What's going on everybody welcome to another episode of Know Your Enemy
My name is Trendkill and you may be wondering why I have my sweatshirt zip
all the way up like a weirdo there's a story behind that but first intro
So in the spirit of continuity I do my best to wear a Smite shirt in everyone one of these videos
however I don't really have that many so I contacted HirezAndy whose a wonderful guy
and he very quickly shipped me out some smite shirts to use in front of my green screen
however there was one problem
Yeah
the shirt he sent me he was green
Thanks Andy
so now I get to move around the screen like a complete idiot
and Im just going to intro the video like this
So if you haven't seen this series before go check out my Neith guide.
That will give you uh information on what this series is going to be about
Also if you don't know basic Moba terminology go check out my beginners guides
Uh those are going to show you basic Moba terminology and things that you may hear me say in this video
so let's go head and jump into the guide today were gonna be talking about Ra
the Egyptian Sun God
so the first thing we do in this series is we take a brief look at
a visual representation of the gods ability.
Now you can quickly see from the chart
that Ra is statistically a pretty average god. A little mobility, utility defense, and control
but he really excels in damage and healing So while Ra doesnt really
excel in one specific area he is pretty good in all areas
making him a jack of all trades type god
The one thing that really separates Ra from a lot of the other characters
in Smite is the fact that he is one of the very few Gods that can heal his team
there are a lot of gods that have sustaining abilities where they can
kinda heal themselves
but there's a very few that can heal other people Ra is one of those few
so the fact that he can heal, coupled with the fact that he is average
at everything and he has the ability to put out a ton of damage
makes him one of the stronger gods in the game. Alright let's move on and talk about
Ra's kit
his abilities are pretty straight forward so this is going to be a very
short section
however lets briefly touch on some of the highlights.
Now his passive Speed Of Light
is not really an integral part of his kit and I don't say that meaning that its
a bad passive I just say that meaning that it's not something like Neiths broken
weaves
that are really gonna interact with the way her kit works but Speed Of Light is
going to give you an
eight-percent speed boost or a movement speed increase every time he uses
an ability and that stacks
up to three times so Ra can and will in a fight
almost always be about 25 percent faster than you
now if you couple his fully stacked passive with his second ability Divine Light
which applies a slow
that makes it extremely hard to get away from or catch up to him
now also what you may not know is Divine Light is a two second channel ability
and at the end of that two seconds it detonates and blinds you, your entire screen will go white
now this is just like a flashbang in any first-person shooter ever if you turn away
when it detonates you will not be blinded so this is something you're gonna have to get
extremely used to timing correctly
otherwise it's a real pain in the ass in a teamfight. Now as far as his 3rd ability
Solar Blessing is concerned that is literally just in AOE on the ground
that heals him and his team
and damages all enemies that are inside it and his first ability Celestial Beam
and his last ability Searing Pain are literally just damaging abilities
with no additional effects
so that's pretty much it for his kit not just because he's kit is simple does not
mean it is not affective
his utility is in quickly burning down minion waves
being able to get around the map quickly while healing him and his teammate as well
as his massive AOE slow
Ra is not to be taken like light...ly
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Alright on to the mechanic section. Now remember we talked about the fact that
Ra is a very straightforward god so he doesn't have a ton up tricks up his sleeve
so this video may be shorter than most however we're gonna do everything we can
to give you enough tips to where you feel comfortable fighting a Ra.
Now as always we're gonna start with his first ability Celestial Beam
there is not a ton to say about this ability however understand that this is
one of the best pushing abilities in the game.
This ability has a very long range fires in the straightline
its almost impossible to miss
and after you get a couple points in it will kill an entire minion wave
in one shot. Now if he combos that with his 3rd ability Solar Blessing
you have no minion wave and he's got a fully healed minion wave
pushing right into your tower so he's very good at making sure you lose gold
by letting the tower help you kill your minions.
Now while we're talking about Solar Blessing understand that Solar Blessing
heal portion is actually pretty powerful and its powerful enough to keep
large minions alive under tower while they're taking tower shots
so Ra is notorious for throwing a Solar Blessing up and walking away and
letting the minions kill the tower themselves
so if you happen to be laning against a Ra be very careful leaving your tower
unattended and since we're already talking about Solar Blessing let's go ahead and
get Solar Blessing tips out of the way
this one may seem obvious but don't stand in the Solar Blessing it doesn't
seem like it's doing a lot of damage
but over time that damage adds up and it adds up quickly
so if you're fighting and Ra he's standing in his Solar Blessing make sure that you
can kill him without
question otherwise he's gonna slowly be ticking up in health and your going to be slowly ticking down in health
eventually giving him the advantage. Alright now we've already kinda touch
on Divine Light a little bit let's pop back and go into a little more detail
now remember this ability slows enemies if he happens to catch with all six stacks
of Divine Light it will slow you for 30 percent
add that to the 8% that he gain from his passive and there is a 38
percent speed swing
if he happens to have all three stacks of his passes active that is a 54% speed
difference which is a colossal amount in such a fast-paced environment
very early on in the game this can be a very devastating ability so do not
underestimate it, also don't forget about the blind on this ability it is one
of two blinding abilities in the game so its very rare form of crowd control
and it creates a ton of confusion. If you get caught in the middle the teamfight
blind
you no idea what's going on around you and bad times are sure to follow.
Now this video again like I said, it's got much faster than most of the other guides
probably will but we only have a couple more tips before we're finished
let's discuss Searing Pain first thing understand that this
ultimate does a high amount of damage on a very very short cooldown
With cool down reducing items this ability can get down to around 30 seconds which is ridiculously short
for such a high damaging ability at that short of a cooldown
Ra can use it to clear a minion wave and by the time the next wave
gets too lane the ability is almost ready again.
So a lot of the times what you'll see a Ra do is you'll see them clear away with Searing Pain
only to back, and by the time they get back to the lane it's ready to use
again so they haven't wasted anything
and that's something you can't really say about most of the ultimate's in the game.
Now the last tip that I have is for both Searing Pain and Celestial Beam
both of these abilities can go through walls so remember if you happen to be
running from a Ra, taking a sharp turn around a corner is not going to save you
from his ability
actually some of the most fun I've had in the game and one of the most exciting things
to watch
in this game are trying to guess where you're enemys going to run
and smacking them with the Searing Pain when they're least expecting
the bad thing about this is if you're running and you hear Ra starting to
charge up that Searing Pain
you got a very very short time to try to decide do you go left.
do you go right. Do you go front, do you go back and half the time
youre going to juke back into a Searing Pain and die anyways so
it's a very very scary ability when you're playing a Ra who knows how to aim a Searing Pain shot
So there you have it guys short and sweet. Ra is not a very complicated god so there's not a
lot of information be passed around
but hopefully this video gave you enough, to at least understand what Ra's capable of.
So Imma go ahead and get out of here guys thanks for stopping by. Make sure you come back
next week we're gonna be talking about
Thor the God a thunder