Swordsman of the Storm: Susano Guide (S3)

What's going on everyone, Stuke here for another guide. In this guide, it will be focusing on the God of the Summer Storm who is known for killing the most damgerous and feared monster in all of Japanese Mythology. Allow me to introduce Susano. Note: you don't have to follow this guide to the smallest detail, these are suggestions on how to play Susano. I encourage you to look at the comment section below and see others suggestions.

Susano is a physical, melee, assassin that loves to fight and keep moving. Using his abilities to control the fight, deal tons of attacks, and manage to get out alive is the center of his gameplay. Susano excels at chasing a target and keeping them close to him in a single target or team fight engagement.

Pros
High mobility
High damage
Good escapes
Great poke and DoT
Large amount of control
A bad-*** hurricane for a ultimate


Cons
Squishy
Roots are his biggest weakness
No Sustain
Can be CC locked-down hard

A simple passive that can be a life savor or kill securer. Every time your abilities are on cooldown, Susano gain a movement speed boost for each ability. This can be great to catch up to a target that tries to get away and combinbed with the rest of his kit, it is damn near inpossble to out run Susano without wasting a escape or crowd control ability.


This is a very unique and difficult ability at first but after some time you'll get better with it. To start, this ability is three effects at once. The first effect is a cone in-front of Susano that deals damage, the second effect is a small AoE around him tht deals damage, and the third effect is a dash that deals no damage at all. Another thing to add is that you could activate this ability, still auto-attack, and continue the chain from where you have left off.


In a nut shell, this ability is like Nemesis' Slice and Dice but with a different twist on it. It deals damage but to any enemy in the center on the cone it pulls them towards Susano which can be used as a engage to pull them out of position or as a way to bring them back if they try to escape.


A small projectile that deals DoT to any target hit whether it be god or minion, but there's more. Wherever the whirlwind is you instantly teleport to it and if you teleport to whirlwind that's on a enemy, the cooldown of Jet Stream is reduced.


Simple, effective, and powerful. Susano creates a typhoon in-front of him and after a small wind-up it launches forward and expands when it takes off in whatever direction Susano is facing which knock-ups any enemy caught in the eye of the storm. You could launch the typhoon early so it deals damage but won't do a knock-up and will only do a small amount of damage compared to it fully charged form.

Since Susano has some amazing ability damage, BSP is a no brainer for those looking to play him in the Solo or want to do some serious poke damage.


A standard for every Jungler, need I say more.

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Susano has great ability power scaling so getting this item early can really help out his Early Game power potential.

Everyone should get boots, no exception.


Both provide cooldown reduction, but it's up to you if you are looking for more power or more protections.


Power and penetration, need I say any more why you want this.

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What makes this item really good on Susano is when he uses this item combined with Storm Kata it can make for some interesting auto-attack ability combos. When you use one part of the ability, switch to auto attack to get the proc off Hydra's passive after activating each part of Storm Kata.


This item is a very good for highly aggressive assassin's like Susano as not only dose it give life steal and power, but gives a new passive of killing an enemy gives you a shield and an increase to movement speed until the shield is destroyed.


A great item for when you're caught out as when you hit a threshold, you release a AoE that stuns any enemy near you giving you enough time to get away or turn the tables on them.


Movement and attack speed, health, and a crowd control reduction can help anyone get away from a fight. Plus the addition of a movement speed boost when kit by an enemy slow.


Magical protections, CDR, and Mp5 with the additional effect of reducing cooldown by 2 seconds after getting hit with a magical ability. Used very well in the solo if you're going against a magical threat.


Susano is weak to being locked down with CC, so getting an item like this if you want some more tankiness and no die as quickly.

purification
You figure it out.

sanctuary
Makes you immune to damage for a short duration, not much to say. Note: You're not immune to crowd control so keep that in mind.

teleport
It does what it says on the can.

sprint
Look at the icon you tell me what it does.

curse
This relic slows down the opponent and it also reduces their healing, if you're ganking a Healer use this first so they can't heal up from all the damage.

- Susano relies on moving around and controlling the battlefield to the best of his ability. Make full use of Wind Siphon to set up kills with a god like Hercules or Scylla or use it so they don't get away like Janus after he creates a Portal.

- When engaging, you need to make a chose of what ability you want to start with.
If you start with Jet Stream you can deal some damage over time before teleporting over to them for the actually fight, but in turn you don't have a good escape in case Storm Kata third effect wasn't enough.
If you engage with Wind Siphon you pull them towards you and get them out of position for a large amount of punishment, but the downside is when they use their escape this ability will be on cool down (then again you have other abilities to help out as well).

- Don't max out your cooldown as this, in my opinion, would make you passive almost useless as the movement speed boost won't be active for very long. So don't go overboard.

- It's also best to know Susano CAN NOT 0-100 someone, so you'll want to build almost like a bruiser with power, pen, and a bit of protections.

- Standard engagement combo goes as follows: 2/3, 1a, AA, 1b, AA, 1c, and 3/2/4 if they try to escape.

Early Game
Susano has a good Early Game as his ability to gank is very good once he gets his ultimate at level 5 and after gaining a few more levels. His clear isn't great but it's good for what it can provide in the Jungle or Solo.

Mid Game
Now starts the team fighting stage, this is also where Susano shines as his control is off the charts in the Early to Mid Game with his ganking potential.

Late Game
Like Odin, Susano's damage falls off and become more of a utility based nuance to the enemy team. This is where you might want to build some defense and play are more bruiser build if you want to survive for very long.

In Conclusion, Susano is a good Early Game killing machine but later turns into a fast moving squishy support. Using his agility and utility, Susano keeps his control and presence in team fights known and feared to any enemy that in his line of sight.