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More legs, more death(not for conq)

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by Anniebannannie updated September 19, 2016

Smite God: Arachne

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Arachne Build

Final build

Build Item Ninja Tabi Ninja Tabi
Build Item Hastened Fatalis Hastened Fatalis
Build Item Qin's Sais Qin's Sais
Build Item Odysseus' Bow Odysseus' Bow
Build Item Devourer's Gauntlet Devourer's Gauntlet
Build Item Hydra's Lament Hydra's Lament

Starting purchase

Build Item Combat Boots Combat Boots
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion
3

Other options for slot 5

Build Item Bloodforge Bloodforge
Build Item Asi Asi

Relics to consider

Build Item Aegis Amulet Aegis Amulet
Build Item Heavenly Wings Heavenly Wings
Build Item Purification Beads Purification Beads
Build Item Cloak of Meditation Cloak of Meditation

Endgame consumables

Build Item Elixir of Power Elixir of Power
Build Item Potion of Power Potion of Power
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion

Arachne's Skill Order

Venomous Bite

1 X Y
Venomous Bite
2 6 9 12 15

Cocoon

2 A B
Cocoon
1 4 8 11 14

Web

3 B A
Web
3 7 10 13 16

Night Crawler

4 Y X
Night Crawler
5 17 18 19 20
Venomous Bite
2 6 9 12 15

Venomous Bite

1 X
Upon activation, Arachne's next basic attack within 5s does additional damage and infects the target with Venom, dealing damage over time, lowering their healing received and healing Arachne every 0.5s for 3s.

Ability Type: Buff, Damage
Initial Damage: 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+35% of your Physical Power)
Damage Per Tick: 10 / 18 / 26 / 34 / 42 (+8% of your Physical Power)
Healing Reduction: 40%
Healing Per Tick: 8 / 15 / 22 / 29 / 36
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11s
Cocoon
1 4 8 11 14

Cocoon

2 A
Arachne spindles her webbing, increasing her Attack Speed for 4s. If 3 enhanced Basic Attacks hit the same target, that target is Stunned and have their active cooldowns increased.

Ability Type: Buff, Stun
Attack Speed: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60%
Stun: 1 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4s
Cooldown Increase: 2s
Cost: 70
Cooldown: 14s
Web
3 7 10 13 16

Web

3 B
Arachne shoots a line of Web forward. She is Immune to Slows and moves faster on Web. If the Web reaches max range a Web trap will spawn. Enemy gods who walk through the trap or get hit by the projectile are Slowed by 15%, revealed to Arachne, leave a trail of Web behind them, and are attacked by Pet Broodlings.

Arachne can only have 3 Web traps or projectiles active at a time.

Ability Type: Line, Slow, Damage
Slow Duration: 4 / 4.5 / 5 / 5.5 / 6s
Movement Speed: 40%
Broodlings: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 3
Broodling Damage: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 per hit
Web Lifetime: 240s
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 14s
Night Crawler
5 17 18 19 20

Night Crawler

4 Y
Arachne flips up to her infinite web, hanging upside down above the lane and increasing her movement speed. She may leap off the web to deal damage to all enemies in the target area and create a large web around the target area. The web area provides the same slow to enemies and benefit to Arachne as her Web Trail.

Arachne may activate Ability 1 and 2 while running on this web.

Ability Type: Circle, Slow, Damage
Damage: 150 / 250 / 350 / 450 / 550 (100% of your Physical Power)
Duration On Web: 5s
Movement Speed: 40%
Damage Radius: 15
Web Radius: 25
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90 / 85 / 80 / 75 / 70s

Introduction

Hi! Now, before you all pull out your pitchforks, and try and kill me for not having penetration items, or running hastened (which people hate for some reason), or for putting the her ult as the least important part of this build, I'm going to try and explain it all I promise.

I like to call this a chasing build, where you kill them no matter what they try to do, short of hard ccing you or running into their fountain like a baby.

Tower diving? No problem, can kill them and get out before the tower hits you a second time. Running into their allies? Just stay on target your 2 is the most important thing here, and all 3 attacks need to hit the same target.

Now before I go into the main strategy of this build, let me go over the items.

Items

[*] ninja tabi

Quoted:
Why aren't you running warrior tabi you moron? More power is more death! Disliked, unsubscribed!

Let's calm down there. The entire point of this build is speed. Get in, take the enemy down, and getting out. That's what ninja tabi is for with the bonus to attack speed.

[*] hastened fatalis
Now let's not hate just because you have a thing against hastened fatalis. Don't like it? Please just use a build without it. I can't stress this enough, the big point of this build is to keep the enemy from running, and that's easiest to do with hastened, allowing you to not lose your movement speed just because you're attacking. Keep hot on your enemy, and take them down easy.

[*] Qin's Sais
I have no clue who Qin is, but his sais are a godsend (no pun intended). Whill it's 4% damage based on the enemy's max health might seem useless at first, take into account, at full build, and level 20 you're going to be sitting on just under max attack speed, so getting every hit off on the enemy is going to start quickly running their health down at unbelievable speeds. This item is the sole reason I don't feel the absolute need to build penetration like a lot of assassins.

[*] Odysseus's bow
Now, I have no idea how arachne is getting the bonus from a bow when she uses her claws to attack, but whatever it's great that she can. Not only does this increase attack speed by a lot, the passive on it allows her to quickly clear put pesky minions, and even attack gods she can't reach. Not having a clear of any kind, this item is almost a must for her.

[*] Devourer's gauntlet
This is the item in the build that is most iffy. By the time I finally get it, it's both a relief, because "thank you for lifesteal" but at the same time it's a burden because that's 75 stacks I need to go through. While I normally run this, sometimes I do trade it out for ASI, or bloodforge, but you could probably throw in penetration items here if you so chose. Or possibly run the slot 6 item here, this is the wildcard slot imo, and you can do whatever you want with it.

[*] Hydra's lament
Yes, this is the other item on the transcendence item tree. No, please do not buy transcendence instead, trust me. Hydras lament is amazing. No questions asked. Especially for a heavy stim based god like arachne. This item is just like a second stim to throw on top of her other two, pretty much making her basic attacks scary as hell. Getting the buff from this, as well as qin's and her 1, is just like a hell of a hit. Because of this item my first hits on squishy enemies can take them down almost 1/4th of their health, and it just quickly falls from there. Please if you take anything whatsoever from my build, let it be this: hydras lament is a stim gods best friend.
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relics
Now I'm just going to go over these quickly.

[*]sanctuary
Very useful early game to get out of situations you shouldn't be in, less useful late game but you can't get rid of it by then, sorry.
[*] purefication
Useful the entire game if the enemy team is cc heavy. No real use to it if the enemy team is just rocking an ares. Pop your ult and run, you're good no need to worry.
[*] Meditation
Required for everyone when playing assault, but it's not the best thing for arachne everywhere else. Early game, the mana boost is amazing, but it eventually falls off a little. Still always useful though.
[*] movement
Gotta go fast. 'Nuff said.

Skills

Okay, now let me explain why I build her ult last.

I use it to get away. My it my build it does low damage, and is really just a good cc preventer, and get away. The other 3 abilities are just much more useful for my build.

The two stim abilities (1 and 2), are both the main meat of this build. Both heavily increasing autour attack damage, 1 adding a DoT to an enemy, and 2 increasing your attack speed (with my item build, while 2 is in effect you have max attack speed) I generally pop them both at the same time, hit a god 3 times (stunning them) and it's pretty much just gg from there. Reposition yourself to be facing the way towards their fountain and tick down their health. Ez pz.

Her third ability is a slow, sicks 2 little spiders on her enemy and gives her a speed boost if she follows the Web trail. This is an amazing ability for chasing, and it's hilarious to see people try to destroy the Web trap with their attacks. (Pro tip: you can't)

The main strategy here with her is to shoot her Web at the enemy catch up to them, pop her stims, Web them up, and take them down. Quick, efficient, and nearly always works. Just try to pick enemy gods out, rather than just jumping into a large group of them. Don't worry if this strategy seems weak early game, don't worry that's just the way it is, but mid to late game it works 9 out of 10 times. Just get hastened and qin's, and get ready for the kills to roll in.

Pros / Cons

Pros.

    Good at picking out single enemy gods
    Fast
    Can get away easily by saving ult for emergency retreats, rather than jumping into the fray
    With good targeting your stun will destroy them
    Good at tower dives
Cons
    Due to low pene, guardians can be a little difficult.
    Squishy
    Not good against stacked up enemies (includes minions)
    Slow build up.

While guardians are tougher than other gods, they are still susceptible to the power of qins sais, so they aren't too crazy difficult.

Just avoiding big groups while solo is a good skill to have as really most gods, so just don't try and solo an entire team and you should be fine with the second con.

And slow build up is a bit hard to deal with, but once you get hastened and qins, things really start looking up.

Summary

Well that's most of what I can think of, just get in, kill get out. Don't let your enemy get away, and feel good about the fact that you did well in a f2p game. Just wanted to throw this build out there so I might finally have a fair fight or 2 against an enemy arachne.

Thanks for taking your time to read this, have a great day :)

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WolfxEyes (1) | September 28, 2016 3:47pm
I hope you dont mind some critisme. But there are a few things i would touch up on.
Arachne herself has a movementspeed buff on the trail of her web, so she doesn't need Hastenend fatalis.
Neither does she need so many attackspeed items, since she has a attackspeed steroid in her kit. So as you said, this is her just jumping in and getting out quickly. With this big amount of attackspeed vs her damage total doesn't really burst trough oponents. Since your ability will hit barely nothing, and he passive work on power. Attackspeed is mostly used for substained damage instead of heavy burst damage.
Also you won't be needing any lifesteal items since she already has some heals in her kit which should do enough if you have enough power, eventough you don't have that mcuh in this build.
If you thinka Arachne's base healing ability doesn't help you that much, i would advise building cooldown so her heal would be up more.

Basicly my own opinion is.
Ninja tabi [/] Kinda niece, but i can see it work out in the early game. Hastenend fatalis [x] Doesn't fit arachne's kit nor is it helpfull as a second item since with ninja tabi you barely have any power. Qin's Sais [/] Is a great pick on arachne, but you picked it kinda close i would pick it 4th item instead of 3rd at the earliest. It costs allot and in exchange you can get a much more cheaper and better item. Odsysseus's bow [x] This item doesn't fit arachne, nor is it usefull on her. I would only slightly think of it when your in duel and your really losing your lane. But still rather would not get it on her. Devourers gauntles [x/] The power is fine, but as i explained before. Arachne got lifesteal build into her kit, if you bought a power cooldown item instead you would heal as much but would do much more damage and way more often. Hydras lement[/] This item is fine on arachne, as long as you build bursty, with either heavy pen and dmg. or with crit worked into her build.

Skill section: It works better on arachne to focus on her 1 then her ult then her 2 then her 3. Since you will only need web in conquests, and you only use your web to catch up to peoeple and not for the webs damage. You can rather get the attackspeed steroid on your 2 so you wont be needing attackspeed items that much.

Im sorry for this long wall of text and grammar mistakes, its 2 am and i'm sleepy. But i just had to help a fellow arachne lover. I hope you won't see this as attacking or bashing on your build. I'm just trying to give critisme and trying to understand each other better with our builds! :D

Also 1 smoll thing on the guide itself.
If you add colour coding it will become less wall of text and more visible and pleasing to see.

Also use spoiler tabs to keep it easy and clean ^^. If you got anymore questions or anything. just hit me up!:d
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gogoSlayerX | September 20, 2016 3:56pm
Great build, works on other assassins. Thank you my friend
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