Pele

How to play Pele

Pele is a melee assassin from the Polynesian pantheon who deals physical damage. Top players play Pele in the Jungle.

In your kit, Eruption (area knock-up damage) is your main crowd control. Pyroclast (projectile damage, two charges) and Magma Rush (use fuel, move faster) add damage and pressure. Your ultimate is Volcanic Lightning (dash, attacks become cones), on a long cooldown (about 90s at rank 1), so save it for fights that matter. Your passive is Everlasting Flame: low health = +strength and +lifesteal.

Community guides level Magma Rush, Pyroclast and Eruption first. Max Pyroclast first, then Eruption, then Magma Rush, then Volcanic Rush.

Your job is to find and defeat a fragile target, usually the enemy mage or hunter. Do not start fights head on: wait for someone to use their escape or step out of position, then strike. In the jungle, clear your camps quickly and help other lanes by ambushing enemies who have used their escape.

Start with Hunter's Cowl, then buy Devourer's Gauntlet. Buy it early so it finishes stacking. Your core is Jotunn's Revenge and Barbed Carver, and you finish with The Reaper, The Crusher and Heartseeker. A good relic is Sundering Arc. If the enemy team heals a lot or you keep dying, open the full tool and enter the enemy gods for the exact swaps.

If you own Aspect of Obsidian, it reworks Everlasting Flame (low health = +protections), Pyroclast (projectile damage, grants fuel), Magma Rush (use fuel, move faster, heal) and Volcanic Lightning (dash, attacks become cones). It changes what to build, so turn on Aspect in the tool when you play it.

Top players win most often against Odin, Ix Chel and Ne Zha, and struggle against Hercules, Amaterasu or Kukulkan. Against those, play safer and consider a defensive item earlier.