration of Clear The Path cancel into Colossal Fury. This makes the player immune to crowd controls while escaping. Possibly use Sprint before activating to make sure you'll make a clean get-away.
-Stay very paronoid, I cannot stress this enough. No one seems to understand when a player is solo-pushing, and your teamates have already recalled or most of them are dead, run. Do not stay around, try to recall, and if they already came follow the tips above.
Here is a good example of how to attack with Vamana, a player ends up getting a Quadra Kill on him using a proper damage build. This quadra kill occured on the older verision of Smite.
Rage and Deathbringer a Vamana can do constant criticals causing 600-700+ damage each time using the Ultimate, allowing for even more kills in a shorter amount of time. This also proves just how tanky Vamana can be at the same time, surviving a Spirit's Tempest and a fully charged 
Detonate Charge
Vamana is definitely one of the most powerful enemies to fear in game. Sure, the god looks like a joke and often will be avoided, focusing on the lane's other character. This is where Vamana gets deadly, he dishes out huge damage, a slow, and autoattack an enemy to an easy death. In teamfights, facing this enemy during his Colossal Fury causes a fleeing enemy team in seconds. I hope you all learned something from this guide and come out with a successful way to play Vamana. As always, use Clear The Path whenever you feel an enemy is about to gank you. Stay paranoid my friends! Until next time, Ragingstorm out.
Version 0.5 Published on 2/18/2013-W.I.P.
Thanks for a bunch of people helping me!
Version 0.6 on 2/19/2013-W.I.P.
-Added Laning Partners
-Added Miscellaneous Stuff
Version 0.7 on 2/20/2013-W.I.P.
-Added Enemies Vamana loves to go up against.
-Added Combos and when to use them.
Version 0.9 on 2/22/2013-Near Complete
-Added Summary
Version 0.91 on 2/27/2013-Waiting for edit after Poseidon Patch
-Added Strategy
-Changed Layout once again
Version 1.00 on 2/28/2013-Poseidon Update
-Happy to see items that I hoped not nerfed to be not nerfed. Finally a new Vamana skin.
Version 1.1 on 3/3/2013-Hot Patch
-Added Tank Build
-Added How to Tank playstyle
-Very Small Visual Changes
Version 1.2 on 3/13/2013
-No Updates that effected Vamana directly or indirectly.
Version 1.25 on 3/19/2013
-Added Tips and Tricks
Verrsion 1.3 on 3/27/2013
-Buff of Vamana, causing changes to guide
-Expects Vamana to be nerfed like Hel
Version 1.35 on 3/31/2013
-Visual Enhancement 2.0
Version 1.37 on 4/3/2013
-Removed Unessecary Taunts and Jokes. This is a guide, not some misc infromation
-Added CUSTOM Line Breakers
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Guan Yu
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It is a she xD
From Vanama's Lore:
And this is a good guide :).
Umm sir if youre gonna update this to the Athena patch please please PLEASE! Put ankh of the bear in consideration because it helps vaman gain more power as he builds more tank/bruiser and a good combo for ankh of the bear is voidblade. If you could put my comment into consideration I would be happy to +1 this guide.
It is a she xD there haven't been any changes to vamana, so it doesn't seem that needed to update it, maybe just write something about jungling and solo-laning :P