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Gator-aid (Conquest - Support/Solo - S2)

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by Zilby updated August 17, 2015

Smite God: Sobek

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Sobek Build

Core

Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Breastplate of Valor Breastplate of Valor
Build Item Heartward Amulet Heartward Amulet
Build Item Sovereignty Sovereignty
Build Item Void Stone Void Stone

Starter

Build Item Mark of the Vanguard Mark of the Vanguard

Actives

Build Item Enfeebling Curse Enfeebling Curse
Build Item Wrath of the Gods Wrath of the Gods

6th Item Choices (In order of preference)

Build Item Gem of Isolation Gem of Isolation
Build Item Magi's Cloak Magi's Cloak
Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus
Build Item Witchblade Witchblade

Alt. Magical Defense

Build Item Pestilence Pestilence
Build Item Stone of Gaia Stone of Gaia
Build Item Bulwark of Hope Bulwark of Hope

Alt. Physical Defense

Build Item Dynasty Plate Helm Dynasty Plate Helm
Build Item Hide of the Nemean Lion Hide of the Nemean Lion
Build Item Midgardian Mail Midgardian Mail
Build Item Mystical Mail Mystical Mail
Build Item Mail of Renewal Mail of Renewal

Alt. Actives

Build Item Weakening Curse Weakening Curse
Build Item Greater Blink Greater Blink
Build Item Heavenly Agility Heavenly Agility
Build Item Greater Purification Greater Purification
Build Item Greater Aegis Greater Aegis
Build Item Girdle of Support Girdle of Support

Counter CC Core Build

Build Item Reinforced Shoes Reinforced Shoes
Build Item Breastplate of Valor Breastplate of Valor
Build Item Heartward Amulet Heartward Amulet
Build Item Sovereignty Sovereignty
Build Item Spirit Robe Spirit Robe

Sobek's Skill Order

Charge Prey

1 X Y
Charge Prey
2 15 16 18 19

Tail Whip

2 A B
Tail Whip
1 8 11 12 14

Sickening Strike

3 B A
Sickening Strike
3 4 6 7 10

Lurking In The Waters

4 Y X
Lurking In The Waters
5 9 13 17 20
Charge Prey
2 15 16 18 19

Charge Prey

1 X
Sobek charges forward at a frenzied pace. If Sobek hits an enemy, he does damage, becomes briefly CC Immune, and throws the enemy behind him. Sobek is immune to knockups while dashing.

Ability Type: Dash, Crowd Control, Damage
Damage: 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 12s
Tail Whip
1 8 11 12 14

Tail Whip

2 A
Sobek whips around in a circle, knocking enemies back and doing damage.

Ability Type: Circle, Knockup, Damage
Damage: 90 / 135 / 180 / 225 / 270 (+40% of your Magical Power)
Radius: 20
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 12s
Sickening Strike
3 4 6 7 10

Sickening Strike

3 B
Sobek does an axe attack that damages all enemies in front of him and lowers their healing received. In addition, Sobek heals for each enemy hit, up to 3.

Ability Type: Cone, Heal, Damage
Damage: 90 / 125 / 160 / 195 / 230 (+30% of your Magical Power)
Healing Reduction: 40%
Healing Reduction Lifetime: 5s
Heal: 22 / 29 / 36 / 43 / 50
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 12s
Lurking In The Waters
5 9 13 17 20

Lurking In The Waters

4 Y
Sobek submerges himself, where he gains 20% protections, regenerates Mana, is immune to Crowd Control, may pass through player-made walls, and he Slows all enemies. When Sobek emerges, he damages all enemies in the radius. Cancelling the ability decreases the damage.

Ability Type: Circle, Debuff, Damage
Damage: 300 / 450 / 600 / 750 / 900 (+80% of your Magical Power)
Submerge Slow: 30 / 32.5 / 35 / 37.5 / 40%
Submerge Lifetime: 5s
Submerge Mana Regen: 10% per second
Radius: 30
Cost: 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120
Cooldown: 90s

Introduction

Welcome to my guide for Sobek, God of the Nile

My name is Zilby. I am a casual player who primarily plays conquest. My preferred role in conquest is the solo lane, but I play all the roles regularly.

This is my ninth smitefire guide, and I intend to update it, so feel free to comment things that should be added/edited.

Regardless, lets move on to the cold blooded killer himself, Sobek!


Stats

General
Health: 490 (+81)
Mana: 210 (+35)

Speed: 365 (+0)
Range: 12 (+0)
Attack/Sec: 0.85 (+1.4%)
Regen
HP5: 6(+0.75)
MP5: 4.5 (+0.43)

Protection
Magical: 30 (+0.9)
Physical: 19 (+3)
Basic Attack
Damage: 38+1.5(+20% of Magical Power)
Progression: None
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Pros / Cons

Pros:
  • Great sustain with Sickening Strike for HP and Lurking In The Waters for mana
  • The best pull in the game.
  • Great engage and disengage with Charge Prey
  • Good CC for protecting your allies (especially your adc)
  • Good burst potential for a guardian
  • Can be tanky given the right items.
  • Passive is conducive to the support role
  • Charge Prey's engage allows you to buy actives other than Greater Blink
  • Great mobility
  • Stays relevant throughout the game
  • He's a crocodile
Cons:
  • Your engage is also your disengage, leaving you vulnerable
  • Not the tankiest guardian
  • Mana hungry, especially during the early game
  • Hard to take out enemies by yourself
  • Poking without fully engaging the enemy is difficult
  • Not the best at taking out jungle camps
  • Not a god that can carry
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Skills





skills

Items





This section is built around the core builds above as well as situational items. Do note the first build is built around the role of a support tank, and thus contains items that may benefit your team more than you individually while the second build is for you as a solo laner and focuses more on your overall presence in the game.

This item list will go in order of early game to late game items.

Support Build

Core Build
Item 6
Alternative Magical Defense
Alternative Physical Defense
Counter CC Build

Solo Build

Core Build

Warding

Some tactics and ward locations have been drawn from this guide, so I want to make sure to give it credit. The other guide is a more in-depth guide to warding in general. Most of the work I've done is to add some personal preferences and update it for the support role in season 2.

Early Warding

Objective Warding

Late Warding

Early Game

Support Tactics

Solo Tactics

Mid Game

Support Tactics

Solo Tactics

Late Game

Support Tactics

Solo Tactics

Conclusion

Sobek is a fantastic guardian and is capable of running the best duo or solo lanes in smite.
Whether you're near the Nile or on dry land, you'll never know when you're about to get pulled!
I hope this guide helps any new Sobek players out there, happy smiting!

Other Guides

These are all the guides I have made so far, feel free to check them out.


Nox

Chang'e

Nemesis

Artemis
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Ao Kuang

Isis

Awilix

Bellona

Sobek

Ratatoskr


A Guide To Making Item Builds

And More!

This is all the other stuff I've done in regard to smite/smitefire



Z's Comedy Club


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1
Zilby (132) | November 9, 2015 8:25pm
Uzunami wrote:

Great build, hopefully you make a support Ravana or any assassin playing support, I've done it with Kali, full on defense. Or ADC assassins

Lol, I generally don't make guides for things that are quite so off-meta. I could make a blog post for it like my jungle bacchus though xD

Playing support with different classes can be pretty fun though. Yesterday I was Cupid support and did surprisingly well ^^
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Uzunami | November 9, 2015 2:54pm
Great build, hopefully you make a support Ravana or any assassin playing support, I've done it with Kali, full on defense. Or ADC assassins
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Phazer999 | October 29, 2015 7:16am
Great guide! I use basically the same items for support and it's a very good setup. Sobek is my favourite god right now because he's very mobile for a support, has very good CC, good defence and good kill potential. Charge prey is one of the most useful skills in the game, especially with 40% CDR. I frequently get 10+ kills, 3- deaths and 20+ assists. IMHO, he's much more fun and action packed to play than Ymir for example (which I used to play a lot before).
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vennedra | September 18, 2015 3:52pm
Great guide. I Like Ares and with your guide, ill give Sobek a try
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SepticFir8 (2) | August 21, 2015 1:43am
I loved this guide. Your level detail on the items you pick, the situations you pick them, and what point in the game you pick them at is fantastic. Not only is this a great guide to Sobek in support and solo lanes, but a lot of the item choices you make are very applicable to other guardians in general.

Very well done.
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Zilby (132) | August 17, 2015 9:05pm
Greenevers wrote:

Well Sobek's dash isn't CC immune :). Up to you I guess. I like it on all guardians.

In support I do put Winged Blade on most guardians because its stats are great around 4th item (assuming I'm going travelers shoes, Sovereignty, Heartward Amulet, Winged Blade, etc). The only reason I don't use it on Sobek is because of my strong preference for Breastplate of Valor since he's so mana dependent and because he's already pretty mobile.
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Greenevers (105) | August 17, 2015 7:25pm
Well Sobek's dash isn't CC immune :). Up to you I guess. I like it on all guardians.
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Zilby (132) | August 17, 2015 5:21pm
Greenevers wrote:

Add in that starter item Mark of the Vanguard. Yes, it's good in solo as well :). I would add in a Winged Blade just somewhere. Lastly, if you were against a magical matchup, you might want to communicate with your support to purchase Heartward Amulet. Your build will leave Sobek mana hungry since you can't rely on blue buff the whole game. Pretty good!

I agree with all these points except for Winged Blade. Since Sobek has a long CC immune ult and a dash, slows really aren't his greatest weakness. Additionally, since the rest of his build has high amounts of health, I'd much rather max out his CDR building Spirit Robe for extra defenses than Winged Blade, especially since Winged Blade is really more of an early-mid game buy which is when you should be grabbing mana items.

Everything else though I agree with. While I do still generally prefer Vampiric Shroud to Mark of the Vanguard since it has more mana sustain, I can see the use in Mark of the Vanguard's damage resistance since Sobek's early clear isn't very safe. I'll make sure to add all this in though :]
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Greenevers (105) | August 17, 2015 7:33am
Add in that starter item Mark of the Vanguard. Yes, it's good in solo as well :). I would add in a Winged Blade just somewhere. Lastly, if you were against a magical matchup, you might want to communicate with your support to purchase Heartward Amulet. Your build will leave Sobek mana hungry since you can't rely on blue buff the whole game. Pretty good!
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Zilby (132) | August 17, 2015 12:54am
Sobek sections for the solo lane have now been completed! Tell me what you guys think, I'd be interested in anything you disagree about or have to add (or any small corrections to be made as well :] ).
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Diomedes232 (6) | August 8, 2015 5:38pm
It works best when paired with an awilix jungler in my experience.
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Zilby (132) | August 8, 2015 3:07pm
I could but it would be entirely theoretical since I never play Sobek as a solo laner. Personally I've just never had much success with tanky magical solo laners (aka Hades) so I've never given him a shot. I'll try a couple matches with him and if they go well I'll make a section since Sobek in the solo lane is growing in popularity.
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