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Ninja Tabi
Frostbound Hammer
Qin's Sais
Transcendence
Bloodforge
Brawler's Beat Stick
Deathbringer
Asi
Ichaival
The Executioner
Winged Blade
Ancile
Hide of the Urchin
Witchblade
Shifter's Shield
Greater Blink
Achilles' Spear
Fist of the Gods
Weakening Curse
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Well met, welcome to the manliest guide for the manliest god. This will give you an in-depth look at 
Ravana and will teach you how to:
-box better than Mike Tyson
-be manlier than the likes of even 
Hercules
-punch everyone into submission with your fists of fury
-show 
Mercury how it's really done
-get all of the ladies
-defeat that loser 
Rama
-grow a glorious mustache almost as glorious as Ravana's himself
Ravana is a physical fisticuffs god, meaning he punches everything. If you have played 
Osiris or 
Arachne, you will have some idea of how this god plays. He is a very up front, in your face fighter and doesn't take anything from anyone. He functions like a tanky assassin in that he is very good at dealing damage to a single target. Most of the time you will be trying to get 1v1 duels with Ravana and only initiating the fight if you are building defense items. He is a very fun god to play, and by the end of this he will make a man out of you.
(A depiction of Ravana's true form, illustrated using the MS Paint techniques passed down the Armstrong family for generations)
*This is a guide for teaching you how Ravana works. I am not going over specific strategies for game modes such as conquest.
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PROS
- Great sustained damage - - Ult is useful for dealing with the squishies in a teamfight - - You punch people, who needs a weapon - - Excels in 1 on 1 combat - - His mustache - - He has an immunity to damage and CC - - Roots and slows galore means sissies can't run away - - Sticks to gods well - - Damage reduction on his ult -
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CONS
- Sissies can't run from you, but they can still jump away - - Without cooldown items your cooldowns are long - - Without ult, Ravana functions poorly in group fights -- Is weak against long range fighters - - CC can shut you down - - Only gap closer/escape is your ult -
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Successful hits from Basic Attacks or abilities increase Ravana’s Combo Chain. Each time his Combo Chain reaches 8, he receives a Shield equal to 5% of his maximum Health. This may stack up to 3 times. This passive is beautiful at boxing, and with lifesteal can make you nigh unkillable. | Chain of blows |
| prana onslaught |
Prana Onslaught Cone Ability that deals damage an also Slows 25%. The slow on top of Frostbound Hammer is wonderful for sticking to your targets. On top of all that it resets your combo chain.
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| Overhead kick |
Overhead Kick Kicks a shockwave in a straight line causing damage, and also making him immune to damage and CC. This is what maxes you a threat to burst mages such as  Ah Puch. It's arguably your most valuable skill and if you are having trouble against bursty gods, maxing this second wouldn't be a bad idea.
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| 10-hand shadow fist |
10-Hand Shadow Fist This ability damages and roots a single god while healing for each enemy hit. The initial heal is 15 per unit hit and goes up to 75 at max rank. This is your main lane clear and is great for stopping people dead in their tracks.
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| Mystic Rush |
Mystic Rush Similar to  Loki's  Assassinate, Ravana dashes to the target area, knocking aside all enemys in his path and dealing damage. When Mysic Rush hits it's target area, it gives damage reduction (40-60%) against enemies at the target zone. This is Ravana's main initiation, gap closer, and escape. What makes this skill incredibly useful is it's ability to get Ravana to the squishies hiding in the back of team fights, allowing you to focus them down without too much concern for anything else. Keep in mind this functions as a dash, you cannot go though walls.
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Ravana's skills to the recent buff, the text is correct, some of the image stats are not.
Many people have been confused as to what Ravana should be built with. Some of the pros are saying power, some are saying attack speed. While both work, what I have found to work nicely is a combination of both attack speed and power, leaning a bit more on the power side. Having power is important in my eyes, but without any attack speed items your Qins Sais is going to be rather ineffective comparatively and your passive won't be filling up nicely. So now I will be going into depth about the rather numerous items I selected in the builds. I will be covering them all, so if it is TL;DR just look for the section and item you are curious about. Color code: blue = highly recommended, practically must haves and fits Ravana very well. green = viable item, could be swapped in for any blue and generally work. orange = situational items. These items can be substituted in based on need but generally will not be used. red = Bad item, would not build
*Also keep in mind that all the builds I made at the top are fluid. You can mix/match them any way you like, they are just presets, if you will.
- This item gives attack speed, power, and more importantly penetration. You can hit harder and combined with Qins will allow you to deal surprising damage to tanks.
- Great power and lifesteal. This helps keep you in the fight longer. It's honestly a tossup between this item and Transcendence, only reason I pick the latter over the former is I prefer having mana for abilities like 10-Hand Shadow Fist that can sustain me over than just pure lifesteal. Works very well as a third item either way and just comes down to preference.
- This item gives you good power and mp5, allowing you to deal more damage and stay in the field longer. It's passive also pairs nicely with other items that give you mana. This item is a situational, and if I'm not taking this one I'm usually taking Bloodforge.
- Crits and power, what more could you ask for? DB is usually my situational, but it is my standard item. Makes you very strong against squishies, but if you are focusing tanks a penetration item would be better.
- This item has less power than Deathbringer, but more crit chance. If I am in need of a more consistent damage output for say lifesteal, I pick this up instead of Deathbringer
- Good power and penetration, the healing reduction is also a nice bonus. Good for taking out healers, but there are better items for penetration or power. Transcendence.
- Damage and reduces your opponent's protections by 33% versus your attacks. Need I say more? Ninja Tabi.
Malice works very well at getting through tanks. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the passive ticks cannot be mitigated by protections. It's main problem is that it's a niche item, only fitting nicely on high power builds.
- The power is ok, but the Cooldown and passive make's it a surprisingly good option, Making your Prana Onslaught deal even more damage. It's a yellow item because, similar to Malice, it benefits mostly from a full power build, limiting it's usage. Frostbound Hammer and Witchblade makes fighing most physical gods a breeze. The penetration and power "steal" can make enemy physical gods wish you got a nerf.
- With Frostbound Hammer and Prana Onslaught you already have a lot of sticking potential, making this item not really essential. You could replace Frostbound Hammer with this item, but I find that the health bonus outweighs the speed increase. Winged Blade does, such as health and attack speed. This item, however,works much better in my opinion because of the power and armour it gives to allies as well as yourself.
- With all the attack speed and no damage it provides, there is not much advantage to picking this up. It's only real benefits are helping Qin's Sais and clearing lane faster.
- I generally don't build specialized defense, but when I'm getting bullied by an obnoxious burst mage, I build Ancile. It allows him to still have power along with getting magical defense and cooldown reduction. Make's you a lot beefier too.
- Not an obvious choice, but aside from it's protections, the passive will be ticking on your target the whole time you are beating on them.
- Right off the bat you have 40 power and 15 dual protections, making this item a good pick already. What makes this item a great pick is over 50% health Shifter's Shield gives you 60 power instead of 40, and under 50% health your dual protections increase to 35. Ravana have a much easier time being able to box other physical gods.
- A huge chunk of health to make you fat, combined with 55 physical protection and damage increase based on physical defense makes this a decent item for protections.
- An ok item, the passive is nice for helping physically inclined teammates but I would pick a better item over this one like 
Mystical Mail. 10-Hand Shadow Fist, makes chasing and escaping a lot easier. Not the best item, but a blast to use.
- It has good defense, but honestly there are better options. Ravana. It gives you a teleport, which can allow you to initiate without needing your ult. You can also get 
Combat Blink to have an escape. Fist of the Gods? The stun can keep enemies in place, making it easier to take them down or make an emergency disengage.
Aphrodite, you can pop this bad boy and remind her that Ravana doesn't take the disrespect of healing his damage too kindly.
Aegis Pendant/
Greater Aegis and 
Purification Beads because regardless of god, everyone needs them depending on the situation.
This part is a work in progress (eewwww I know). If I have continuous good match ups against a certain God or I keep getting pooped on by a God, I will be sure to add it below. Also if you (the reader) know of any match ups, good or bad, you can comment them and I will add it to the list.
Ravana goes beast mode on Ravana, these are the gods you will generally have an easy time with: Greater Blink or Overhead Kick past his 
Undead Surge and his booty is your's for the taking. Throw in a Winged Blade and it's practically GG.[/columns]
- Being sneaky doesn't work against a man of this magnitude. Ravana usually has enough defense/health to survive Loki's initial burst, and once Assassinate is down, you can just slap Loki to death.
- Same deal as Ah Puch, his tornadoes can put the hurting on you but your Overhead Kick can breeze through his 
Zephyr and his 
Spirit of the Nine Winds.
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Clay Soldiers and 
Shining Metal combo can simply be Overhead Kicked, taking out her combo. Same deal goes for 
Fire Shards. Ravana is not exempt from their wrath. Most have CC or jumps, and all deal disgusting damage in short amounts of time. They can be beaten, but Ravana will have a very hard time with it.
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Scourge. 
Shield Bash. 
Bellona is designed to fight gods like Ravana. Best you can do is try to pick her off at low health or build lifesteal and protections.
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Shackles deal incredible damage and slow Ravana. 
Bolster Defenses also increases his protections and reduces CC, making your root less useful and your attacks will be less powerful. You have to waste an item slot, an active slot, or burn Overhead Kick to counter 
No Escape. An 
Ares on his own is a threat, an Ares with his teammates is deadly.
Ravana: Overhead Kick is your best friend. Learn to time it right and you can make your enemies lives hell. Mystic Rush to target the cowardly mage or hunter hiding in the back. You will knock everyone aside that dares get in your way and you can shrug off everyone's attacks with your damage reduction while you kill the target. Ravana is tankier than a lot of people give him credit for, but he can still be fairly squishy. Know when to go in on a target and when to pass one up. Qin's Sais and any penetration items you may have will kill tanks faster than either you or it would expect. It's not as potent as 
Ao Kuang's tank killing abilities, but you can bring them down faster than most. Prana Onslaught first. I generally do, however with Ravana's lack of early lane clear maxing 10-Hand Shadow Fist first can help in lane. maxing your Overhead Kick increases the damage, but more importantly decreases the cooldown. Do that if you are having problems. Prana Onslaught resets your combo chain, which is .5,1,1. Based on how the timing for his autos work, one of the best combos I use is to auto once and then Prana Onslaught to immediatly reset the chain. his first auto is quick and since no matter where in the chain you are Prana Onslaught will reset it back to the first auto, this maximizes what you can do with it. It works like this: auto(.5) Prana Onslaught auto(.5) auto(1) auto(1). It's certanly not the only combo you can use, but it's one I find effective. Ravana Ravana needs to get in close to deal his damage, and without being able to be close to you he is practically a sitting duck. Overhead Kick makes him immune to CC and damage, but it has a long cooldown. If you have a 
Ymir or Ares on your team, have them stick close to you when you engage and it will dissuade Ravana from attacking you, if not shut him down if he does. Overhead Kick's immunity only lasts for .75 seconds. Tick damage gods, such as 
Anubis, can still deal massive damage with their abilities thanks to this.
Shield of the Underworld. My favorite active absolutely shuts him down, forcing him to disengage for a few seconds or kill himself. 
Enfeebling Curse also can cripple his attack.
Ravana is a very fun god to play. He can deal high damage but in return he can be easy to counter. He is a man's man and one of my favorite guides.This guide is my first and a work in progress, please be gentle Senpai. Hope this guide put some hair on your chest and gave you a better understanding of this magnificent creature.
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Nice Guide I love it. I am wondering if you have to buy starter items?
And if you have to what starter item would you buy? Bluestone?
I generally don't use starting items. I usually get Morning star and tier one boots, but for starting items if you were so inclined it depends. If you were going damage wise I would pick
And if you have to what starter item would you buy? Bluestone?
How you build Ravana affects his progression throughout the game like Thanatos. Building all damage? Well, you'll reck early to mid game but will be useless in team fights for late game. Balance it out with a few defensive items and you're going to have a much larger impact late game.
So I just played 2 games with a friend. One had me go against Arachne and I died in like...well a few minutes. Once she threw spiders at me, I could not do anything. Fighting them off just meant she would attack me more. I think the build this guide has, has been very helpful. It is not pro armor though. That arachne player ended up getting 19 kills and I could not kill her to save my ****ing life. It became one of those games where it only takes 1 player on a team to win it all as long as that player was protected. The player said I needed to build armor and that I built too agressively. I had another game where I went against a Nu Wa and pretty much the same thing happend where wave clear was impossible and I needed to build things to counter her, and again, she was very impossible to kill, I got snared for days.
Obviously, I am a tad frustrated at the moment. My question is, is it possible to build Ravana counter tanky without making him useless? And does anyone have any other tips on how to fight those damn summon *****s (Nu Wa and Arachne.) Thanks, really love the guide.
With his update you can build to counter now without being useless. First thing I would like to nock out of the way is that using
Obviously, I am a tad frustrated at the moment. My question is, is it possible to build Ravana counter tanky without making him useless? And does anyone have any other tips on how to fight those damn summon *****s (Nu Wa and Arachne.) Thanks, really love the guide.
omg this is a really good guide its fun to read and helpfull btw the build is really good btw is ravana early or late gale?
Depends on how you use him. He generally needs items to take off, but assassin
Btw, your guide was really good. It was pretty funny and you seemed like you actually cared about making it.
+1 from me :P