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Definitive Agni Conquest Mid Lane Guide

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Smite God: Agni

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Agni Build

Start for Pendulum Build

Notes Go for the Sands build if you want a stronger mid game build spike. Both the Sands and Conduit builds have a similar lategame, though you can ditch Myrddin from the Sands build and rely on Sands/Pendulum for lone CDR without needing to invest in other CDR.

Sands of Time

Spellbook

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Pendulum Ability Build

Notes is the typical go to option with / builds, and you'll also need most games.

If Anti-Heal isn't needed, you can trade for .

Pendulum of Ages

Book of Thoth

Divine Ruin

Staff of Myrddin

Obsidian Shard

Soul Reaver

Start for Focus Build

Notes Go for the Conduit build if you want stronger early clear. Both the Conduit and Sands builds have a similar lategame. buffs proc damage, which can give a *slight* boost to damage to very high HP targets.

However, you are forced into with this build somewhat, as is your only real early game option otherwise for CDR as is both weak/out-of-meta and lategame focused, and is mid to late focused as well.

Conduit Gem

Lost Artifact

Healing Potion

Multi Potion

Focus Ability Build

Notes If Anti-Heal isn't needed, swap out for / .

Can alternatively go (either glyph) over .

Can swap for .

Gem of Focus

Chronos' Pendant

Divine Ruin

Staff of Myrddin

Charon's Coin

Soul Reaver

Relics and Shard

Notes Replace at level 12 for .

Upgrade relics to their upgraded versions once you're full build. especially is the more important relic upgrade to prioritise.

Temporal Beads

Aegis of Acceleration

Horn Shard

Alternative Items

Notes - Solid flat pen option with a passive that works great on , more often seen when is not needed.

- Defensive alternative to that can be strong in some scenarios. Can be considered if getting focused.

- More direct damage glyph option compared to Perfected Glyph.

- More CDR / utility focused glyph option compared to Calamitous Glyph, with good synergy with and .

- Niche anti-tank bruiser option.

/ - Viable for a alternative Book of Thoth proc damage build path.

Spear of Desolation

The Alternate Timeline

Calamitous Rod of Tahuti

Perfected Rod of Tahuti

Ethereal Staff

Tablet of Destinies

Breastplate of Determination

Experimental Timeline Build

Notes Get glyph for once you're full build.

The Alternate Timeline

Spear of Desolation

Divine Ruin

Perfected Rod of Tahuti

Staff of Myrddin

Soul Reaver

Agni's Skill Order

Noxious Fumes

1 X

3 15 16 18 19

Flame Wave

2 A

2 4 6 7 10

Path of Flames

3 B

1 8 11 12 14

Rain Fire

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

3 15 16 18 19

Noxious Fumes

1 X

Agni summons a cloud of noxious fumes at his ground target location, doing damage every second. Firing any of Agni's abilities into the fumes detonates the gas, Stunning and damaging all enemies in the radius.

Ability Type: Circle, Stun, Damage
Damage (per Tick): 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 (+5% of your Magical Power)
Damage (Bonus): 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+20% of your Magical Power)
Fumes Duration: 10s
Stun Duration: 1s
Range/Radius: 55/20
Fumes Duration: 10s
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 13s

2 4 6 7 10

Flame Wave

2 A

Agni summons a wave of fire in front of him that scorches all enemies in its path. Ignites Noxious Fumes.

Ability Type: Line, Damage
Damage: 100 / 155 / 210 / 265 / 320 (+65% of your Magical Power)
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 15 / 14.5 / 14 / 13.5 / 13s

1 8 11 12 14

Path of Flames

3 B

Agni blazes a path forward in a quick dash, leaving flames trailing behind him. Any enemies passing through the flames catch fire and burn for damage every .5s for 2s. Ignites Noxious Fumes. Agni is immune to Knockback while dashing.

Ability Type: Dash, Damage
Damage per Tick: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 (+15% of your Magical Power)
Path Duration: 3s
Range: 60
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 16s

5 9 13 17 20

Rain Fire

4 Y

Every 18 seconds, Agni gains a flaming halo that can be expended to summon a giant meteor at his ground target location. He can summon 1 every .8 seconds. Ignites Noxious Fumes.

Ability Type: Circle, Damage
Damage: 135 / 175 / 215 / 255 / 295 (+60% of your Magical Power)
Max Halos: 3
Range/Radius: 65/20
Cost: 10
Cooldown: Dependent on Halos

Intro

Hi, this guide is brought to you by Kriega1, I started playing Smite on PS4 in 2016 around Erlang Shen's release in Season 3, and eventually long term migrated to PC Smite around mid Season 7. I have peaked GM/Masters on PS4 and Masters in Ranked Conquest on PC. I also am a Mentor on the Official Smite Discord where I focus on general building for each role. I hope you find this guide as a useful learning resource for playing Agni in the Mid lane.

Abilities

Agni's Abilities

Note: Agni's kit, especially his benefits highly from instant cast.

Passive -

Stacked by hitting auto attacks on enemies, gods give 2 stacks. This ability will also proc item on-hit effects (e.g. , ).

Try to keep this ability stacked up as much as possible as it's a important source of extra damage.

Ability 1 -

Not generally a good burst ability or wave clear ability, but is used mostly in combination with 's other abilities to activate it's stun.

In some scenarios it still offers ok damage if you can let the target stay inside it for it's full duration but this is very niche.

Can be useful for proccing item on-hit effects but it is not generally used for this purpose.

Ability 2 -

's main safe wave clear ability pre level 5. Often can be used to setup the stun from at the ability's projectile endpoint, especially in scenarios where you know you're not close enough to guarantee 's damage but can use the opportunity to activate 's stun to confirm hits of .

Ability 3 -

's level 1 camp clear. Offers great damage output if used aggressively, and can be used to punish chasing enemies.

Ultimate -

's main wave clear ability post level 5 alongside his , and main ranged poke ability.

Pairing with gives great confirmed burst damage, ideally casting when the opening bomb has been cast but not reached the ground yet.

Example Combos:

Main Ranged combos:

> > x 2

(used for crowd control purpose since we're assuming the ability is not hitting the target anyway) > (at end point of ) > x 3

Other combos:

> > > x 3

> > x 2 > >

> > > x 3

Essentially is your main confirmable damage (paired with in most scenarios), while being able to get off (not much range) and Path Flames (often needed as an escape) is situation dependent.

I highly recommend if you've not already done so to have on Instant Cast (personally I like having his whole kit on Instant Cast).

How to Play

Gameplay Start / Early Game:

Start at the Fire Giant side Speed/Red buff. When it spawns, hit it with an auto attack to leash/aggro the camp and pull it towards the intersection (towards mid lane) between the Speed and Red buff camps, at the same time your Jungler will have leashed the Red/Speed buff towards the intersection.
As the 2 camps position together use Path of Flames to clear the camps making sure the camps are standing inside it's flame trails. Make sure to pickup the Red buff once it has dropped. After these camps are cleared you will be level 2.
Now quickly make your way to the Gold Fury side Speed buff, if your jungler has not reached it yet (they should be) then leash the camp yourself towards the mid lane while you use Flame Wave to clear the camp. Avoid pulling the camp into tower range if possible. After this you will immediately head to lane while your jungler will typically clear the xp camp to the side of the green buff.
From here you will usually meet the enemy mid in lane on the first wave. Depending on yours and their early pressure/clear and positioning you will decide whether you'll be able to fight or not and whether you'll be able to use Flame Wave on the whole wave or just be able to hit the front melee minions.
How it goes from here will determine: if it's just a stalemate, you or your jungler has kill potential, if you will have mid camp pressure or if you'll have to back towards your tower line and safe clear.
From here you'll mainly be looking to clear waves, contest mid camps, clear the damage buff, assist support with health buff clear (once they rotate over from duo), and being aware of rotation opportunities.
In some cases you may be able to steal enemy side jungle farm but it is risky and not that generally beneficial for direct farm compared to your own side's farm and controlling neutral farm, but can be useful to put the enemy further behind.

Mid Game:

As the match goes towards the mid game, other than the usual farm opportunities you'll be looking to control the Stygian Beacon for your team and try attempt, contest and steal (if the enemy is attempting to kill them) the Gold Fury and Pyromancer objectives.
When the Beacon spawns often both teams will try rotate over to control it, especially the mid, support and jungle. In 1vs1 cases you'll have to decide whether you or the other enemy has more kill potential and who is more likely to have their teammates to rotate over first to impact your decision if contesting the beacon will be worth it.
As for Gold Fury and Pyromancer opportunities they will vary on factors such as: your team's overall objective shred, your ADC's current objective shred / build, your team's map pressure, how strong each team's teamfight is, where on the map everyone is (i.e. if one team is doing Gold, the other may decide to do Pyro as a smaller trade), if any members of the enemy team are on a respawn timer, etc...

Late Game:

At this stage you'll mainly be looking at wave pushing, contesting Fire Giant, and Phoenix sieging / Phoenix defense, though Pyromancer and Gold Fury (especially Oni variant) will still be somewhat relevant but less important.
As for late game teamfights, most often you will be positioned in the "backline" (behind your team's solo and support - who generally are the "frontline") and will play around your ADC to deal with the enemy frontline and jungler, while making sure to put out as much damage as possible to the highest threats on the enemy team.
When it comes to Fire Giant opportunities, often there can be stalemates where both teams will try to force a teamfight or look for lone picks in order to gain an advantage, sometimes involving one team going for a non fully committing attempt at doing the objective to bait the other team to step up.

Warding

Mid Warding:

Here are your regular warding spots for mid, to help your team be aware of the enemy team's general rotations especially when you're not in mid lane. Generally with good map awareness you shouldn't need to rely on wards much yourself for safety.

Green: Placing wards at these locations on both sides of the lane give you good general vision of the nearby jungle, giving vision of the entrances to your lane so you can see incoming ganks.
Purple: You can place a ward directly in front of the enemy tower (but not within its range), which can give you a lot of information if you keep an eye on the mini-map. If they are sitting on the ward in mid, you know where they are. If their icons push further into the lane, you can assume they are pushing. If they go towards the right or left jungles you can make early calls on "Be Carefuls" or "Enemy Incoming" or you can assume they are doing their buff camps. If their icons move backwards towards their tower you can generally assume that they are going to one of the back pathways into the jungle, likely to clear camps.

Late-Game Warding:

Over here is shown the ideal lategame warding spots around Fire Giant, though often you will be sharing the responsibility for this rather than handling it alone, especially when it's not safe for you to step up to place deeper wards. Any wards placed closer to the objective within the Fire Giant pit tend to get destroyed by Sentries more often than not, so they tend to not be reliable.

Remember, minions act as moving wards in the lanes, and are able to spot nearby gods. If your towers are down, keep your minions pushed up as much as possible to provide an extra set of eyes.

White Circles: These are all offensive locations that allow you to spot enemies near to or approaching objectives, and are helpful in covering multiple approaches. The closer you get to the Fire Giant, the more contested those spots will be and the more likely enemies will try to counter-ward.

The ones closest to the enemy base can give you very early notice.
Red Circles: Fairly obvious, but it's always good to have vision on the main jungle objectives, especially the Fire Giant. Sentry Wards are key here, as they allow you to spot and remove enemy wards. You can place wards directly on top of the objectives, or put them slightly to one side to try to spot enemy wards or protect yours from being detected.

Counter-Warding: Enemies may drop wards on your defensive side in similar (opposite) spots to where you would place yours. If the Fire Giant is already covered and you have a spare , place them in these spots to limit the enemy's vision on your team.

Defensive Warding: If you're pushed back to your phoenixes or inside your base, locate your wards in the nearby jungle and general approaches.

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(35) |

Great guide, Kriega. Thanks for sharing.

By the way, I don't know if you've ever noticed how passive interacts with his ultimate. Historically, I have noticed the item interact differently with certain ultimates, such as (Deso only reduces her ultimate cooldown by 3 seconds). For Agni, it seems that a "charge" of his ultimate also only gets reduced by 3 seconds UNLESS it is the first charge. Meaning that if all 3 charges are on cooldown at the time of the Deso proc, only then will you get the benefit of the 6 second cooldown.

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That is a weird interaction but it's still worth building on him regardless. If you find it a deal breaker then just go Divine in Deso's slot and go Myrddin over Shard/Tahuti.

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Table of Contents

Intro

Abilities

How to Play

Warding

Definitive Agni Conquest Mid Lane Guide

Smite God: Agni

Agni Build

Start for Pendulum Build

Pendulum Ability Build

Start for Focus Build

Focus Ability Build

Relics and Shard

Alternative Items

Experimental Timeline Build

Agni's Skill Order

Noxious Fumes

Flame Wave

Path of Flames

Rain Fire

Intro

Abilities

How to Play

Warding

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