TIDBITS, TIPS
& TRICKS
By Hunter ErkenBrack
Loki Doesn’t Do Well With AA Mages:
Freya can actually “Banish” Loki’s “Decoy” - This means that if you KNOW 100% that a Loki will be in the
Solo lane, Freya is actually a hard counter to him. She can deny him his main form of wave clear and beat
him silly while he attempts to clear wave with basic attacks. If he doesn’t use basic
attacks to clear the wave and he just lets minions hit tower then he is getting no gold.
His best bet is to 100% aim for a kill lane and try to kill Freya (easier said than done).
Zeus’ “Chain Lightning” actually bounces off of decoy - so while there is little chance that in
a lane Loki would be close enough to his decoy, if he ever went to go close the distance and
offensively engage Zeus, he should just chain lighting the decoy and get as close to it as
possible to ensure that Loki takes maximum number of bounces possible before detonating.
Chronos is King of Self Heals:
Typical self heals can be countered by Divine Ruin, Brawlers Beatstick, and Weakening
Curse. Chronos’ “Rewind” isn’t technically a self heal though - it rewinds you back in time 8
seconds without regard for “Healing you up to the health you were at eight seconds ago”. So
unlike a Kali about to kill her target and gain full hp, he can’t be countered by anti-healing items.
Mystic Mail Magical Magnetism
Cabrakan has amazing synergy with the item Mystical Mail. His second ability, “Refraction Shield”,
gains a 1 second stun at 5 ticks of damage. Building these ticks of damage on an enemy god is
not only hard, put painful. It means they will be hitting you with powerful basic attacks or ability
damage. It’s a bit easier if you can just stand in a Poseidon whirlpool for a few ticks but such things
aren’t always readily available. Mystic Mail can tick on an enemy god and grab minion aggro without
wasting any abilities on the enemy and without actually having to get in close enough to use a basic
attack (which is hard). The archers will build your passive in a matter of a second and voila, you have
a stun whenever you want it, as well as a full protections buff of up to 40! Mystic Mail also works great
with his third ability, “Tremors”, because of the AoE nature of the two. “Tremors” helps keep them
in range of Mystic Mail and Mystic Mail acts almost as a natural damage buff to his “Tremors”.
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