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skadimosity

1 7 3,539
3.5
by RsTen updated April 17, 2021

Smite God: Skadi

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Choose a Build: Skadimosity (Fixed)
Skadimosity (Fixed) Hybrid Bruiser ADC-Ability Damage based Shreddosity Alt. Builds
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Build Summary

Starters

Build Item Combat Boots Combat Boots
Build Item Chalice of Healing Chalice of Healing
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion
2
Build Item Purification Beads Purification Beads

Full Og build

Build Item Ninja Tabi Ninja Tabi
Build Item Berserker's Shield Berserker's Shield
Build Item Ichaival Ichaival
Build Item Frostbound Hammer Frostbound Hammer
Build Item Heroism Heroism
Build Item Qin's Sais Qin's Sais

Skadi's Skill Order

Piercing Cold

1 X Y
Piercing Cold
1 4 6 8 9

Rune Of The Hunt

2 A B
Rune Of The Hunt
2 7 10 12 13

Permafrost

3 B A
Permafrost
3 14 15 16 17

Winter's Grasp

4 Y X
Winter's Grasp
5 11 18 19 20
Piercing Cold
1 4 6 8 9

Piercing Cold

1 X
Skadi throws an icy spear forward, dealing damage to enemies and Slowing them for 3s. Kaldr's basic attacks deal double damage to targets afflicted by Piercing Cold.

Ability Type: Projectile
Damage: 90 / 140 / 190 / 240 / 290 (+80% of your Physical Power)
Slow: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40%
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 12s
Rune Of The Hunt
2 7 10 12 13

Rune Of The Hunt

2 A
Toggle: Skadi marks a target for Kaldr to hunt. While toggled on, Kaldr assumes Beast form, chasing and attacking the marked enemy. If a marked enemy dies Kaldr attacks other enemies nearby. When toggled off, Kaldr stops attacking and returns to Skadi, reverting to his Elemental form on the way. This ability can be activated at rank 0 and Kaldr gains new skills as it ranks up.

Ability Type: Pet Command
Basic Attack Damage: 50 / 50 / 57.5 / 65 / 72.5 / 80% of Skadi's
Rank 1: Kaldr gains a dash attack dealing 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130% Basic Attack Damage
Rank 3: Kaldr's kills heal him
Rank 5: Kaldr's attacks give Skadi 10% increased movement speed
Cost: None
Cooldown: 0.5s
Permafrost
3 14 15 16 17

Permafrost

3 B
Skadi freezes the ground for 5s at a target location. The icy area deals damage to enemies that touch it and continues to deal additional damage every .5s they stay on it. Gods who step on the ice are slowed and lose control of their movement while sliding across. Also, Skadi gains movement speed and Slow immunity while standing on the area and persists for 3s after it fades or she leaves.

Ability Type: Circle, Crowd Control, Damage
Initial Damage: 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 (+50% of your Physical Power)
Damage Per Tick: 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 (+5% of your Physical Power)
Movement Speed: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40%
Slow: 15%
Radius: 16 / 16 / 18 / 18 / 20
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 16s
Winter's Grasp
5 11 18 19 20

Winter's Grasp

4 Y
A snowstorm surrounds Skadi as she chooses a location for Kaldr to attack. If Kaldr is too far he will leap there.

Upon reaching the location a snowstorm also surrounds Kaldr. The initial hit of either snowstorm Roots enemies in the area and Kaldr is restored to full health. The storms persist for 4s while dealing damage to enemies every .5s.

Ability Type: Stim
Damage (Initial Hit): 45 / 85 / 125 / 165 / 205 (+35% of your Physical Power)
Damage (Per Tick): 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 (+5% of your Physical Power)
Root Duration: 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2s
Radius: 20
Cost: 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120
Cooldown: 90s

Skadi Threats

Tap each threat level to view Skadi’s threats

Max
0
Major
6
Even
0
Minor
0
Tiny
0

Extended Build

Alt. Build

Build Item Ninja Tabi Ninja Tabi
Build Item Transcendence Transcendence
Build Item Shifter's Shield Shifter's Shield
Build Item The Executioner The Executioner
Build Item Heroism Heroism
Build Item Jotunn's Wrath Jotunn's Wrath

Animosity in the Different Roles

Solo/Tank Build:
In the early game you have to be patient You should build benevolence for the xp and gold, but take heed and build pots you are very squishing in the early game. Avoid boxing in the early game. Don't be afraid to call for help(Solo) or (supp)stay behind with the Adc to bait ganks. Apply the same principles from the main build to the Solo/Tank build. Hybrid-Bruiser builds are the staple of season 8.

Shreddosity:
Shredd Gang

Main build and Timeline (MB)

Yes you do not start benevolence as a starter, I tried it before and I got mixed results. I wouldn't recommend it, but you can try it. As for the early game, the key word her is survive. Stick with your support unless your playing a different role, I will be further discussing down below.

The Main Build EG/MG/LG
EG:
1. Surviving is the main factor, farm up and avoided getting poked. Have your partner buy wards to avoid ganks.

2. When items are online that worrisome feeling lessens. Farming as much as you can when you can is essential to the build and early game.

3. Keep your distance and strike when it counts, and push when necessary. Back to point 1, you need to be aware of your surroundings, you yourself can buy wards as well. Skadi, if you don't know already is a squishy god, and you will be targeted.

MG:
1.Kaldr is your best friend atp. When finished upgrading your 1 you should be finished or almost finished with Kaldr. That MF a Good boy.
2. On a serious note the farming phase should be or almost done. Now is the time to target jungle bosses and joining your team fights.
3. Animosity should be or close to online, and you will be strong.

LG:
1. Now you are strong asf, you play a pivotal role in team fight atp as well. Remember the basics, do not get caught lacking, do not sleep on the opps, and lastly have fun out there.
2. If you haven't already gotten Fire Giant and Oni Fury, now is the time to do so.

Conclusion

IMO the most Versatile ADC in the game. She can play all the roles on the map depending on how you play her, and by far my favorite adc on the game. I've seen her play all the roles, and I myself have played in all the roles but Mid with her. Having said all of that try the build and let me know what you think via [email protected]. Is it good is it bad? Let me know.

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Branmuffin17 (394) | April 13, 2021 1:45pm
Alright, I'll just provide a full comment on the various builds and where I see the need for improvement. I also note that

I will start with the "Skadimosity (Fixed)" build for Solo use, and I'll have to answer my own question in my other comment, as Animosity plays a role in every build of yours.

Animosity Discussion

Skadimosity build

Hybrid Bruiser build

ADC-Ability Damage based build

Shreddosity

ADC build

All in all, each build has some major issues holding it back from being what I would consider a reasonably effective build. They seem sometimes like I get the concept, but other times the items chosen seem random. Based on these builds, it seems there's little understanding of build synergy and core stats. I get the initial appeal of Animosity and wanting to create builds to utilize it, but it's just not a good choice for Skadi, and the builds aren't maximizing what potential it might have.

If you have success with this, it's not due to the build's effectiveness. Can you deal damage with it? Sure. Throw items with damage potential together, hit the enemy, and you'll deal damage. But against enemies with equivalent skill and better builds, you should get destroyed. Maybe your base skill level is high, allowing you to have success with this. Or maybe your matchmaking is putting you against new players or low skill level players. I don't know. It's not meant as an insult, I'm trying to say these builds just aren't optimized. Your best bet is to abandon the use of Animosity if possible. If you're set on using it, you want to round out your builds for better synergy, you want as high of base AS as possible to get more Animosity procs, and the rest of your build needs to work together / make sense, etc.
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Branmuffin17 (394) | April 15, 2021 11:06am
Alright, so you updated some of your builds. I'm not going to write as much as last time, and instead continue to touch upon the concepts I feel should be considered.
  • Making Animosity worthwhile: You've themed these builds based on utilizing Animosity. I've already stated the issue with not being able to apply magical penetration, which hurts its damage output. That said, a variety of your builds do not build enough of the stat it wants the most, namely attack speed. If you're not able or willing to build enough attack speed, you're straight up nerfing the one item consistent in all of your builds, and you're trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Rather than offering a variety of builds based on a variety of functions, if you're set on offering Skadi + Animosity builds, you should hone in on those that can at least build enough attack speed. Otherwise it's just not worth it IMO.

  • "Hybrid Bruiser": The biggest thing wrong with this is that it's split too many ways, becoming a jack of all trades and master of none. Let's take the full build before Tabi replacement: Animosity, Ninja Tabi, Shifter's Shield, The Executioner, Gladiator's Shield, Ancile. Let's define the functions.

    Hybrid: term for part ability and part basic attack function. You don't get full effect from either, but being semi-effective in both can work well for some gods. Ability focus = Glad Shield + Ancile. Basic attack focus = Animosity, Ninja, Exe. Shifter's isn't solely for either but more geared for ability.

    Bruiser: term for part damage and part protection/tank function. This hurts your damage output but gives you better survivability; you can't deal damage if you're dead. Here, you've got 3 items that are actually bruiser items, 4 if you count Animosity w/ its high health: Shifter's, Glad, Ancile. Outside of Tabi, only Exe is a full damage item.

    Altogether, again, you don't gain enough focus from any one thing to give you strong function. While you have decent power and good pen function after stacking from basics (on a single target), your abilities won't punch through enemy prots unless you've stacked first. So you're sort of handicapping your ability damage that way. You also hurt Animosity's potential (not just because you don't apply magical pen), because Skadi at level 20 with this build only gets 1.725 attack speed. I don't know how you would miss one of the most "hybrid + bruiser" item out there, Shogun's Kusari. Magical prots, CDR, and attack speed. In a solo function, you're likely going to have a true ADC, and maybe another god that has some basic attack function, so that aura could be helpful down the line. Only thing it's missing is power I guess. Well...either way, I just don't think this concept should be built.

  • "ADC-Ability Damage": Animosity for a hunter again should have attack speed, with a basic attack focus of some sort. I don't know why you would force Animosity into an ability build like this. I guess if you're attack canceling a lot, you'll still get some benefit from it, but if you're focusing on ability damage, why would you pick up something like Berserker's Shield in that alt build? That build only has 20% CDR; wouldn't Gladiator's Shield make more sense? That said, getting Titan's 4th, and bothering with Soul Eater at all makes this a very meh build. Titan's should be late if anything, Trans should probably be considered as a rush item in that Alt build, etc. There's basically just not a good combo of items here. If anything, I would probably go Trans, Warrior, Hydra's, Jotunn's, Bloodforge, Titan's, or some similar build structure. Note that Animosity isn't there at all.

  • "Shreddosity": For that first build, I'd get rid of Crusher there probably. I'd go Devo's, Ninja, Berserker's, Qin's, Exe, and then Animosity, I guess, if I have to shove Animosity in there.

    Critosity shouldn't have Wind before Rage...Rage should be built earlier to help with stacking and to make all crits more consistent. Fail-Not shouldn't be in there at all, you need pen. Void shouldn't be there either, I don't know what that's even doing there.

    Shreddosity 2 has only WD as a crit item. Very little crit % there making it unreliable. All crit builds should have at least 50% as a base at full build. It also doesn't want items with 0 power, because crits multiply damage from power, so Toxic shouldn't be there...and neither should Animosity again.
I'll probably just stop there...I like that you're thinking of non-meta concepts and trying to apply them, but there's a lot of things wrong with these builds and it makes it clear that while I understand the thoughts behind the build attempts, the understanding about build structure is just not there, unfortunately.
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Kriega1 (143) | April 7, 2021 11:20am
Animosity on ADCs outside of Arena is bad.
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RsTen | April 9, 2021 12:49pm
Depends if your good or not
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Branmuffin17 (394) | April 13, 2021 11:00am
Hi RsTen,

I'll add some comments of my own, but in this specific comment, I'll ask if you understand how Animosity applies its damage, and why Kriega is saying it's bad for a god like Skadi.

And in actuality, I would say the same reason why Animosity isn't the greatest choice is similar (in a couple ways) to why Qin's isn't being fully utilized in the "fixed build" example.

As you've mentioned in a different comment, I will note that I see that Animosity is also used in all of your other builds, so I can confirm to you that I have taken a look at your various examples.
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Gulfwulf (81) | April 7, 2021 11:15am
10% penetration isn't nearly enough, you want 30-40%. Also, Qin's Sais like power, so building an early Devourer's Gauntlet is a good idea. You should also list either Dominance or The Executioner after dg ( Berserker's Shield can be bought later).
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Branmuffin17 (394) | April 13, 2021 11:01am
Gulf, Qin's likes penetration and attack speed, not power.
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Gulfwulf (81) | April 13, 2021 11:55am
I remembered that after I posted, but didn't fix it. Still, the build lacked pen, which hurts qin's damage.
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RsTen | April 13, 2021 10:02am
Try to look at all the builds before going Smite Perfectionist on me please :/
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Branmuffin17 (394) | April 13, 2021 11:03am
RsTen,

Note that at least in most cases, we're not here to slam builds...we're looking to help people better understand the game and to improve their builds when we can spot issues.
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RsTen | April 9, 2021 12:52pm
Executioner is a good shout.
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