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Dr.Floki Build/Guide [ADC,JG,SOLO]

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by Dr. Floki updated May 18, 2016

Smite God: Loki

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Loki Build

Build

Build Item Transcendence Transcendence
Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi
Build Item Jotunn's Wrath Jotunn's Wrath
Build Item Hydra's Lament Hydra's Lament
Build Item Titan's Bane Titan's Bane
Build Item Stone Cutting Sword Stone Cutting Sword

Relics

Build Item Heavenly Wings Heavenly Wings
Build Item Teleport Fragment Teleport Fragment

Possible Last Item [Damage]

Build Item Brawler's Beat Stick Brawler's Beat Stick
Build Item The Crusher The Crusher

Possible Last Item [Defensive]

Build Item Spirit Robe Spirit Robe
Build Item Bulwark of Hope Bulwark of Hope

Clash/Joust/Assault Only!

Build Item Bloodforge Bloodforge

What to do and not to do.

Don't buy crits.
Don't buy attack speed.
Don't buy lifesteal.
Don't buy defensive items.

Mute all players who says you are ****.

Have a nice day.

Ranked Play

Many people will tell you to not go ADC, "Reported", "Trollpick", "Surrender at 10 mins" etc...

1. Mute all of this douchebags who can't break any misleading stereotypes in the world.
2. It's a great thing to go solo or ADC if you know what are you doing.
3. Jungle isn't that bad if you play carefully.
4. When you jungle,Hog might work, but don't take it, it doesn't worth to buy.
5. Don't mind the low damage you get after the game, average Loki always gets some of the lowest damages as Solo.
6. Don't play Joust, Joust is for noobs.
7. Have a great day.

Skills

Behind You! - Loki deals more damage from his basic attacks when hitting enemies from behind. His basic attacks also utilize a five swing progressive chain. Notes:
Bonus Damage: 20%


Vanish Loki disappears in a puff of smoke. While invisible, he moves faster, removes and gains immunity to Slow effects, and takes 25% less damage. His next basic attack from stealth (or for 2s after) applies a bleed to his target, dealing damage every .5s and reveals Loki.


Damage per Tick: 30/45/60/75/90 (+25% of your physical power)
Damage Duration: 2s
Stealth Duration: 4s - Stealth Movement Speed: 35%
Ability Type: Melee Target - Cooldown: 15 seconds
Cost: 70/75/80/85/90 mana


Decoy

Loki spawns a decoy version of himself that taunts all nearby enemy minions. After a short time, the decoy explodes dealing damage to all enemies in the radius. Notes:
The decoy can be targeted, attacked, and will be affected by enemy abilities, but it cannot be killed.
Like any other deployable, the decoy can be used to block movement.
Damage: 75/125/175/225/275 (+100% of your physical power)
Decoy Lifetime: 3s
Ability Type: Ground Target Radius: 20
Cooldown: 14 seconds
Cost: 60/65/70/75/80 mana


Aimed Strike Upon activation, Loki's next basic attack does additional damage within a short time. The enemy hit is also slowed. Notes:
This ability resets Loki's Basic Attack progression.
Damage: 60/100/140/180/220 (+100% of your physical power)
Buff Lifetime: 5s
Slow: 25% Slow Duration: 3s
Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8 seconds
Cost: 50 mana


Assassinate Upon activation, Loki teleports to his ground target location. If an enemy god is within the radius, Loki will backstab that target doing damage and stunning them. Notes:
Damage: 150/225/300/375/450 (+120% of your physical power)
Stun: 1s
Ability Type: Teleport
Cooldown: 90 seconds
Cost: 100 mana
Order is optional.



If you are going on the lanes, you need to up your second over your 3 or 1.
If you are Jungle then do opposite.
If you are ADC and the enemy ADC is jumping like a ***** on every attack, better up your 1 over your 3 as well, because the 3rd ability has sound and he will eventually run, sneak up behind with your 1 do AAs then use your 3rd when you'll feel he is dead, deadgiveaway.
As the Solo, never go to heavy warriors like Bellona and Chaac and fight, do the decoy in the end of the wave and run back, always do that because, that way you get archer minions as well, it's important, in the beginning try to hit the wave from behind the decoy, this way you'll clear it out easily, because of Loki's passive early.

Team Work

If your teammates are bunch of new players, better go split push the lane, instead of going into teamfight, on the way back get the survived enemy with a low hp.

Get Teleport as a solo laner, put wards near the tower, teleport, make a decoy from the jungle, don't actually go to lane, so you won't be noticed on the map too often, activate your 1st and attack the tower, make AA-cancels with the mouse right button too.

Take the tower and run like Forrest.

Approaching Towers

Alright, so you might already know Loki is designed as the trickster god and etc, so yeah this includes split pushing, reason why I made the whole new chapter about it is that tower attacking for Loki isn't just AA.

Some tips here :

1. Hitting your Aimed Strike won't do **** against tower.

2. Hitting your Aimed Strike will actually give you an extra amount of power against towers if you have Hydra's Lament in your kit, since it activates its passive.

3. Using Decoy also does the same against tower.

4. Be sure you have your Assassinate and Sprint up, if you are feeling it's way too risky to push the towers and you are using your Vanish against the tower.

5. Don't really use your Vanish against the tower if you don't feel safe enough and you have Sprint and Assassinate on CD, this often might be the situation early, when your enemy leaves the lane, because possible stun under the tower is coming and you are dead.

Major Combo

So many of you might think the combo goes like that :

Vanish --> AutoAttack --> Aimed Strike --> AutoAttack --> Assassinate

Don't do it!



Vanish --> Aimed Strike --> AutoAttack --> Assassinate

Don't do it!



Vanish --> Aimed Strike --> Assassinate

Don't do it!



What should you do?

Vanish --> AutoAttack --> AutoAttack-Cancel (RMB Does that!) --> Aimed Strike --> RMB --> AutoAttack --> RMB --> Assassinate

Correct!



Better Option !

Hydra's Lament Is a must for this combo, with Decoy You activate extra damage from this item.

Vanish --> AutoAttack --> Decoy --> AutoAttack --> RMB --> Aimed Strike --> RMB --> AutoAttack --> RMB --> Assassinate

Correct!



Masterize the last combo carefully don't put the Decoy in front of your face LOL!

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GhostDismond | May 25, 2016 10:26pm
Vanish --> AutoAttack --> Aimed Strike --> AutoAttack --> Assassinate --> AutoAttack.
With this combo plus hydra you will deal 75%+ plus Dmg.
and you dont need to RMB after Aimed Strike.
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Dr. Floki | May 28, 2016 11:49am
I do more than 75% extra damage if you read it again.
Yes, you cancel the odd animation with RMB.
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Dr. Floki | May 18, 2016 10:51am
Updated the guide with builds, left only one general build and added some possible items, since there was confusion like I was close minded over Stone Cutting Sword, I will add item cons and pros later.

#Added new chapters.
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Zilby (132) | May 18, 2016 9:00am
As sods said it could use some bbcoding but if you want to leave it as is do what you please, it's your guide. Build looks solid overall but I can't agree with your last item. Loki needs to be able to 1 shot squishies late game and push towers, Stone Cutting Sword is by far not your best option. It's expensive, you don't get much out of the passive since you really only ever deal 2-4 autos at once, the protections it gives aren't of use since Loki isn't a boxer, and it's expensive as heck. The Crusher or Brawler's Beat Stick are generally your best damage options here, the added pen reduces most squishies defenses to 0 when paired with Titans and jotunn's and gives you better penetration on towers and objectives, they have almost the same power, they're cheaper, and both of their passives can be very useful (although I think the crusher is almost always better on Loki).

*Posted this as bullfrog was posting his, sorry for repeating the same point. Masamune is still probably a better option than Stone Cutting Sword, but I'd only get it if you really want that movement speed.

Alternatively, if you're going for a defensive item, I think magi's blessing actually has some merit on Loki, as long as their team doesn't have any CC that can burn it easily when it's not needed. Since purification got nerfed since S2, I've found the additional CC immunity to be useful, especially since a single Ymir Frost Breath can mean death for Loki, even with a single protections item if you can't become immune and escape. CC reduction like Spirit Robe can be useful as well, but the difference between a 2 second stun and a 1.5 second stun usually isn't enough to survive late game (albeit, again I'd still consider Spirit Robe if they can easily burn my magi's blessing since that renders it pretty useless).
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Dr. Floki | May 18, 2016 10:15am
You do deal more than 4 AAs actually.
Protections isn't out of use, since it helps you survive and as the last item it has normal price.
Can't agree on this too The Crusher isn't better than Brawler's Beat Stick, as you already have extra damage with Hydra's Lament, it's just enough, at least you don't attack only the towers at all.

Yes Ymir's Frost Breath is deadly get puri in this case over sprint, or just simply avoid Ymir. I highly vouch Spirit Robe over any defensive items and the second place goes to Bulwark of Hope It's all situational.

Also, don't forget your Vanish has CD, which is quite long to survive in the center of teamfight, that's why you need movement speed.
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Bullfrog323 (27) | May 18, 2016 8:57am
I'm curious on how useful Stone Cutting Sword passive is with play style.
When attacking with Loki, I usually go for this combo
Vanish / Basic attack / Aimed Strike / Basic attack / Assassinate / Basic attack
So, with Stone Cutting Sword, I would get the maximum benefit of the passive (protection reduction) only once my combo is done, which is too late.

And I doubt that 30 physical protection would help your survivability that much.

If you picked the item mostly for it's stats, because you like movement speed, why not go for Masamune, which has more stats, a passive that is fitting well with Loki, and way more cheaper (700g less) ?

At level 20, Loki has 1895 hp, which means that there aren't many gods that won't give you any bonus power. Even a squishy mage with a stacked Warlock's Sash would give you almost 50 more power.
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Dr. Floki | May 18, 2016 10:06am
First, I totally got your point, well said, but you are wrong with your combo, I will add this as a chapter in my guide as well in future.

Your combo isn't good, you Vanish / AA / Decoy / AA / Aimed Strike / AA / Assassinate / Possible AA. Here is a reason why I do it, you activate extra damage featuring Hydra's Lament four times, it's better :P .

To be honest, I buy Brawler's Beat Stick sometimes, over Stone Cutting Sword , it's situational, but I steal my jungler's buff most of the times.

And no, Masamune isn't an item that fits Loki, can't agree.

Of course I will add an option for Brawler's Beat Stick, but I am still thinking because SCS is more beneficial on Loki.
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Bullfrog323 (27) | May 18, 2016 11:19am
I'm not a fan of Masamune, I was just wondering why you would consider Stone Cutting Sword over Masamune.
For me, none of them are good for Loki, but if you really like movement speed, I would pick Masamune over Stone Cutting Sword for the reasons written above.

As for the combo, I tried to throw Decoy in the combo (usually 3rd, before Assassinate) if I needed it. However, I found that it messed with my aiming.
That sounds weird, but when I click 2 to place the Decoy, if I just throw it away, the decoy will be in my face and body blocking me. I need to take time to place the decoy behind the target, and sometimes this gives enough time to my target to "escape" the melee range.
Usually, I don't even need that 4th basic attack anyway.
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CJMighty (1) | May 18, 2016 5:53am
Personal as a mastery 10 loki myself i found that buying Bulwark of Hope as a last item is better the nothing at all. I understand Loki is a burst character but i feel having something like Bulwark of Hope increases your survival ability and help you stay alive in close situations
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Dr. Floki | May 18, 2016 6:00am
You are actually right, I have used Bulwark of Hope for many times , not bad but it doesn't fill my playstyle at the moment, but I highly vouch Bulwark of Hope, over Bloodforge.
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Devampi (105) | May 14, 2016 2:26pm
I gotta disagree with a small part of the don't buy. and that part is the don't buy defensive items.

While this is partly true that you should avoid them, thereis one defensive item that is pretty useful for assassins. This would be:
Shifter's Shield because it still gives a nice amount of power with it's protections.
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Dr. Floki | May 15, 2016 1:09pm
Devampi wrote:
I gotta disagree with a small part of the don't buy. and that part is the don't buy defensive items.

While this is partly true that you should avoid them, thereis one defensive item that is pretty useful for assassins. This would be:
Shifter's Shield because it still gives a nice amount of power with it's protections.



Can't agree, Spirit Robe can be considered as the only effective Loki defensive item, if we don't count SCS, but it's rare to buy a defensive item, if you want to carry the **** out of em' noobs in ranked who think they are ruling every single ****.
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Devampi (105) | May 16, 2016 3:14am
I don't count SCS as a def item more a pen item. I can also see the use of spirit robe however it's a full defensive item. Shifter's is considered a hybrid item ( Void Shield too however it makes TB less effective).

The reason I still suggested it is more because of assault. Before new BF it had the highest power you could potentially get from it.

And well even as Loki or any other assassin if you get to far behind you can't do your job unless you decide to get some protections as they can maybe let you survive some sec longer. That's a part of the reason most assassins have at least 1 protection item nowadays (and no SCS doesn't count in my eyes, IMO it's not really that good for Loki as it's cost is too high. And in most cases your ult and 3 should be enough to kill most targets which only gives 1 stack after the damage I believe (never tested when you steal the protection before or after the damage) so it's more buying 50 power and 10% movement speed for 2900 gold). With the new BF it will probably drop on certain assassins as they will switch bulwark for BF.
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Sodsboy (10) | May 14, 2016 1:11pm
This isn't even a guide in my eyes, there is no pros and cons, no explanation of your item or build choices and you give specific listings of how a player should play. It needs major re-working and an overhaul. Please, I beg you to take a page out of my guide and update it. Learn BBCoding and how to structure guides since Zilby and some others have great guides on these. Thanks.
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Dr. Floki | May 15, 2016 1:07pm
Sodsboy wrote:
This isn't even a guide in my eyes, there is no pros and cons, no explanation of your item or build choices and you give specific listings of how a player should play. It needs major re-working and an overhaul. Please, I beg you to take a page out of my guide and update it. Learn BBCoding and how to structure guides since Zilby and some others have great guides on these. Thanks.


Well, I don't give a roaming **** about your eyes, this is what is it, like it? Read it, if you don't feel free to go away, I'll rework on it when it's necessary, I don't have any pages on your ridiculous Loki build, I know you are pissed off, because I had negative comments about your guide (and it wasn't only me), but you have no idea about the God and major Smite tactics, yet creating guides, that's too bad. Have a nice day kid, bye.
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Sodsboy (10) | May 15, 2016 1:52pm
Dr. Floki wrote:


Well, I don't give a roaming **** about your eyes, this is what is it, like it? Read it, if you don't feel free to go away, I'll rework on it when it's necessary, I don't have any pages on your ridiculous Loki build, I know you are pissed off, because I had negative comments about your guide (and it wasn't only me), but you have no idea about the God and major Smite tactics, yet creating guides, that's too bad. Have a nice day kid, bye.


It's clear to see you don't take well to criticism, but anyway. It's such a shame to see such potential gone in a mere click. Also, to clarify after reading your comment on my guide I decided to look at yours as recommended and quite clearly it's lack-luster and if I'm considered acting like a child then you must be a toddler.
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DucksRock (41) | May 11, 2016 9:14am
"Don't play Joust, Joust is for noobs"
LMAO
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SneakyBlackFox | May 8, 2016 9:52pm
The most accurate guide i've seen yet
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Dr. Floki | May 8, 2016 10:35pm
The most accurate guide i've seen yet


Thanks.
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