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Loki: The Perfect Arena Assassin *PROOF INSIDE*

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by xpectedflava updated November 7, 2012

Smite God: Loki

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Loki Build

Insane AD

Build Item Warrior Tabi Warrior Tabi
3
Build Item Deathbringer Deathbringer
3
Build Item Titan's Bane Titan's Bane
3
Build Item The Executioner The Executioner
3
Build Item Qin's Blades Qin's Blades
3
Build Item Voidblade Voidblade
3
Build Item Girdle of Might Girdle of Might
Build Item Heavenly Wings Heavenly Wings

Loki's Skill Order

Vanish

1 X Y
Vanish
1 4 8 11 14

Agonizing Visions

2 A B
Agonizing Visions
6 15 17 18 19

Flurry Strike

3 B A
Flurry Strike
2 3 7 10 12

Assassinate

4 Y X
Assassinate
5 9 13 16 20
Vanish
1 4 8 11 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
6 15 17 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 3 7 10 12

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 16 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

THIS IS NOT A CONQUEST GUIDE. THIS IS AN ARENA GUIDE.

Loki, the Master Trickster is one insane AD Assassin. His skill set allows for quick kills on just about any other god, even those on the tankier side of things. In the Arena game mode Loki skill set can be utilized to essentially remove any enemy god from combat at any given time with a quick assassination. Loki's presence alone in the Arena forces the enemy team to stick together and be weary when jungling at all times due to the knowledge that they can be taken out as soon as they stray from their allies.

This guide will aim to teach you how to play Loki to be the best Arena Assassin you can be, and to have your enemies on their toes at all times when you are in their game.

Pros / Cons

Pros

    Absolutely ridiculously strong burst damage
    Can deny any one god their entire game essentially
    Has a stealth
    Late game damage is OP
    Decent mobility

Cons
    Squishy
    Squishy
    Squishy

Skills

Loki has a very simple and straightforward skillset when comparing him to other gods. All of his abilities compliment one another and can be used in quick conjunction to remove an enemy from the battlefield.

MOUSE OVER THE ICONS TO READ THE ABILITIES


Behind You!

Loki's passive ' Behind You!' pretty much defines him as a god. It is where you will aim to spend all of your time while assassinating an enemy god. When you are hitting an enemy in the back you are doing 20% extra damage from your basic attacks! That is absolutely HUGE. So make sure as often as possible you are striking your enemies in the back, this can really frustrate ranged gods - giving them a hard time to hit you, and we like that.


Vanish
Vanish is your 3 second stealth. You must learn to use this skill at the proper and opportune moments. Mainly we will use the speed and invisibility it grants us to run up behind an enemy and unleash our damage, however it also provides us an opportunity for escape in some dangerous situations. It's best to use this bleed along with Aimed Strike right before stabbing an unsuspecting enemy in the back and locking down that kill. Vanish can also be used to chase enemies that are low on health that would otherwise escape the fray of a team fight. Don't let them escape, Vanish and make sure your team doesn't lose its kill.

Decoy
Decoy
Decoy isn't an especially awesome or defining ability, but it serves a couple solid purposes in the arena. Most of the time you will use it to stop a creep wave from reaching your portal or kicking the **** out of you after you damage a nearby enemy god, but it also serves an often overlooked purpose. You can actually place it directly in front of a retreating enemy to block their movement - albeit for a very short time, but often long enough to get in a potential killing blow on them. Another purpose Decoy serves at the moment but probably not for much longer is that it confuses enemy gods who are unfamiliar with Loki's abilities. Often times, gods will run to avoid it helping you escape or separate a turtling team.

Aimed Strike
Aimed Strike
This skill will provide us with most of our damage on an opponent aside from using Loki's ultimate. When behind an enemy in stealth activate Aimed Strike to hit them in the back for an unfair amount of damage. This skill also slows the enemy by 25% which allows us to follow retreating gods while constantly striking them in the back. There are some situations where you may find it appropriate to use this skill while out of stealth just to apply the slow in an effort to escape an enemy in pursuit.


Assassinate
What Assassinate does is all in it's name. Use it to teleport to just about any enemy guide and land a kill. The damage output when you Assassinate > Vanish > Aimed Strike > Basic Attack an enemy is almost always a guaranteed kill. Only the tankiest will survive, and even then, only if they are lucky. Assassinate can even be used as an escape, but I wouldn't recommend putting it on a cooldown to do so in less the situation is super important (i.e. the enemy team needs 5 points and you are about to die).

Items

The build is meant to get in, get a VERY FAST kill, and get out. I think the items that I chose to use fit the play-style of Loki perfectly.


Warrior Tabi

The Warrior Tabi is super standard on all AD. It gives us the movement speed we need to catch up to enemy gods as well as a handful of other useful stats. It doesn't take much to see why we would chose to build this item.


Deathbringer

Deathbringer will give us great early game damage output. It will help us rack up some quick kills and snowball into the rest of the build. What it does for our critical strike damage will land us MASSIVE crits late game, and the 50 physical power doesn't hurt either. Another item that is just an obvious fit for Loki.


Titan's Bane

Titan's Bane is an often overlooked MONSTER of an item. Seriously - try it out. It's very cheap and quick to get. It allows us to eat through 45% of Physical Protection. That alone can provide more effective damage against tankier gods, and help to obliterate gods with little armor. The 30 physical power it puts on top of that makes it a great item.


The Executioner
The Executioner gives us attack speed, physical power and then an important effect. It reduces the physical protection of enemy gods by up to 60! That isn't hard to reach as you only need to land 3 basic attacks - which are guaranteed out of stealth. It is such a strong item on Loki and should not be passed over.


Qin's Blades
Qin's Blades provide us with another important effect - further tank shredding ability. It gives us more attack speed, a little more damage, and a 30% chance on hit to do 10% of the target's maximum HP. Another item that helps us to swiftly tear through the defenses of enemy gods.


Voidblade
Finally, we have the Voidblade. It gives us a little more survivability, and further reduces the physical protection of enemy gods with an aura your whole team can benefit from. It even gives us some more damage. A solid final pick.

Gameplay

Loki's main purpose is to shut down enemies that are giving your team issues. Mainly so, the carries of the opposing team. Loki gets in, kills his target faster than they can blink, and gets out. This is what he was made to do. He can be utilized to essentially ruin the game for a single enemy god with repeated and unrelenting ganks, or he can pick off just about everyone - one by one. His mobility can be used to secure kills that your team may have otherwise lost.

Loki when used correctly can also be one of the most intimidating gods in the game. The mentality you can stick to your foes by punishing them so hard for their mistakes can really make them flustered and playing poorly. Your field presence can force them to be playing out of their comfort zone. A good Loki can have the squishy gods on an enemy team playing passively the entire match, and the brawlers and tanks weary of moving too far ahead. The psychological aspects that Loki inflicts do a lot that may often go unrealized.

Summary

When it comes down to it, Loki is an assassin that takes out carries with massive burst damage, forces the enemy team to play very conservatively, plays mind games, and just generally disrupts the other team's game play. Use his tricks to your advantage and make the other team play poorly. That is what Loki does best.

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Toqu | October 6, 2015 5:58am
Works like a charm. Got 25-3 and my first pentakill in the same game.

Proof: http://www.smitegame.com/match-details/?match=191525220 ( Im obviously ToXtOq )
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Crazyshad | September 9, 2015 11:07am
Just created an account to say thank you for the build!
when i used loki for the first time my K/D/A was 5/8/19
but after reading your guide manage to get 23/3/12!!
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Emfeza | January 22, 2015 2:43am
xpectedflava wrote:


Hey, thank you for the comment.
I agree with you on the lifesteal.
I think I am going to remove it from the build.
Thank you for your insight :)


I think lifesteal is essential for Loki. It gives a great sustainability. You can stay more in middle and also for kill streak . Sometimes your burst damage is not enough in 1v1 and your lifesteal will be save your life with 1 second more sustaining. I experienced this situation so much and now I am buying devourers gauntlet as a 4th item. It doesnt matter how much your burst is, if you dont have lifesteal you will lose against an enemy with lifesteal. Of course he should know how to attack. For example arachne and nemesis with lifesteal is hard enemies for loki I think.
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Dooz24 | December 25, 2013 4:06am
Thanks for this build!!
Played as Loki using rental

My First match

K/D/A = 19/4/18
1
Loveissin | September 9, 2013 10:25pm
Very Similar to my build on Loki, but i take out Blades for Bloodforge :) with the extra crit damage you get plenty of health back
1
HerpDerps | August 24, 2013 2:58pm
I don't like Conquest so I play Arena immensely, and this is probably the best build. I use this build with Rage added.
1
Raventhor (158) | June 27, 2013 7:33pm
What I'm curious with, is that you take SO MUCH physical piercing. You have titans bane, AND executioner, AND voidblade. This is good to bypass tanks, but can be easily countered by stacking health. I don't see many carries or mages having enough armor to need this much penetration, yet an ethereal staff or frostbound hammer can seriously screw you up - since you simply won't be doing a lot of damage with useless piercing. Finally, I noticed you didn't even get voidblade in any of the 'proof' matches - you took either Fatalis or Soul Eater.

I love the guide, I really do, but I would think about at least adding in other builds including those two items (as a personal supporter of either lifesteal or movement speed myself), and suggestions on how much physical protection the enemy team needs to have to justify having that much penetration. Also - curious about the lack of rage to mix well with deathbringer. But that's neither here nor there. You went very in depth into a lot, and didn't really skip on any important sections of a good guide.

A final note - I suggest adding in a section on Actives (Specifically on Creeping Curse/Blink/Sprint/Aegis/Purification Beads/Girdle of Might)
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nstorm12 | June 16, 2013 10:28am
I really really like this build, I was just wondering if Hydra's Lament might be worth looking into? It seems like it would be perfect for Loki. :)
1
TheAmazingComicBookGuy (47) | April 28, 2013 3:43am
11-0 in arena :) they surrendered :O
1
Slevin (1) | April 15, 2013 12:56pm
There really needs to be a Hydra's Lament in this.
1
Zeany | April 11, 2013 12:51pm
Awesome build, started playing after 1 year of not doing so. Got in to the arena and played a few games, to get the hang of it. Played five ames so for and my last game I got 38/3.

Love the guide and Loki overall, cheers mate!
1
Sadisticnerd (2) | March 21, 2013 5:59pm
Here goes nothing, first try with loki... will update in a few...
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