Land of the Rising Sun - Amaterasu Jungle Guide *outdated*

Hi guys and girls,
I'm CakeSlapping or CAKE SLAP, a casual player who's been enjoying Smite since the Xbox beta.
I've loved the thrill of PvP ever since the first time I played against my brother at Micro Machines on the PS1, and have since become competent at various PvP genres, however Smite is my first MOBA.

So, here is my build guide for playing Amaterasu in the jungle, which will hopefully help improve someone's game.
Hope you enjoy.

I'm currently taking a short break from Smite, but I will be updating this guide to reflect the most recent patches when I come back to the game, in a few weeks time.

Amaterasu is an exciting introduction to the Japanese pantheon. She has incredible mobility and great base damages and scalings. She is able to move swiftly around the battlefield, and dish out high amounts of damage, while using her passive and her 1 to support the team with power/speed buff auras, and an enemy debuff aura

Pros
-Incredible mobility
-high base damage and scaling on abilities
-supports team with several auras
-incredible chase potential
-very long period of CC imunnity with her ultimate
-able to self heal with Divine Presence
-so graceful she floats through the air, despite being a physical god

Cons
-relatively long cooldowns on abilities
-mana hungry
-poor CC options. 2 are part of her ultimate Dazzling Offensive (requires 2/3 chained hits on target), while the other is attached to her Glorious Charge dash
-likely to be nerfed

Illuminating Strike

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Illuminating Strike is a brilliant passive, which allows Amaterasu to stack debuff auras onto enemy gods. Every 3 basic attacks Amaterasu hits on a single enemy puts one stack of a 10% increased damage taken aura onto them, lasting for 5 seconds.




Divine Presence

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Divine Presence is a stance change ability which activates 4 seconds of self-healing upon activation, whilst switching between a speed buff aura or a power buff aura.




Heavenly Reflection

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Heavenly Reflection is Amaterasu's main damage dealing ability. Activating it will give you a shield, which mitigates damage, for 5 seconds before firing a damaging beam in a line in front of you after the 5 seconds is up.




Glorious Charge

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Glorious Charge is Amaterasu's dash. It travels at about the same speed, and for the same distance as Agni's Path of Flames, but with a marginally longer (but still very short) startup. Unlike Agni's dash however, Glorious Charge stops when it hits an enemy God, dealing a decent amount of damage, and inflicting them with a 1 second silence.




Dazzling Offensive

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Dazzling Offensive is a powerful 3 hit ultimate in which Amatetasu slashes 3 times in a broad cone in front of her, with each consecutive hit dealing higher damage and applying an extra level of CC. She also gains an increased level of mobility as she lunges with each slash, allowing to dance around your opponents as you attack them.

Starter items

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You want to pick starting items to give you the best opportunity to not fall behind early game. There are two starts I pick between, and it's important I pick an appropriate start to ensure I don't fall behind early game.




1st Item-Boots

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Building boots first will give you the mobility you want to move around the battlefield, as well as a good little chunk of early power to boost your damage output.




2nd Item-Cooldowns/power

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Next you want to build cooldown reduction which you will be needing, as your cooldowns are generally quite long without any.
Alternatively if you're confident you could build stacking power now, and buy more cooldown items later on, however this is a much riskier option which could see you end up falling behind due to your main sources of damage being less readily available.




3rd Item-Defense with benefits ;)

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You will not really be getting your 3rd item for the Defense (although that will help your survivability) but for the incredible passive, and to top up your cooldown reduction.




4th Item-Attack speed

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Buying attack speed now will help you stack your passive faster, to get those 10% damage bonus auras up. Much like your 3rd item, though, you want to pick your attack speed item based on the other benefits they give.



5th Item-Mixed Defense

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As teamfights become prevalent at this late point in the game you will need some protections to help you stay in the fight longer, and support your team with your buffs.




Final Item-Damage

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At this point in the game you should have every thing you need to fight your opponents effectively. This final item will give you one last boost to your damage levels, meaning enemies should be more cautious when you're around.




Active items

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As you won't be building a lot of protections as a jungler you will want actives that help with your survivability. It is up to you when to buy them, but you generally want to have them before you actually need to use them.

Amaterasu can be a great jungler, with her immense speed and combat capability, able to relentlessly hound lone opponents, while holding her own in any teamfights.

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