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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
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.