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Apollo, Faster as a Cheetah and hurts just as much [reworked build]

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by 21superyoshi updated January 25, 2014

Smite God: Apollo

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Apollo Build

Speed

Build Item Midas Boots (M) Midas Boots (M)
Build Item The Executioner The Executioner
3
Build Item Winged Blade Winged Blade
3
Build Item Fatalis Fatalis
3
Build Item Rage Rage
3
Build Item Deathbringer Deathbringer
3

Apollo's Skill Order

So Beautiful

1 X Y
So Beautiful
1 6 11 14 16

Serenade

2 A B
Serenade
4 7 12 18 19

The Moves

3 B A
The Moves
2 3 8 10 15

Across The Sky

4 Y X
Across The Sky
5 9 13 17 20
So Beautiful
1 6 11 14 16

So Beautiful

1 X
Apollo strums a single cord on his lyre. It's so beautiful it hurts, and all enemies in a long range line take damage.

Ability Type: Line, Damage
Damage: 90 / 150 / 210 / 270 / 330 (+90% of your Physical Power)
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 11s
Serenade
4 7 12 18 19

Serenade

2 A
Apollo uses his amazing voice to mesmerize all nearby enemies and bolster himself with additional Protections. Any damage done breaks the effect.

Ability Type: Circle, Mesmerize
Mesmerize Duration: 1.5 / 1.7 / 1.9 / 2.1 / 2.3s
Protections: 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30
Buff Lifetime: 5s
Radius: 20
Cost: 75
Cooldown: 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 / 13s
The Moves
2 3 8 10 15

The Moves

3 B
Apollo runs forward and slides on his knees, dealing damage, knocking aside all enemies and adding a stack of Audacity for each enemy hit. At the end of the slide, the movement speed is decreased for enemies and increased for himself and allies.

Ability Type: Dash, Buff, Damage
Damage: 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+60% of your Physical Power)
Movement Speed Buff/Debuff: 15 / 17.5 / 20 / 22.5 / 25%
Buff Duration: 3s
Cost: 70
Cooldown: 15s
Across The Sky
5 9 13 17 20

Across The Sky

4 Y
Apollo rides his chariot across the sky, choosing when to land, dealing damage every .15s for .6s as he lands. Enemies hit by the last tick of the landing will also be knocked up.

Ability Type: Circle, Knockup, Damage
Damage Per Tick: 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170 (+25% of your Physical Power)
Range/Radius: 60/20
Cost: 20 + 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 per second
Cooldown: 110s

Introduction

This is my first build,due to this I Would love to have positive or constructive criticism comments to improve my build from now on. I would love to thank Chuilin and Sanguis for the tips and now time for apollo

Items

The first buy is Midas Boots, you get health and mana,and more gold, which will help early game with money problems, as well as with an 18% speed increase. Now time for The Executioner; the passive helps with those physical tanks such as geb. Then comes winged wand its passive prevents slow, which is why its in the build. Now its time for the money items for late game. This is why Midas Bootsis good. Rage is an adc(attack,damage,crits) bff. Its passive gives you when you don't crit you have a greater chance to crit.Lastly Deathbringer, its passive gives you a greater chamce to crit, as well as some power.

Skills

Apollo's abilities go as his 1, So Beautiful, his 2, Serenade his 3, The Moves, and lastly his 4 or ult, Across The Sky
Apollo's 1 So Beautiful is a standard line ranged attack. His 2 Serenade can stun opponents, but once there hit, there not stunned, but you get protections. His 3 The Moves does damage in a line, as he moves, when he stops, he deals burst damage around him, as well as he gets a movement speed buff.His ult Across The Sky he gets in a chariot and flies across the sky until you choose a location to land or you run out of mana, where he lands he crashes down dealing burst damage in a large radius, a nice tower dive or good for returning to base. His passive Audacity is after 10 shots that hit his attack speed increases to 100% for 5 shots, when i men by shots is his ranged attack.

Pros / Cons

Pro: Retreating is no problem
Con: But stunning will hurt and may kill you
Pro: Im fast...
Con: yeah but there is not a lot of power till late game
Pro: Apollo's 4 is a great tower dive
Con:...(there is no con with this one, movement speed covers running away)

Gameplay

His gameplay with this build should allow you move faster to avoid annoying attacks, as well as be able to gank late game and retreat. He will need jungle buffs, such as damage and mana. For conquest duo would be best if possible,however this build you can jungle with.In 3v3 joust, he eats face, no really, being 1 lane he can rush early game, get buffs easier, and overall win. Arena, this build would do moderate, but not as good as it should. You can get some kills, but everyone does in arena.

Outro

I will once again state, This is my first build and please leave comments to help me forward, and good luck and have fun.Thanks for reading.

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21superyoshi | January 26, 2014 5:38pm
i thought physical power with some speed would do ok and thats how i lv stuff
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darks352 (10) | January 26, 2014 4:35am
wowwowwow! Why are we not finishing items before moving on again?
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21superyoshi | January 25, 2014 4:11pm
Once again i say thank you, for i never heard of BBcode, but now it seems simple enough, thank you Sanguis, adn also thanks for proof reading
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Sanguis (14) | January 24, 2014 9:34pm
Let me state I don't want you to take this personally, but in order for you to improve this I'm going to have to hit you with the hard truth... and there's quite a bit of it.

Starting off, your introduction is lacking. I almost feel that if all your going to say is a pre-thank you, then nix the section and add it to the first informative section. However, you can make your introduction a bit better by adding a quite summary of who you are, why you selected this God, maybe add in what you added (when you update the guide).

I'm typically not critical of how someone builds a God because I have some funky builds myself, but I really recommend you nix the midas boots. It appears that you sell them after buying 2 additional items to pick up an even stranger choice: reinforced grieves. As Apollo, your probably going to be the ADC located in duo/long lane. I feel you're going to need all the firepower you can get. I recommend you pick up boots with some power to them. winged wand is strange, but I'll chalk that one up to personal taste, but ditch the boots. midas boots are a terrible choice unless your support in duo lane where your gold/minute is typically lower because your trying to allow your ADC (YOU) last hits.

Even the most novice user of this site understands: "Thia skill order is my perfered order, but i would upgrade accordingly." However, I would like to see a little more depth to these abilities. Talk to me like I've never picked this God up before. I have no idea how these abilities factor in to real gameplay. Just because I read the description from when I hover over the ability doesn't mean I fully understand what it does or is capable of. You do, so explain it to me. Give me your take on how to use the ability and how to combo it up with your other abilities.

Notice I underlined Thia in the previous paragraph. I took that directly from your guide. It's not the only spelling mistake I found either. Here are some other examples:
  • "Now late game, sell those midas boots and get reinforced greves,..."
  • "...18% in combat with some defence.Now buy..." (this has two mistakes. 1)defense 2) place a space after a punctuation (you made this mistake a few times))
  • "...increase.The you buy rage..." (space again after punctuation, plus I think you meant then. context clues)

I understand publishing a guide that has little to no BBCode (I'll be getting to that) or shabby content, but please for the love of God...use your spell check. I'm almost certain this website has a built in spell check. If not download Google Chrome and it'll tell you when you've typed things incorrectly. Also, proof read everything you write. You used words that weren't meant to be there (example 3), but they were still spelled correctly and spell check wouldn't have caught that. I think it's pretty important to make sure your guide is legible. I shouldn't have to try and guess which word you meant to spell when browsing through your guide. It hurts your credibility.

You've probably never heard of BBCode, but it can greatly improve your guide. Please click this. It will teach you the basics of guide making and get you started down the path of using BBCode.

This is really rough, but I understand it's your first guide. It's the only thing keeping me from down voting this for the time being, but I will check back to see if you've taken the advice and make my decision then. Don't be afraid to PM me with any questions you have. I'm quick to respond and can help with just about anything you can think of. Take a peek at what I've created here. I don't mind if you use it as a base point to improve your guide. Don't forget to credit those who've helped you and any ideas you've taken from others. It's probably the most important thing.

Sincerely,
Sanguis
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Chiulin (31) | January 24, 2014 8:24pm
You make it sound like I gave you plans to a death ray. :P
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21superyoshi | January 24, 2014 8:01pm
Thnk you Chiulin, i will use this to my advantage
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Chiulin (31) | January 24, 2014 7:19pm
I REALLY like what you did in the pros and cons. I just want to say that first. Giving the downside to every upside. That's genius.

Next I want to say. I mastered Apollo then never used him again. So I'm not going to argue about your item choices. I'm just going to give you tips on making the guide itself better.

First: Add situationals. Make 3 or 4 items part of the "core build". Then make something like the last 2 or 3 dependent on what the enemy composition is. Also, you only list one active. What happens when they want the second active? They have no guidance there.

Second: Your reasons for picking items are literally just. I pick midas boots, because they give extra gold and movement speed. You are just describing the items attributes. That's not a REASON to pick an item. Try something more along the lines of. "midas boots are my first choice, because. The movement speed is necessary and as the game progresses getting ahead in items is a key to winning". That's a reason to buy them.

Third: You tell people to upgrade accordingly when it comes to skills. You NEED to explain what you mean. If I have NEVER used Apollo, then how am I supposed to know which ones are more important and when.

Fourth: (I feel like I'm ranting, sorry.) There is NOOOOOOOOO gameplay. Imagine you had never played this game, or used Apollo. You have the build. You're still going to suck, because you don't know what to do. Explain the laning phases and all that other **** for whatever game mode this is made for. I don't play conquest, because. I don't like playing for an hour in one game. So don't know much there.

Fifth: There is absolutely no BBcoding in this guide. Please add. It will get rid of the text walls and make the guide way more appealing to your reader's.

Hope this helped. Good luck.
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