Bluestone start Skadi is the best - Here's Why

Hello guys, this is my 6th guide on smitefire and I hope Ill clear up some misconception about having to start trans on skadi. Ill post the reasoning for each item as well as show examples of my success. Here we go!

Piercing Cold

This is the ability you level up 1st. Its your main form a wave clear and your most damaging ability. Keep in mind that this skill will slow and make Kaldr do double damage.

Rune Of The Hunt

This skill gets leveled 2nd, but not maxed. The dash, heal, and damage this ability allows Kaldr to do is great at rank 4. But the last rank can wait since it does nothing but give a little bit of movement speed.

Permafrost

This is a good zoning tool to put guardians out of position for setting up kills on you, and to keep junglers at bay. This skill gets ranked 3rd since the only thing you need it for is the radius. Anybody that steps on it is rendered useless, meaning free damage mid to late game.

Winter's Grasp

This ability gets maxed last. Put one rank into it at level 5 for the revive, then dont level it again until you are level 17. The only other thing it becomes useful for is the root duration.

Early game if you opt to go for Charged Morningstar, youre clear wont be as good, your mobility wont be as good, and you wont be able to have as many health pots. The worst thing about starting trans is also how late in the game you build lifesteal. Transcendence + Warrior Tabi cost = 4150 gold. Compared to bluestone start only costing 2350 meaning you get lifesteal AND mobility online much quicker. A HUGE difference between life or death.

Warrior Tabi Since Skadi is ability based, warrior tabi will allow Kaldr to do more damage. Id prefer this over ninja boots on Skadi.

Devourer's Gauntlet I Decided to remove attack speed altogether from skadi. While giving her more movement speed, soul eater was hurting skadi's dps overall, especially since she is the most ability based hunter in the game. Because she very rarely relies on auto attacks, I added devos instead for same listeal, but more power so her abilities hit harder.

Jotunn's Wrath Skadi has long cooldowns on all of her abilities. Being albe to use her Piercing Cold more often means Kaldr will be doing double damage more often, he will also be revived more often, and you can zone people with your 3 more often.

Brawler's Beat Stick is a good item overall that helps to stop their adc from healing, and works well against certain team comps.

Titan's Bane This item gets bought before crusher period! Crusher passive doesnt apply to skadi's dog, but titans does, so if you want to push towers, this is the better cheaper item to get.

The Crusher Basically we are just getting this to round off our pen. 50 flat pen as well as titans means towers and enemy tanks stand no chance against you. Skadi is the best 1v1 hunter in the game, however suffers in team fights. Shes basically early game artemis because of her immobility, except skadi's build is a shyt ton cheaper.

Sadly Kaldr's basic attacks dont apply item passives, meaning qins would only affect your basic attacks. And in my opinion, Skadi's basic attacks arent great. She work great in cooperation with kaldr, meaning pen is the best option to go because Skadi's pen does affect kaldr's basics.


Skadi doesnt do great with crit either. You will find that Titans, trans, and brawlers, will allow you to 2 shot squishies like Ra, and still rip through tanks as well. Trading pen for crit means relying on RNG which is unreliable, and giving up damage to structures. So I'd avoid it.