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To Scorch the Earth *DUE FOR A REHAUL*

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by UnknownPandr updated October 22, 2013

Smite God: Ra

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Ra Build

Scorching the Fire Red Heat (Starting Options)

Build Item Watcher's Gift Watcher's Gift
Build Item Shoes Shoes
Build Item Vampiric Shroud Vampiric Shroud
Build Item Reinforced Greaves Reinforced Greaves
Build Item Mark of the Vanguard Mark of the Vanguard

Adding Flares to the Fire (Magical or Physical Enemy and also pick which void depending on what your team needs.)

Build Item Void Stone Void Stone
Build Item Wall of Absolution Wall of Absolution
Build Item Focused Void Stone Focused Void Stone

Burning at the Speed of Light (Take Soul instead of Obi, if target's are not stacking Magic Defense)

Build Item Obsidian Shard Obsidian Shard
Build Item Gem of Isolation Gem of Isolation
Build Item Soul Reaver Soul Reaver

Receiving the Guardian Armor (Magical or Physical Defense)

Build Item Bulwark of Hope Bulwark of Hope
Build Item Hide of the Nemean Lion Hide of the Nemean Lion
Build Item Magi's Cloak Magi's Cloak
Build Item Mystical Mail Mystical Mail

Gaining the Everburning Staff (Replace with starting item)

Build Item Rod of Tahuti Rod of Tahuti

Gifts of a Ruler (Damage Items Situational switchout)

Build Item Doom Orb Doom Orb
Build Item Warlock's Staff Warlock's Staff
Build Item Book of Thoth Book of Thoth
Build Item Bancroft's Talon Bancroft's Talon
Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus

Meaning of the True Name (Abilities)

Build Item Aegis Amulet (Old) Aegis Amulet (Old)
Build Item Purification Beads (Old) Purification Beads (Old)

Earth Walker (Boot Choices)

Build Item Reinforced Greaves (Deleted) Reinforced Greaves (Deleted)
Build Item Plated Greaves Plated Greaves
Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Shoes of the Magi Shoes of the Magi

Everywhere at once (Insane Ganks)

Build Item Teleport to Towers Teleport to Towers
Build Item Boots of Celerity Boots of Celerity
Build Item Ward Ward
Build Item Heavenly Wings Heavenly Wings

Introduction

Hey guys and welcome to my Ra guide! This is the best god i'm good with but who isn't good with Ra? I'll Just be explaining basics, items, roles, etc. Make sure to check out my loki guide to the right! Also, a thanks to Ragingstorm for playing a role in getting the pictures for this guide, thank you!

~My Loki Guide~

Pros / Cons


Pros:
[*]Great sustain
[*]Powerful spells if knowing how to land
[*]Built in heal
[*]Great beginner god
[*]Tanky in a way
[*]Super fast



Cons:
[*]Mana Eater
[*]Hard to land skill shots with

Skills

Speed of Light
Every time Ra uses an ability, his groundspeed is increased.
Ability: Buff
Affects: Self
Movement Speed: 5%
Max Stacks: 3

This passive is mainly used to get to point A and point B and can also be used as a escape.

Celestial Beam
Ra summons a moving beam of intense light from the sky, doing damage to anyone caught under the beam.
Ability: Line
Affects: Enemy
Damage: Magical
Damage: 95 / 155 / 215 / 275 / 335 (+70% of your magical power)
Cost: 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 / 110
Cooldown: 10s

This is your main attacking skill and grinding skill its a very hard skill shot mainly because of how slow it is and some may know where you going to cast it so be careful.

Divine Light
Light starts to emanate from Ra, stacking a slow every .5s on enemies near him. After 3s, the light detonates, doing damage and increasing the slow duration. Any enemies facing Ra at the time of the explosion are also blinded.
Ability: Area
Affects: Enemy
Damage: Magical
Radius: 30
Damage: 90 / 140 / 190 / 240 / 290 (+50% of your magical power)
Slow per Stack: 5%
Detonate Lifetime: 3s
Cost: 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100
Cooldown: 12s

Know this skill making so much sense because it makes it easier to land your skills mainly because of the slow! Only use this skill for the slow and you should just a ignore the damage a little bit.

Solar Blessing
Ra summons a pillar of blessed light. Allies inside the blessing are healed every second and gain a magical and physical power buff. Enemies are damaged every second and incur a magical and physical power debuff.
Ability: Ground Target
Affects: Enemy and Allies
Damage: Magical
Radius: 20
Damage per Tick: 20 / 32 / 44 / 56 / 68 (+20% of your magical power)
Magical and Physical Debuff: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30
Heal per Tick: 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 (+10% of your magical power)
Magical and Physical Buff: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30
Light Lifetime: 6s
Cost: 65 / 75 / 85 / 95 / 105
Cooldown: 18s

This is your built in heal, you basicly place this on a god once you use your slow and then gun them down with your main attacking skill! But remember if you get to hurt don't be afraid to heal yourself.

Searing Pain
Ra calls on the power of the sun to decimate his foes in an extreme blast of heat in front of him, doing damage to all enemies unlucky enough to find themselves in the path.
Ability: Line
Affects: Enemy
Damage: Magical
Damage: 400 / 475 / 550 / 625 / 700 (+100% of your magical power)
Cost: 90
Cooldown: 70 / 65 / 60 / 55 / 50 s

This is one of the best damage skills in the entire game but the huge downside to it is its a snipe! So you must aim it perfectly, early to mid game just mainly use to finish off targets.

Items

With Ra's starting it's all depending on the opposite team and what lane your going. I prefer Watcher's Gift to let your partner get the last hits while having some extra gold like if you were Middle Lane.

With the Middle Lane I buy ether Mark of the Vanguard or Vampiric Shroud. Mark of the Vanguard is excellent for if you fighting a Bursty Mage mid, I really like Vampiric Shroud for the sustain I get in lane while having some Damage.

The Boot's really depend on the team and what kind of Ra you gunna play I'd go for Plated Greaves if you want the defense if your going more of a brusier Ra. Go for Shoes of Focus for the cooldown if your going for more of a support Ra, like if your in the Duo Lane with Watcher's gift it'd full proof. Shoes of the Magi if you wanna play a more bursty Ra and wanna have more high damage output. Reinforced Greaves is an excellent item if you need to gank your other lanes or just getting hoarded with CC.

Now this is the fun part *Drum Roll* choosing an item in what situation your game is in right now! I really like Focused Voidstone mainly for giving a nice damage boost while still giving some amazing protection for the mid your fighting (If there magic of course!), but you also choose Void Stone if your tank doesn't have it or you have 3 Magic Users on your team, or more! Wall of Absolution is a pretty good item, but I hardly see it built anymore.

With this part it's on all you: The Player! you must choose what you need more, the slowing effect from Gem of Isolation or the amazing Penetration from Obsidian Shard! I really like Gem of Isolation mainly so it can combo with Divine Light and stay in the field of Solar Blessing and also while having some more sustain from it's health and mana. If you want a huge boost in damage get Obsidian Shard as the base Magic Damage from it is excellent while it gives the most magic Penetration. Remember to get both of these items as they are a big deal!

Now this is where you choose what kind of protections do you need! (Remember to only select one!)
Now I really like getting Bulwark of Hope as it decreases the amount of damage you take for 1 second, this is also amazing to counter magic users on the other team. Hide of the Nemean Lion is your to counter Ranged Ad's, and it gives you some decent health and Physical Protection. Magi's Blessing really situational item if your fighting Bursty God's. Mystical Mark is a pretty good combo with your skills, but if you become underfarmed get this and go a lane and farm.

Rod of Tahuti what can I really say about this item? It's just so amazing! It gives you a HUGE BOOST in Magical Power and gives some pretty good Mp5. The base damage on this item is pretty good and it's passive insane, what Ra wouldn't get this item?

Now Soul Reaver is an item I really wanna talk about. Soul Reaver is an amazing item as it's insanely good on bursty mages, such as Agni Zeus Anubis etc. This can combo quite well with Searing Pain! It gives really good stats such as 100 Magic Power (That's alot of Magic Power!) and 300 mana which makes you able to use your more! All and all this item is really good, I'm still choosing on what I should replace in this build with Soul Reaver.

The Mid Lane

The mid is where Ra Shines and can get the best farm! I really like Vampiric Shroud, but Watchers Gift is something you need if your duo lane with an adc. Magic Protection early on saves you from the heavy hiters like Agni and Poseidon before they gun you down, personally the best thing to do is to get Aegis Amulet so you can counter the mid laners ult and Harass you should be good.

Now let me explain the Mid laners you'll fight againt.

Hard He Bo This is a hard one, but not with much pushing skills he can skill easily harass and put easy damage from a distance while having a gap closer, but fear not! As he is not that good at pushing aslong as you deny his harass and farm and what makes it a plus is hes one of the most squishiest gods so here as Ra you have the defense advantage.

Hard Poseidon Ahhh poseidon how op you are... Welp get ready to fight againt this heavy hitter as he has cripple a push back and the KRAKEN!!! "Ahem" So enough of that. Poseidon is the hardest Mid in the game! Get some heavy magic proc and INSANE GANKS, because you need to try to keep him from getting any farm at all or any harass on you. I would strongly suggest Warding up the jungle so your jungler and side lanes can gank properly so no one can interuppt and so they can use teleport.

Easy Ao Kuang Hes a pretty easy mid laner to fight againt as long as you place heals over his tornados and avoid them and his pokes. Hes a very slippery bastard with his speed buff and Spirit's Tempest. All and all as along as you know how to land your Searing Pain, because he will tower hug once hes low on health and has his Tornados on Level 2.

~~~~More Coming Soon!~~~~

The Duo Lane

~~~~~Working on this as we speak~~~~~

Early / Mid / Late Game

Starting:
Helping get the neutral camps will give you a fairly well amount of exp early game game, but
if your team is getting blue try to ask for it, because can spam spells and insta push while he has blue buff from it's cooldown reduction and mana regen.

Early Game Phase:
At the start don't use your mana to poke. Focus on the minions, but if you have blue try to land as much harass as you can until you see a clean kill.

Middle Game Phase:
Now you should be taking down gods left and right with your combo just be very careful and remember to heal your allies because at this point in the game you have very nice heals.

Late Game Phase:
Now you can win most 1v1's just don't mess with too many tanks and make sure to support with your slow and heal and snipe fire giant if you can!

End Game Phase:
GG

Friends!

Now the god's Ra Need to lane with are people who have pure lock down CC, a great esample is Ymir.
Friends:
Hades This guy's ult right here is amazing mainly, because he can keep a bunch of targets in 1 area for a very long time, but he can be countered by beads so easy!

Ares His ult is amazing aswell, but beads and aegis can counter him and most ults so you wouldn't really wanna lane with him.

Ymir Oh god, ymir is one of the most deadly tanks in the game mainly, because he has so much CC and if your unlucky enough to find your way into his ult your in for some trouble...

Odin I really wouldn't recommend laning with him mainly because his ult is not a very good combo if your not inside and his attack speed buff means nothing to you, so I really wouldn't recommend odin he may have a slow and a way to start a fight, but you shouldn't really lane with him.

Guan Yu Hes pretty good to lane with, because you'll have double heals and he gives slight cooldown reduction from his heal, and slow and he can lower there proc and his ult is amazing with yours so hes awesome to lane with.

Sobek With sobek hes pretty good aswell, but he doesn't have the skills to keep someone in one spot I really wouldn't recommend him.

Athena I personally don't think athena is a good laning partner, she doesn't have enough lock downs for Ra.

Vulcan Is not very good at all, hes mainly used for the solo lane. He has no lockdown CC don't lane with him.

Bacchus Bacchus is pretty good, it's best to help him grab blue so he can fill his Drunk-O-Meter as soon as possible. Hes a good engager, and has a stun, but it can be counter with stuns, roots, slows, knockups, knockbacks, etc

Vamana Only one of you will get the kills...

Tyr This guys pretty amazing with the Combos and Lockdowns he can pull, he's a pretty good laning partner for Ra. In Tyr's attack stance pinning someone to the Wall with Fearless is quite important for Ra to land his skill's. His ult's a good engager and the slow on it can really help you am Searing Pain.

Guan Yu This guy is an amazing laning partner, because of your double heals, slows, and passive and ult to help you snipe while gods are in there Tower.

Actives

Now the standard actives would be Aegis Amulet with Purification Beads, but don't be afraid to pick up other actives. I suggest you don't pick up the healing actives, because ra does not need them as he has a built in heal. Shell is a nice item if your tank does not have it or he's just flat out dumb, Spiked shell is pretty nice if your team is winning, but your team is losing pretty badly or your at a tie it's best to just pick up Shell of Absorption. Teleport is really good if your trying to carry and they need hella ganks, just remember to Ward alot aswell (Pick any teleport you like, it doesn't matter in my opinion.). The recall actives are something you get if they have a team of tower divers while you recall. Blink is an active you can use to start a fight with, while using Divine Light. Do not get Creeping Curse you do not need it at all, you have Divine Light!

Videos!

I didn't make these a pretty famus smite player named DryBar made them I really injoy his videos so hopefully you will too!

New Ra:
Classic Ra:

Matches (Coming Soon)

~~~~~Coming Soon~~~~~~

Jungle

I have no clue if this is the updated map, but oh well.
Start at the neutral buff camps left or right can give you a huge advantage, if your mid or left lane it's best if you ask your team for blue buff so you can spam spells while being at your full strength. Red buff is another thing that's quite nice to get early so you can get the best clearing speed and so you can get nice damage. If your fighting againt lane like Poseidon It's best if you if you grab Mark of the Vanguard and Greaves while taking red buff so you can have damage, because you took mostly defensive items.

Conclusion

I really hoped my tips and tricks helped you! I hope to see many wins from my ra build!

Loki Guide:http://www.smitefire.com/smite/guide/the-mighty-shaco-oh-i-mean-loki-582

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UnknownPandr (35) | July 18, 2013 3:07pm
Welp Time for me to update this.

Edit: The Guide has been updated and changed!
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Sunfall (29) | May 3, 2013 4:00pm
Ragingstorm wrote:

Sunfall have absolutely zero BB Coding skill. The only thing I applause her for is her use of the wall of text information.


I do have BBCoding skills. You'll witness them once I make a blog post about updating my guides.

At the moment, SMITE just experienced a significant change to the way actives are handled, and we're not really sure if HiRez will stick with this change or revert it back.
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UnknownPandr (35) | May 3, 2013 2:16pm
You see this why I should talk to the others so I won't get your opinion of them...
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Ragingstorm (49) | May 3, 2013 2:08pm
Sunfall have absolutely zero BB Coding skill. The only thing I applause her for is her use of the wall of text information.
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UnknownPandr (35) | May 3, 2013 1:20pm
Yeah, I might just do that now actaully.

Edit: Ok just did it! :)
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TheAmazingComicBookGuy (47) | May 3, 2013 1:19pm
UnknownPandr wrote:

Thank you Comic

Im trying new stuff, i'll never have the BB Coding skills of Sunfall and RagingStorm...

no need to, just put a little more color in the items section and you shall be fine I think
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UnknownPandr (35) | May 3, 2013 1:12pm
Thank you Comic

Im trying new stuff, i'll never have the BB Coding skills of Sunfall and RagingStorm...
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TheAmazingComicBookGuy (47) | May 3, 2013 1:07pm
Good guide, even tho I don't like Ra ;)
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