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Loki, King of Ganking

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by MysticBadger updated August 25, 2013

Smite God: Loki

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Loki Build

Starting Items

Build Item Hand Of The Gods (Old) Hand Of The Gods (Old)
Build Item Tabi Tabi
Build Item Fatalis Fatalis
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion

Early Core

Build Item Fatalis Fatalis
2
Build Item Tabi Tabi
Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi

Midgame

Build Item The Executioner The Executioner
3
Build Item Hydra's Lament Hydra's Lament
3

Late Game

Build Item Qin's Blades Qin's Blades
3
Build Item Rage Rage
3

Final Build

Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi
Build Item Fatalis Fatalis
Build Item The Executioner The Executioner
Build Item Hydra's Lament Hydra's Lament
Build Item Qin's Blades Qin's Blades
Build Item Rage Rage

Extras

Build Item Hand Of The Gods (Old) Hand Of The Gods (Old)
Build Item Potion of Power Potion of Power
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
Build Item Heavenly Wings Heavenly Wings

Loki's Skill Order

Vanish

1 X Y
Vanish
3 8 11 12 14

Agonizing Visions

2 A B
Agonizing Visions
1 15 16 18 19

Flurry Strike

3 B A
Flurry Strike
2 4 6 7 10

Assassinate

4 Y X
Assassinate
5 9 13 17 20
Vanish
3 8 11 12 14

Vanish

1 X
Loki disappears in a puff of smoke. While invisible, he moves faster, removes Slow effects, and gains immunity to Slow effects. His next Basic Attack from stealth (or for 2s after) applies a bleed to his target, dealing damage every .5s and reveals Loki. If Loki takes damage while in stealth he will be revealed for .33s.

Ability Type: Melee Target
Damage per Tick: 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 (+20% of your Physical Power)
Damage Duration: 2s
Stealth Duration: 4s
Stealth Movement Speed: 35%
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 15s
Agonizing Visions
1 15 16 18 19

Agonizing Visions

2 A
Loki summons a vision of his tortured past at a target location for 4s. Enemies in range of the vision feel the poison themselves, taking damage and having their Damage Dealt reduced. This effect stacks up to 4 times. If an enemy gets 4 stacks they become Blinded, allowing Loki to benefit from Behind You! from any direction for 3s.

Ability Type: Circle
Damage: 13 / 18 / 23 / 28 / 33 (+15% of your Physical Power)
Enemy Damage Dealt: -5% for 3s
Vision Lifetime: 4s
Radius: 25
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 12s
Flurry Strike
2 4 6 7 10

Flurry Strike

3 B
Loki unleashes a flurry of 5 dagger strikes quickly in front of him, damaging and slowing enemies hit by 15% for 3 seconds. After this flurry he winds up for a final heavy strike that deals higher damage and slowing enemies hit by 30% for 3s. Loki cannot be knocked up while firing this ability. This ability can benefit from Behind You!

Ability Type: Cone
Flurry Damage: 19 / 28 / 37 / 46 / 55 (+25% of your Physical Power)
Final Damage: 55 / 75 / 95 / 115 / 135 (+65% of your Physical Power)
Range: 20
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 12s
Assassinate
5 9 13 17 20

Assassinate

4 Y
Upon activation, Loki teleports to his ground target location. If an enemy god is within the radius, Loki will slice that target doing damage and crippling them for 1s. After he teleports he will wind up a heavier strike, damaging all enemies in front of him and stunning them.

Ability Type: Teleport
Cripple Damage: 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+35% of your Physical Power)
Heavy Damage: 100 / 145 / 190 / 235 / 280 (+90% of your Physical Power)
Stun: 1s
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

Introduction

Hello! I am MysticBadger and I have a lot of Jungle and Support experience in League of Legends. My favorite jungler in LoL is Shaco, who plays very similarly to Loki. I haven't been playing Smite for very long, but the general concept of jungling is almost identical in both games.

I love feedback and suggestions, so if there's something you disagree with in my guide, leave a comment instead of just downvoting. This is my first guide, but I want to make a perfect guide on Loki for everyone :)

I will be updating this more as I learn more about Loki and jungling in general, as well as when i have more free time.

Note: This guide is based off my personal playstyle of Loki. There are many ways to play him, but this is my personal favorite.

About Loki

Loki is a high-damage nuking assassin. In my opinion, he is one of the best gods in the game. The purpose of this guide is to teach you a little bit more about how to play Loki and how to jungle him efficiently.


Playstyle

Early Game

His main goal in the early game is to provide intense map pressure by ganking lanes that are pushed. You want to spend most of your time roaming and ganking for your lanes. When you can't, secure a buff or two and help either mid or your solo lane push.
Mid Game

This is when teamfighting begins. Here, you want to quickly assassinate their squishiest member to turn the fight in your favor. After you succeed, quickly get out, and regroup with your team.
Late Game

Hopefully by now your team is strong enough to push a lane and hold their own. This is the time for you to split-push another lane. This adds incredible map pressure, and soon they'll have to come deal with you, letting the rest of your team to push for free.

Pros and Cons

Pros

+ Incredible damage output
+ decoy can tank tower shots
+ Can heavily pressure the map
+ Good Pusher / Splitpusher
+ Vanish and Assassinate make him incredibly mobile
+ Chaining a full combo is most often a guaranteed kill
Cons

- Can be hard to come back if you get really behind
- Often focused in teamfights
- Somewhat squishy
- High skillcap
- Messing up your combo can put you in bad situations

Abilities

Passive: Behind You!

Loki deals more damage from his basic attacks when hitting enemies from behind. His basic attacks also utilize a five swing progressive chain.

Bonus Damage: 20%
Melee Progression: 1/.5/.5/.5/1.5x damage and swing time


This passive is what makes Loki such an amazing ganker. When you gank, their first reaction is to run, but by running it allows you to deal more damage. This also synergizes well with your ultimate because it automatically puts you behind them.

Ability 1: Vanish
Loki disappears in a puff of smoke. While invisible, he is immune to slows and moves faster. His next basic attack from stealth (or for 2s after) applies a bleed to his target, dealing damage every .5s and reveals Loki.

Damage per Tick: 30/45/60/75/90 (+25% of your physical power)
Damage Duration: 2s
Stealth Duration: 4s
Stealth Movement Speed: 35%
Cost: 70/75/80/85/90
Cooldown: 18 s

This is perhaps your most useful skill. You'll open your ganks with this, and you can use this to juke pretty much anyone if you're being chased. It also makes your ganks incredibly powerful, adding a damage over time effect to your attack.


Ability 2: Decoy
Decoy Loki spawns a decoy version of himself that taunts all nearby enemy minions. After a short time, the decoy explodes dealing damage to all enemies in the radius.

Damage: 90/155/220/285/350 (+80% of your physical power)
Decoy Lifetime: 3s
Cost: 60/65/70/75/80
Cooldown: 14s

This is what helps you clear your jungle camps and push lanes really hard. In the jungle camps, try to position the decoy behind the camp minions, so you can apply your passive. When pushing a lane, place it towards the enemy ranged minions in the back to draw the melee minions backwards, which will push the lane.

You can also place this under the enemy tower before your minions arrive to make the tower target your decoy. This allows you to get a few extra auto attacks in on the tower.



Ability 3: Aimed Strike
Aimed Strike Upon activation, Loki's next basic attack does additional damage with a short time. The enemy hit is also slowed.

Damage: 60/100/140/180/220 (+100% of your physical power)
Buff LIfetime: 5s
Slow: 25%
Slow Duration: 3s
Cost: 50
Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8s

This skill can help you clear the jungle camps when you're a low level as well as helping you stick on to a target when you gank. The passive slow synergizes well with the Fatalis passive, allowing you to keep landing auto attacks on whoever you're ganking.


Ability 4: Assassinate
Upon activation, Loki teleports to his ground target location. If an enemy god is within the radius, Loki will backstab that target doing damage and stunning them.

Damage: 150/225/300/375/450 (+120% of your physical power)
Stun: 1s
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

This can either be used as a gap closer or an escape, depending on how you need it. It should primarily be used for the stun,which will maximize your damage output during your gank. However, it is a great tool for escaping if you're being chased, but should only be used as a last resort. Because the cooldown is 90s, if you use it to escape, it might not be up again when there's an opportunity for an easy kill.

What to Max First and Why



Generally you want to max your skills in the following order:

Assassinate -> aimed strike -> Vanish -> decoy

Obviously you want to take a point in your ultimate whenever you can. The reason why you want to max your aimed strike over your Vanish is because the added damage from aimed strike will help your ganks be far more devastating. Sure, the bleed effect is nice from Vanish, but with aimed strike, you get increased damage for a whole 5s, instead of an increased damage over time effect. When you take into consideration how little time an individual gank takes (sometimes not even 5s), its clear that aimed strike will maximize your damage.

With maxing decoy last, it isn't just because it's our least useful skill and we have nothing else to level. It is actually very useful late game and you max it last to help transition your playstyle into that late game splitpusher.

Your Gank Combo

When ganking with Loki there's really only 2 combos you'll use.

The Standard (almost guaranteed kill):
-> Aimed Strike -> -> Auto Attacks

The Other (not guaranteed kill):
-> Aimed Strike -> Auto Attacks -> (where is used as a gap closer for them running away)

So whats the real difference between these 2 combos?

The first is more of a safe way to gank, while the other is a bit more risky. With the standard gank, it puts you right behind them, stuns them, and guarantees damage from your Vanish bleed and Aimed Strike buff.

The other combo is more for when you are ganking someone who can escape you after your initial appearance, such as Neith. Waiting to use Assassinate can help you stick to your target better and make sure they don't get away. The downside is that it will not contribute to your initial burst, so it's better to use this combo against an underfed opponent or someone who is naturally squishy.

Items

Starting Items
I have done quite a bit of experimenting with starting items and to me, it seems this is the most efficient route. If there's a more efficient start, by all means let me know in a comment :)

This helps you clear the jungle camps faster in the early game, and helps your push lanes faster in the mid-late game. This active paired with your level 2 decoy should be able to clear an entire lane wave.
Taking these early on will help you clear the jungle camps by giving you increased attack speed and physical power. They will also build into Warrior Tabi later on.
Taking Fatalis early helps your clears a lot. The added attack speed helps with clearing individual camps and the increased movement speed helps you get to the next camp faster.
Pretty self-explanatory. This heals you up in the jungle so you can clear more camps.


Early Core
Fatalis synergizes very well with Loki's kit. With the passive slow from aimed strike, the Fatalis passive ensures that when you gank, the enemies don't simply walk away laughing at you because you're slower than they are. Also, when chaining your combo together, this guarantees a good 2 auto attacks right after you stun them with Assassinate.
The Warrior Tabi help with your burst damage by giving you increased physical power, attack speed, and physical penetration. These boots help you get through a tankier god's armor.


Mid Game
This item helps you shred even tanky gods' health. This helps towards mid and late game when other gods are getting more items too. With the passive of The Executioner, no god is unkillable.
This items works amazingly with your combo, while also providing cooldown reduction. You will deal an insane amount of burst damage when chaining your skills thanks to its passive. The cooldown reduction simply lets you use your skills more, increasing your threat as well as how often you can escape situations.


Late Game
Late game is when gods like Ymir start getting really tanky, but with this item that never becomes an issue. This helps you absolutely shred anyone's health.
This is a massive power spike in your build. With this paired with all previous items, you'll be able to melt everyone. Because your attack speed is so high with all the other items, the Rage passive helps you to 100-0 most everyone in a few quick seconds. There's really no reason not to get this on Loki.

Future Content

These things are what I plan to add in the future. If you have any requests, let me know in the comments!

- Alternate builds based on situation
- How to jungle
- What the best jungle routes are
- Gameplay Footage
- How to gank (video)
- Tips and Tricks

Change Log

[8.25.2013]
- Added "CDR and Penetration" Build

[8.24.2013]
- Added subcategory "What to Max First and Why"
- Added "Your Gank Combo"
- Added "Items"
- Added "Future Content"

[8.23.2013]
- Rewrote "Introduction"
- Rewrote "About Loki"
- Added "Pros and Cons"
- Added "Abilities"
- Added "Change Log"

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Subzero008 (112) | January 24, 2014 10:04pm

Build


Eh... Fatalis on Loki is a bad item in general since he gains very little benefit from attack speed compared to getting pure power, especially when Loki is a god who relies on dealing massive damage with one basic attack.

Not to mention you get Rage without Deathbringer...

Item Explanations


This is where the flaws in your build begin to show. I can replace Fatalis with Heartseeker for the exact same reasons presented. And The Executioner may synergize with all the attack speed, but you rely on damage from the FIRST basic attack, not the FOURTH.

So yeah, I think it's bad.

Skill Explanations


Pretty good. You explain what each skill is used for, and why you level it up. But the explanation for why you level aimed strike over Vanish is pretty terrible. You say Aimed Strike is better for the damage, but they both last for one basic attack and Vanish deals way more damage. Maybe say something about how aimed strike gets a bonus from his passive?

Guiding/Gameplay


Gank combo, that's it. Pretty bad, nothing on creep clears or counterjungling or contesting camps. Or a general counters section.

Details


Beautiful BBC coding, but judging by the sheer amount of chapters and the lack of useful content, I think you can be more concise.

Summary


This guide is lacking solid fundamentals, such as gameplay or a well-explained build, so I must downvote.
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MysticBadger (3) | August 23, 2013 8:01pm
JararoNatsu wrote:

As far as making a "perfect guide" is going, you are far off.

This is what you have:
Build (I'll get to that)

Intro saying that you will teach us a little bit about Loki

About Loki: ...There is nothing here.

About Me: Why do you have a section on your face? Put that goodness in the intro or something.

THOU HAST INFORMATION IN THE LEAST! You should be giving your take on the abilities, explaining why you picked the items you chose (which I question your use of [[Fatalis] so please do that), and give an ACTUAL gameplay section. Aside from that, add pictures, BB coding, color, and give as many tips to new users of Loki as possible.

'Twill not downvote as was requested, but I 'twill certainly receivith an upvote not.


JararoNatsu,

Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it! I definitely need some constructive criticism as this is my first guide ever. I do plan on constantly updating it and making it better regarding content as well as appearance.

I will try to incorporate all they suggestions you gave me into the guide. Once again, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me with my guide! :)
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JararoNatsu (51) | August 23, 2013 10:29am
As far as making a "perfect guide" is going, you are far off.

This is what you have:
Build (I'll get to that)

Intro saying that you will teach us a little bit about Loki

About Loki: ...There is nothing here.

About Me: Why do you have a section on your face? Put that goodness in the intro or something.

THOU HAST INFORMATION IN THE LEAST! You should be giving your take on the abilities, explaining why you picked the items you chose (which I question your use of Fatalis so please do that), and give an ACTUAL gameplay section. Aside from that, add pictures, BB coding, color, and give as many tips to new users of Loki as possible.

'Twill not downvote as was requested, but 'twill certainly receivith an upvote not.
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