Overview
To ALL Loki players, I am going to mark down what you need to do and what not to do.This is a serious Guide for people who want to learn about Loki. It’s a lot of information for an “easy or braindead God…” Anways, please show respect and tell me what you think.The Way Loki Should Use His Abilities.All Loki players should learn how to auto cancel instead of using 1+3+auto combo. The correct combo for Loki is situational. But whenever you want to engage someone, then the normal combo would be: 1->auto->3->auto->2->auto and if needed you use your 4 then auto. With Hydra, you have proc’d it 4 times using this combo!Stop using your ult to initiate and use it for escapes or kill secures. Using your ult first gives your opponent to counter your entire kit with Aegis and also prevents you to chase the target down if they jump or dash over a wall etc. You will not 1 shot (meaning 1 auto with Loki’s entire kit) anyone as Loki unless you have 5 more lvls than a squishy then maybe. Your 1 is to be used for initiation and if the enemy escapes, then use your ultimate to secure them.Don’t use your 3 when you are about to attack. Besides the first thing i posted on this forum about auto canceling (with or without Hydra), if you use your 1 then use your 3 to attack, you are also giving your opponent the general location of your existence and gives the enemy a “heads up” feel. Whenever you stealth in front of someone, people will wait for that 3 sound, if they do then they are about to be surprised. Just do 1->auto then 3-> If you get stunned and they run away, it won’t matter because your 1 bleed does the 2nd highest damage in your entire kit! As long as you get your bleed on them then it is all okay. (Especially if you max your 1 first)Stop maxing your decoy. You can clear almost the entire wave with Decoy at rank 4. Just use your autos to kill the big guys and use your extra skill point on other abilities.Try to use your stealth as long as possible. Once you press 1, you will be invisible for 4 seconds, at this time you will see your 1 in CD. Meaning that during your stealth your 1 will slowly come back up. Near max CDR, your 1 will take 9 seconds to come back up. Subtract 9 with 4 seconds of your stealth and your 1 will come back in 5 seconds! Using your time during stealth will also make the enemy think you have ran away giving you the element of surprise! This is a preference but i strongly recommend to NOT upgrade your ultimate until you have finished maxing your 1 and 3. Here are some facts: Yes you will deal MORE damage if you upgrade your ult at lvl 9, 13, and 17. But you will deal LESS damage when your ult is down and LESS damage overall. The reason being is because your 1 and 3 comes up more frequently than your ultimate. So maxing your 1 and 3 as fast as possible will deal more damage overall and deal more damage if your ult is in CD. Realize how much damage your abilities do. In order from MOST to LEAST amount of damage is: 4, 1, 2, 3. Use your decoy more than just a clearing tool and auto canceling tool. Use it for body blocking, for blocking autos & certain abilities, and peeling. Use your 3 “aimed strike” to scare off opponents or make them paranoid. This will give off your position but that isn’t the point because you aren’t attacking. The goal is to zone the enemy when you are doing objectives. When you use vanish, don’t walk straight, walk the other way to confuse the enemy. If you get ulted by Ares, and don’t wanna use beads or if you do not have beads at the moment, then ult Ares or someone else at the exact time you are about to get pulled. Loki’s ult gives him a split second of cc immunity IF USED ON A GOD.Facts About Loki That YOU NEED TO KNOW!!!! Loki’s passive isn’t crit. Crit is 2x damage off of your basic attack. Loki’s passive just adds 20% damage from behind off of your basic attack. (Because of this, people think that DB will work well with Loki because they think his passive is crit, It’s true that the passive works well with any crit because crit applies first then 20% bonus damage from passive is added but then again, 20% crit chance is very low.) Loki’s Decoy doesn’t block neith ult, and doesn’t proc bluestone. This is because Loki’s decoy is classified as a “pet” such as Bastet Cats. Loki’s Passive DOESN’T APPLY to ANY of his ABILITIES! Not even his ult ironically “… Loki will backstab that target doing…” (cuz its a ability and not a basic) When you are invisible, having those “!!!” marks above you means two things. Either you are revealed or there is someone doing a camp, FG, or GF nearby. (Use Loki’s vanish like a radar) Loki’s decoy doesn’t remove backdoor protections. This means that Loki isn’t a good backdoorer against towers and phoenix’s. When you are invisible, laughs, taunts and jokes will not be played. However, claps can be heard but can give your position away. Loki is both over powered and under powered. He does well in low play and sucks in higher play. Loki’s Infiltrator skin makes the loudest but shortest noise when using “Vanish and “Aimed Strike”. Loki’s Grim Mariachi skin makes the quietest sound but the longest noise when using only his Vanish. (His 3 plays a super quiet guitar noise but it’s almost impossible to hear it when you are in game). Be careful when you are about to ult someone who has leap a leap or teleport because if they leap or tele at the same time as you ult them, they will escape while you are backstabbing the air…not a joke either. This is because you ulted them when they were “Targetable” but since the animation of Loki’s ult takes a while, by the time you stab them the enemy will have leaped or tele’d away leaving you looking stupid and leaving the enemy unharmed because they are “Untargetable” during leap or tele.
