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Sands of Time great item for early mana sustain that give us usefull cooldown.
Gem little amount of intelligence for early push and jungle camps.
Aegis of Acceleration great relic for 
Janus as we have 
Through Space and Time for CC inmune, but not a way to tank huge damage abilities.
Sands of Time great item for early mana sustain that give us usefull cooldown.
Gem little amount of intelligence for early push and jungle camps.
Aegis of Acceleration great relic for Janus as we have Through Space and Time for CC inmune, but not a way to tank huge damage abilities.
Sands of Time
Gem
Health Potion
Aegis of Acceleration
Pendulum of Ages, gives us a great amount of cooldown, one of the most important stats from a mage.
Spear of Desolation its a great item for the early-game due to the amazing amount of intelligence that it provides, appart from that his passive will allow us to use multiple times our abilities in a single fight if we get assists or kills.
Book of Thoth, this item will increase totally our amount of mana and because of his passive we will keep getting more inteligence for the rest of the game.
Gem of Focus best item for Janus because of his passive we will be getting great movement speed making easier for us to juke enemies abilities and rotations to side-lanes.
Rod of Tahuti, core item for every mage build, his passive increases a lot your damage.
Obsidian Shard, core item for every mage build, this item gives us enough penetration to be able to kill tanks.
Soul Gem, the reason for this item to be the last, apart from the stats that gives, its the damage we get from his passive being the maximun if we take it as the last item.
Pendulum of Ages, gives us a great amount of cooldown, one of the most important stats from a mage.
Spear of Desolation its a great item for the early-game due to the amazing amount of intelligence that it provides, appart from that his passive will allow us to use multiple times our abilities in a single fight if we get assists or kills.
Book of Thoth, this item will increase totally our amount of mana and because of his passive we will keep getting more inteligence for the rest of the game.
Gem of Focus best item for Janus because of his passive we will be getting great movement speed making easier for us to juke enemies abilities and rotations to side-lanes.
Rod of Tahuti, core item for every mage build, his passive increases a lot your damage.
Obsidian Shard, core item for every mage build, this item gives us enough penetration to be able to kill tanks.
Soul Gem, the reason for this item to be the last, apart from the stats that gives, its the damage we get from his passive being the maximun if we take it as the last item.
Pendulum of Ages
Spear of Desolation
Book of Thoth
Gem of Focus
Rod of Tahuti
Obsidian Shard
Soul Gem
Aegis of Acceleration
Divine Ruin instead of Spear of Desolation if the enemy has heavy healing (e.g., 
Aphrodite, 
Baron Samedi, or high Lifesteal builds). Gem of Focus if you want to have more cooldown but you will have less movement speed than the main build.
Staff of Myrddin instead of Soul Gem for even more late game one-shot probabilities as if you use it with your ult you would have two 
Unstable Vortex.
Time-Lock Aegis or 
Blinking Abyss instead of Soul Gem if you want to have a double relic.
Divine Ruin instead of Spear of Desolation if the enemy has heavy healing (e.g., Aphrodite, Baron Samedi, or high Lifesteal builds).
chronos'pendant instead of Gem of Focus if you want to have more cooldown but you will have less movement speed than the main build.
Staff of Myrddin instead of Soul Gem for even more late game one-shot probabilities as if you use it with your ult you would have two Unstable Vortex.
Time-Lock Aegis or Blinking Abyss instead of Soul Gem if you want to have a double relic.
Divine Ruin
Chronos' Pendant
Staff of Myrddin
Time-Lock Aegis
Blinking Abyss
Threshold before 
Portal because of the scaling damage passive we apply to the enemies.
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Passive -  PassagesEvery time you go through a Portal or a Threshold, your next ability deals bonus Magical Damage. Stacks up to 2 times.Advice: Use your Unstable Vortex or ult Through Space and Time after going through a threshold, keep your portals to scape.
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Ability 1 - Portal Unless you are on a safe spot, use it as a way to scape. If you wanna use it as an offensive ability make sure you place it on a spot that closes one of the possible enemies scape paths. |
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Ability 2 - Unstable Vortex Try to hit your enemies with both portals for more damage and use it behind a wall for more safety. |
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Ability 3 - Threshold Use it on your teammates for a chase situation for movement speed or on your enemies for slow or even before using a damage ability for extra damage. If you want to slow for more time your enemy instead of using it as an horizontal line, the enemy god would go through the line just once, use it as a vertical line, creating a situation in which if he keeps going straight forward he will be walking constantly through the Threshold making him to be slowed for more time. |
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Ultimate - Through Space and Time Use it close to wall in which one of your enemies is close to, so he doesn't have time to react or even to rotate fast to help your teammates on the sidelines. Before ulting try to realize in which way you hit more walls like that you will be able to use all the Janus ultimate potential, if you don't look for walls with your ultimate it would be like a normal portal.
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Portal -> Unstable Vortex Through Space and Time -> Unstable Vortex
Janus playstyle. At this point of the game, we don't have much damage, so we have to make sure to be efficient on our farm, looking always for backcamps to do, maybe invade some enemy camps and neutral camps(the most important ones). Portal to scape never on an offensive way and your Threshold to boost your movement speed so you farm faster, allowing yourself to reach midgame earlier than the rest of the players from the lobby. Portal and Threshold to use best Janus quality. Through Space and Time for crazy engages on sidelanes or even looking for solokills on the midlane. Janus we have damage to oneshot carries and besides, our kit of abilities is gonna allow us to be moving through the jungle easily making different plays like: Through Space and Time and oneshot some of them. Unstable Vortex and moving from site to site with Portal. Through Space and Time, remember you can easily scape with Portal. Janus make sure, you will be a top Janus player.
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