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See "Situational Items & Selling Boots" section.
See "Situational Items & Selling Boots" section.
Dont level an ability at level 8 to get a point in Pyroclast and
Volcanic Lightning level 9
Tap each threat level to view Pele’s threats
Overall Pele is a strong god, with lots going for her. Some of her biggest strengths are:
+ Tons of burst damage, both single target and AOE.
+ Strong mobility with the movement speed on Magma Rush and the dash on
Volcanic Lightning
+ Decent cc with the knockup on Eruption and the slow on
Volcanic Lightning
+ Amazing early game pressure without really falling off lategame
Pele's downsides are few, and not too glaring. She lacks instant mobility outside of her ult, her passive is prone to antiheal, she can suffer against knockup immune gods, and her cc isn't great, but that's about it.
Here's a quick rundown of all of Pele's abilities and their uses:
In short, Soul Eater is a bad item that you shouldn't be building as often as you probably are currently. It only has 35 power, and that's after you finish evolving it.
The cooldown reduction is nice, but you're already getting cdr from Arondight, and you really don't need much more than that. If you feel like you do (you really don't), then you're better off grabbing a
Jotunn's Wrath anyway.
10% penetration? Sure, but you're not going to be hitting tanks, and that's 5 to 8 pen on a squishy. Not exactly noteworthy.
The lifesteal though? Well, you have Everlasting Flame to give you a nice sudden burst of healing in fights, and if that can't save you,
Soul Eater won't either. Plus, by building it you encourage the enemy team to build antiheal items like
Divine Ruin and
Brawler's Beat Stick which then counters both your passive and build.
The starting build is pretty self-explanatory, and is what you should be building on every ability-based jungler like Pele:
I'll briefly describe the use of each situational item and when you should build them:
Purification Beads.
Blink Rune. That's it. Order is up to you.
Please don't build anything else. This is true for almost all junglers.
Some junglers can skip Blink Rune for
Aegis Amulet, for example gods like
Thor who has his ult and hammer to engage, but
Pele needs blink to engage without
Volcanic Lightning so she cant really skip it.
Go Purification Beads first if you think cc will either get you killed or stop you getting kills early game (like a ***bakharna), or rush
Blink Rune if you are confident you can get kills with it early.
If I had to give you only one tip for playing Pele, it would be this:
Hopefully after reading some or all of this guide you've learned something about playing Pele, even if it's just that you should really stop building
Soul Eater. If you have any questions about the guide feel free to comment, dm me, or find me on discord DiscoFerry#6038 and I'll do my best to answer. Thanks for reading!
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If your timing is off you're likely dead without getting half your damage off, which if it happens just too often puts you to behind that when you do get your damage off it feels lackluster.
Timing is crucial and that makes assassins very difficult to play in most teamfight from the start modes.