Arachne : The "Assassin"

Hello This is my first guide EVER!!! It's on Arachne The BIG BUG!! In my opinion one of the Best gods in smite.

Arachne is tagged as a melee physical assassin. Witch isn't far off from the truth, how I play Arachne is more of a progression of a Assassin Early game, Bruiser Mid game, and More tank Late game.

Now ill go over the pros and cons of Arachne:

Pros:
[*] One of the Best if not the best early game fight (level 1-10)
[*] Ganking potential very high with the Drain life, tangled web, and cocoon
[*]Can jungle with minimum health lost because of Broodlings
[*] Can ward the jungle with her Broodlings
[*] Cocoon can single out people in team fights (if hit)
[*] Tagled Webs cripple works really well to secure kills for team mates and yourself

Cons:
[*] Squishy without defense items or caught out without Drain life
[*] No escape ONLY SLOWS
[*] Bad Teamfight easy focused
[*]Cocoon takes some skill to land

Poison Claws (Passive)
This Passive is what makes Arachne really strong. It scales off of your physical power (15%) and stacks 3 times! Ticking for 3 seconds damaging every .5 seconds! Even with minimum physical power the stacking ticks plus your sustain makes you deal lots of damage.
Broodlings
You should always get this first if your jungling. These spawn 2 baby spiders that scale off of your physical power (17%), apply's a 20% slow, and ACT'S LIKE A WARD! With the power to place 5 eggs within 1min 15sec (only at rank one) you can SOLO gold fiery and firegiant! There the ultimate jungling tool.
Drain Life
This ability is what makes Arachne really good. The damage and sustain from this ability really helps in all stages of the game. Knowing when to use this ability in a fight is KEY this ability and her ult makes or breaks a good Arachne. The one downside of this ability is that your at the mercy of the enemy they can walk you into towers and their team easily if you don't time when you use this ability. I use this ability when they are tagged with the 3 stacks of poison, to science the enemy from there ult or jump so my team can finish them up.
Tangled Web
This ability is a AoE Slow/Cripple. It is really good at shutting down enemy's with jumps and dashes. This is really good in teamfights and is great in combination with hades ult, odin's ult... Its also half the size of a lane so its easy to lane.
Cocoon
This is One GREAT ULT MAN, the ability to pull people from a huge distance and being able to stun them is very good. BUT ITS A HARD SKILL SHOT TO LANE without practice, you are in-mobile while shooting and it has about a second casting animation at max range. It's a great ult to keep people CC'ed in your Cripple and catch people running away or doing the LAZY BACK.

When I build my Arachne I want health. My priority after tabi is protection/health items into a single damaging item into more health items.
ONLY USE THIS IF YOU ARE NEW TO ARACHNE she does not need it, its a waste of GOLD!!!


This really needs no explanation, you get it for the FLAT PENETRATION (+15)

This item makes Arachne GOD LIKE physical's do little damage to you because its still early game and all physical damage dealers should still be working on there stacking items.

Oh BABY NOW WE ARE TALKING this item is Amazing obliviously its a good item against magic damage dealers but the PASSIVE is just awesome, it lets you stay in the battle and absorb more damage from both physical and magical and then eat there brains out for longer.

I love this item on anyone. I fine this item very good because it doesn't scale from your physical power but your enemy's health dealing nice damage over all. It also gives you health witch is really good on Arachne and attack speed so you stack your poison faster.

This is an okay item, it gives nice health and physical protection plus a damaging passive. You can get this item before a damaging item if you feel your too squishy.

This item is really under used, its very good it gives you nice damage, lots of health
and a nice passive. With the passive you can keep people in your web for much longer. After this item most people wont be able to get away.

Only get this item if you NEED lifesteal, if you don't need it don't waste your money on it.


Only get this item when you NEED more magical defense, the passive gives you decent regeneration but its not needed.

If you want to hit harder get this item later in the game after your protections.

This item is okay but i wouldn't get this over another item with health and I rather get jotunn's wrath over this.

Depending on what side is the long lane I start with the solo so he can get his/her's blue.hehe my awesome paint editing okay ill go though it.

Short lane= solo
Long lane= double

So in this chase the right is the short lane so you as Arachne you can place 3 eggs at the small camp(the purple dots on my paint map) then go for red and give it to the mid. If short lane is on left do the same thing with the eggs but you get the speed other then helping mid with the red. Then after the red/speed help the solo lane with the blue and give it to the solo. Then run over to the other side of the jungle and start the small camp, after that you should be almost out of mana. Then go for the speed(or red if you started on other side) and take the speed. Go for blue later and give it to one of the side laners. This is the time where you dis-side where you go next if the side lane is pushed up to your tower GANK if not go gank mid or go for mid camp then gank.

When you start a gank I place a egg to cover there exit, then I throw a web at the enemy's feet and go in for the damage. NEVER start a battle with drain life NEVER!
Always start with the web and leave your ult for when they are getting away or to pull them out of position. Your strongest move is your auto attacks for ganks all you really need to worry about it getting those poison stacks off.

You should never be the first one in the battle even with the build. You want to wait when all the cc is gone, you can take damage but cc is the death of you if you ever get caught in it.

These are recent games me playing Arachne using the build and my friend play Ao Kaung in the mid lane.