Overview
Here’s a guide for one of the trickier gods in SMITE, Awilix, the Mayan moon goddess.
Intro
Welcome to the Awilix guide!
This page will explain Awilix’s gameplay, Item builds, and general strategies. This is meant for beginner to intermediate players looking to get better and more familiar with this character.
First off, Awilix is an assassin, capable of hopping into battle and killing squishy gods. She’s a god with one of the more fun and interesting kits to play with.
Her biggest strength lies in her great chase potential with a healthy mix of damage, CC, and mobility.
However, her kit as a whole has very little synergy in teamfights, meaning Awilix does best around small groups of enemies.
Awilix will almost always be in the jungle, thanks to her mobility and high damage.
Ability Overview
When Awilix is out of combat, she gains a buff, represented by the spear on the HUD.
When it glows, Awilix has 30% extra physical power. When she deals damage, the buff will persist for 2.5 seconds. This passive helps enforce Awilix as an assassin, making it easier to lower an enemy’s health upon after initiating.
Additionally, Awilix’s basic attacks have a slightly longer, but thinner range than most melee gods. While this isn’t part of her passive, it’s something unique to Awilix.
This ability serves as Awilix’s main ability for roaming around. When the targeter is active, you move 25% faster while riding Suku, but strafing or moving backwards is much slower.
At this point, you can either right-click to hop off Suku and preserve the cooldown, or left-click to pounce to the targeter, dealing damage and putting the skill on cooldown.
This isn’t an ability you want on quick or instant casting. Additionally, this skill has it’s uses when traveling from the fountain or from jungle camps. Since strafing isn’t ideal, this skill should be used for ganking and chasing. Using it in the middle of battle for escaping is risky, since it has a brief wind up time. Note that the mana is consumed whenever you hop on Suku.
This ability has some rather unusual usage. You’ll notice that you can’t use Feather Step right away. You must land a basic attack before this skill can be activated. Once you land a basic attack, a small ring will appear below whoever you just hit.
This means that at you can flip over your target, dealing damage, as well as rooting and crippling the enemy for a split second. You will end up on the opposite side of the enemy you use it on.
But wait, there’s more! This ability chains into your basic attacks. The damage will multiply depending on how many basic attacks you hit. Long story short, landing two basic attacks will double the damage of Feather Step. The damage will not only be applied to who you’re flipping over, but everything in a small area.
This ability has plenty of uses besides your main damaging ability. It can cancel gods who are dashing, and Awilix becomes invulnerable during the flip animation. And the positioning it provides sets up perfectly with her next ability.
Talk about a unique ability. The main thing that this ability does is pull airborne gods to Awilix. That means if they are knocked up or leaping, you can pull them down and deal lots of damage. Also, Awilix gains one of the strongest buffs in the game, increasing her power and attack speed dramatically.
This symbol will appear on targets that can you can pull.
Leveling
The first ability you should focus on maximizing is Feather Step for the bursty damage it provides. Perfect for whittling down health and clearing a jungle buff.
Second comes Moonlight Charge. Again, more damage is a good thing.
Gravity Surge takes third priority. Early game, you’ll mainly use it for the pull, but as you max Feather Step and Moonlight Charge, you should have your 3rd or 4th item purchased. By then, the steroid that your ultimate provides will hit harder as it levels up.
Finally, Summon Suku. Since the movement speed buff doesn’t increase with each level, it will be fine to keep this skill at rank 1.
The combo Awilix will use for ganking is 1-Two Basic Attacks -2-3-4. Rather simple.
Using Moonlight Charge right after Feather Step prevents the enemy from doing anything for just a while longer, which is enough time to either slip in more basic attacks. Don’t use Gravity Surge on enemies right in front of you. Enemies that are farther away should be pulled if they choose to leap or a teammate knocks them up.
Item Builds
Core
- Warrior Tabi Is the first item to buy. Additional Power and Movement speed is essential. You won’t need the Attack Speed that Ninja Tabi Provides.
- Jotunn’s Wrath comes second. The mana and penetration it gives does will with most assassins, but the cooldown reduction makes it worth while.
- Executioner. This is an item you’d usually see on ADCs, but Awilix makes good use of it, too. Since Feather Step is maximized with two basic attacks, The protection shredding and attack speed helps deal more damage faster.
- Rage is the last Item you should buy. Malice or Deathbringer can be substituted if you have the gold to pay for it, but Rage gets crits the most often.
Situational
- Frostbound Hammer is a personal favorite of mine. Health allows you to take a little more damage, but the slow to ground speed and attack speed helps Awilix in 1v1 scenarios much better. If you’re chasing an enemy, the slow may force them to use a leap.
- Asi Another attack speed suited for drawn out battles. The passive from Asi can save your life in a pinch, and with extra attack speed, Awilix will shred most targets faster than they can notice.
- Titan’s Bane makes for more raw damage, and ignores a hefty bit of protections.
- Stone Cutting Sword Does a great job during a 1v1 fight, as it steals physical protections from the enemy.
- Heartseeker increses the damage of your abilities after 5 basic attacks. A nice item to use since Awilix’s abilites syngergize with basic attacks.
- Witchblade Is a good pick for countering ADCs or other assassins.
- Mail of Renewal provides a large amount of health, and restores 1/5th of your health and mana after a kill or assist, helping you survive teamfights longer.
Relics
- Purification. Awilix is squishy, and can easily be locked by CC and killed, especially by cripples. Beads are a must in nearly every game.
- Sanctuary. Lots of burst damage on the enemy team? No worries, get Aegis!
- Sprint. Awilix is the queen of chasing enemies, and sprint makes it easier. It’s also handy for countering slows.
Matchups
Like many gods, Awilix’s skills can be countered and maximized with proper team coordination. Here, we’ll go over some of the gods on either team that Awilix can work with, or who she’ll have to be wary of.
Since Gravity Surge cancels leaps,
Awilix does well against…
- Anhur
- Hou Yi
- Bakasura
- Bastet
- Fenrir
- Neith
- Hun Batz
- Kali
- Serqet
- Ullr
- Odin
- Bacchus
However, Awilix can pull certain gods out of their own abilities that aren’t leaps, like
- Chaac’s Torrent
- Scylla’s Sentinel
- Hade’s Death From Below
- Raijin’s Lightning Crash
Awilix is also able to counter an Awilix on the opposite team. Summon Suku and Feather step both count as leaps.
Gravity Surge also works if the target was knocked up from a teammate.
Awilix does well with…
- He Bo
- Geb
- Bacchus
- Vulcan
- Vamana
- Sylvanus
- Sobek
- Tyr
- Hercules
- Anhur
- Sun Wukong
- Kukulkan
And lastly, the gods that counter Awilix. Her main weakness is gods that have cripples, preventing movement skills. To a lesser degree, gods with knock-up immunity (Like Guan Yu) are less likely to be pulled.
Awilix struggles against…
- Ares
- Poseidon
- Cupid
- Artemis
- Rama
Also, keep in mind some gods are CC immune while leaping, you won’t be able to pull them.
- Xbalanque
- Osiris
- Bellona
- Ravana
Conclusion
So Awilix is a rather fun god once you understand her play style. She’s an often overlooked goddess that’s good at doing what assassins do. As an Awilix player, you should look for any opportunity to pull gods from the sky, and utilize basic attacks to maximize your ability’s usage.
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