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So if you haven't seen this series before this is not like most other guides. Most guides will

tell you how to play a god.

In Know Your Enemy we focus on the reverse and we focus on how to play

against a certain god. So in this episode we're going to be focusing on the assassin Loki

Now we're gonna learn a little bit about Loki's abilities

and some tips on how to play against a Loki should you find him on the enemy team

So without further ado let's go ahead and jump into the video we're gonna discuss

the Trickster God.

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First off let's take a look at Loki's graph, now you can see out of the six stats he

really only excelled in damage and mobility.

He's got damage that is off the charts and his mobility is almost maxed on this chart

but everything else kind of falls below average. He has next to no defense he

obviously has no healing abilities

his control, he really only gains from a slow and a stun on his ultimate

and his utilities really only gain from his vanish other than that he's the kind of

characters gonna sneak in

stab somebody in the back destroy them in less than a second or two

and then vanish an run out. The only thing you can really tell from this

graph is that defensively if he gets caught out or if he gets stun, or if he gets CC

chain in any form

he's probably going to die pretty quickly. So let's take a look at he's

abilitys and figure out why that is

Alright so first of lets take a look at his passive, called Behind You. This is a very

simple passive and it's very unique to Loki

in the fact that when he is behind the enemy he's attacking he does 20%

more damage with his basic attacks.

Now this could be a god or minion or a buff camp but if he's behind it

he will do 20% more damage. His first ability Vanish

this is what gives Loki his flavor Loki is basically

the definitive assassin he can Vanish from

a battle or Vanish while he's in the jungle to walk into the lane while invisible

to start a fight that way. Now as if invisibility was not enough while he's invisible

he moves 35% faster takes 25% less damage and

is immune to slows. On top of all that his first basic attack from stealth

or for two seconds after stealth adds a dot

to the enemy player that ticks four times over two seconds

So it doesn't just make Loki invisible it actually gives him a ton of utility in

that one ability.

Also you're probably gonna be surprised when you play against a Loki

as to how much damage that Vanish dot actually does

at max rank 90 damaged per tick plus 25% of your physical power which is

probably gonna be somewhere around

a 150 total damage per tick. You're talking about 600 plus premedigation damage

from an ability that already makes him invisible, immune to slows, faster

all the while he's taking less damage. Again this is the backbone of

Loki's kit his second ability Decoy is another very interesting ability and

it's also unique to Loki

in the fact that it spawns a decoy of himself with an aoe around

it and after three seconds that decoy explodes dealing damaged to

everything inside that radius.

Now the cool thing about this ability is that not only does it do damage in an area

it also taunts anything in that area to attack it

for that three seconds. So when Loki throws his decoy up into a wave of minions all of

those minions will not go down the lane they will attack that decoy

for that three seconds until it explodes and then they will go back to their

normal path.

This also works on jungle camps, it works on towers, and phoenix's

it work in a lot of different things in the game. Loki can use decoy in a lot

of different areas

in a lot of different scenarios. His third ability Aimed Strike, this is what

gives Loki his burst damage.

Essentially this is a steroid ability, he activates this and when he attacks with

his next basic attack

this ability than procs. Now there's a time limit on that if he doesn't attack

somebody in a five second time period the buff just goes away and you have to

reapply Aimed Strike to get that bonus.

Now in addition to that crazy burst it also slows the enemy for three seconds

by 25 percent

and his ultimate ability Assassinate, this is what gives Loki his little bit of control

and still adds further to his ability to burst damage somebody down quickly.

Essentially he's got a targeter about the size of Nemesis's ultimate targeter

except that Nemesis's ultimate can not miss

Loki's can, so you actually have to aim this one if you do happen to

aim this correctly Loki will teleport to a target, backstab them doing a ton of damage

and stunning them for one second. Now the benefit of having to aim this ability in

not being forced to target an enemy God

is the fact that you can use this as a blink as an escape

if you have to. So if you're low on life an running you can just aim this at the

ground to teleport away from somebody.

Now why would I want to use a 90 second cool down to teleport

away that sounds like that would be a poor use of my ability

however almost always Lokis gonna have a minimum of 25% cooldown reduction

if not max cooldown reduction

which is gonna put this on a 54 second cooldown so

if it's going to save your life it's really not that much of a disadvantage

to use it as an escape

and that's going to do it for a brief rundown of Lokis abilities let's go ahead move

into the mechanic section were we're gonna learn some tips on how to play against a Loki

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Alright so as far as Loki's mechanics are concerned Loki is one of those gods

that can be either really terrible or really good depending on the

skill of the player that's playing him. Now what I mean by that is to play Loki

properly you have to know what order to use his abilities in

based on the situation that you're in you have to know when

you can go in, when you can't, you have to know about your

positioning, there's a lot of things to know about playing Loki that

a good player just understands an a novice player may not have grasped yet

So depending on the player that's playing Loki your gonna see one game were

Loki seems to be a terrible god and you're gonna see another game were Loki

seems to be op and I just don't want to ever play in a game

with Loki again. So with all that being said let's go over some

basic tips that are gonna tell you a little bit about

how Loki's going to use his ability so first off let's talk about Vanish.

Now there's no right or wrong way to go invisible again its

about when you use it, so again it's going to be up to the player

playing Loki however there are important things to know about Vanish like

how to counter it. Three ways to counter and on-demand

invisibility, first off is crowd control. Crowd control is the

bane of Loki's existent there are several forms a crowd control that will

pull Loki out of his stealth

the main three being stuns, silences, and mesmerized.

Imagine you are Ymir an a Loki is right in front of you and you see

Loki go invisible

the first thing I would do is use my Frost Breath to try to freeze him in

that large cone in front of me.

If I were to successfully freeze him he is incapable of going invisible for

another nine seconds minimum.

If you happen to catch him while his ultimate is also on cooldown

Loki is a very squishy god and becomes very easy to take care off

another thing that makes Loki very easy to track while he's in stealth are dots

there are many damage over time abilities in the game and while damage

over time does not pull Loki

out of stealth you will still see the damage ticking over his head as he is

running away

So while it's not a foolproof plan to follow him it does help give you a general idea

which direction he's heading

and the 3rd thing on that list that will help reveal Loki when he's

are your towers and phoenix's

if Loki is invisible and walks into your tower or your phoenix

the phoenix and the tower see him making him show up as like a purple silhouette.

Now I'm not saying you're safe under your tower or under your phoenix from a Loki who

can burst you down and teleport out

but I am saying that Loki is not just gonna stealth through a tower unscathed

you at least know where he's going. Now since we're talking about Loki going

through towers in Phoenix's let's go ahead and move on to a second ability

Decoy. Now Decoy is Loki's wave clear ability we've already kinda talked about that

however Decoy can also be used in several other

applications one of which being throwing Decoy in the tower

to have the tower attack the Decoy so that Loki can walk through unscathed

this is a very interesting tactic to 1 escape but to 2

1 escape but to 2 also be able to push through the back line and come up behind somebody.

be able to push through the back line and come up behind somebody.

Now its not likely you're ever

gonna need to gank somebody from behind their tower

but unlike most other gods with

Loki there's at least a safe alternative to do that

Now lets talk about a small simple general tip for people using Decoy when

your playing Loki, not playing against him

this is a tip for those people who are watching this guide to learn how to play Loki

So when you're trying to clear a wave with Lokis Decoy make sure you place the aoe

of the Decoy on the archers. If not they will stop in their tracks

outside of that aoe

range to shoot at the Decoy. I see a lot of new Loki players

making this mistake. If you

simple move your Decoy back just a little bit so the archers are covered

by the aoe

the melee minion instead of stopping outside an shooting it

they can't because they have swords they have to run back

into the aoe so make sure that the aoe of the Decoy covers the archers

and that's how you get the most efficient damaged out of your decoy. Now as

an addition to that tip make sure that you are utilizing the Decoys taunt

to attack the enemies

in the back while they're busy attacking your decoy you should be busy

taking advantage of the extra damage from your passive.

Now we talk about his third ability Aim Strike there's not a lot tips that can be used its just a

steroid it doesn't do anything special other than

add a bunch of damage to his next basic attack an slow that target by 25%

So again this is one of those abilities that the player playing Loki needs to know

when to use that ability however I can give you one neat little tip

remember you have a time limit on your Aim Strike a five seconds to hit with

the next basic attack to deal that damaged, the buff of

Aim Strike only last for five seconds. Well guess what the

cooldown of Aim Strike at max rank is eight seconds but with max cooldown reduction that

reduces that to about five seconds so the duration on the buff is five seconds

and the cool down of the ability is

five seconds meaning that if you know you're going to attack somebody

you can cast your Aim Strike about four seconds before you need the actual damage

hit somebody with a burst from Aim Strike and then 1 second later

you can Aim Strike again in the same attack. So with proper planning

two Aim Strikes can be used in succession to deal massive burst damage in a very

very short amount of time. So with all that being said let's talk about Assassinate cause

this add only even more burst to Lokis Aim Strikes

If somebody is trying to burst you down and has the wherewithal to use their Aim Strikes properly

their Assessinate when it needs to be used and can add dot damage from Vanish

that player can hit you with 1250 ability damage plus

four hundred and twenty percent of their total physical power

Now just like in the other videos that is all before damage mitigation however

that is an insane amount of damage to have to mitigate. So how do you stop all of

that incoming damage how do you stop Loki from bursting you

from a hundred percent health down to dead in less than two seconds

Well the obvious answer is some form of the Aegis Amulet however if

he chooses to open the fight with Assassinate that one second may be