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Smite God: Agni

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Agni Build

Example Build

Shoes of Focus

Book of Thoth

Spear of the Magus

Bancroft's Talon

Obsidian Shard

Rod of Tahuti

Starter #1

Vampiric Shroud

Lost Artifact

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Starter #2

Vampiric Shroud

Spellbook

Boots (Take Your Pick)

Shoes of Focus

Shoes of the Magi

Core Damage

Book of Thoth

Chronos' Pendant

Bancroft's Talon

Penetration

Void Stone

Spear of the Magus

Obsidian Shard

Situationals

Warlock's Staff

Gem of Isolation

Divine Ruin

MUST BUY

Greater Purification

Active Choices

Greater Sprint

Greater Aegis

Heavenly Agility

Agni's Skill Order

Noxious Fumes

1 X

3 15 16 18 19

Flame Wave

2 A

1 4 6 7 9

Path of Flames

3 B

2 8 11 12 13

Rain Fire

4 Y

5 10 14 17 20

Introduction to Agni, the God of Fire

Thanks to Getsukeii on DeviantArt

Playing Agni

Agni, the God of Fire; capable of incredibly burst, has an insane amount of mobility with , and is full of swag. Recently, I have taken a liking to Agni (more like a loving), I've only played a handful of games with the god, but he feels so comfortable in my hands. Moreover, I perform very will with him. This guide will go fairly in-depth about Agni's everything: abilities, itemization possibilities, tips and tricks, as well as the general Do's and Don'ts as a mid laner. Enjoy!

Pros Vs. Cons

Incredible Burst/Damage Potential
Excellent Mobility with
Amazing Passive:
Wonderful Objective Contestation
Full of Swag

Heavily Reliant on
Semi-Reliant on Items
Easily countered by cripples
Squishy

Abilities- Explanations, and Combos

Ability Explanations

Every four basic attacks, Agni will gain a buff called . This buff applies to and . Any enemy gods hit by those abilities will be ignited and take damage every .5 seconds for 3 seconds.

Combustion

This is such an incredible passive. You only need four auto attacks to trigger it, and it has 10% scaling, with a base damage of 5. It's pretty much free extra damage on easy-to-land abilities. Managing this passive takes some skill, and it is the difference between a good Agni, and a mediocre Agni.

Agni places a cloud of noxious fumes in the targeted area. Any enemy god who steps in this area takes magic damage every second. , , and trigger a one second stun on any enemy god within .

Noxious Fumes

Noxious Fumes is (in my opinion) one of the most useful abilities in this game. The one second can mean the difference between life and death; but most Agni users use this ability in sync with Rain Fire to land an easy one second stun. Moreover, the one second is all you need to get the rest of your abilities off.

Agni fires a wave of fire in an area in front of him, all enemy gods within that area take magic damage. This ability ignites .

Flame Wave

This is Agni's bread and butter; other than Rain Fire this is your main damaging ability. Flame Wave has a 50% scaling cell on it, this means that by simply purchasing Bancroft's Talon it does 50 more magical damage. With the above build, this ability will gain incredibly (and sometimes unfair) damage numbers.

Agni dashes forward, leaving behind a trail of scorching fire. Any enemies that step through the flames are burned every .5 seconds for 2 seconds. This ability ignites , and Agni is immune to knockbacks during the dash.

Path of Flames

This ability is Agni's best friend. It's long enough so that you can get away from the enemy fairly easily, and it does a stupid amount of damage; this ability scales with 15% of your magical power, and at max rank it does 60 damage per tick. If you do use the above build, and with a few Spear of the Magus ticks, you'll be doing about 160 damage per tick, which is every .5 seconds for 2 seconds. This totals to approximately 640 magic damage. The math even says this ability is amazing, believe me, it is.

Agni gains a flaming halo every 20 seconds (without CDR), at the expense of one of these halos, he may summon a massive meteor at his ground target location. If he has more than one halo, he may spawn a meteor every .8 seconds. This ability ignites .

Rain Fire

I love this ability so much. It does a ton of damage, has an insane scaling cell (60%) and it costs no mana! Needless to say, this ability is what makes Agni, Agni. The summon time allows you to use two meteors in the duration of one Noxious Fumes stun. I will get to Agni's combos in a short while.

Tips and Tricks/Combos

Slightly Hawt Fiya

Explanation

Feel the Burn

Explanation

Matchups- Gods to Watch Out For as Agni

Ares

Bakasura

Fenrir

Poseidon

Items- Reasoning

Item Choice Explanation:

Why ? This item is (other than boots) the best Magical Power value in the entire game. For 2400 Gold, you get +100 Magical Power and +12% Magical Lifesteal. Moreover, the Unique Passive is just nice to have: 1 Additional Magic Power per 1% of Your Missing Health, this means that when you're low in a teamfight, you do more damage. Awesome.

Why Full CDR Over More Penetration? The reason is because in the "Solar Flare" patch, Hi-Rez nerfed , giving it +5 Magical Power, and removing the mana boost. At the same time, they added the mana boost over to , so now that pair of boots are overstated. This build may differ between patches, so keep an eye out on those patch notes.

Why and Soul Reliquary? I normally run this start because of the amount of magical power that it gives. While you do have very little sustain, I suggest this start because of both the magical power, and the ease at which you can rush . Moreover, is a cheap buy, 1500 gold. Also, Soul Reliquary allows you to immediately begin stacking if you decide to rush . It's a good start. But the and start is always a good pick as well, and its safe.

NOT NECASSARY

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E
D

Agni doesn't really need Attack Speed, as nice as it would be to build up in a shorter time, it only scales for a small amount if you have Attack Speed rather than full Magical Power.

R
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S
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S
T
S

While I don't advise it, buying an item as simple as can help with the team, as well as give you some kind of defense. is an option, but I strongly advise against it. Unless you are playing against a Physical Heavy comp, there isn't a reason to buy this item. You already have which gives more mana and magical power than .

MANDATORY

P
E
N

You just need some form of penetration. Whether it be , , or . Even if the enemy team doesn't build magical defense (which is most likely not possible)

P
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It's just damage, damage is always a nice thing to have at your disposal. All abilities scale off of it.

GOOD TO HAVE

L
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You can never go wrong a little bit of lifesteal, and is such a good item for it. Which is why it is in this build!

Suggestions

The Art of Mid Lane Agni

Early Game 0-9 Minutes

Starting Build:

MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE MATCH!

There are two different starting paths for . This is one of them: and , , . First things first, this starting path is just META, due to the +10 Health, +10 Mana gain on last hits, and +35 Magical Power. This start is just a very good, and very safe start. You should be starting with this path very often.

soul reliquary

This is the second build path: and Soul Reliquary. The reason this build is on here is because of the large amount of magical damage that it gives you, but there is a large downside to this starting build: you have no potions. This means that if you get poked out, or low on mana, your only way to get it back is through last hitting the minions. And at high level Conquest play, your opponent won't let you do that. Countering my own argument, it allows you to rush at a faster speed, so if your opponent used the other starting build, and you used this one, you will have the timer at your side, but not the sustain. This starting build path is very risky, and you should be prepared for the consequences.

Laning Phase

's lane clear in the early game is very poor. Until about level 8 or 9, you will not be able to clear the minion wave. In the early game, minions have about 200-300 health. hits for 90 Magical Damage base. The math even says so, Agni has very poor wave clear. If your opponent has better wave clear than you do (, , , ) let them push the wave up, and just take the EXP that gets into tower. If you are even in wave clear (, , , ) keep even with them in the wave, poke them while you can, last hit minions when you see the opportunity, all that jazz. Also, minions do lots of damage in the early game, poke them if you know you won't take that much minion damage.

Be sure to call out your MIAs, Missing In Action(s), and rotate to split jungle camps with your jungler. Especially those crucial mid-camps, these camps spawn every 3 Minutes, and give the most Gold and EXP throughout the entire map, other than Fire Giant, and Gold Fury. Mid-camp control is a massive part of Conquest early to mid game. If you control these camps, you're sure to secure a solid lead for your team and yourself, don't give these camps up easily. If you can, fight for it.

Share camps with junglers! I can't stress this enough, in between waves, you can always ping a back camp for you and your jungler to split EXP and Gold. The professional level timing for a mid laner to hit level 5 is 2:20, if you can manage to get a few seconds ahead or a few seconds late, you should be proud of yourself.

Mid Game 10-20 Minutes

Build Status

Please Note: This is not an exact calculation of where you should and have to be. Your game may not be in your favor, and that's fine.

This is about where you should be, you may have had to itemize into something to counter your opponent if you're playing at a high ELO or just playing for counterbuild practice. You could justify to switch out for because of how cheap it is, and how much more Magical Power that it gives, which is a viable argument. The reason I rush is because I've recently seen more and more supports rushing into , instead of . I'm not really sure what brought about this slight META switch within the supports, but has more penetration than . So, you can decide which one to build into if the enemy support has either or . Nonetheless, both items are very good in the third item spot.

Mid-Game transition into Late-Game

At this time, Agni really begins to shine. should be fully maxed out, and may or may not have 2 points in it. During this mid-game transition into late-game stage of Conquest, you should look to be warding more than you did during the laning phase, as well as focusing more onto objectives like Fire Giant , Gold Fury , and Towers . Worry less about getting kills, and more about getting objectives, but don't think that finding a few good picks isn't as good as a Tier 1 Tower, you should still be looking for kills, but your main focus should be on objectives.

Also, at about this time, the Mid Camps become less important and the main focus around the mid lane are the "Ward Wars." If you don't know about them, it's usually the mid laners battling it out for vision control of the lane. You'll often see people back more often to spend gold on buying a and , rather than or a . I'm not really sure why this takes place at this stage and not the early game, but whatever. You should still be trying to control the vision of your lane, if your opponent controls vision of the lane, you will be ganked more and more often by the side lanes/jungler. You will also be counter-played by the enemy mid laner, he/she will try and invade your back camps because they have vision of the lane, or even your damage camps.

WARDS WIN GAMES!

Late Game 21-X Minutes

Teamfights - How To (Mainly Late-Game)

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Update!

So, this guide has kind of fallen out of my To-Do list. I'll come back to it eventually, but updates to the guide will be slow. I've got a lot more to worry about than a SMITE Guide. This will be updated eventually, I think.

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As a note on your guide though...I can't explain the math personally but most people who are smarter than me say that you are losing efficiency when you build BOTH and . In my personal testing in jungle practice, I have not found a situation where I want shard over spear. Even on like I would think that with your first wing gust would do more damage than without, but with spear the 2nd/3rd/4th would hit harder, but in fact every single hit with spear is harder in that case. I've tested similar instances with and and always find the same thing so for now I'd say take shard out of the build, it's just not useful right now.

The build is an example, it isn't mandatory to build both. I just put that here because of how common it is to see both and . Another reason is that I chose over . My intention was not to box you in a single build, but to experiment on your own builds by putting a few example items.

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a follow up note on myself, if somebody can give me a situation where is better than I'm all ears. Maybe my testing is flawed, but I personally haven't found myself wanting shard over spear.

Gods like Vulcan who do a majority of their damage with 2 abilities benefit from as they don't need to stack it, but gods with sustained damage or DOTs get the most bang with as they can quickly stack them then just shred.

I also think (not to sure) that is better for objectives, as you can't debuff them so building is literally pointless against them.

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a follow up note on myself, if somebody can give me a situation where is better than I'm all ears. Maybe my testing is flawed, but I personally haven't found myself wanting shard over spear.

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I've started playing my mid mages with a slightly different build. Mostly I play because she's such a force, but I'm getting back into because I just unlocked the Triumph and Agni skin and it's delicious.

Anyway, with my mages I REALLY like CDR for obvious reasons, but I also find penetration infinitely valuable, so I go over . I just want as much damage as possible, especially early. This is particularly useful with the dot damage you can apply with the buff. So for my start I'll go with plus lost articfact and two potions. Nothing special there. So I get the pen boots and then second, then or third. If I go spear I will usually skip book altogether, but if I get book here, I get spear fifth.

At this point I'm looking for my next CDR item, which is where I think my mage builds differ from most. My fourth item is almost exclusively . This gives me 35% CDR instead of 40% max CDR but at this point I think realistically we're talking about what...ONE second longer? That's a trade I'm willing to make for 300 health and slow immunity. The attack speed boost is kind of irrelevant on my girl but on I guess you can make the argument that you can stack his passive faster but that's negligible. Really though it's just an item that's nice to boost your CDR while also protecting your squishy self from slow immunity. This is a WONDERFUL thing to have against or or or or any of the many Gods that can slow you.

Sixth I get either or . If my team is doing well protecting me and keeping my alive I prefer rod so I can just deal that much more damage, but if the fights are breaking down around me or I'm just constantly in a bad spot, I'd rather have the 600 health you get from . Or even a defensive item like . If I'm dying a lot early, I may prefer to for the defense and CDR reduction combo.

Anyway...my ideal Agni build is probably into into into into into with the exceptions that I laid out above.

As a note on your guide though...I can't explain the math personally but most people who are smarter than me say that you are losing efficiency when you build BOTH and . In my personal testing in jungle practice, I have not found a situation where I want shard over spear. Even on like I would think that with your first wing gust would do more damage than without, but with spear the 2nd/3rd/4th would hit harder, but in fact every single hit with spear is harder in that case. I've tested similar instances with and and always find the same thing so for now I'd say take shard out of the build, it's just not useful right now.

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Wow, it's looking great so far!

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