What's going on everybody welcome back to Know Your Enemy my name is Trendkill,
let's get into it
Epic Intro Woooshhh
Dont look behind you o.o
So here we are, back with another episode of Know Your Enemy
if you haven't seen this series before, the purpose of this series is to try to
teach you a
god from the perspective of playing against that god.
Odds are if you're new to the game you're gonna pick one god and stick to that god which
is perfectly fine why wouldn't you want to play your favorite god.
The problem with that is, it doesn't give you the experience or the time to learn the
other gods.
In each episode we highlight one specific god, we talk about the god
the gods abilities and we talk about common practices
that you're gonna see on the battlefield. In today's video we're gonna be
discussing
Agni The Hindu God of Fire
Epic Whooosh
Okay so the first thing we're going to do is take a look at
Agni's graph, now you're going to notice right of the bat
he does a decent amount of damage but is kind of mediocre or worse
in every other category. He obviously has no healing so he has a zero there
he's got a very moderate amount of utility, defense, and control,
and his mobility is okay he's got a very good escape moved for a mage
but other than that Agni is mainly focused on dealing medium to high amount
of damage
and a little bit of control from very safe distances.
So let's take a look at his abilities and see exactly why his graph is shape
this way.
So first off let's talk about Combustion his passive ability, there is nothing
really special about this
just know that he can gain up to 4 stacks for every auto attack he hits once
he maxes out at 4 stacks his next
Flame Wave or Ring of Fire(hehe) will add a dot to the end of the damage that that ability does.
Unlike most other gods in the game where their passive kinda flavors the rest of their kit.
Agnis first ability Noxious Fumes is the flavor to his kit.
Essentially Noxious Fumes is a medium sized area, and anytime
a fire ability, so any other of Agnis abilities
hits Noxious Fumes or Noxious Fumes hit that ability
it explodes into an aoe stun. Other than that the fumes last for 10 seconds and they
just sit there doing a very low amount of damage.
His second ability Flame Wave is just a damaging ability, not a lot to explain
here other than the fact
that this will ignite his Noxious Fumes. His third ability Path of Flames again
not much to explain here, other than the fact that while he's dashing
he is immune to knockback. Other than that, this is dash,
this is his escape and we'll talk about how you can use that to your advantage
or what you should watch out for if you're playing against an Agni
in the tip section, and lastly his Ultimate Rain of Fire
this is what is exciting about Agni, essentially around Agnis head you will always
see a halo floating around it. That halo is either going to have 1
2 or 3 fire balls floating around it. As soon as
Agni gets his ultimate usually at level 5 he's going to have one fire ball
floating around his halo.
Know what that means is that at anytime he can use that fireball to rain a
meteor down from the sky
that meteor is an aoe ground targeted ability that has a pretty decent
distance on it.
The interesting thing about this ability is that those meteors
cost 0 mana he just constantly regenerate those meteors throughout the course of the game.
Every 20 seconds he gets another fire ball on his halo meaning
he's got another meteor to use at his disposal. Now a high damaging ability that
response for free every 20 seconds
means that Agnis going to have some pretty decent sustain. While you're using
mana to cast your spells and clear the wave
he's got a free meteor that he can rain down on an entire wave
and if he's got his passive stack its going to add another dot
to the end of that. So it does a pretty decent amount of damage early on.
So you can see that by going through his ability so quickly Agni is
easy to understand but he can be very hard to master.
So let's go ahead and move into the mechanic section so we can see why he could be so
easy to play
yet so hard to play well.
Dramatic Transition Whoooshhh
Alright so in the mechanic section we're gonna talk about some tips that are going to help you play
against an Agni.
First off let's talk about Noxious Fumes this again is a flavor ability, it's not
really ever gonna be used
to deal damage maybe some long-term slow damage
but even still you're gonna wanna save that cool down or the enemy Agni's
gonna want to save that cool down.
A stun in Smite is obviously way more important than a very low damage 10 second dot.
So if you see Noxious Fumes on the ground don't step in it because he
can use any one of his abilities to stun you while you're there.
Now generally an Agni is not going to telegraph a stunned that badly
he's not gonna lay down Noxious Fumes just pray to god that you walk into it
and then use Flame Wave to stun you. Which is why you're rarely going to be stunned
by Flame Wave and honestly I don't really have that many tips
for Flame Wave because it's just a straight up damaging ability
the only tip I really have for Flame Wave, his second ability is
in a combo that I will mention later. So how do you ignite Noxious Fumes then?
Let's go ahead and talk about his third ability Path of Flames
now not only is this his escape move but on top of being an escape move
it adds a lot of versatility to his stun
from Noxious Fumes. Now remember earlier, I said that you can gain a stun from Noxious
Fumes by applying fire to it but you can also gain
a stun by applying Noxious Fumes to fire that is already existent.
That is where Path of Flames utility comes in, not only can you
dash out of danger but you can turn around and throw Noxious Fumes
at the Path of Flames an stun anybody in the Noxious Fumes
reticle, so what that means is as long as the reticle of Noxious Fumes
overlaps your Path of Flames by even a centimeter
it will create an explosion that will then stun the enemy. So as I said
before that adds a ton of utility to this ability, not only can you get out of a fight
you can also created an aoe stun anywhere along that path.
Now that's not the only way that Agni can use his Path of Flames
early on you may see Agni clearing a wave with Path of Flames and what he should
be doing
or what you should be doing if you're using this to play Agni is walking back
to the archers
and use Path of Flames back through the melee minions.
What this will do is burn them over time and usually that's enough damage
added with a couple auto attacks which your gonna be using to build your passive
backup anyway
to clear an entire wave at like level one or two. Now thats only really a good strategy
early game or if Agni knows for a fact that he can do that safely.
If Agni uses his dash to clear a wave then you need to think very hard about taking
advantage of that
because he literally has no escape afterwords. Now that's not saying that he
doesn't have a ton to burst damage
or he can still stun you, but just know if Agni dash is down he is a very
vulnerable target now that's not saying there's not a right time to use Agnis dash
offensively. You need to be very careful if your at low-life against an Agni
because you dont realize how much ground he can cover in a
very short amount of time. He can Path of Flames toward you
and then use his ultimate to rain a meteor down on you from a very far distance away.
So just remember if Agni is at level 5 and you are low on health
you need to be very careful with how close you get to him. Now while we're on the
subject let's talk about his ultimate
Rain of Fire, we've already talked a little bit about how much sustain this
actually adds to him, so Im going to touch on that very shortly. If Agni has his
passive built up and Rains Fire down on the minions
it is going to deal a lot of damage to them and then burn them afterwards which
is probably going to come very close to clearing them
and he did that all with 0 mana. So not only can he do that from a safe distance
and he's got a dash that can get him out even further if he needs to,
all these things together make him a very strong god. Now also on top of all that
he can use his Noxious Fumes
in between, when he cast a meteor and when the meteor hits the ground
meaning that he can rain a meteor down from the sky, before that meteor hits
cast Noxious Fumes underneath where it's going to hit and create a stun explosion.
This is one of those intricate details that take you from going
ow man I can't get used to Agni, to ahhh now I get it.
So if you're wondering why you don't see Noxious Fumes on the ground and all the
sudden you see him casting a meteor on you and you get stunned from it
now you know how that's happening. Now all of that sounds like bad news if you're
playing against an Agni but there's a couple things about his ultimate that
you can actually take advantage of, first of as he's calling down the meteors from
the sky
he does stand still, so it's not like he can be running around the map while he's
casting meteors.
Now while he doesn't stand still for that long understand that is
always bad times when a mage has to stand still to use an ability.
Another thing a new player may not understand about his ult is that you
have to right click to cancel out of it
otherwise you will continually cast meteors until you run out
Now obviously if Agni has no meteors to cast on you, he is much
easier to handle. So if he accidentally gets stuck in his ult and cast all three
meteors at you and misses them all
you're in a pretty good spot. So for all of you who are watching this video trying to
get better at Agni
do remember if you just wanna cast one meteor you have to right click
after you've cue that ability up, so that you don't cast another
and last but not least let's talk about Agni's combo chain. If Agni is going to be
aggressive and try to kill you
odds are he's going to Path of Flames into you, uses his Noxious Fumes to stun you
while you're burning
throw down a Flame Wave hopefully with his passive prox so that it burns afterward
and then start raining meteors on you until you die.
Now if he goes through all of that combo and you're still not dead
you have a great opportunity to kill an Agni because literally
his entire kit is gone. He thought he could take advantage of you, he chose
poorly
an now his entire kit is on cooldown and he doesn't have a dash to get out.
So playing against an Agni can be very annoying, but if you pay attention
you can take advantage of poor decision making just like any other god
in the game. So there you have it guys hopefully these tips had helped you learn how to
play against an Agni.
Now maybe you won't..."sigh"
get burnt. Moving on uhh normally would move on to another class however
there are so many mages in the game we're gonna talk about
another mage next episode. So thanks for stopping by and hanging out with us guys hopefully
you learn something, hopefully you enjoyed yourself, and please come back next week
we're gonna be talking about Janus
The Roman God of Portals and Transitions
oddly specific ... Later Nerds <3