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Hello, and Welcome to my first ever god guide. My BB Coding is a bit rusty, and I think I repeated some info, but I think I'll manage. Give any feedback you think I deserve!
This is a Work in Progress (W.I.P.) I will complete the items tab when I have the time, and I am open to suggestions!
Also, sorry if you can see the filler text.
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This is Ra. He will burn you to ashes if you let him. If you don't let him, he will support his own team to the point where you instinctively reach for f6! In short, in the right hands, his team is assured victory. He has a good poke with Celestial Beam, good support with Divine Light, awesome heals from Solar Blessing, and great damage from his Searing Pain. An overall great pick, plus, he's given to you for free! who doesn't like free? Anyway... Ra. Damage. Slow.
Heals. And lazors. Hooked yet? good, because I'm just beginning.
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Pros
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shield of regrowth
.. + High Sustain . + High Damage . + High Support . + One of the best heals . + great support slow . + He's Ra |
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Cons
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.. - Easily focused . - No Escape . - Can't 2v1 . - Suspectible to CC . - low CC output . - his laugh is easily mocked |
Speed of Light is a great passive for a god without an escape. It allows you to be more mobile while laning, and providing a free Sprint at max stacks, or it might as well be. Do NOT be afraid to spam abilities just for the passive. |
Celestial Beam. This will be your main source of damage. Don't worry - it does a lot of damage for a single-hit ranged spell. It also has a short cooldown, so it's spammable. It can also waveclear very effectively. Due to your Solar Blessing also being able to waveclear, don't be afraid to send it to the opposing soloer. |
Divine Light is your support slow. It is also known as the Hug the Sun slow. NEVER USE IT FOR THE DAMAGE. EVER. It is not that great, and you just wasted your support slow. Instead, use it in teamfights. Your team will love the slow, and it can easily help finish off opposing gods. Great, yet lacking in and of itself. |
Solar Blessing is more than a ray of light. It heals. a LOT. This is what gives you so much sustain, what makes you extremely useful in teamfights, and the reason why he's revered by so many people. It can also waveclear on it's own, so you can use Celestial Beam as a poke. With Rod of Asclepius, at max rank, you're healing about 100 health a tick. That's a LOT. With this, You can't die. Your team can't die. Your opponents... well... Sunbath? |
Searing Pain. Ra Lazors. Need I say more? ...I guess I do. Whatever. This] ultimate is a lot like Celestial Beam, except the damage is higher. And it's instantaneous. A good snipe from this can seriously hurt the opposing solo laner, or his entire team. It's great for picking off stragglers of a teamfight that you dominated. And it's cooldown is low for an ultimate. Lazors! |
There's not much to say here, as you should be acting as if it's ranked anyway, but I'll put in a few advanced pointers:
Ward Spots: When laning, ward the mouths of the channels above and below the Fire Giant, closest to your lane. This will give you adequate info of the opposing jungler (on your side, at least) without spamming your speakers with PINGPINGPINGPINGPING whenever it sees your opposing laner. It's also a good idea to ward the opponent's mid harpies before the game starts, so you know what opening they're doing - standard, red first, invade, etc.
When laning starts to break up, put up a lane-ward on your lane, than ward notable objectives - GF and FG, or a controversial tower. Finally, when teamfights break out, ward wherever you think that they will group up, as well as the FG (GF is moot at this point).
Combat Blink or Sprint?: You should always get one of these two. They will save your a$$ more than once. The question is, which one is better?
Depends.
It's actually simple: Combat Blink, by default. If the enemy has a cripple of ANY kind, get Sprint. But that's just my reccomendation, pick whichever one you think will help the most or prefer.
When do you pick Ra?: Usually when your team lacks sustain, or if their team comp is more focused on poking than going all in - but those situations are the best times to pick him. He is a solid pick most of the time.
most of the time?: Yup. Don't pick Ra if their team has good single-target dispatching capabilities even in teamfights: you'll be burst down before you can help your team. I would reccomend Hades or Odin if those circumstances arise.
Ward or Eye of Providence?: Eye of Providence. Ward consumables chew up money faster than you think; the Eye will pay for itself many times over.
This is the section where I explain to you how to play Ra throughout the various stages of the game, from laning, to roaming, to teamfights.
Thank you for reading. As I have said, this is a W.I.P., so expect more in the days to come!
This is my personal build/guide to Ra. If you don't like it, that's fine... just don't tell me to change anything in my guide unless it's BBC or Syntax related.
And remember... your Penta with Ra's ult didn't happen unless you have video evidence.
May the Pantheon be with you,
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1.) Why Gem of Gaia that late? you'l be hurting yourself by getting it earlier imo, and it's so you don't have to back in between teamfights - if you do teamfight/FG/teamfight/GF/teamfight, backing will hurt your team. Gem will keep your mana up at least enough to be useful in those situations, because you always have at least a little mana. And if you still think I get it too late, feel free to put it up earlier in the buy order.
I want to give freedom in the picking of items, so I don't try to constrict people to deviating to only a certain list. I should add why I level my 1 and 3 alternately, though.
2.) you obviously didn't read this when is was color apocolypse. I probably caused at least one seizure.
3.) That's the next chapter I'm putting in. Just waiting until I have the time...
4.) People seem to always say that about me and the things I do: that I/it has high potential. I honestly have no idea why...
Scores : 75/100%
Items and skills : 20%/30%
The items are good but i have a question that isn't here. Why are we taking gem of gaia when it is already late in game? Don't you think the mana from breastplate is enough? Are there more alternatives than these. You should put alternatives too
Second, i don't really know about ra but you should give information why are you taking 1 and 3 together, not max one first then another?
BBcoding : 15%/20%
Though it doesn't include too many bb coding, the guide is very easy to read.
Information : 35%/50%
The information are goods. Most of the chapters are in it. But, shouldn't be there a guide for counter and partner. This will help a lot people (especially when i tried the build, i have problems fighting hel)
Bonus : 5/10%
Though there are no bonus chapters, i see a lot of potential here. Keep up the good work :D
But Tal, why did you call the Idol of Concentration, a Vamana statue. It's obviously a Buddhist monk.
It looks live Vamana to me.
First and foremost, the colors are simply too much (as already mentioned by the other fabulous people here). For instance, "Ra" has literally zero reason to be highlighted,* and the joke about reaching for f6 is good, but highlighting it simply detracts from it, especially when the paragraph is also saturated with BBCoding. Perhaps if it weren't surrounded by such brilliantly golden icons, it wouldn't be so bad - but it's a bad habit to get into, regardless. The formatting, especially in the Skills section, is great, but, again, eliminate unnecessary colors.
As for the quality of the content, there's very little I disagree with** so it gets great points there. However, it is lacking in quantity of content. Considering you seem to be an avid supporter of the "Natsu Missile"*** nuking guides with little work put into them, I think it's somewhat hypocritical that your excuse for lack of contents is that you simply can't focus. If you can't put out a high-quality guide yourself, don't chastise others for publishing guides that seem to lack effort.
Overall, though, it's looking good. It just needs less color and more content.
Also, in regards to:
So many problems with this guide, I don't know where to start. Aside from the content, take it easy on the color mang. The format is just plain ugly and so is the build. Sorry. I will show you how it's done in the next few days.
Dude, there's a reason your guide has twenty-three votes and is still not at five-bars, and that is because its formatting is terrible. In fact, if his "formatting is just plain ugly and so is the build," then you have no formatting whatsoever; giant walls of colorless text and broken images make it incredibly hard to read.
And lastly, @Natsu, I see very little difference between his comment on this guide and your comment on mosts guides. He did suggest improvements in the form of reducing the amount of color in the guide. I disagree with how he presented it, but it's very similar to your own posting style.
*Take it from someone who made that mistake himself. Hell, I'm still finding colored text for gods in my Hel guide after all this time. If you spot any, let me know and I'll undo it, lol.
**Other than Wall of Absolution - as I mentioned before this guide was even published, I believe Breastplate of Valor to be far superior to it on Ra. I know you went over it, but I still disagree.
***Easily defeated by Red Velvet cake.
So many problems with this guide, I don't know where to start. Aside from the content, take it easy on the color mang. The format is just plain ugly and so is the build. Sorry. I will show you how it's done in the next few days.
You would do Tal a favor by giving reasons And suggestions, instead of leaving a ride remark.
Tal, I will review this when I go to Snub's house.
So many problems with this guide, I don't know where to start. Aside from the content, take it easy on the color mang. The format is just plain ugly and so is the build. Sorry. I will show you how it's done in the next few days.
My first hater!
Also, seeing that you own the most viewed Ra guide, I think that the hating is *partially* trying to defend your guide's top spot. Most certainly not the only reason, but it's in there.
This guide is good looking and has good content too. The problem is, there isn't enough of it. You need more content. A lot more.
Suggestions: Counterstrategies for certain gods, explanations on the various phases of the game, and teamfight role. The ranked play section seems more like a "Tips" section to me. Basically, you need gameplay.
I wanted to say that I loved the detail on the items section, especially the rebuttals for other possible items.
I'm aware that this guide isn't complete, so I can't rate it as is. But what I can see is very promising. Easy upvote.
(But please tone it down a little on the colors.)
I completely agree with you on this. My one problem with pretty much everything is a lack of focus, even to the things I love, like Smite. This guide took so long to make for the sole reason of only working on one item per sitting, roughly. I would LOVE to add new content, but I can't focus enough to do it.
Suggestions: Counterstrategies for certain gods, explanations on the various phases of the game, and teamfight role. The ranked play section seems more like a "Tips" section to me. Basically, you need gameplay.
I wanted to say that I loved the detail on the items section, especially the rebuttals for other possible items.
I'm aware that this guide isn't complete, so I can't rate it as is. But what I can see is very promising. Easy upvote.
(But please tone it down a little on the colors.)