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I'll shred you like the cheese you are - Arachne Jungle

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Smite God: Arachne

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Arachne Build

Starting Build

Notes Start just with the Assassin's Blessing and Katana for an early power boost. More mana consumables than heal consumables because your 1 will heal you once you hit level 2.

Assassin's Blessing

Katana

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Relics

Notes Blink Rune to start out with lets you jump on people while ganking for some early picks. Second relic is situational.

Blink Rune

Aegis Amulet

Purification Beads

Magic Shell

Build Including Boots and Blessing

Notes Max out the boots on your first trip back since it's a cheap Attack Speed and Power boost as well as the useful Movement Speed. Once you have your upgraded boots, revisit the Lighted Blade and upgrade it to the Golden Blade to spend less time on camps and more time ganking. Rage is some cheap, high Critical Strike Chance but needs to build a few stacks so building it kinda early is helpful. Bloodforge is a must-have as it keeps you in the fight and lets you chain kills while your Venomous Bite is on cooldown. Deathbringer rounds out your crits, giving you a total of 70% Critical Strike Chance.

Assassin's Blessing

Golden Blade

Ninja Tabi

Rage

Bloodforge

Deathbringer

Blessing Replacements

Notes Hastened Katana is what I usually go with since it lets you keep pecking away at tanks who may be slowly running away or allows you to chase squishy enemies a little longer.

Hastened Katana

The Executioner

Boots Replacements

Notes Obviously, you need to buy an Elixir of Speed to keep your Movement Speed Up. For your Boots Replacement, you want to build something with a little penetration so you can stay on top of tanks and do a little more damage to them. Stone Cutting Sword is good option to build you more power, as well as a little bit of in-action protections, but the Serrated Edge is a percentage based penetration so it may be better in your situation if enemy tanks are building lots of protections, which is more likely than not.

Stone Cutting Sword

Serrated Edge

Good Overall Arachne Items

Ichaival

Atalanta's Bow

Toxic Blade

Shadowsteel Shuriken

Witchblade

Brawler's Beat Stick

Jotunn's Wrath

Some Bonus Protections (if you need them)

Berserker's Shield

Shifter's Shield

Caduceus Club

Arondight Build

Notes If you are REALLY chasing people down and playing hyper-aggressively with your ult, then Arondight is a must-have as it lets you chase down enemies with a movement boost AND power boost.

Golden Blade

Rage

Bloodforge

Deathbringer

Arondight

Hastened Katana

Arachne's Skill Order Notes Maxing out Venomous Bite early lets you easily sustain while jungling and helps keep you alive when you gank early game.

Notes

Maxing out Venomous Bite early lets you easily sustain while jungling and helps keep you alive when you gank early game.

Venomous Bite

1 X

2 4 6 7 10

Cocoon

2 A

3 15 16 18 19

Web

3 B

1 8 11 12 14

Night Crawler

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

2 4 6 7 10

Venomous Bite

1 X

Upon activation, Arachne's next basic attack within 5s does additional damage and infects the target with Venom, dealing damage over time, lowering their healing received and healing Arachne every 0.5s for 3s.

Ability Type: Buff, Damage
Initial Damage: 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+35% of your Physical Power)
Damage Per Tick: 10 / 18 / 26 / 34 / 42 (+8% of your Physical Power)
Healing Reduction: 40%
Healing Per Tick: 8 / 15 / 22 / 29 / 36
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11s

3 15 16 18 19

Cocoon

2 A

Arachne spindles her webbing, increasing her Attack Speed for 4s. If 3 enhanced Basic Attacks hit the same target, that target is Stunned and have their active cooldowns increased.

Ability Type: Buff, Stun
Attack Speed: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60%
Stun: 1 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4s
Cooldown Increase: 2s
Cost: 70
Cooldown: 14s

1 8 11 12 14

Web

3 B

Arachne shoots a line of Web forward. She is Immune to Slows and moves faster on Web. If the Web reaches max range a Web trap will spawn. Enemy gods who walk through the trap or get hit by the projectile are Slowed by 15%, revealed to Arachne, leave a trail of Web behind them, and are attacked by Pet Broodlings. Arachne can only have 3 Web traps or projectiles active at a time.

Ability Type: Line, Slow, Damage
Slow Duration: 4 / 4.5 / 5 / 5.5 / 6s
Movement Speed: 40%
Broodlings: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 3
Broodling Damage: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60(+20% of your Physical Power) per hit
Web Lifetime: 240s
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12s

5 9 13 17 20

Night Crawler

4 Y

Arachne flips up to her infinite web, hanging upside down above the lane and increasing her movement speed. She may leap off the web to deal damage to all enemies in the target area and create a large web around the target area. The web area provides the same slow to enemies and benefit to Arachne as her Web Trail.

Arachne may activate Ability 1 and 2 while running on this web.

Ability Type: Circle, Slow, Damage
Damage: 150 / 250 / 350 / 450 / 550 (110% of your Physical Power)
Duration On Web: 5s
Movement Speed: 40%
Damage Radius: 15
Web Radius: 25
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90 / 85 / 80 / 75 / 70s

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smh this build smells like stinky cheese

(46) |

Is crit getting a Buff that it's viable on assassins?
I thought Auto attack Arachne was better off with attack speed, qins, and penetration?

(1) |

You can definitely build arachne with qins and more penetration, especially since the addition of Serrated Blade. I personally build arachne as an auto-crit machine and it does work in late game during team fights. I always have thought of crit to be viable on most assassins. With arachne, her passive helps her do more damage as she drops the enemy's health, making crit very good against squishies. This build may not melt tanks like you'd hope, though, so replacing rage with another penetration item may be a good idea.

Anyways, I'm just a casual player who plays with this build and wanted to see what people think of it.

(401) |

My biggest issue with crit on is due to her basic attack chain, as 1 of her 3 hits is at a 0.5 progression. 3 examples, with a base 100 damage for ease of example:

0.5 progression hit w/ crit: 100 damage
1 progression hit w/ crit: 200 damage
1.5 progression hit w/ crit: 300

Getting a crit on a hit with a progression of less than 1 starts essentially nerfing crit damage.

This doesn't mean it can't still be effective...damage is damage. But there are other reasons to consider when deciding to go crit vs. Qin's:

As opposed to crits, progressions of < 1 directly BENEFIT Qin's, as the Qin's passive does the same damage no matter the speed / damage of the hit.
Arachne's AS steroid is very, very short/limited. Having a high base AS is great for her overall DPS.
When building crit, you typically have to commit to 2 or more crit items. When going Qin's, it allows for more build flexibility.
The Katana tree is just so strong for her. Besides Golden Blade being essentially core to make her camp clear viable, she is just so strong with SCS, Katana, and Serrated is basically the perfect item for her, as she'll pretty much always use all 3 abilities in any engagement.

Preference for me is strongly against crit due to these factors.

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(1) |

Her hit progression is an issue, but I don't ever really run into a problem with it. Obviously I'm not the best or even a moderately good player, but this is a build that I made and it seemed to work for casual play at least. Qin's is definitely more of a needed item, but I just wanted to build a crit build since I find it more fun and satisfying lol.

(401) |

Hey Y, same, average player at best.

I can agree that hitting crits is very satisfying. But I also have a personal issue with inefficiencies. I struggled building Exe + Titan's in earlier patches, and have a rule that I mostly never build crit on gods that have progressions < 1. (That said, I did crit Loki more recently to the detriment of Gulf's sanity and I do admit it was fun)

One thing I will say with your main build progression is that I feel it lacks pen. Instead of BF, I would suggest considering Serrated at this point, for the % pen and lower price.

I'd probably avoid at this point as a general option except in weird situations where you have 4 phys on your team or some **** like that.

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I'll shred you like the cheese you are - Arachne Jungle

Smite God: Arachne