Chronos-How to make your enemy rage quit

Hi everybody, this is my guide for Chronos Keeper of Time. I wanted to do a guide for him because first, I noticed there are no guides for him, and second, I think he's really OP right now (great item value for him), but just no one has used him. It's time for Chronos to rise and take his place as one of the best mages is smite right now. My goal for this guide isn't just to show you how to build him and what his stats are, but also how to utilize his kit to the fullest potential.

Starting Items
The reason you start with these items is for the early sustain. Soul Stone is the best starting item for mages in the game, and not just for Chronos. This will also allow you to have a surprising amount of burst early game. Tiny Trinket will just continue to build up on that sustain. Since we have room for two Healing Potion and one Mana Potion, you should have enough sustain so that you won't have to back until you can get Shoes of the Magi

Movement Speed, Mana, Magic power, Magic Penetration
The main reason I now go with the Shoes of the Magi build instead of Shoes of Focus, is now because of the additional magic penetration. This will allow you to put quite a bit of pressure on your opponent. You will be able to poke for quite a bit of damage (especially if you use the passive from Soul Stone correctly. You also want the movement speed asap, because if Rewind is down, you are just a sitting duck if you get ganked.


Magic Power, Mana, MP5
Since Doom Orb is complete **** and Warlock's Sash really doesn't do any thing that you want, the item that now gives you the most cost effective power scaling will be Book of Thoth. It's just a great item and will give you a ton of power and sustain, just as your get into mid game. Once you have this thing fully stacked, you will not have to worry about mana again. Once you are fully build and past level 20, Book of Thoth will single handily add 158.65 MP to Chronos


Magic Power, Attack Speed, Magic Penetration
This is one of those items that is really good for only a few gods, Chronos is one of those gods. This item fits perfectly with Chronos abilities. You will notice a big jump in the amount of damage you can do with section 4 of Accelerate. Also your impact on team fights will go from utility to DPS at this point. Plus you will be able to 1 v 1 most gods at this point in the game because of you sustain and incremental damage.


Magical Power, Magical Lifesteal, Mana
Polynomicon is insane with Chronos. Ok... So let me throw this at you. Once you build this item, your basic attack can do 517 damage three times in 9 sec. The combo is Wheel of Time stopping on Section IV/auto attack/ Stop Time/auto attack/ Time Rift/auto attack. If you pull this off correctly and hit the passive for Polynomicon every 3 seconds, you will do 2,605 damage.....yes you read that correctly. That also doesn't include any other basic attacks you hit.


Magical Power, Magic Penetration This will allow you to start to shred through most gods. Once you have Obsidian Shard and have full passive stacks with Demonic Grip.... GG man. This is when you can go full on balls to the wall in team fights.


Magic Power..... and lots of it
Just an insta-buy for all mages for late game. It is a really good item for Chronos because not a lot of people know, Rod of Tahuti gives increased basic attack damage even though it doesn't say on the item description (lazy hi-rez).


Options


If going against super tanky team

You will want to build a Soul Reaver instead of Obsidian Shard.

In this chapter, I will be going though Chronos abilities and how to utilize his kit the best. The descriptions may be a little long, but he is a little complicated play him correctly.





The wheel of time is always spinning and for Chronos, it is no different. Depending on where the wheel is when activating Accelerate, it provides a different benefit to Chronos. To say this passive is OP or broken, really just doesn't do Chronos justice. Im going to walk though his passive part by part to describe how OP this passive really is.


Section I: Heal 1.5% Max Health per Second

This is great for lane sustain. It's pretty much like having an extra health potion at your disposal for only a little bit of mana. This will last for 7 seconds. After the 7 seconds have passed, you will have healed yourself for 10.5% of your maximum health.


Section II: 100% Mana Refund On Abilities

How this is a passive is beyond me. You will be able to clear entire waves for free. Definition of OP. Since you get 100% mana refund, you will be able to cast Time Rift/ Stop Time/Time Rift, all in 5 seconds by level 4.... for free. So that's pretty OP. By level 4 you are doing 263 damage as well as stunning the enemy god for 1 second with your combo (not including basic attacks). So you do all of that for free and the attack speed buff of his Accelerate as well. OP


Section III: +20% Magical Power

You want to use this more for late game. This is great for team fights though. You can have some insane burst when you have a full build. Great if you just want to poke with Time Rift.


Section IV: +35% Magical Power Contribution to Basic Attacks

This is the best part of his passive for late game. Once you activate this, you pretty much turn into an ADC. Once you activate this and stun people with Stop Time, you will just shred through them. You only want to activate this when your going for a kill or if you need to quickly clear minions.






Chronos creates a rift in time, damaging all enemies in the area.
Damage: 80/125/170/215/260 (+85% of your magical power)
Radius: 10
Cooldown: 5 seconds
Cost: 50/55/60/65/70 mana

Because this ability is hard to hit on a consistent basis, this is the last ability that you level up. In the early game you really just want to use this ability for poke on enemy gods or to help clear waves. Once you get to lake game, you will be able to use the ability as a final blow to kill stragglers.






Chronos accelerates himself over time, allowing him to move faster initially and gain speed over time. While active, his attack speed is increased and he is not affected by the attacking movement speed debuff. This ability also stops the Wheel of Time.
Movement Speed: 20% initial + 4/8/12/16/20% over time
Attack Speed: 15/20/25/30/35%
Lifetime: 7s
Cooldown: 17 seconds
Cost: 60/65/70/75/80 mana

Because this is the ability to stop Wheel of Time, this is by far this best ability for Chronos. You want to max this ability second because all it increases is Chronos's attack speed. You want to have this maxed out around level 15. This will allow you to be a beast in team fights. Also your mobility will be off the charts. This ability allows you to be able to dodge skill shots a lot easier, as well as you can get out of most situations.






Shooting forward spinning gears of time, any enemies hit by Chronos' attack have their attack and movement speed slowed to a stun, taking damage on the initial hit and again when they are stunned.
-While targets are slowed, they have their Attack Speed reduced by 20%.
-This ability cannot be cleansed by slow immunity, as it's considered a stun for gameplay purposes.
-This ability can deal a total of 60/100/140/180/220 (+80% of your magical power) damage.
Damage (applied twice): 30/50/70/90/110 (+40% of your magical power)
Stun: 1s
Cooldown: 18/17/16/15/14 seconds
Cost: 65/70/75/80/85 mana

This is by far and away Chronos's 2nd best ability. Because of the fact that each time you level this ability up, it does increased damage as well as reducing the cooldown of the ability, you want to level this ability first. This is also your best ability to clear waves as fast as possible. Stop Time is the ability that sets everything up for Chronos. It does a decent amount of damage and also gives you a stun. If you are going for the kill, the best way to clean them up is to use Accelerate/ Stop Time/Time Rift.Helpful hint: Using Stop Time will make it easier to hit Time Rift.






Chronos travels through time to where he was 8 seconds ago, gaining health and mana back to the values of that time. All of his cooldowns are instantly reset as well.
-This ability is not affected by anti healing nor healing reduction.
Cooldown: 120/110/100/90/80 seconds
Cost: 100 mana

Some people like this ultimate and some people don't, if you use it correctly though, this ability can really make the enemy team frustrated. Early in the game, you want to save Rewind to avoid any gank situations. It is great, if you make a mistake and are in a bad position, you just Rewind, and all of your sins are forgiven. In the late game though, you can use Rewind to dive towers and be really aggressive. The best thing for a team fight is to try and bait a a big ultimate or two. Then just Rewind and be at full health. This can really hurt the enemy team during team fights. Just watch out though, the animation for Rewind does take awhile to complete, and you can still be damaged. The best bet in a team fight is to use Rewind when you are at about 1/3rd of your health bar.

Pro's
-Great Utility built into the kit
-Best passive in the game
-Ungankable (new made up word)
-Can apply a lot of lane pressure
-By end game, can 1 .v. 1 most gods
-Great .vs. 0-100 gods
-Decent poke
-Will take over in the late game
-Can pull off some really flashy plays(If you play on the xbox, get ready to say "Xbox record that")

Con's
-Not the greatest base stat's in the game
-No insane burst
-Pretty weak early game
-Will get ganked early and often to bait out Rewind

Early game

So this is when it is sketchy as f**k to play Chronos. Especially against Scylla. After you get red and red harpies, you want to go to lane, and then be butt buddies with you jungler really until you hit level 8 or so (level can be around 8-11 depending if you get any kills or assists) If you don't know the rotation here it is.

1. After you go back to mid lane, clear a wave with you jungler. Then go to fire and after that clear fire mid harpies.

2. Go back clear a wave or two then hit gold fury mid harpies (if already gone move to next step.

3. You then want to clear speed back harpies/clear wave/red back harpies/clear wave.

4. clear two waves

5. clear fire(jungle might leave and help solo)

6. clear waves and contest mid until jungle comes back

7. If any harpies still alive kill them with the jungler, then go get red buff.

8. Clear the wave and then you can go to base and buy.

You want to continue to play pretty passively until you get some stacks on Book of Thoth. Make sure to rotate with the other mid though if they rotate. Also keep up with buff's. Most important though, whenever you have a chance to help out the jungler with camps, always do it.



Mid game

This is when you can start to be a little bit more aggressive. Your clear is good enough to be able to push the lane quite well. One strategy is to try and out sustain your lane opponent. Keep up on your ward placement, vision is just so important. Keep up to date on jungle buffs, help your team take camps if needed (always try and get red buff for yourself until). If your lane is pushed up enough, rotate to help your other lanes. Chronos can be pretty deadly on a rotation. Look for the right opportunity to strike. Try and poke and widdle down your opponent, then go with the quick strike kill utilizing your stun as well as your ridiculous attack speed.


Late game

This is when Chronos becomes OP and you can be very aggressive. After you build Polynomicon, you will just be a nightmare to deal with. Keep up with vision and pressure on all lanes. At this point you want to be grouped up with your team most of the time. If your in a slow game though, you can be the rotate master.

All in all, Chronos is a very fun good who can just dominate if played correctly. I hope you guys have fun with the build. Let me know what you guys think of it as well.


Offensive

Basic Attack: 215
Power: 666
Attack Speed: 1.41
Lifesteal: 10
Penetration: 10+(36% from Demonic Grip+ 33% from Obsidian Shard


Defensive

Physical: 69 lol
Magical: 30
Health: 1770
HP5: 17


Utility

Movement: 419
Cooldown: 0
Mana: 2205
MP5: 68


Item Passives

Book pf Thoth=You permanently gain 10 mana per stack, and receive 5 stacks for a god kill and 1 stack for a minion kill (max 75 stacks). Additionally, 3% of your mana is converted to magical power.

Demonic Grip=our Basic Attacks reduce your target's Magical Protection by 12% for 3s. (max 3 stacks).

Polynomicon=Using an ability gives your next basic attack within the next 8 seconds +75% of your magical power as additional magical damage. The effect can only apply once every 3 seconds.

Obsidian Shard=You gain +33% Magical Penetration.

Rod of Tahuti=Increases magical power by 25%.

Abilities


Time Rift

Damage: 826
Cooldown: 5s
Cost: 70

Accelerate

Cooldown: 17s
Cost: 80

Stop Time

Damage Per Tick: 376
Ticks: 2
Cooldown: 14s
Cost: 85

Rewind

Cooldown: 80s
Cost: 100