Isis - Dominating Middle Lane

Hey guys, hows it goin?

I'm Crownife and this is my first ever guide on how to play Isis!

She's the god that I've gotten my first mastery with and I enjoy playing her in any game mode.

Core Items

Cooldown reduction shoes because you can get penetration from

This also adds to your advantage early in the game to spam your stun for those important jungle ganks.
I get before . Mainly because you are building stacks and focusing on last hitting early game will help out later.

Life steal helps with survivability. ->

If you don't want to get , get instead. It provides lifesteal and gives you that aura that your teammates will love. Also, because all your attacks are AoE, with this item, you will own.

The reason is a situational item in this build is due to the fact that it gives you extra damage on your basic attacks, and in this specific build, I go for cooldown reduction to be able to spam my abilities. I would rather run beside the enemy and wait for my cooldown to finish rather than hit them with some basic attack and watch them run away.

One thing I started doing recently is getting right in the beginning of the game with a health pot to test how I would do against other middle lane gods. After which I continue building the core items. So far, the results are good.

This active is situational. If the enemy team has or , beads are a must. They cancel out crowd control skills, however, they are tricky to use in their first stage. If is pulling you, then make sure you pop it in the last second.

I find Aegis Pendant to be one of the important actives to have on Isis. Depending on your situation, go for either tier 1 or tier 3. It is a counter to and to keep you alive in crucial situations.

If the game you're in requires no beads or aegis, consider sprint or blink. This helps with chasing down enemies, eluding them, and even making that last attempt to save your tower. However, I would still recommend aegis if you don't already have it.

Combat blink is similar to greater sprint, except it's an instant teleport. In addition, any of the blink actives allow you to position yourself for a stun.

Pros

+ Magic Power Scales like crazy
+ Circle of Protection is great to counter AOE Ultimates
+ Isis will kill your enemies


Cons

- All skills require practice at predicting enemy movements
- You will be the primary focus for the enemy team
- Timing is everything, especially for Spirit Ball

(Aura Radius - 30 | Death Witness Radius - 80) Gives a bonus HP5 and MP5 for every death Isis witnesses, with a max stack of 10. The stacks reset upon death.

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Increases movement speed while attacking 4 times.

Wing Gust

Fires a bright sphere in a line allowing you to activate the skill a second time to explode and stun the enemy.

Spirit Ball

Pretty much your life saver. It silences and slows the enemy. In addition it steals magical protection and gives it to allies who are affected by Funeral Rites

Dispel Magic

(Radius of 30) Isis plants her staff creating a circle of protection, giving allies 15% damage reduction. It has 4 different charging stages, each one with a different damage and a healing multiplier. Enemies that take damage within the circle provide help charge up the circle.

Circle of Protection

Level 1 Level 20

Health 433 1725

Mana 331 1300

HP5 6.45 15

MP5 5.23 13.4

The basic way of using your skills is to start off with dispel magic, then spirit ball and finally wing gust. If you find your opponent running away with low health, drop circle of protection and explode it right before your enemy leaves.

So basically, it looks like this.

There's also the two main ways of going about in middle lane.

Aggressively and Defensively

This is where the saying "The best defense is a good offense" comes out.

When fighting a god that you're unfamiliar with, I suggest playing defensively.
This lets you study how they play so you end up in the best position possible.
Get some wards too so you can escape jungle ganks.

Tower Diving

Make sure your enemy is low on HP. Usually around 20%, this damage you can easily do assuming you land spirit ball and wing gust. Here's a quick video of what it looks like.

Tower Diving

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Ganking Lanes

When to gank?

+ When the enemy is pushing your teammates hard.
+ Someone from the side lane is low on HP ~40%
+ Make sure your spirit ball is up!


When not to gank?

- If more than 2 gods are missing
- Do not gank a tank unless someone is helping you

Take a look at the video in the spoiler for some ideas on how and when to gank.

Ganking Lanes

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+ Avoid being hit by his tornadoes Especially in early game. + When he goes for squall, hit him with + Do not panic when you see his ultimate spirit's tempest, walk to the side and avoid it. I suggest walking/running backwards when you see this.

Isis vs Ao Kuang

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+ is easy to avoid, make sure you keep your distance + It is pretty easy for Ra to land + When you see Ra glowing, book it. diving light slows you and damages you. + Use when you see Ra using his ultimate

Isis vs Ra

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+ Do not get too close to the turret and try to hit it when it's distracted by minions. + When you see , avoid it or position yourself to be bumped further from Vulcan. + If you see him ulti have wing gust ready to leave the AOE.

Isis vs Vulcan

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+ is really easy to see and avoid. + similar to Ra`s , you will get hit, just try to get out of it ASAP. + The ultimate is hard to dodge , instant damage, best case scenario would be to drop

Isis vs Poseidon

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Solo/Duo

Green: Provides limited vision, but is a safe area to access, and often ganks will come from here. Yellow Green: Very safe, and helps you know if the enemy is stealing your buffs. If you see an enemy here, there's a good chance you can surprise them for a kill. Yellow: Gives you a better view of the entrance to your lane to keep you safer from ganks, and still gives you a good view of your blue buff. Red: A risky spot, but with high reward. This is the most common place you will be ganked from. It also provides you and your jungler information on what their jungler is doing. It can help you steal enemy buffs. Dark Red: This provides you more vision of the enemy jungle, helping you keep tabs on the enemy jungler, but sacrifices some vision of the entrance to your lane.

Harpies

Green: Provides great vision of the whole mid camp, but sacrifices vision of incoming ganks. It is possible to place the ward perfectly in the middle to give vision of both entrances to the mid lane. (This is no longer possible with the recent decrease in ward radius) Yellow: Safe, and keeps vision of the entrance to your lane so you can see incoming ganks. also provides vision of most of the mid camp. Red: Risky, but allows you to clearly see when the enemy is going for the mid camps. This will help you steal the camp away from them, and still provide you vision of and entrance to your lane.

Golden Fury/Fire Giant

Green: This provides the most vision of the objective. It is generally a good idea to put a sentry ward here to allow for counter-warding. Yellow: Safe, and allows you to see more enemy movement at the cost of less vision of the objective. Red: Slightly more risky, and again give more vision of enemy movement at the cost of less vision of the objective.

General Warding/End Game

Green: Safe spots. To allow you to push safely, this is the BARE MINIMUM you should have warded late game. If you don't know where the enemy is, you don't push, especially not alone. These spots provide a good balance of revealing movement and objectives. Yellow: Aggressive, and very useful. If you have these warded in addition to the greens, you can almost assuredly push lanes safely. Just make sure you have your eye on the minimap. Red: High Risk, High Reward. If you have these, the enemy can barely leave base without you knowing where they are. This allow you to spot people out of position, and crash down on them for a kill.

No worries.

If you died...

Once - ask jungle for help
Twice - stay by the tower and buy wards

More than twice - Start building a protection item
Buy either or

Feeding - Farm where there are no players. Only participate in team fights

Gameplay Videos

Isis vs Fire Giant
Isis Arena
Isis Conquest Gameplay 11-1
How to play Isis

Conclusion

Thanks for taking the time to look at this guide, criticism and advice is welcome.

Credits

http://www.reddit.com/r/Smite/comments/22hidy/guide_to_warding/
http://smiterepo.com/#/gods/overview
http://www.reddit.com/r/Smite/comments/2c44jo/this_kills_the_loki_the_importance_of/
http://www.smitefire.com/smite/guide/guideception-a-guide-to-guidecrafting-4031
http://www.smitefire.com/smite/guide/code-blue-bbcoding-for-beginners-4537#chapter4

Change Log

Done

30/07/2014
Greater Aegis
Core item build order
Isis Overview

01/08/2014
Warding

08/08/2014
Poseidon
Vulcan
Ra

To Do

-Dealing with Foes
-Build Explanation Revision