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Starndard start for the standard builds.
For more about starters, check their section.
Bumba's Dagger
Nettle Acorn
Healing Potion
Multi Potion
Brawler's Beat Stick is a powerful power spike that even if you don't have an enemy with strong lifesteal or healing, it's too good right now to not build. But if you prefer CDR, get jotun's as first item.Classic Ability-based Ratatoskr. Good early game, great at mid-game, kinda ok at late.
Use auto-reset (1 basic between every skill you use) to maximize your burst power.
Brawler's Beat Stick is a powerful power spike that even if you don't have an enemy with strong lifesteal or healing, it's too good right now to not build. But if you prefer CDR, get jotun's as first item.
Get CDR totem (blue) on your buff until you finish hydra, then pick lifesteal (red).
Bumba's Spear
Thistlethorn Acorn
Jotunn's Vigor
Hydra's Lament
Serrated Edge
Heartseeker
Dart and a basic attack. It has extremely high DPS and can make you a mini carry at late game. Tyhe downside is that your early is awful and mid-game is meh. It's very effective against squishy comps (few or no tanks at all).
Devoted Deathbringer as 4th item if you are ahead.Crit build focusing on bursting targets. It almost one-shot people with Dart and a basic attack. It has extremely high DPS and can make you a mini carry at late game. Tyhe downside is that your early is awful and mid-game is meh. It's very effective against squishy comps (few or no tanks at all).
Get Devoted Deathbringer as 4th item if you are ahead.
Get CDR totem (blue) on your buff until you finish hydra, then pick lifesteal (red).
Bumba's Spear
Bristlebush Acorn
Rage
Fail-Not
Devoted Deathbringer
Serrated Edge
Manikin Hidden Blade - offers great burst damage when you are the one that hits first (nothing hard to do with your ulti/dash) but the base version IS TERRIBLE, so think twice if you want to suffer until late game. Bumba's Spear - Standard start for your matches, offer great stats and great passive to help you one shot people.
Protector Of The Jungle - great start if you intend to go on a tanky build.
Seer Of The Jungle - great option only if you are with your friends in a call, so you can see the enemy wards and alert them. It has good stats so can be kinda helpful, but I do not recommend this if you are alone.Starters you may pick.
Manikin Hidden Blade - offers great burst damage when you are the one that hits first (nothing hard to do with your ulti/dash) but the base version IS TERRIBLE, so think twice if you want to suffer until late game. Bumba's Spear - Standard start for your matches, offer great stats and great passive to help you one shot people. Protector Of The Jungle - great start if you intend to go on a tanky build. Seer Of The Jungle - great option only if you are with your friends in a call, so you can see the enemy wards and alert them. It has good stats so can be kinda helpful, but I do not recommend this if you are alone.
Manikin Hidden Blade
Bumba's Spear
Protector Of The Jungle
Seer Of The Jungle
Titan's Bane - Pick if you need a lot of %pen and do not need the lifesteal Hydra's Lament - Great damage option, offers cdr, power, pen, mana regen, everything you need. Jotunn's Vigor - Great option for pen and cdr. Gives you a "fight for your life" passive when dying. Serrated Edge - If you need a good amount of %pen + lifesteal, this is the item. Heartseeker - Your option to melt tanks. Offers also good stats even against squishes, but pick for the tanks.
Bloodforge - Can be an option if you want power spike to snowball or at late game to increase your survivability.
Transcendence offers a lot of power and flat pen, great when you want to keep your pressure late game.
Runebreaking Hammer - great option since you can easily engage with a stun or knockup.Your item options for most of the games.
Titan's Bane - Pick if you need a lot of %pen and do not need the lifesteal Hydra's Lament - Great damage option, offers cdr, power, pen, mana regen, everything you need. Jotunn's Vigor - Great option for pen and cdr. Gives you a "fight for your life" passive when dying. Serrated Edge - If you need a good amount of %pen + lifesteal, this is the item. Heartseeker - Your option to melt tanks. Offers also good stats even against squishes, but pick for the tanks. Bloodforge - Can be an option if you want power spike to snowball or at late game to increase your survivability. Transcendence offers a lot of power and flat pen, great when you want to keep your pressure late game. Runebreaking Hammer - great option since you can easily engage with a stun or knockup.
Jotunn's Vigor
Bloodforge
Heartseeker
Hydra's Lament
Serrated Edge
Titan's Bane
Runebreaking Hammer
Bristlebush Acorn.
Devoted Deathbringer - Must buy on every crit build as your 5th or 6th item. OP Glyph, always get devoted.
Bladed Boomerang - It's cheap and does not need any stacks, great if you don't want to fall behind/is not stomping. However, you have to pick the drops to increase the crit chance to great levels.
Demon Blade - If you are needing Crit and %pen on your build, get this item. The attack speed is a minor bonus that is welcome. Rage - combined with your acorn, this item when stacked gives a great amount of power and elevates the crit chance to a very high level.If you want crit rat, choose 2 items from this pool. Only pick items from here if you know how crit rat works and got Bristlebush Acorn.
Devoted Deathbringer - Must buy on every crit build as your 5th or 6th item. OP Glyph, always get devoted. Bladed Boomerang - It's cheap and does not need any stacks, great if you don't want to fall behind/is not stomping. However, you have to pick the drops to increase the crit chance to great levels. Demon Blade - If you are needing Crit and %pen on your build, get this item. The attack speed is a minor bonus that is welcome. Rage - combined with your acorn, this item when stacked gives a great amount of power and elevates the crit chance to a very high level.
Devoted Deathbringer
Demon Blade
Rage
Bladed Boomerang
Brawler's Beat Stick - is only useful against lifesteal/healing enemies, and only if you didn't get crits and glyphed DB on your build (that also reduces shields). Has power and great flat pen, but the passive is trash.
Thickbark Acorn - Is your best option if you are not going on a full power build (tank/bruiser builds). Not so good on builds without defenses.
Arondight - Great if you are having trouble to reach/keep up with someone after ulting.
The Crusher - Gives you tick damages after hitting abilities on the enemy allowing you briefly see where a stealth target is trying to run/break the stealth.
Shifter's Shield - Busted defensive item that should allow you to engage well and then get some defense to help vs burst gods.Items you will want only in some specific situations.
Brawler's Beat Stick - is only useful against lifesteal/healing enemies, and only if you didn't get crits and glyphed DB on your build (that also reduces shields). Has power and great flat pen, but the passive is trash. Thickbark Acorn - Is your best option if you are not going on a full power build (tank/bruiser builds). Not so good on builds without defenses. Arondight - Great if you are having trouble to reach/keep up with someone after ulting. The Crusher - Gives you tick damages after hitting abilities on the enemy allowing you briefly see where a stealth target is trying to run/break the stealth. Shifter's Shield - Busted defensive item that should allow you to engage well and then get some defense to help vs burst gods.
Thickbark Acorn
Brawler's Beat Stick
Arondight
The Crusher
Shifter's Shield
Wing Shard if you intend to be aggressive in early fights and 
Golden Shard if you intend to farm more than fight.Relic options for your game. Check the "relics" section to know more about the relics. But basically:
Wing Shard if you intend to be aggressive in early fights and Golden Shard if you intend to farm more than fight.
Temporal Beads
Aegis of Acceleration
Scorching Blink Rune
Wing Shard
Golden Shard
Thistlethorn Acorn. Pls, check the "Skill Order" section for more info about leveling order and other options for the other Acorns.
This level order was made for the first build using the Thistlethorn Acorn. Pls, check the "Skill Order" section for more info about leveling order and other options for the other Acorns.
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Ratatoskr on solo lane and jungle. My objective here is to tell every single detail about rat and his gameplay and create a giant and informative guide (such as my Love, find your mark! ).|
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General Health: 420 (+73) Mana: 240 (+41) Speed: 375 (+0) Range: 12 (+0) Attack/Sec: 1 (+2%) |
Regen HP5: 9 (+0.7) MP5: 4.6 (+0.46) Protection Magical: 23 (+1.3) Physical: 12 (+3) |
Basic Attack Damage: 39 (+ 2.25) (+ 100% of Physical Power) Progression: 1/0.5/0.5/1.25x (AoE in last hit) |
Hades. Once ahead he can totally dominate and snowball the solo, especially against physical enemies and even though he's an assassin, he still capable of frontlining due to his complete kit with CC and debuffs. He is also cute. ON THE OTHER HAND, he still an assassin, so he won't tank as much as guardian or warrior and if the enemy puts you behind, since you are an assassin, made to deal damage, you probably will stay behind, plus the build problem remains with 1 less item, making it even harder to build on solo since the builds are usually more complex than jungle (that is usually only deal burst damage).
Acorn of Yggdrasil Ratatoskr replaces boots with powerful acorns from the tree of the world. He can upgrade these acorns from anywhere.
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Dart Ratatoskr go ahead dashing forward passing through minions and stopping after traveled 55 units or hit an enemy god, what happens first. If he hits a god, the god is also slowed for 3 secs. If you have Bristlebush Acorn this skill deals 35% more damage and can critically strike.details Dart cooldown is reduced by 1 sec.
Flurry Ratatoskr spins around himself in an area of 20 unities, doing damage and reducing enemy physical protection up to 4 times. If you have Thickbark Acorn this skill also steals those reduced protections and has 2 charges.details Dart's cooldown by 1 second
Acorn Blast Ratatoskr fire 3 acorns in a cone area, each one dealing damage. Each acorn that hits the same target after the first deal 40% less damage, down to a minimum of 20%. Enemies hit by 3 acorns are stunned for 1 sec. If you build Thistlethorn Acorn then this ability fires 5 acorns in the same area.details Dart's cooldown by 1 second
Through the Cosmos Ratatoskr chargers up and jump in a branch of the tree of the world. He can jump in more 2 branches and then choose a land location. Rat can stay 5 secs on the branches, resetting 3 secs for each jump he does. When landing, rat does damage and knocks up all enemies in the area. You can also cancel this skill to jump to the current location (or when it times out) and if it is an invalid location, rat will land in the last valid location.details
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Common for all acornsThistlethorn AcornBristlebush AcornEvergreen/Thickbark Acorn
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Thistlethorn AcornBristlebush AcornEvergreen/Thickbark Acorn
solojungle
Dart. By doing this, you will force your enemy solo to stay near the tower more than the normal, lowering the possibilities of the gank/help other lanes and making him lose some money. Ratatoskr solo you probably know that 
Evergreen Acorn is the best choice by far for early sustain. However, ratatoskr CAN SELL the acorn and buy another one, so if you are playing solo, maybe switching the evergreen for Thickbark Acorn (that's better late game on teamfights) is a good thing. Plus if you were healing a lot the enemy made antihealing but now you are tankier and reducing twice their protections and stealing those for you, they are probably not ready for that :v|
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Through the Cosmos, one of the best ultimates in the game, so USE IT.
what are these points?
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Evergreen Acorn |
This acorn is made for sustain. Whenever you need to heal yourself a lot during fights this is the acorn. Due to the %HP healing it works better in a bruiser/tank build and can be combined with  Soul Eater for insane regen. On solo, it is a particularly effective way to compete with your enemy in sustain, especially if he doesn't have any sustain at all or can heal only on ultimate, but it cannot outhealing gods with a standard healing ability. It doesn't shine as much as the other option, discussed later, so it feels kind of a meme most of the time. | |
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Thickbark Acorn |
This acorn is made for tank/bruiser builds. It steals physical protections, which means anything in the game deals less damage to you (including your enemy if he is also physical) and you do more damage to them too. Usually, the standard option for solo and support because you heal yourself a bit but can deal good damage while tank due the protections stole. You actually can use it in jg since Flurry is the skill that normally hits harder in your kit plus you have 2 charges meaning double damage. However, it is only useful on bruiser builds because you do have to spend a lot of time using 2 flurries and if you are purely power you can die for a combo doing that (plus there's already an acorn to burst damage that I will talk next). Remember that you can always switch Evergreen Acorn into this one late game if you have built it during the early game for sustain. | |
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Thistlethorn Acorn |
This acorn is the most traditional Ratatoskr (before this last rework). It allows rat deal good damage using only his skills and auto-resets. This falls a bit at late game but you may still capable of 100-0 a squishy target most of the time. This one is better the end of the early game, mid, and the start of late game when compared with the crit one, exactly the opposite. Pretty standard option for the jungle and burst damage in general. | |
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Bristlebush Acorn |
This acorn is also made for burst power. If you are facing multiple squishes or just want to blow the enemies very quickly, this can be an option. It provides a giant burst with crits and although rat is not a basic attacker he can use the crits well due to Dart being able to crit with this acorn, plus the increased damage on basic attacks and extra lifesteal, doing massive damage with 2 buttons (almost an  Anubis). If you get ahead, you are totally unstoppable, capable of dpsing as much as an ADC.However, keep in mind it's a totally mid-late game build. Early game/mid game it's a full gambling since you are throwing yourself in front of the enemy to kill or be killed, and you literally can't count with the crit hit on Dart due to the low crit chance, so it is very risky and kind of meme to be built sometimes, and since the Thistlethorn Acorn exists, that has a bit less burst but is consistent basically throughout the entire course of the game, so crits usually aren't the best option.Also remember  Spectral Armor exists, protecting even squishes against crits, so yeah, very risky but very fun and funny. |
Ratatoskr.how to buildjunglesolo
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Dart. Every dash could fire lightnings that were able to crit, allowing ratatoskr to deal almost 8k damage with this skill against squishy comps. That's 1 skill, you had other 3 :p.|
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Bellona, 
Baron Samedi and 
Guan Yu) is considered one of the most overpowered gods ever launched on this game.
Thor but better", until Thor, at patch 6.8.5557.1 (July 24, 2019) received major buffs and a slight rework on his 3, then Thor became a " Ratatoskr but better". At least Rat was always more fun/funny than Thor.
Fenrir, the bringer of Ragnarok. Rat shouts a lot in this skin Voice Pack so it might be a bit annoying during a stressful game.|
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Scylla, 
Medusa, 
King Arthur, 
Merlin...
Baba Yaga and Baron Samedi are currently the only gods who can build special items from either abilities or item store that no other god can own by default.|
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Cupid and 
Ne Zha are the only male gods voiced by a woman.|
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Kukulkan, 
Camazotz, 
Jormungandr, Fenrir...Remember what rat says!Ratatoskr just want to ask to hirez...If you have any doubt that rat can do any role, watch this!
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Feather Step
Pestilence
Sigil Of The Old Guard
Corrupted Bluestone
Horn Shard
Athena
Hercules
Bumba's Hammer
Ring of Spears
Paolao
Tyr
Void Shield
Hastened Katana
Golden Blade
Odysseus' Bow
Kali
Asi
The Executioner
Aphrodite
Ah Muzen Cab
Ymir
Odin
Ares
No Escape
Comments below this one are from Year 10 and above from Year 11.
Note that runeforge is meh without the glyphs, and I'm not sure if you should kill a pridwen/breastplate glyph for it.
On jungle I'd pick
On solo it would be very decent but simply there's not a slot to fit it in. If you do, you will have only 3 slots to become tank + counter the enemy. So it's much safer just pick sigil that offers healing on hit combined with your "tank" acorns, plus the healing is based on your hp, much better for a tank than based on damage.
It is useful in very niche situations, I could add as a situational, but I'm really sure you are better serverd with other item 98% of the times.
On tfs, SE wasn't that impactful because it heals half of vigor, but is active all the time and unless if you pick a Bruiser build, you probably will burst a target and run, and again, it's very efficient if you go heal yourself on the jg and return to fight but else it felt kinda meh.
So I can't really see the appeal to this item to be a "standard great option for every match", so I will put it into the situational section. Can be good if you fight 1 target, retreat, heal, go back to fight, but else the pressure jotunn's offers early game is more impactful.
Also, sorry if my first post was unclear. The reason I suggested Soul Eater was not to assert it as a standard option, but rather as a situational. When building any god, you have to consider tradeoffs when debating which items to choose from. For me, there are matches that I feel the sustain could be valued over the extra 10% CDR.
And it was a great point I completely forgot about this item simply because vigor exists in jungle and in solo it's completely replaced by sigil + your white/green acorn.
Thank you for your help to make the guide better :)
It's all about finding what works best for you. Glad we have people who are open to healthy discussion :)
The match I tested it. It's not a role model but it is what it is. It was only a stomp because cama died on mid to me then tried to invade my green and died again and I got a lead and as stated on the guide, ratatoskr ahead is "nuts" (lol can't believe I did that joke)
You are a threat since you get your acorn, especially
If you aren't able to hold your beads,
HB has a slow in his leap, and obviously the fear in his ult. That ult has a long CD. Obviously it can still outwork your beads, but otherwise, you have a lot of more readily available CC in your kit. If he closes distance with either leap or monkey, you have the immediate capability of stunning him with your acorns. Your dash and his leap sort of cancel each other out with regard to distance, so perhaps it's more of an initiation thing...who is determining the interaction? If you're reacting to him because you're intimidated / he's ahead, there's only so much you can do maybe.
Or if you can anticipate his use, ult beforehand to avoid most of the dmg, not have to beads, and then see if you can bait his escape before landing back on him.
I do! They are good guides
Comments below this one are from Season 9 and above from Year 10.
It's a long guide, I'm still working to update the texts, but the builds are already updated.Guide fully updated!!Comments below this are from Season 8 and the ones above from Season 9!