Jungle Frey...UH-OH! [Updated 2014]

Eyyyy, wazzup? I've been playing Freya for a while now and I thought it would be a fun idea to make an updated Freya guide to help people out. This guide will be quite lengthy and go very in-depth, but hopefully the chapter titles are clear enough to lead you in the right direction if you are only interested in a certain aspect of playing Freya. This is my first guide, so constructive criticisms are welcomed and appreciated.

Standard attack speed build on Freya, it is best to get Demonic Grip first for the damage and penetration, which I find it more crucial early game than just pure attack speed. Polynomicon is most effective when you have already have a very high amount of magical power, so I usually build it last after Rod of Tahuti. These items should usually be built in chronological order, with the situational item in slot four.



Bancroft's Talon is a great item for Freya because it gives her a bunch of extra magical power when she is low health, and it is very common for a Freya to use her ultimate at low health which is already one of the highest damaging ultimate's in the game. Gem of Isolation is good for dishing out AoE slows with your pulse and ultimate, which helps a lot with securing kills. Spear of the Magus is the best item for penetration because Freya can get the passive easily by spamming pulses. Soul Reaver is decent in some situations, usually against a very tanky team, to help her burst people down. The passive really isn't *that* great but it does give 100 magical power which is not something to sniff at.

In the current meta there are two main jungle routes:

If the solo lane (short lane) is on the left side of the map it is as follows:

- Start at speed buff, for you obviously.
- Proceed to blue buff for your solo laner.
- Stay in solo lane until 1:40 or so then go to mid camps.

Mid camps are the MOST important thing when jungling, if you're falling behind the enemy jungler it is probably because they are getting the mid camps more often than you.

Mid camps take 1:40 to spawn (100 seconds). So if cleared at the beginning of the game and consistently throughout they should spawn at:

0:09 ... 1:55 ... 3:40 ... 5:40 ... 7:20

By then the timers are usually off whack due to fighting, and keep in mind that both mid camps don't always spawn at the same time and are usually 5-10 seconds apart especially as the game progresses.

Now if the solo lane is on the right side the jungle route is as follows:

- Solo your red buff while your solo laner and mid laner do the right side mid camps
- If your solo laner has HoG meet up with them at blue buff
- If not go to lane until your HoG is off cooldown and then do their blue buff
(This is to prevent invasions which can set you or your solo laner seriously far behind)
- Stay in lane until around 1:40 and then make your way to mid camps

As Freya your level 5 is amazing so you should generally be looking to gank once you get your ult. At level 3 with 2 points into irradiate and one point into pulse you also do a ton of damage if you're able to get your shots off so if an opportunity arises then go for it!

Freya scales very well throughout the game and does not fall of at all, late game your ultimate can do ~1500 damage to squishy gods if you land all four shots, and late game polynomicon is so scary because it adds ~500 extra damage to your first basic.

Freya is one of the most deadly gods in Arena, because she is able to pump out insane damage without putting herself much at risk.

The Arena build is fairly straight forward. You want to put a few points in your Pulse early on so that you will be able to help your team farm, but you still want to max your Irradiate first.

Before the fight starts: Position yourself outside of where most of the fighting will be happening, Freya is way too squishy to be in the middle of things.

Your main goal should be to focus out the other teams squishier gods, so try to catch them out of position or flank around if the fight is in the jungle.

Don't hesitate to use Valkyrie's Discretion if you get focused, it can save you from quite a bit of CC and burst damage.

Do not use Banish during a teamfight as it essentially gives the person(s) banished a free Aegis Amulet, instead save it for chasing kills or helping your teamates/yourself escape.