The BEST Arachne Season 8.9 Conquest Guide

Thanks for the advice, I'll look into tweaking it a bit and a lot of what you said is downright better than what I've put, obviously I'm not really a high levelled player, let alone a pro, so I wanted to just make it based on my own experience. That being said, I do want to address a couple of your recommendations:

- The first of all being Eye Of The Jungle as a potential starter item.

I do feel like Eye Of The Jungle is fine, but I, personally, have never opted to take it on any Jungler. I recognise that it's a good item, but it feels lacklustre to me. The vision it gives isn't a good passive in comparison to the other jungle items and the attack speed is the only factor as to why you'll take it. With how the build pans out, you're going to be hitting the attack speed cap anyway, so this item's one redeeming quality won't be as dominant late game, where as Manikin Scepter, not only gives you the heal that Eye Of The Jungle doesn't, but also gives you the physical protection to take early duels, the basic attack damage with is stellar on Arachne, and the burn which aids in her damage significantly.
I don't disagree that Eye Of The Jungle isn't an alternate, I just don't see any reason to take it over Manikin Scepter. I understand that it's good, but I don't have enough experience and reasoning to experiment with it over the other options.

- Secondly, the options of Leashing I showed.

I do want to note that I showed all of those starts in the perspective of only benefitting the Arachne player, which, obviously, isn't something you'd primarily do in high levels of play, the other thing being picking Arachne in the first place. I've tested all of these starts and all of the laners still get level 2 off first wave, the difference in splitting red with an ADC vs splitting it with the Jungler is literally zero, and doing so won't hinder anyone. The only issues with these starts, aside from the notable ones that I used as examples that don't really benefit anyone (being the season 7 start) is the solo splitting farm, but they still get level 2 off first wave, so as long as they're playing with an Arachne in mind, they'll be fine.
I do think this segment of the guide was the most controversial as there's a lot of point of views where you can criticise it from, but I feel like it's a simple understanding of what Arachne does and showing people some examples will help them experiment themselves and learn better ways without just read a script off a guide.

- Thirdly, the itemisation.

You suggested replacing Hastened Katana with alternatives, and I did say that in the guide, but I find Hastened to be a justifiable item to take. Yes, it may not be the absolute best, but Arachne has a lot of attack speed items to choose from and they all fit different situations. You also said Qin's Sais should be more of a core item, and I did suggest building it in the final slot in the core unless they're something mandatory you need. As for what order you buy the Katana in, that also needs to fit the situation, I've played games with Stone Cutting Sword before Serrated Edge and vise versa. What's nice about that build is that most of the Katanas can be experimented with in many different ways. It's a good starting point for those who want to play Arachne and all-in-all a fine starting build, in my opinion, I've seen a plethora of people with many different views on what order items should be built on her, so having this as the standard and letting people experiment is fine with me.

- Fourthly, the ability usage.

I find what you've said to be fair, but like I said, I'm not exactly a high-skilled player, so doing things like skipping abilities to upgrade others isn't something I really do, merely out of the habit of wanting to press the big shiny button.
As for what you've said about particular abilities, I find a lot of it to be a bit redundant, suggesting to use a heal when needing it is self explanatory, along with stunning people who are channelling, but the fact that I haven't involved it is primarily my fault, so I will take the blame for that.

ALSO, the power build and comment about her gimmicks were primarily comedic and not to really be taken seriously. I hope you understand that about her gimmicks, but I can understand how people will take the power build seriously, but obviously it's not the core build so it won't be the thing dragging people's attention to when learning the God.

I hope I've covered most of the things you've said, if there's anything I've missed or things you desperately want me to add, then I most likely will.
I wanted the guide to have a primary focus on people who are entirely new to Arachne, or are learning her and maybe have a Mastery up to 5-6, what I've done here, I feel, covers that fine, but it's all up to interpretation.

THAT ALL BEING SAID, I have made some changes based on what you've said, and I'm glad to see someone willing to give a hand. :)