Why the Arachne bans lately?

What did I miss? Did she get a buff or something? Why in ranked games are we seeing Arachne as first ban? Are people really that scared of her?

before her nerf yes she was very scary since she was the god that pretty much noone could beat early game but now she is just not good enough early and her late game is still pretty bad.

A normally skilled Ara can easily win a game in solo queue. She is still really strong early to mid game and with the recent change to her passive it makes here better late game, but you still want to win before you get to late game ofc. Because she is still **** late game.

I jungle most of the time and there is noting worse than a good Ara when it comes to solo queue. She invades your jungle 24/7 and makes you fall behind while she ganks all over the place, it kills moral and everyone starts playing the blamegame instead of Smite and it most of the time ends with a early F6 or a that you end up with a team that snowballs out of control and just rapes you in teamfights.

But a bad Ara is just a joke though :)

Arachne can utterly dominate the enemy jungler from level 1 to level 20. The only god who I think even possibly counters her is Guan Yu, and even then, Arachne can beat him by simply kicking his *** in a level 1 invasion.

That's the biggest problem: her strength at level one.

The most annoying thing about her is that even if you beat her early game as jungle, odds are she'll just end up trading with you constantly later on. Some jungles are exempt from that, just don't take Bakasura, lol. Even with Weakening Curse for 0% lifesteal, she'll copy your active and get one too so neither of you can lifesteal.

But, thats ALWAYS been Arachne. Why is she all of a sudden starting to be banned during Ranked play?

I don't know...late game her pull is an awesome initiation. If she nabs someone, they are dead. At the very least, it'll force the enemy team to 'waste' an item on the magi cowl.

Similar to how Ares can force people to buy beads instead of an active they may like more.

Maybe she's getting more popular suddenly?

Probably fear and paranoia that someone is going to take Arachne and that someone might just be good with her. There's also the possibility that someone might be bad at Arachne, pick her, and wind up feeding, so they ban her to prevent that possibility.

All you really need to crush Arachne like the bug she is, is bring Loki. Catch her by surprise with an ult, and she's a goner.

League is solo queue, where communication is slow. Arachne thrives under those locations, as shutting her down early with a group is the only way to stop her from stomping over your team.

Her biggesst problem is that her Cocoon has zero counterplay besides buying magi's blessing, and even then, you're probably dead since her ult recharges in 30 seconds or less. A competent Arachne can gank with literally NO way to stop it, which is why she is extremely scary.