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Mana Potion
Reinforced Greaves (Deleted)
Gauntlet of Thebes
Void Stone
Heavenly Agility
Wall of Absolution
Breastplate of Valor
Hide of Leviathan
Ward
Mana Potion
Reinforced Greaves (Deleted)
Sovereignty
Wall of Absolution
Heavenly Agility
Breastplate of Valor
Midgardian Mail
Silverfox Girdle
Ward
Mana Potion
Reinforced Greaves (Deleted)
Void Stone
Stone of Gaia
Heavenly Agility
Magi's Cloak
Hide of Leviathan
Spear of the Magus
Ward
Y
B
A
X
First off, thanks for checking out this guide. This is my first ever guide. I would very much appreciate suggestions to the formatting, as that's something I still need to work on.
Every game is different in some way, so remember there are certain situations where you will need to stray from this guide. I have over 600 games played and a majority of them are with Sobek.
Pros:
Sickening Strike reduces enemy healing by 50% (Not a lot of players realize that) Charge Prey and you could be in some trouble
Charge Prey is attack the melee minions 3 times. That way, whether you throw the enemy back or miss, you'll receive less damage from the minions and enemies.
Arachne right off of your ally when she is using 
Drain Life.
Anubis's 
Plague of Locusts channeling ability. It also knocks Arachne off of your ally when she is using Drain Life.
Brawler's Beat Stick and 
Divine Ruin (Both items are 25% with stacks up to 75% and only lasts 3 seconds). Try to hit as many enemies as you can with this ability, especially if the team has a lot of healers. This is the ability you'll want to max first because it gives you a good amount of sustain in lane. If you position yourself right, you can hit all the minions in lane for the maximum amount of healing.
Sickening Strike gives you health. If you are ever wanting to dive an enemy that has half health or lower at a tower, just wait till the minions get in tower range and use this ability. The slowing affect doesn't aggro the tower to you. If the enemy hasn't jumped or dashed away, you should be able to finish the kill and then Charge Prey out of tower range taking only 1 or 2 hits. Don't forget you can use this right before you get CC'd so you aren't affected by it.
For the basic tanky sobek build, it's basically based on the enemy team having a good balance of AD/MP team with an equal amount of gold per player. Of course that's not normally the case, so feel free to switch up some items in the basic build. I've included my Magical Power build at the bottom of this section.
To start off, you'll want to get a couple Mana Potion and tier 2 reinforced boots.
(In higher level play, you may start out with hands of the gods and tier 1 reinforced boots)
This will give you a decent amount of protection. The reason you will want Mana Potion instead of 
Health Potion is because Sickening Strike can heal you.
Silverfox Girdle instead. The HP5 will also help you sustain if you are by yourself protecting a tower.
Stone of Gaia because of the health that it gives. The passive is pretty good too. It allows you to absorb an ability every minute. Just try not to let it get wasted on a lesser ability by the enemy.
Heavenly Agility you usually don't want to buy it if someone on your team already has. This item will help make sure enemies that are trying to escape, end up dying.
Charge Prey and getting your carry fed. If the enemies laning against you are very passive and cautious (as they should be), then use that to your advantage. Freeze the lane near the middle by not auto attacking and let your carry last hit. Meanwhile, position yourself on the other side of the enemy archers to zone the enemies out of XP range. This should give your lane a huge advantage on XP and gold.
Cupid/
Sun Wukong/
Ra is a lot better. As soon as you destroy your lane's first tower, start ganking the other lanes. You should also be buying a couple Ward every time you go back. Don't underestimate the power of warding. Focus on Gold Fury and Fire Giant of course. Around 15 minutes into the game, try to organize your team into getting Gold Fury. You should be able to tank it long enough for your team to get it. Just make sure to ward so you know if the enemies are coming. Charge Prey on the carries. If they are too cautious, it sometimes wouldn't hurt to charge a tank if you think your team can burst him down quick enough. You should be sticking with the majority of your team most of late game, except when you are warding. Let the carries split push.
In team fights, Sobek should first try to initiate by using Charge Prey a carry for your team to eat up. Use Tail Whip and Sickening Strike on as many enemies as you can before using Lurking In The Waters. While you are using it, the squishies should be trying to avoid it, as it does a pretty good chunk of their health. When they try to avoid it, keep following them. While the rest of your team bursts down whoever you threw back, you'll keep the carries out of the fight. If they decide to just stay in the fight anyways, well, the squishies will regret that as soon as it pops. If they decide to try and burst you down while you are in Lurking In The Waters, don't be afraid to pop it early for reduced damage before dying. Don't be too bummed out about dying in team fights though. If you die instead of the carries, then you are doing your job.
One of THE best laning partners in this game at the moment is Cupid/
Sobek. The lane sustain is by far the best. With both having heals and a way to get mana from their abilities. Let Cupid get 10 stacks of his passive (
Lovestruck), then Charge Prey and have cupid stun that god. The early game from both of these guys are far too strong. When it comes time for your ultimates, have Cupid use his around the same time you use Lurking In The Waters so it does a massive amount of damage when it comes time for those abilities to pop. Another amazing partner is Anubis. Charge, stun, burst down, gg.
Other good partners are 
Anhur, Sun Wukong, 
Artemis, 
Bakasura, and basically any carry.
During laning phase, it's incredibly hard to counter Sobek. One of the few things you can do is play passive or try to predict when a Sobek is about to Charge Prey, dodge it, and make him taste the pain. Also, try to have your team place gods with jumps and escapes against Sobek.
After laning phase is over, if the enemy Sobek is a big enough problem, get 
Aegis Amulet. Remember to wait 2-3 seconds after Sobek uses Lurking In The Waters. Consider getting Magi's Blessing as well to cancel out Charge Prey.
Also, since the 
Purification Beads buff last Thursday (20th Sept 2012), you are able to use it before or right as soon as Sobek hits you with Charge Prey to cancel it out.
I'm including the last games I've played as Sobek in my ranked games.
Thanks for reading this guide! I'll be sure to edit it whenever I need to. Let me know how you feel about this guide please! It's my first one and I tried to make it look as good as I could. If you feel like the formatting or colors are too much, let me know before downvoting and I'll be sure to change it! Please focus more on the content than the formatting before voting.
Thanks again!
~JELLYz
10/4/12: Added the .4s buildup on Tail Whip
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Great amount of chapter, you were indepth with all of them!Very nice of color.
You gave the player a choice of being damage or tanky and being able to defend againt AD or AP.
Giving the player info of the dos and donts of what to do and who to lane with.
No spelling errors I could find.
Cons
This guide is a bit out of date please update it.I don't think i can find anymore cons.... just update it bro.
7.5/10
good use of chapters, alot of usefull info
easy to read thanks to the pics and color :D
Love the way you explain all the abilities and items, more guides should do that.
about the build, it seems you know what you're doing
however silverfox girdle is not in the game anymore. I think you should update your guide a bit :D
keep up the great work
Sobek is my prefered tank, I really love playing with him!