ebonnknight The worst part for me is that sometimes the left & right channels of my headset get swapped (some driver issue). Combine that with Loki sounds now coming from the OPPOSITE DIRECTION completely fries your brain.
+DeOxygenation Jeah i often play Tanks (ymir) an Loki never does anything to me if he tries to attack my i just stun him give him some basics and my 2 and hes pretty much gone.
NoobDoctor21 Sometimes Ymir can see Loki while Invicible. WELL he cant see him but if Ymir bought Mystical Mail he can see your dot Damage its enought to see a short -12 (or whatever) to know where you are and can stun you slow you aaand Kill you :3 This counts for every Hero with mystical mail or if you are stepping into someting like Agnis Noxious Fumes wich does Dot damage. There are many little little things you may dont even recognise but if you do you can spot an Loki :3
That bit about Loki's sound effects is so SO real. I lose my shit and start to panic when I hear that aim strike sound or assassinate, even if the Loki is on my team.
Oh and you forgot to mention that decoy can be used as a mini-wall to block players or basic attacks. I have used it many times to block someones path for just long enough to catch up or used it to escape by blocking some basic attacks for me.
mothquake It used to be able to block neith ult and other somewhat similar skills. A good friend of mine plays Loki as his main character and he was saddened when that was changed.
Most broken god in the game and I've survived through Ah Puch and release Bellona to be able to say this. It doesn't matter what he's playing against, unless its a full physical defense capped guardian, Loki can and will burst them down from 100 to 0 in less time than they can react. Jotunn's and titan's bane and you have yourself a tank melting machine. I've been that Loki and I'm disgusted by how easy this god is and how difficult it is to actually catch and punish him. Definitely needs a nerf, if not a complete rework. I think the only somewhat safe way to counter a Loki is to get a nemean and a shield of the underworld and hope he doesn't realize he's killing himself.
Something you ignored while talking about Decoy is that it can be used by really good Lokis(like myself) to block blasts from all ranged Gods and any directional shot by Gods(like Sylvanus' grab, Tyr's charge, Ao Kong's dragons when he shoots them, etc.) and to block melee Gods as he uses his high mobility to get off quick hits and secure kills
thats true about hearing loki even if he's not in your game. I was playing arena yesterday and suddenly I hear behind you. then an image of loki popped up. I think its an easter egg from hi rez since loki is a trickster god.
Aloïs Elbahjaoui silence banish dot damage any god that has these counters him if you have a specific question about how to counter him as any god be specific and i will tell you how
***** Except that the teleport and stun on his ult is instantaneous. This means you'll pretty much always get hit by his ult, his 3 and a basic attack from behind before you get a chance to pop anything like SotU. To add to that, the shield doesn't do anything about the damage you take, which means that if used properly, he'll take 40% of his health in damage and you will still be dead within two seconds.
Blacki Chan I main susano and every time a loki just starts hitting me I turn around and start hitting him, I build for speed and crits, pushes loki far very hard lol
Another tip for fighting against Loki (this can be used against all gods, but its more effective against Loki) is that when you are running away from Loki you can just stay inside your minions, so when the Loki uses his 3rd ability it hits the minion and not you... I love Loki and I see some people do this and it basically gets rid of almost half of Loki's damage.
Thank you for the Loki video. I'm currently actually learning Loki, trying to get a few more assassins down. While I'm nowhere near the best Loki, only mastery 2 with him atm, I do have to say that he is, without a doubt, a game changer in team fights. No, he can't be in the front lines of the fight, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have team fight presence. If my team is getting wrecked by a high damage dealer like a mage or adc, I just have to wait for that mage or adc to step back out of the fight even for a second. Once they step out of range of their tank, I will kill them. Once the enemy's star player is gone, we usually win the team fight. And for the Loki sound..... Loki's invis sound is the bane of my hatred as a mage. If I'm mid laning, I'm usually Janus, and if I even THINK I hear Loki near me I will not hesitate to ult back to base. I know how amazing he is at ulting a mage under tower, it's been done to me countless times, so I'm never ashamed to waste an ult as Janus if there is a Loki on the other team. At least I ulted out before a Loki could show up and kill me, thus making me feed him even more than he possibly already is.
Nyx Kere I think loki has good team presense, because he do hard damage in 1 enemy, basically he can take 1 enemy gone (dead) or gone back to base, meaning that it becomes 4v5 and so on and so on
+AerrowDynamics Think about how many times you get hit when you're in Loki's invis. You don't teleport like Ao Kuang's. You invis in place and you go from there. Any god with an AOE ability would counter Loki so hard.
I'd add another tip when fighting Loki: use the walls. He likes backstabs, but he usually can't stab you in the back if you have your back pressed against a wall (lane wall, jungle wall, whatever). So that way you can prevent receiving that extra 20% damage from his passive while being sure he comes to you from the front, thus allowing you to attack him/stun/etc. if you have time and patience. Of course, not all Lokis are going to fall for that, some will move in more unexpected patterns or wait for you to get away from the tower; or maybe they'll just remain safe and away instead of charging aginst your frontal, but then again you have saved yourself if they do both things. Not a definitive tool to destroy Loki, sure, but it is helpful.
2 things I've noticed, 1 if loki ult's a mercury before he ults he can piggy back the merc ult, 2 thor's teleport timed correctly can escape a loki ult
Yes Noo hahaha, looks like someone hasnt played with lag, hahaha, "easy to hit" lmao (even though it is really easy to hit when having a normal connection) On a serious note, yeah, this needs to be heard more, cause honestly he looks ugly, outdated and it bothers me the fact that he has 2 stiff snakes on his back, they look completely unaesthetic...
Might wanna bring up the fact that Loki's Decoy gives backdoor protections when put under phoenixes and towers, meaning you do double damage to the tower when minions are under the tower's radius. (Watch Inuki's/Frost's video on minions).
I was playing and there was a loki on my team, and I was playing as ratatoskr and I heard that loki go invisible, to escape I used my ult, and my whole team got mad at me but it ended in Quadra kill, and that's my loki story
Hmmm 100% to 0% in less then 2 seconds Only "Reliable Counter" to ult is Cleanse + Aegis.... Takes reduced Damage when invis... Can activate Aimed Strike twice when "Killing" Someone (Does 800 damage at Lv11 with only 2 items with 70 power) Best Split pusher in the game because he only has a 4 second window to see and stun, with max cdr and that's if he doesn't have his ult Yeah Hi-Rez I see nothing wrong with this...
I think you missed a few things, specially about decoy, that are critical and entirely worth mentioning. Decoy is a valid target to gods too, even if they can't kill it, and it sort of count as a god. And there are good and bad things that can happen to a Loki by putting it down. The good thing is, it blocks the way. If you are glued to a Loki in melee range it might not matter, but a decent loki might drop a decoy behind himself as a shield to block a mage or hunter's auto attacks line of sight, forcing you to at least move a bit, allowing him to buy CD time and put a little distance. But, because it can be attacked, it can back fire if your attacks have a mechanic like Xbalanque's 1 or Zeus' 1. A hilarious way to kill a running away Loki or an approaching Loki that has dropped a decoy is to merely throw a lightning bolt at the decoy. It will even hit Loki in stealth, indirectly telling you where he is and can easily put three charges on him - then detonate, he is dead. It also buffs other gods, for instance you can AA it as a poseidon to build your passive, or if you have items like Bloodforge, Rage or Bloodforge, you can build or maintain the passive up by hitting it. Decoy has also a "non mechanical" type of team fight control, if you're good at placing it. Instinctively, no one stands in an AOE and no one likes to take gratuitous bonus damage, so it tends to scatter people. You gotta watch out for where you go while staying away from it. Another one is that if you get good enough at predicting when he is ulting you or noticing that he is walking towards you in stealth, he is pretty vulnerable to an ao dropped in the area. Again, taking Zeus as an example (ap, pos, etc, they also work here), I have killed a fair share of Loki's and survived by merely tempting him in ulting me, dropping the aoe bomb just before he reaches me, and using his on slower movement speed from AAing me or from Gem (or both) to get enough distance to burst him instead. Requires more skill and probably you need to play Loki too to get good at predicting that (level 10 Loki here). Last, but not least, sometimes it is just better to face Loki. He is a burster, and if he is in melee range you have a fat chance of dying anyway. IF you face him, at least you last longer, and since he is squishy you might either damage him enough to force a retreat (almost as good), let your team kill him, or if you're good you might just end killing him.
I'm kinda shocked how you didn't mention loki's attack chain, and how all of his abilities can break that chain to get off the 3 quick strike portion of his auto chain before that last slow one multiple times in a row amplifying his burst even more. but that is probably more advanced than the basics, right?
+Prince Blake There are ways of seeing Loki when he's invisible. If Cupid hits him with his Heart Bomb before he goes invisible then I think the heart remains visible above his head, if Hou Yi marks him then that can still be seen, and I haven't played Raijin so I can't confirm this but I think his marking ability also passes over the head of Loki's invisibility.
BTW good tip against loki is osiris. His stun will show invisible loki and it's so easy to track him down with it. Osiris is one of the best counter gods for loki in my opinion.
I always split push. Literally. With every god and goddess. Mainly if we're losing. Since battles normally happen in mid and I'm normally not that much help to my team I just go to a different lane, enjoy the solitude and the sound of towers and phoenixes tumbling to the ground. If an enemy come I just high tail outta there and lead em to the rest of my team. I've been doing it ever since I played my first versus with Neith. Will never get rid of the habit. It will save my team one day. Almost did earlier on but my team didn't defend long enough and so our Titan was destroyed before I could destroy the enemy. I was a Geb. I had good minion clear and survivability.
Nathan Cassidy actually, music is a problem with all games and all gods. You won't hear the "I'm a Monster" Scylla calls as she activates the ult from the jungle, for example. Loki just makes this even more so, as it will often also be invisible, so if you have no sound on you have double deficit which means you are not aware he's coming. But every god benefits from enemies playing with music as all have distinct sounds for different things.
mothquake they did i nerf him i doubt they will nerf him more the cooldown on his 3 was 3 seconds and his 1 made him cc immune not immune to slows and his 1 had a 2 second stun he wont get nerfed soon
As a mastery X loki, I must say, there are a lot of counters to him. But I can tell you, first hand, that if you know what u are doing with loki, you can do magical things. Once, my whole team had died, and I was left 5 v 1, and yet I got a triple and laughed as the adc and support fled. And btw that sound thing that trend kill was talking about? Yea countering that is simple, u just need to stealth little far away from the desired location, and I gauge tee you, your target will never hear you.
The old Loki use to be super broken mainly in arena because certain people figured out a one shot set that killed any god. Good thing that doesn't happen anymore.
When greater agis was de oped to not work while cc'ed it was a buff to loki and anubis, who were only countered by it. I think greater agis SHOULD be usable while CCed because 20% resist damage for one second. Really? That matters? If you use it aginst anubis ult, then yes it helps but being able to walk away and escape would be more useful. De op idea for loki remove vanish damage resist. Make ult a lock on with a half second charge and very obvious sound so you can counter. Or just fix agis to use while CCed.
ageis is all ya need. his ult does stun, bur only for a second. when ulted, turn around as soon a possible and ageis to block dot and backstab damage. proceed to rek him.
And best way for me to play as Loki is as Mercury. With my Mercury build, especially mid game or if I get ahead, Gods with exceptionally low health (i.e. Loki) can be slain in 1 hit.
do they even still do this series any more? like is there a season two or something? i reall hope so these videos have helped me alot when it comes to properly understanding the gods
+Tyler Mccrum TrendKill is kind of on rocky terms with Hirez, he said in his goodbye youtube video that if Hirez wants he will gladly do more of these for future gods.
ok i have to know, his passive says he does "more" damage from behind. Does that mean he crits from behind?!?! hence if i get something like deathbringer would be a tandom with his passive?!?
Now seriously, loki is easy enough to counter in 1v1. But what would you recommend in conquest? Are you counterbuilding a bit if you are playing squishies? mages?adc? I know about magis blessing, but i dont really like it. In joust 1v1 i use hide of nemean lion and shield of the underworld, but again...what are you building in counquest?
Nemean Lion, easy counter for Loki, You'll survive the burst and do damage reflect. If you're tanky and he isn't he could just kill himself. Or Underworld Shield I guess
"Here we learn to play against a god" "If you are loki split push" "Place decoy on archers" "He's squishy but resist 20% damage so it doesn't matter" "Get max cool down asap." "Teleport to ward" "Use ability in right order" "Ult is a escape" "Oh yeah if you are playing against a loki, get magi and agis, he has low team fight presence so he doesn't really matter there just get agis and magi for ganks"
If you play solo loki and always get annoyed by the warriors, just go to the enemy's jungle and clear the minions they reach the tier 1 tower. In this case, yiu dont have to face the warriors and get killed by them but you can also snowball. I guess it's called the 'Proxy farming'
Since everybody is on the topic of Loki here, how do you peoples feel about a Deadpool Loki skin? This is something I just thought of, and I feel like it can work well. They both don't have pupils, the head, and body shape can work well with it. Also lokis daggers can be Deadpool's swords. Just an idea, don't blame you if you think it's retarded. lol. And keep in mind, I know this probably won't happen.
The Smite PTSD from Loki sounds is very true, as a mainly mid player, if I hear Loki sounds, my initial reaction is 'oh shit' even if he's on my team
ebonnknight Every time.
ebonnknight The worst part for me is that sometimes the left & right channels of my headset get swapped (some driver issue). Combine that with Loki sounds now coming from the OPPOSITE DIRECTION completely fries your brain.
ebonnknight Lelel xD
I get paranoid with him so much I have to buy wards in Arena if there is a Loki in the enemy team.
When I started playing I would aegis almost every time a friendly loki would ult...and if there was a loki on both teams
I once had a dream where Loki had never been added to Smite. It was a perfect world.
crossbones116 perfect except for the fact that chronos,erlang,freya,aryemis,skadi,xba,nike,arachne,ares,ymir,cabrakan,bacchus exist
I cringe every time I hear a Loki sound effect. I've been conditioned to the point that I flinch even if the Loki is on my team.
lol
+DeOxygenation and in a match with Loki's on both teams I just lose god damn head
+DeOxygenation and when I play a match with two Lokis I just lose my God damn head
+NychusX ~I feel ya, every time I hear it I think 'Oh fuck fuck fuck'
+NychusX Same here.
I dunno why, but that invisible dodge of Geb at the end made me chuckle
CamTheKitty i feel ya.
CamTheKitty your profile picture is from fire emblem, am I right?
Magi's + Nemean + Shield of the Underworld = Laugh as Loki kills himself.
People complain on how they die to Loki in three hits. What they don't realize is that he is so squishy, he can also die in 3 hits.
+DeOxygenation Jeah i often play Tanks (ymir) an Loki never does anything to me if he tries to attack my i just stun him give him some basics and my 2 and hes pretty much gone.
True as hell 10000% of the time.
-A Loki Player
NoobDoctor21
Sometimes Ymir can see Loki while Invicible.
WELL he cant see him but if Ymir bought Mystical Mail he can see your dot Damage its enought to see a short -12 (or whatever) to know where you are and can stun you slow you aaand Kill you :3
This counts for every Hero with mystical mail or if you are stepping into someting like Agnis Noxious Fumes wich does Dot damage.
There are many little little things you may dont even recognise but if you do you can spot an Loki :3
Trendkill is alive! :D
Arrow Sith Lord yeah but his chanel isn't....
GOT EM
Arrow Sith Lord but why is not on his chanel
I want an explanation :( why is he here? Fuck smite
Ryan Bliss Because he probably gets paid? Or maybe he is really into Smite and offered to do it?
I'm loving this weekly consistency of these videos.
loki? more like the bane of all noobs existence xD
Sphynxifyed Bakasure to since his burst damage can be as good as loki's one + higher survivability
Sphynxifyed and a good/decent ao kuang and a good kulkulkan
hugo mendes I didnt even think of that!~
Sphynxifyed isnt that goobis?
hugo mendes Actually Baka is harder to play since he doesn't have any lane control at all beside his ult
That bit about Loki's sound effects is so SO real. I lose my shit and start to panic when I hear that aim strike sound or assassinate, even if the Loki is on my team.
I miss this series so much
Oh and you forgot to mention that decoy can be used as a mini-wall to block players or basic attacks. I have used it many times to block someones path for just long enough to catch up or used it to escape by blocking some basic attacks for me.
Just what I thought xD
MrYodalemos I did that one time and my teammates called me a noob because I used decoy "for no reason"
I wonder if decoy blocks Neith ultimate :O
mothquake no, only players can block nieth ulti
TheInfinity2012 okay. That's good to know . :) Thanks
mothquake It used to be able to block neith ult and other somewhat similar skills. A good friend of mine plays Loki as his main character and he was saddened when that was changed.
5:12 bruh that was perfectly done
Most broken god in the game and I've survived through Ah Puch and release Bellona to be able to say this. It doesn't matter what he's playing against, unless its a full physical defense capped guardian, Loki can and will burst them down from 100 to 0 in less time than they can react. Jotunn's and titan's bane and you have yourself a tank melting machine. I've been that Loki and I'm disgusted by how easy this god is and how difficult it is to actually catch and punish him. Definitely needs a nerf, if not a complete rework. I think the only somewhat safe way to counter a Loki is to get a nemean and a shield of the underworld and hope he doesn't realize he's killing himself.
As Freya you CAN banish his decoy, and so it cant clear the wave. IMPORTANT! LIKE THIS SO EVERYONE KNOWS!!!
I have diamond Freya and 8 Loki. I didn't even know that!! :D thanks for the tip
OMG I have to try this! New solo lane meta!!
:D YOU ARE WELCOME! LIKE THIS SO ANYONE KNOWS!
This is literally so important.
PhuryLP nooo don`t like this so no one knows i don`t want everyone to know how to counter my main in league :(
Something you ignored while talking about Decoy is that it can be used by really good Lokis(like myself) to block blasts from all ranged Gods and any directional shot by Gods(like Sylvanus' grab, Tyr's charge, Ao Kong's dragons when he shoots them, etc.) and to block melee Gods as he uses his high mobility to get off quick hits and secure kills
that end play where he dodged the geb while invisible was amazing XD
thats true about hearing loki even if he's not in your game. I was playing arena yesterday and suddenly I hear behind you. then an image of loki popped up. I think its an easter egg from hi rez since loki is a trickster god.
Comrade Nixon its the halloween update
They should rename this video " How to play Loki ". I learnt nothing about countering him :,D
Aloïs Elbahjaoui silence banish dot damage any god that has these counters him if you have a specific question about how to counter him as any god be specific and i will tell you how
***** Except that the teleport and stun on his ult is instantaneous. This means you'll pretty much always get hit by his ult, his 3 and a basic attack from behind before you get a chance to pop anything like SotU. To add to that, the shield doesn't do anything about the damage you take, which means that if used properly, he'll take 40% of his health in damage and you will still be dead within two seconds.
My first game on smite was ruined by a Loki lol. But now I can easily stand up to him with my new main Xblanque
Good main :) used to be my main in 2013
Nothing beats knocking Loki out of invis with Ullr's axe
My loki could merl you in seconds
I love freezing Loki with my Ymir.
Blacki Chan I main susano and every time a loki just starts hitting me I turn around and start hitting him, I build for speed and crits, pushes loki far very hard lol
Another tip for fighting against Loki (this can be used against all gods, but its more effective against Loki) is that when you are running away from Loki you can just stay inside your minions, so when the Loki uses his 3rd ability it hits the minion and not you... I love Loki and I see some people do this and it basically gets rid of almost half of Loki's damage.
im very scared of Loki when im up against a good player that knows how to use him
Activating Aimed Strike early can alert your enemy though, unless they happen to have low volume or don't know what that sound is.
"Even if you have a Loki in your own team you get a little scared by that noise..."
True story hahahaha
I've got to that point where I instantly beads the moment I hear Loki go invis and activate his 3...
Then I realise that it was a friendly Loki
Thank you for the Loki video. I'm currently actually learning Loki, trying to get a few more assassins down. While I'm nowhere near the best Loki, only mastery 2 with him atm, I do have to say that he is, without a doubt, a game changer in team fights. No, he can't be in the front lines of the fight, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have team fight presence. If my team is getting wrecked by a high damage dealer like a mage or adc, I just have to wait for that mage or adc to step back out of the fight even for a second. Once they step out of range of their tank, I will kill them. Once the enemy's star player is gone, we usually win the team fight.
And for the Loki sound..... Loki's invis sound is the bane of my hatred as a mage. If I'm mid laning, I'm usually Janus, and if I even THINK I hear Loki near me I will not hesitate to ult back to base. I know how amazing he is at ulting a mage under tower, it's been done to me countless times, so I'm never ashamed to waste an ult as Janus if there is a Loki on the other team. At least I ulted out before a Loki could show up and kill me, thus making me feed him even more than he possibly already is.
Nyx Kere I think loki has good team presense, because he do hard damage in 1 enemy, basically he can take 1 enemy gone (dead) or gone back to base, meaning that it becomes 4v5 and so on and so on
+The Penguin ~But he will most likely die. So it'll be a 4v4
He can take ADC,Mid and the jungler.They're the most 3 important role in-game, Or he can even survive after killing somebody.
YES! I've been waiting for this since the start of the series! My baby
Nice tip with the split push, very thorough, thanks.
I still think that damage should pull Loki out of invisibility.
***** Good Point, I had forgotten about that. Well, all damage except for item damages like Mystical Mail or Shield of the Underworld
That would make Loki completely useless
DeOxygenation I disagree
+AerrowDynamics Think about how many times you get hit when you're in Loki's invis. You don't teleport like Ao Kuang's. You invis in place and you go from there. Any god with an AOE ability would counter Loki so hard.
DeOxygenation
Found the Loki main.
I'd add another tip when fighting Loki: use the walls. He likes backstabs, but he usually can't stab you in the back if you have your back pressed against a wall (lane wall, jungle wall, whatever). So that way you can prevent receiving that extra 20% damage from his passive while being sure he comes to you from the front, thus allowing you to attack him/stun/etc. if you have time and patience.
Of course, not all Lokis are going to fall for that, some will move in more unexpected patterns or wait for you to get away from the tower; or maybe they'll just remain safe and away instead of charging aginst your frontal, but then again you have saved yourself if they do both things.
Not a definitive tool to destroy Loki, sure, but it is helpful.
2 things I've noticed, 1 if loki ult's a mercury before he ults he can piggy back the merc ult, 2 thor's teleport timed correctly can escape a loki ult
A god in serious need of a remodel and new abilities instead of his broken crap/easy to hit shit
Yes Noo You sound salty
Yes Noo remodel sure, rework wouldn't count on it.
buy magis lol
Yes Noo hahaha, looks like someone hasnt played with lag, hahaha, "easy to hit" lmao (even though it is really easy to hit when having a normal connection)
On a serious note, yeah, this needs to be heard more, cause honestly he looks ugly, outdated and it bothers me the fact that he has 2 stiff snakes on his back, they look completely unaesthetic...
NiceSteeZe smite.guru/stats/hr/inspirationguy/
really bad, feel free to check my latest loki games
Good to see you back after a couple weeks. Can't wait for my BrOdin
Loki is terrifying. The Smite PTSD is all too true.
Might wanna bring up the fact that Loki's Decoy gives backdoor protections when put under phoenixes and towers, meaning you do double damage to the tower when minions are under the tower's radius. (Watch Inuki's/Frost's video on minions).
***** it didn't all minions from gods still apply the debuff this includes loki's decoy and vulcan's cannon
I was playing and there was a loki on my team, and I was playing as ratatoskr and I heard that loki go invisible, to escape I used my ult, and my whole team got mad at me but it ended in Quadra kill, and that's my loki story
10:55
45 seconds. That's cute.
Ah yes, good timing! Been trying to get better with Loki recently, so this is perfect. Thanks! =3
Hmmm 100% to 0% in less then 2 seconds
Only "Reliable Counter" to ult is Cleanse + Aegis....
Takes reduced Damage when invis...
Can activate Aimed Strike twice when "Killing" Someone (Does 800 damage at Lv11 with only 2 items with 70 power)
Best Split pusher in the game because he only has a 4 second window to see and stun, with max cdr and that's if he doesn't have his ult
Yeah Hi-Rez I see nothing wrong with this...
Haha these guides actually teach me how to play the God.
As a loki player I'd like to point out that Decoy can block anything from basics to Ullrs axe.
I think you missed a few things, specially about decoy, that are critical and entirely worth mentioning.
Decoy is a valid target to gods too, even if they can't kill it, and it sort of count as a god. And there are good and bad things that can happen to a Loki by putting it down. The good thing is, it blocks the way. If you are glued to a Loki in melee range it might not matter, but a decent loki might drop a decoy behind himself as a shield to block a mage or hunter's auto attacks line of sight, forcing you to at least move a bit, allowing him to buy CD time and put a little distance. But, because it can be attacked, it can back fire if your attacks have a mechanic like Xbalanque's 1 or Zeus' 1. A hilarious way to kill a running away Loki or an approaching Loki that has dropped a decoy is to merely throw a lightning bolt at the decoy. It will even hit Loki in stealth, indirectly telling you where he is and can easily put three charges on him - then detonate, he is dead. It also buffs other gods, for instance you can AA it as a poseidon to build your passive, or if you have items like Bloodforge, Rage or Bloodforge, you can build or maintain the passive up by hitting it.
Decoy has also a "non mechanical" type of team fight control, if you're good at placing it. Instinctively, no one stands in an AOE and no one likes to take gratuitous bonus damage, so it tends to scatter people. You gotta watch out for where you go while staying away from it.
Another one is that if you get good enough at predicting when he is ulting you or noticing that he is walking towards you in stealth, he is pretty vulnerable to an ao dropped in the area. Again, taking Zeus as an example (ap, pos, etc, they also work here), I have killed a fair share of Loki's and survived by merely tempting him in ulting me, dropping the aoe bomb just before he reaches me, and using his on slower movement speed from AAing me or from Gem (or both) to get enough distance to burst him instead. Requires more skill and probably you need to play Loki too to get good at predicting that (level 10 Loki here).
Last, but not least, sometimes it is just better to face Loki. He is a burster, and if he is in melee range you have a fat chance of dying anyway. IF you face him, at least you last longer, and since he is squishy you might either damage him enough to force a retreat (almost as good), let your team kill him, or if you're good you might just end killing him.
Shaco is that you?
I'm kinda shocked how you didn't mention loki's attack chain, and how all of his abilities can break that chain to get off the 3 quick strike portion of his auto chain before that last slow one multiple times in a row amplifying his burst even more. but that is probably more advanced than the basics, right?
I don't play this game but why would he take less dmg if he's invisible.......he's invisible! Or are there gods who can see Invis units?
You'd be suprised how much he needs it sometimes
+Prince Blake There are ways of seeing Loki when he's invisible. If Cupid hits him with his Heart Bomb before he goes invisible then I think the heart remains visible above his head, if Hou Yi marks him then that can still be seen, and I haven't played Raijin so I can't confirm this but I think his marking ability also passes over the head of Loki's invisibility.
+MonsieurNonce also dmg overtime things like xbalanques poison darts or a bleed etc
BTW good tip against loki is osiris. His stun will show invisible loki and it's so easy to track him down with it. Osiris is one of the best counter gods for loki in my opinion.
Loki's decoi can also block basics and some ults
loki is the most OP thing since the Nazi's gas chambers. At least he's a fast death...
now i feel like playing some more loki
I always split push. Literally. With every god and goddess. Mainly if we're losing. Since battles normally happen in mid and I'm normally not that much help to my team I just go to a different lane, enjoy the solitude and the sound of towers and phoenixes tumbling to the ground. If an enemy come I just high tail outta there and lead em to the rest of my team. I've been doing it ever since I played my first versus with Neith. Will never get rid of the habit. It will save my team one day. Almost did earlier on but my team didn't defend long enough and so our Titan was destroyed before I could destroy the enemy. I was a Geb. I had good minion clear and survivability.
They need to bring these back
Can u do some episodes about different god picks and who they are strong against, weak against and work well with
question about his ulti, once he uses it can you place your back on a wall to prevent him from taking advantage from his passive?
the real way to counter loki? stay together with your team and when he pops out, he's a punching bag
The good old LPS, or Loki Paranoia Syndrome
this series is great c:
He can use his decoy to bloco damage , like basics or even medusa 1
loki is love, loki is life ~ ps. diamond loki
I like this guy and his guides >:D
Keep it up.
I know you did a few mages recently any shot of getting a zhong kui guide I see him rarely but want to play him for that reason
Just buy midgardian mail, when he comes close you can see the damage ticks, gives you a heads-up when he is nearby
Should have talked about solo laning against him. You have to poke him a bunch as a tanky god to get him to leave so you can put him under the tower.
i wish TK would go back to streaming,i miss the good old days
where is the new one?
Fun fact: if your playing freya and a loki uses decoy you can banish the decoy to do 0 dmg to minions, this helped me a lot in 1v1 jousts.
Ah the good days of trying to recall when I thought it was safe to do so and then I take an invisible knife to the back right before.
The only guide that takes into account that you may be playing music. Nice.
Nathan Cassidy actually, music is a problem with all games and all gods. You won't hear the "I'm a Monster" Scylla calls as she activates the ult from the jungle, for example. Loki just makes this even more so, as it will often also be invisible, so if you have no sound on you have double deficit which means you are not aware he's coming. But every god benefits from enemies playing with music as all have distinct sounds for different things.
Costan Sequeiros Bruna But nobody mentions it out loud.
This is the only guide that does that.
You have a point there indeed, you're right :)
THAT CHART IS SCREAMING "please don't nerf me i don't need a nerf what are you talking about"
mothquake they did i nerf him i doubt they will nerf him more the cooldown on his 3 was 3 seconds and his 1 made him cc immune not immune to slows and his 1 had a 2 second stun he wont get nerfed soon
It is, actually. His stats are almost non existent for a lot of the categories on the chart.
His chart is screaming 'I can do damage, but literally can't do anything else'
DeOxygenation touche
As a mastery X loki, I must say, there are a lot of counters to him. But I can tell you, first hand, that if you know what u are doing with loki, you can do magical things. Once, my whole team had died, and I was left 5 v 1, and yet I got a triple and laughed as the adc and support fled. And btw that sound thing that trend kill was talking about? Yea countering that is simple, u just need to stealth little far away from the desired location, and I gauge tee you, your target will never hear you.
The old Loki use to be super broken mainly in arena because certain people figured out a one shot set that killed any god. Good thing that doesn't happen anymore.
Bring back this Loki retro skin(and don’t rework him)!
Bassman101 O they really need to chill on the rework
When greater agis was de oped to not work while cc'ed it was a buff to loki and anubis, who were only countered by it.
I think greater agis SHOULD be usable while CCed because 20% resist damage for one second. Really? That matters? If you use it aginst anubis ult, then yes it helps but being able to walk away and escape would be more useful.
De op idea for loki remove vanish damage resist. Make ult a lock on with a half second charge and very obvious sound so you can counter. Or just fix agis to use while CCed.
Can we get one for Poseidon? I wanna know how you counter Mr. Whirls. (Other than beads and aegis.)
ageis is all ya need. his ult does stun, bur only for a second. when ulted, turn around as soon a possible and ageis to block dot and backstab damage. proceed to rek him.
And best way for me to play as Loki is as Mercury. With my Mercury build, especially mid game or if I get ahead, Gods with exceptionally low health (i.e. Loki) can be slain in 1 hit.
The 2 Gods that MUST be on this show is bellona and at puch
You forgot to mention Loki's decoy can be banished by Freya.
You should talk about the new gods, release a know your eanemy as they come out
Everyone needs this!!
do they even still do this series any more? like is there a season two or something? i reall hope so these videos have helped me alot when it comes to properly understanding the gods
+Tyler Mccrum TrendKill is kind of on rocky terms with Hirez, he said in his goodbye youtube video that if Hirez wants he will gladly do more of these for future gods.
Dang that suck's guess I gotta go back to smite super builds and fangs
Frost fangs*
ok i have to know, his passive says he does "more" damage from behind. Does that mean he crits from behind?!?! hence if i get something like deathbringer would be a tandom with his passive?!?
+EpicAMV911 Nope, he just does 20% more damage baseline!
Would be awesome if you could explain some builds in these too. :)
Just started playing is this video still relevant or was his reskin also an ability change?
Now seriously, loki is easy enough to counter in 1v1. But what would you recommend in conquest? Are you counterbuilding a bit if you are playing squishies? mages?adc?
I know about magis blessing, but i dont really like it. In joust 1v1 i use hide of nemean lion and shield of the underworld, but again...what are you building in counquest?
Loki: The Secret Agent
ares and ymir counters him badly on my opinion
Kumbha
Nqil Khumba counters every assasin on my opinion
6:46 PROJECT:LOKI?!?! MY MAIN IS REVEALED
Its funny how Loki from Smite and Shaco from League of legends have alot of similar spells and playstyle
1 more thing: if ares hits him with shackles and he goes invisible chains will still be visible
Nemean Lion, easy counter for Loki, You'll survive the burst and do damage reflect. If you're tanky and he isn't he could just kill himself.
Or Underworld Shield I guess
"Here we learn to play against a god"
"If you are loki split push"
"Place decoy on archers"
"He's squishy but resist 20% damage so it doesn't matter"
"Get max cool down asap."
"Teleport to ward"
"Use ability in right order"
"Ult is a escape"
"Oh yeah if you are playing against a loki, get magi and agis, he has low team fight presence so he doesn't really matter there just get agis and magi for ganks"
Chart - "Damage ALMOST maxed" - Blows out the top of the chart XD
You need to make the Classic Loki skin , I would spend 600 gems on that
There should be some kind of active that lets you see invisible players.
Does smite require a xbox gold sub because warframe didn't and both are free to play
sooooo he's shaco from league?
Loki's 3 is my text tone.
I am also paranoid about loki if he's on my team and goes invisible and I hear it I do a little panic cause I think he's going to get me
If you play solo loki and always get annoyed by the warriors, just go to the enemy's jungle and clear the minions they reach the tier 1 tower. In this case, yiu dont have to face the warriors and get killed by them but you can also snowball. I guess it's called the 'Proxy farming'
Since everybody is on the topic of Loki here, how do you peoples feel about a Deadpool Loki skin? This is something I just thought of, and I feel like it can work well. They both don't have pupils, the head, and body shape can work well with it. Also lokis daggers can be Deadpool's swords. Just an idea, don't blame you if you think it's retarded. lol.
And keep in mind, I know this probably won't happen.