The Lowkey God

Hey guys, it's me Greenevers! This is my guide for my most played god in Smite, Loki. My in-game name is Regen. Updated for Season 5!


Loki is a high single target melee assassin. Loki benefits mainly from power, penetration, and cooldown reduction. His kit relies on his abilities but his abilities rely on his basic attacks.

Loki's unique clear ability, decoy, is what makes him a viable solo laner. Loki is one of the few gods in Smite that can stealth. His burst potential is enormous if played right.

P R O S

+ Insane Burst + High Mobility + Vanish + Split Push

P R O S

C O N S

- Weak to CC - Squishy - Teamfight presence - Push early game

C O N S

A unique passive that synchronizes well with both Vanish and Assassinate. This is a simple yet great passive where the power of basic attacks behind the enemy are buffed by 20%.

One of the most unique abilities in the game of Smite. This ability can be used for ganking, escaping, chasing, and damage. The bleed damage is nice, because many times I just vanish behind an enemy, apply the bleed and instead of auto attacking to secure the kill, I just run away.

decoy

A simple clearing ability which taunts minions to attack it. Place decoy on archers so because they will not move in range of the ability to attack it like melee NPC's will. decoy can also be used to "body block" AA's & some abilities, dive towers, and just "distract" enemy minions while you go in for the kill. decoy however, DOES NOT get rid of backdoor protections.

aimed strike

Loki's steroid. Not only does it grant you extreme additional power on top of your burst, but it slows the enemy god. This helps you apply the rest of your burst and other AA's. This is also Loki's only ability which the CD goes down as it is ranked up.

This can be used to initiate (single god), to finish off an enemy god, to protect an ally (stun), and to escape. The reason why Assassinate's damage is rather low compared to a lot of other god's ultimate numbers is because Loki heavily depends on the burst damage right after Assassinate.

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aimed strike

This combo should be your regular all-in combo for a target that will be easily 100-0'd. One where you don't use auto-attack cancelling, and one that is most familiar with Loki players. Be careful when using Vanish since you have no escape after this. Note this is not the most efficient combo, those are listed after skill combo #2.







Quick Finish

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For this, you use Assassinate to initiate instead of cleaning up the kill. The reason you use aimed strike before you go into Assassinate is because you save time instead of ulting, auto attacking, then using aimed strike and then giving out that basic.

In that time, it may be that the enemy uses a jump or something and you waste mana and it's on cooldown. This way, the next auto attack after your ultimate is going to hit with extra damage no matter what. If the enemy is not dead, autoattack or use Vanish as a chase. Try not to waste Vanish because it is extremely helpful for your escape.







Attack Chain Resets

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Also known as auto attack cancelling, attack chain resets are a way to "interrupt" your auto attack chain (Loki's being 1/.5/.5/.5/1.5). The time for Loki's first basic attack to go off in his chain is the shortest compared to the rest of his chain. So, you can use your abilities to interrupt it after the first basic. If you have CD's, you have the option to auto attack cancel before the last auto instead of after the first.

With enough practice, you can reset your attack chain with most of your combos to dish out more damage in the same amount of time. The cool thing with Loki is that his aimed strike cooldown at max rank with 40% CDR is the same time of the duration of the buff. So you can aimed strike before hand and end up hitting off two aimed strike's in succession. (40% CDR is not ideal in S3 unless you build Breastplate of Valor)




To use auto attack cancelling with the previous combos, you have to sneak in an auto before each ability. Instead of just using Vanish and aimed strike, you could instead Vanish, auto attack, then aimed strike auto attack. It does get some getting used to and the gap between you and your enemy has to be a tad bit closer even if you get it down instantaneously.

Instead of using aimed strike, try auto attacking into an aimed strike. Try adding in decoy as well. If you need that quick rotation to finish off someone, an auto into decoy into an auto is 75% more damage than just two autos. Starting to sound confusing? Just try it out in-game, it's not as confusing as it sounds.

All of Loki's abilities have 100% or more scaling on his abilities (his Vanish ticks add up to 100%). Loki is the only assassin with 100% or more scalings on all of his abilities. By building pure power on Loki, his abilities' damage will skyrocket, even to the late game.

Power is great, but physical defense is a huge barrier to Loki's burst potential. Penetration allows you to "ignore" a certain amount of protections your enemy has. This will allow you to shred through base protections and have an easier time against those bully warriors in lane.

teleport glyph

Relics are very important in gameplay. Some are essential such as Purification Beads, and others are more on the fun side like Blink Rune.

Lane Phase

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Look to farm, farm, and farm! You will have to use decoy twice along with some basics to clear waves early game. Make sure to get as many autos in before the enemy solo clears the wave. Melee archers if you can but if the enemy solo is ranged, they will take advantage and poke you while you auto archers. Then, it's safer to decoy and auto melee minions. Try to get as many last hits to get Transcendence up as fast as you can.

If you feel like you're doing fine, head back the moment you have enough for Transcendence right after clearing the wave. If your enemy solo is giving you too much trouble, back and teleport glyph to get the xp from that next wave. Keep farming and try to take advantage of small mistakes of your enemy solo to get ahead of them.


Split Pushing

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Loki is the most annoying pick in solo (even I think he's annoying). The main reason is because he isn't forced to fight and you can just sit in lane insta clearing and the moment the enemy solo rotates, keep going until phoenix. One of Loki's niche is split pushing. He's successful in this because of his mobility and penetration/power based build.

As easy as left click split push sounds, there are ways to improve your split push experience.

1. teleport glyph and Vision
This item is key to Loki's split push. It will allow you to teleport up to one of your wards that is close to a pushed up lane, take a tower or phoenix incredibly fast and get out without any consequences. A smart enemy solo will get this item to rotate and the moment they see you split pushing, they'll follow you with this active.

You should know where every enemy is on the map. Wards are well worth the money. They let you play up with less worry, and also serve the purpose to teleport to take a structure later. Should be thinking, "Oh Anhur definitely backed when he saw me take a tier 2 tower". If you know how many people are heading your way you can make the choice to fight or run.

2. Use of Hydra's Lament proc / decoy
Loki's aimed strike will not do extra damage to a tower. However, when you have Hydra's Lament online, you will gain the passive power bonus when using an ability. This will affect your structure damage. decoy can be used to tank a tower but be careful because it does not remove backdoor protections so you will hit a tower or phoenix for less until minions come into proximity of the structure.

3. Communication
This is byfar the most important thing when split pushing. You need to communicate with your team that you're focusing on split pushing and they need to communicate who is backing or heading towards you. Your team should be prepared to fight 4v5 if needed and they need to know. There could also be a clutch situation where you could end the game but you need your teammates to stop all their backs. Communication is key!

thanks to:

• Janitsu
  
  
• D3mbones
  
  
• TheZodiacWolf
  

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