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With a Purposeful Grimace and a Terrible Sound: Sobek Solo (S8 Updated)

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Smite God: Sobek

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Sobek Build

Start (Basic)

Warrior's Blessing

Shoes

Chalice of Healing

Teleport Fragment

Got balls of steel?

Notes Alternate Imperial Helmet and Druid Stone depending on your projected lane opponent. Good for early aggression.

Warrior's Blessing

Imperial Helmet

Druid Stone

Healing Potion

Multi Potion

Blink Rune

Full Build (Physical Opponent, Lane Bully CDR)

Pridwen

Tyrannical Plate Helm

Shoes of Focus

Breastplate of Valor

Void Stone

Staff of Myrddin

Elixir of Speed

Soul Reaver

Blink Rune

Full Build (Magical Opponent)

Pridwen

Shoes of Focus

Stone of Binding

Breastplate of Valor

Void Stone

Ethereal Staff

Elixir of Speed

Staff of Myrddin

Blink Rune

Alternative Options

Notes If you're feeling it, try to stick one of these options into your builds. My builds up there are only baselines that I have developed over time playing Sobek and other magical solos. Any of these options will work depending on what you'll be wanting to do.

Mystical Mail

Spirit Robe

Hide of the Urchin

Genji's Guard

Pestilence

Divine Ruin

Spear of Desolation

Spear of the Magus

Gem of Isolation

Book of the Dead

Jade Emperor's Crown

Stone of Fal

Stone of Gaia

Shield of Thorns

Magic Shell

Horrific Emblem

Critical Mass (Full Power)

Notes Please do not build this in your conquest games, unless you're memeing around as Sobek Mid. Or if you're in like Arena or Clash, then go crazy with this ****.

Mage's Blessing

Bancroft's Talon

Shoes of the Magi

Typhon's Fang

Chronos' Pendant

Soul Reaver

Rod of Tahuti

Elixir of Speed

Staff of Myrddin

Sobek's Skill Order

Charge Prey

1 X

3 15 16 18 19

Tail Whip

2 A

2 8 11 12 14

Sickening Strike

3 B

1 4 6 7 10

Lurking In The Waters

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

3 15 16 18 19

Charge Prey

1 X

Sobek charges forward at a frenzied pace. If Sobek hits an enemy, he does damage, becomes briefly CC Immune, and throws the enemy behind him. Sobek is immune to knockups while dashing.

Ability Type: Dash, Crowd Control, Damage
Damage: 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 12s

2 8 11 12 14

Tail Whip

2 A

Sobek whips around in a circle, knocking enemies back and doing damage.

Ability Type: Circle, Knockup, Damage
Damage: 90 / 135 / 180 / 225 / 270 (+40% of your Magical Power)
Radius: 20
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 12s

1 4 6 7 10

Sickening Strike

3 B

Sobek does an axe attack that damages all enemies in front of him and lowers their healing received. In addition, Sobek heals for each enemy hit, up to 4.

Ability Type: Cone, Heal, Damage
Damage: 90 / 125 / 160 / 195 / 230 (+30% of your Magical Power)
Healing Reduction: 40%
Healing Reduction Lifetime: 5s
Heal: 22 / 29 / 36 / 43 / 50
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10s

5 9 13 17 20

Lurking In The Waters

4 Y

Sobek submerges himself, where he gains 20% protections, regenerates Mana, is immune to Crowd Control, may pass through player-made walls, and he Slows all enemies. When Sobek emerges, he damages all enemies in the radius. Cancelling the ability decreases the damage.

Ability Type: Circle, Debuff, Damage
Damage: 300 / 450 / 600 / 750 / 900 (+80% of your Magical Power)
Submerge Slow: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50%
Submerge Lifetime: 5s
Submerge Mana Regen: 10% per second
Radius: 30
Cost: 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120
Cooldown: 90s

Sobek Threats

Tap each threat level to view Sobek’s threats

Max

Major

Even

Minor

Tiny

Who is Sobek?

Ah yes Sobek, Mr. Stingray Whisperer-King of the Kaiju himself. Sobek is the Egyptian God of a lot of things, like a lot of gods, but mainly he's the god of the waters and the Nile River. He's kinda like an ancient Godzilla of sorts, a giant reptilian force of nature who doesn't bend to the will of others and is generally Neutral-Good in alignment.

In our battleground of the gods, Sobek joins as a melee Guardian who focuses mainly on CC and a little bit of sustain and damage thrown into the mix. I particularly enjoy him in the Solo lane, which is where this guide is mainly focused on.

Items

The Main Build: What and Why

Starter Item: Vampiric Shroud

Item 1: Tyrannical Plate Helm

Tyrannical is a really underrated item in the Solo lane for magical characters. It gives basically 130 power for just battling and clearing in the laning phase, and also gives a good deal of tanky stats such as physical protections, health and CCR, which are all very valuable while in the Solo lane.
The real kicker with this item is the passive. When you're near your creeps, the creeps will gain increased, power, health and attack speed. This is again, a really underrated stat since you can easily get like 5 minute towers with one fat wave, and it will for sure help you outclear and outbox your lane opponent, considering the power and tankiness of enhanced creeps.

Item 2: Shoes of Focus

I prefer Shoes of Focus over Shoes of the Magi. Since it provides a lot more Mana than Shoes of the Magi, alongside the 10% CDR, you're given a lot of time to spam your abilities freely on the wave and the enemy. Combined with the mana sustain from your ult, and the health sustain from your 3, this just makes it even easier to stay in the fights longer and be annoying.

Item 3: Breastplate of Valor

I like this item on Sobek for the exact same reason I prefer Shoes of Focus. It gives a lot of mana and CDR, which allows you to stay alive in lane and spam abilities. It also gives a lot of physical protections, which will be useful in a lane dominated by the King Arthurs and Wukongs of the world.

Item 4: Void Stone

Void Stone is like Void Shield. Gives you both offense and defense and a kind of pen against protections. This item is good for your hybrid defense, as there's no way to tell when an enemy mid or even an Ao Kuang or Cabrakan Jungle is gonna come for you. Your opponents in lane might mostly be physical, but it's always good to prepare against both types of damage, and Void Stone is a generally good choice for that. You can also help your own carries when diving, since all nearby enemies will have passive reduced magical defense.

Item 5: Staff of Myrddin

Staff of Myrddin is kinda like a Spear of Deso in a way. Gives you 110 power, 10% penetration and 10% CDR. You probably already know how much this build likes CDR, so I won't say much else about that. The 10% pen is in my opinion good to have on any solo laner, as Warriors and Guardians often have really good base damage on their ults and other abilities, so the pen is quite helpful.
The double ability function is really good as in you'll have a lot of different options. The thing you'll want to do most of the time is to double pluck, be it to grab 2 people for your guys to **** up, or for a quick and easy escape

Item 6: Blood Soaked Shroud

Blood Soaked Shroud is just Vamp Shroud but better. It just gives you more health and 30 more physical protections, at the cost of the sheer power of Sacrificial Shroud. But as the tank, doing more damage shouldn't be a problem you need to be thinking about.

Teamplay

As Sobek, when you play with your team, your main focus is to be a disruptive force on the battlegrounds. Get into the backlines of the enemy team, eat damage and just be annoying. Your ultimate is the epitome of this part of your job. You get extra protections from it, you slow everyone in a big radius around you, and you end it all off with a massive burst of damage that can punch huge holes in enemy defenses. Paired with Pridwen, you become essentially a tactical kaiju nuke coming in from below once you've gotten everything online. Then you just go sicko mode on everyone you see, antihealing them, knocking them up and tanking hits. Do not completely disregard your safety though, since the loss of a high CC tank is very influential during the late game. Know when to use your blinks and plucks to disengage.

The next most important part of Sobek teamplay is knowing when and when not to pluck people. Your plucks late game are extremely influential. Like you can for example pluck an enemy ADC into the open arms of your jungle and mid to easily take him out of the game at a deciding point. You can pluck an enemy jungler off a retreating squishy in a "Get down Mr. President" fashion. Your plucks can be either a deciding factor to win teamfights, or they'll **** your team over. Only pluck damage heavy enemies if you're sure your team can actually take them down. You do not want to be throwing danger right into your team's faces.

Your 3 has 50% antiheal secondary effect to whoever it hits. Even if healing isn't really a problem with the enemy's comp, it is still a very good idea to 3 the enemy ADC, as it'll prevent him from healing with his Devos Lifesteal. If healing is indeed a real problem, the 50% antiheal paired with Divine Ruin, Pestilence or even one of the Tainted Steel starter items will easily top 100%, which is a very good thing to have against characters such as Hel, Anubis and Aphro. Especially since healing is becoming meta again (Please shoot me.)

With a Purposeful Grimace and a Terrible Sound: Sobek Solo (S8 Updated)

Smite God: Sobek