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Smite God: Raijin

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Raijin Build

Sorcerer's Staff

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Warlock's Staff

Shoes of the Magi

Spear of the Magus

Shaman's Ring

Soul Gem

Rod of Tahuti

Raijin's Skill Order

Percussive Storm

1 X

1 4 6 7 10

Raiju

2 A

3 11 12 13

Thunder Crash

3 B

2 15 16 17 18

Taiko Drums

4 Y

5 9 14 20

Just try it

I believe that most of you know how to play Raijin, upgrade his first ability then the ult/second ability.
I'll try to explain this build with my words now: Warlocks will make you tanky af and to be honest, the damage is enough.
The fun starts after you buy spear of the magus, squishy gods will hate you for that because your burst damage will become a problem for them.
I bet you ask yourself: "but why Shamans ring?"
After you get your stacks on Shamans ring and combine in it with the extra damage of rod of tahuti you'll know why, believe me and please try it.

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(143) |

get Soul reaver over warlocks and after magus and this would be a decent build. Get mage's blessing, tier 1 spear, 1 health pot and 2 mana pots.

(394) |

Raijin has good long-distance poke and a nice escape. With being considered a fairly weak item right now, you'd probably be better served not getting this item right now. Not that you couldn't have success with it...you could. Just, it's not being used much right now, and it hurts your early game a bit.

I understand the preference for , but it wouldn't be my personal choice. I know some pros have used it for him, but feel there are often better choices.

I'm in 100% agreement that is a strong pickup. I think another CDR item could be beneficial too...doesn't need to be high CDR aka Chronos, but something with 10% CDR would be good...and you should have options for some other items...if you really need that protection, a late might be good.

Finally, your skill leveling is messed up. You don't have anything @ level 8 (should be ), and only 4 points in your ult as well.

I'll reserve voting for now...would like to hear your thoughts.

My thoughts are that it perfectly works for me, I'm tanky with my health and got enough CDR through soul gem + raijin's passive.
My skill leveling isn't really messed up at all, I just tried to "say" that I level the the first ability on max + ult on stage 2 first. This build works for me no matter what gamemode I try

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(143) |

He's saying you're missing a fifth point for your 2 and ult. So unless you plan on including the FULL 5 points that should be included for each ability then this build should be regarded as a troll build and therefore be archived.

(394) |

Take or leave my comments/suggestions as you want. Just offering feedback, and if it works for you, it works for you. If you don't want to try out different suggestions, cool.

Your skill leveling is still messed up though...you're not leveling anything at level 8, and it's not like you're point-skipping...so you just missed putting a point somewhere.

(81) |

There's a point missing in : instead of 5, there are only 4.

(143) |

I mean, Raijin is one of the best users of shamans ring so I don’t see why you wouldn’t get it on him, but there are more important core items on him at the moment like Spear of the Magus and Soul Reaver, which is why I get shamans around 4th or later. He’s also one of the best users of the magus/ obsidian combo as magus is just too good against squishies at all stages of the game. Soul gem is an acceptable pickup too considering it isn’t hard to stack and is similar to his passive. In some situations it’s fine to use Rajins escape for damage as well.

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(394) |

I'm actually curious, Kriega. Honest question. What in your opinion makes better for some gods than others? What's the defining factor in your opinion?

Depending on target and protections, the passive's 10% additional damage on subsequent attacks is something that could be gotten (just in different words) from other stats. For low protection enemies, flat pen from a variety of items could easily do something similar, and on all attacks, not just subsequent ones. provides a different type of added damage.

So to me, a major part of choosing this item isn't the damage boost; rather, it's the added MS. And I typically feel added MS is better for gods that either have limited escapes or no escapes. Just how I consider this item's use.

(143) |

has lower scaling (but decent/good base damage) on his abilities so he gets more benefit from penetration than power. Hence why I recommend on him as the passive can be applied very easily with . It's not the MS that I consider this item on him at all. Have you also not noticed that I recommended on him? (and very early, straight after boots)

The difference with an item like is that it literally adds extra scaling, instead of just adding power. Not to mention stacks are retrieved almost the same way his passive is.

Of course, you don't need to build Shamans. But you definitely should be building Soul Reaver and Magus on him all the time.

(394) |

Yes, I agree with , which is why I didn't mention it in my comment on this build, as he also builds it early...and Reaver, which I agreed with you is a good idea.

His scaling isn't bad, as long as you hit all hits. Magus stacks well with Raiju's DoT, which is why you typically lead with it. But his 1 has 120% scaling and his ult 200% (again, if you hit all hits), so I wouldn't consider his scaling that bad.

Thanks for your explanations.

(143) |

It's 120% scaling if you add all 3 30%, which im pretty sure will work out different to a single 120% when it comes to in-game calculations but I don't know for sure.

(394) |

I'm not quite sure what you're saying here, but his 3rd shot throws 2, which if you get the enemy in the middle will hit both...1, 1, then 2, for a total of 4 @30% each = 120%.

(143) |

No, what I meant was im not sure if the game will apply the damage/protections formula differently than if it was single spell instead of 3.

(394) |

Wiki says the same thing...

https://smite.gamepedia.com/Raijin

(143) |

Im talking about post reduction in damage calculations. After taking protections/mitigations into account.

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Damage thunder

Smite God: Raijin

Raijin Build

Raijin's Skill Order

Percussive Storm

Raiju

Thunder Crash

Taiko Drums

Just try it

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