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Passive: Audacity "♫Me-me-me-me-me-me-me!♫"
This passive helps you cap your attack speed even before the late game which allows you to make more use of items that have on-hit effects such as Qin's Sais
Odysseus' Bow
Ichaival or
Silverbranch Bow as you start to cap your attack speed limits.
Tips:
-The more enemies you hit with your damaging abilities the more stacks you get.
1. Ability: So Beautiful "♫ Plays his lyre ♫"
This ability is Apollo's one and only wave clear ability. You should be leveling up this ability first and maxing it out first. This ability is often underestimated but it does so much unexpected damage.
Tips:
-It is a great ability to do killing blows, secure kills.
-It goes through walls.
-It can be used to steal objectives, jungle camps.
Apollo is an auto-attack focused hunter, therefore his itemization mainly focuses on gearing towards his auto attacks on not ability power. He utilizes attack speed builds that include
Silverbranch Bow very well, due to his passive
Audacity, which will help in getting a substantial amount of extra power by over capping his attack speed. He is a high mobility god, with a global ultimate, a basic attack stim with his passive and self peel. Just like every other ADC
Apollo's primary objective is to farm and get ready for the late game. Because of his global ultimate,
Apollo should be on the lookout for ganking opportunities. For example when there is an enemy running away with low hp. That means free exp and gold for you. In teamfights you should position really well and always try to hit autoattacks so you can stack your passive.
Early Game
Apollo has a decent early game. His lane clear isn't the worst.
-If you have pressure on your enemies early game you should keep pressuring them as Apollo. Call for ''Attack'' and dash in once you have level lead upon your enemies. Be careful with the ganks though.
-If enemies have pressure on you and you have a hard time clearing your wave, keep back until you feel confident to fight. Mid Game
This phase begins as you get your first 2-3 items, which would most likely be an item that would keep you alive such as Asi and a power item
Ichaival
-Now that you have items, you can surprise enemy squishies with your ult and kill them.
-You can start rotating to different lanes and call for objectives.
-Look for possible fights in the mid lane
-Try to destroy towers Late Game
In this phase, you completely leave your lane and always stay as a team or split push.
-Be where you are needed, he is great at shredding objectives. So, you shouldn't be farming for exp&gold when your team is grouping on Firegiant.
-If you know that the enemy team is doing Firegiant and you can't help it... Split Push! Apollo is one of the best split pushers in smite due to his ultimate.
Apollo's builds uses attack speed items mostly and he is the best user of
Silverbranch Bow because of %100 attack speed increase on his passive
Audacity. We will be using that item a lot, since he easily caps his attack speed.
Item 1/ Starters
We have 3 option here: Death's Toll
Leather Cowl
Gilded Arrow
Every one of these work really well on Apollo.. Depending on play your playstyle, you can select any of these and feel good.
I personally like Death's Toll because it is safe and gives you mana and health back on successful hits. Since
Apollo is really good at basic attacking, you can easily make us of it. You can also upgrade it to
Death's Temper which is a super great item. It gives you increased basic attack damage when you kill minions and enemy gods (up to + %35 increase). Note that you can't build this starter on Joust.
Leather Cowl is also a great item it gives you movement speed, lifesteal and attack speed aura once it is upgraded.
Gilded Arrow does not have lifesteal but you can earn more gold by building this starter. You just need to do the killing blow on selected targets.
Item 2/ Main power
As the second item, you should get an item that would give you a power spike. You should be able to clean camps, minions, and fight if needed. I reccommend Ichaival,
The Crusher or
Transcendence at this stage. Ichaival is best for 1v1ing and
Apollo is a great user of it. It gives you power and reduces enemy's attack speed. Crusher makes your abilities deal extra damage. Lastly Transendence makes your mana pool bigger and increases your power as your mana pool gets bigger. I reccomend you go for
Ichaival because
Apollo's playstyle doesn't really work well with ability damage builds, especially in late game.
Item 3/ Sustain
The third item you need should be a lifesteal item to keep you alive in the lane and help you farm more. I am excluding Devourer's Gauntlet at this point because at this stage of the game it is too late to stack, also there are better lifesteal item options. I reccomend you build
Asi or
Atalanta's Bow. Asi gives you penetration and up to %50 lifesteal with its passive. Asi saved my life in teamfights multiple times and it's a perfect item.
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When asi activates it has a visual effect (a pink vortex) around your god that lets you know when it activates. |
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My final considerations are that Apollo is always a strong pick, especially in modes that you need to destroy towers and kill objectives. He is very versatile and can help a team in so many aspects. He can easily split push, shred objectives, steal or protect objectives. His abilities are easy to land and he is so fun to play. |
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