ODIN - Most modes (in progress) S4, 4.3

Hello, Just a quick intro. Odin is, in my opinion, one of the better warriors and even better gods in the game. And there are many ways to play him. I currently have him Legendary mastery working on getting him Diamond.

*Quick Disclaimer, I labeled this as a troll/fun build, but this is my normal build I use when I play Odin. In most modes (excluding Conquest). I will be adding more builds including what could be considered a normal warrior build and some for conquest at a later time*

All of Odin's abilities can be used offensively or defensively. His abilities are as follows:
- Path to Valhalla is Odin's passive, you gain a temporary buff to movement speed and physical power (8% each, stacks up to 5 times) for 8 seconds anytime any God dies on the battlefield (anywhere on the map).
Used offensively to chase someone down after an enemy dies and Defensively to secure a kill and have a little extra movement speed to escape.

- Lunge is Odin's leap ability, doing damage upon landing. Combos with Raven Shout, More on that combo after ability descriptions.
Used Offensively to jump on an enemy and defensively to escape.

- Raven Shout is a temporary shield that Odin can use that also explodes causing damage equal to the remaining shield life. This ability combos with Lunge.
Used offensively as part of the Lunge/Raven shout combo, or just to clear minions while you basic attack them. and defensively to add a shield of bonus health to escape/save yourself from death by an enemy ability (including execution from Thanatos and Ao Kuang if it gets you above the execution threshold that is.)

- Gungnir's Might is an ability that does damage and slows in an area around Odin.
Used offensively to do damage and slow to continue damaging them and defensively to slow an enemy that is chasing.

- Ring of Spears is Odin's ultimate ability, It creates a ring wall around Odin that is impassable without a leap ability or the relic Phantom Veil. This Ability also has permanent stacks, to where if an enemy dies within the Ring, then Odin gains 5 physical power per each death within. Maxing at 10 stacks (50 power).
Used Offensively to trap enemies to attack them and defensively to trap enemies that are chasing.

Ability use

Raven Shout

Lunge

Lunge

Raven Shout

Gungnir's Might

This is a build that all about having fun, I normally do pretty well with it (kill wise) and have a lot of fun doing it. Its all about attack speed with some Critical. I know many people wont agree, but I like to play warriors (some not all) with similar builds to this as opposed to tanky-ness. And Odin is a good one to play this style, especially with his power increases/buffs (passive and ult stacks).

I'm not going to get into each item individually, you can see what they do by looking at them. The build is mainly attack speed with some critical strike.

-Purchase order 1: You could easily replace Stone of Gaia with another health/protection item, or for-go that and get another Power/atk spd or crit item.
Also depending on how many slows the enemy team has, I switch out Hastened Fatalis with Winged Blade.

-Purchase order 2: I (randomly with no cause) also use this build when going attack speed focus. Depending on if the enemies are mostly magical or physical I will switch out Ichaival with Silverbranch Bow. Both could also work just don't get Executioner.

Additionally, any build with attack speed and critical could be fun on Odin, and a lot of warriors ( Sun Wukong, Erlang Shen and Osiris to name a few).

Again, I'm not going into each item here, most are reasonably self explanatory.

1. Transcendence for the stacks to power and for mana.
Boots and Masamune for power, masamune also adds small health increase and passive for protections
Other items health/protections with some Cooldown reduction.
Last item (and some of the others) can be situational and can be whatever you'd like/need to add.

2. Protections and some health, with power and pen. Gauntlet of Thebes was just thrown in and can be subbed according.

This is the ability selection choices I make.

I mainly focus the combo Lunge and Raven Shout and upgrade those abilities when I can. I get Gungnir's Might once early for the slow. I only get Ring of Spears once also since the only thing that upgrading it increases is the attack speed reduction, which would help but I like the added damage to the Combo abilities more, and with this build you will be hitting the enemy hard and fast enough that their attack speed doesn't really matter.

Build 1 is a fun build to play, and is what I normally do when playing Odin. I would request trying it out for yourself before commenting, just so you can see how it works. I also play very aggressively compared to others, so this is what works well for me.

Build 2 is more of a traditional warrior/Odin Build that works for him but isn't as fun playing.

Feel free to leave any suggestions/comments.


*Disclaimer: I made this Guide originally at a different time, I have changed the builds and completely changed the chapters/wording within. Update/change made 3/7/17, so any comments before that were from a different looking guide.
*thanks to Branmuffin17 for the comment from the previous, I took some of it into consideration, but I'm also pretty hard-headed. Thanks.