Khepri is a very useful support guardian, with excellent skills in group control, reviving allies and reducing damage.

Skills:

Passive - Fortitude: applies a health shield to himself and nearby allies. If he takes or causes damage, the interval between shields increases from 5 to 10 seconds.

Skill 1 - Abduct: Khepri moves forward, dealing magic damage until he reaches an enemy. When he reaches the opponent, he grabs him and pulls him back, silencing the enemy during this pull and also acquiring physical and magical protections while he is pulling.

Skill 2 - Rising Dawn: this is a skill cast in a forward line, rolling the sun, so that all enemies hit are set on fire. This fire causes magical damage and reduces the enemies' physical protections, while mitigating damage to allies. At the maximum distance the sun reaches, it sets and explodes, casting the effects again, now in an area.

Skill 3 - Solar Flare: a solar explosion is launched at a location, generating magical damage in an area and rooting the enemies hit.

Ultimate - Scarab's Blessing: Khepri casts a blessing on an ally that makes them immune to crowd control effects and slowdowns, while also gaining movement speed, strength and intelligence for 5 seconds. But the main thing is that if this ally dies while blessed, they will be revived.

With regard to skill leveling, I think the ideal is Skill 2 > Skill 1 > Skill 3.

Some items that I consider essential for a support build are: Heroism, to increase allies' survival time and mobility; Ruinous Ankh, very useful for those teams that have a lot of healing; Prophetic Cloak; Spirit Robe, very good for avoiding group control for a while.

A few tips: playing with Khepri, you won't be doing much on the front line, so try to stay close to your team and support them. Also avoid initiating attacks, focus more on counterattacking. Try to use the ultimate when you see that an ally is very close to dying, especially one who is actively threatening the enemy. Playing Khepri isn't easy, but with time and practice you can get better at it.

Like any guide to the gods, I like to understand the context in which that god has applied himself in real life, and whether his gameplay kit fits in with what we see in the game.

Story:

Khepri is mainly associated with Egyptian mythology, in which he is mainly associated with the sun, some places I've seen that the scarab, when carrying balls of dung is compared to the forces that make the sun move, while in other research I've seen him directly associated with the power of the sun and its daily rebirth, “rolling” it at the end of the day (Got that rolling?).

At stake:

I think he's an excellent support, since he unites several defensive aspects in one kit, with group control, shields, damage mitigation and reviving companions.

Skills:

Passive - Fortitude: Every two seconds you gain shield and nearby allies

Skill 1 - Abduct: Advance in a straight line and grab onto the first god that attacks, pulling it back to its original position.

Skill 2 - Rising Dawn: Khepri rolls the sun forward (here a reference to the god in real mythology, amazing right?) everyone hit by the sun catches fire, allies receive damage mitigation.

Skill 3 - Solar Flare: Summons a solar attack, dealing damage and rooting enemies.

Ultimate - Scarab's Blessing: Choose an ally to be “blessed”, if they die while blessed, they will be revived. The blessing lasts 5 seconds and they are purified from group control.

Build:

Like all my smite posts, I like to follow ready-made builds, I don't feel able to master all the gods and state what is fully best for everyone, so I recommend people who have full mastery, here's my recommendation:

Frgotenpower on Tacter

Khepri is one of the most useful supports in the entire game if used correctly. His ability to pick an enemy carry thanks to his 1 and to be able to save an ally from death thanks to his ultimate make him a god who can contribute a lot both offensively and defensively.

Abilities

Passive: Fortitude

Over time, Khepri generates a shield for himself and his allies who are in an area near him, being able to stack several shields at the same time if the allies stay near Khepri for a long time. This ability is very useful, especially in the early game, to be able to fight better in the lane.

1 Skill: Abduct

Khepri dashes forward, striking the first enemy god in his path before grabbing it and pulling it back. During the time Khepri is pulling the enemy god he gains physical and magic resistances. This ability is great for picking off an enemy god so your team can deal damage to it more easily.

2 Skill:Rising Dawn

Khepri launches a projectile forward that passes through and deals damage per second to enemies it hits, as well as lowering their defenses by a percentage. If this ability hits an allied god, it will grant them a percentage damage mitigation buff. When the projectile reaches its maximum distance, it will explode after a few seconds, applying the same effect.

3 Skill:Solar Flare

Kephri causes a beam of light to fall at a location in front of him, dealing magic damage and rooting enemies it hits. This is a very good ability to combo with his 1 since you're practically guaranteed to be able to hit him if you root him first.

4 Skill: Scarab's Blessing

Probably the most important ability in his kit. Khepri blesses an ally for a period of time giving them movement speed, if the ally dies while they have the blessing, they will revive and appear next to Khepri. The downside of this ability is that even if an ally is blessed they can still die thanks to an execution like the one from the ultimate of Tanathos, Sobek or Achilles.

Skill order

Builds

Khepri is only useful in the Support role so I will leave a fairly viable basic build for that role.

Support

Here's my full video guide on Khepri!

Khepri The dawn bringer

Khepri is a support god specialized in saving and protecting his team, as he has a set of skills that allow him to be a great help in team fights, to avoid or generate kills, help escape and waste time if necessary.

Abilities

• Passive: Khepri applies a 2% health shield to himself and nearby allies every 5 seconds. If Khepri is damaged in any way, the 5 second interval increases to 10 seconds.

• First ability (abduct): Khepri launches himself in a straight line to capture, trap and pull back an enemy god, If there is a Minion or enemy that is not a god in the middle, Khepri will pass through it and deal damage

  The ability scales with intelligence alone by 40%, also silences the trapped god and increases Khepri's protections during the ability when capturing a god.

• Second ability (Rising dawn): Khepri throws a sun in a straight line that deals damage to enemies it touches, this attack passes through all enemies until it ends its path.

  This ability deals damage per tick at 0.3 second intervals 11 times in total, scales with 5% intelligence and this ability has 2 ways to be used. The first is against enemy gods, when Khepri uses this ability against enemy gods, receive a reduction in physical defense in % that increases according to the level of the skill and can also be used in favor of allied gods, when using the skill on your allies, they gain Damage mitigation in % that increases with the skill level and these effects last 3 seconds in total.

• Third ability (Solar flare): Khepri summons a beam of sunlight that descends and hits enemies, dealing damage and leaving them rooted or unable to move.

  This ability scales with 30% intelligence and the root duration starts at 1.25 seconds and increases as the ability levels up.

• Fourth ability (Scarab's blessing): Khepri blesses an allied god with the blessing of revival, in case a god dies with the blessing on, he will revive and be teleported to Khepri's location.

  Blessed Gods will receive: Movement speed, strength, intelligence, immunity to slow and if they have it, they will be cleansed of CC or Crowd control effects. If the ally revives, they will gain permanent 2 points of protection for both protections and this Buff stacks

• Basic Attack: Khepri deals magic damage, if there are multiple enemies in the area, the enemy closest to the center will be hit and Khepri hits with a sequence of 3 basic hits ending in a swing.

  Basics scale with 120% strength and 100% intelligence

• Aspect: Khepri's first ability (abduct) will no longer pull an enemy god, it will pass through the god and leave them rooted in place if hit, taking constant basic damage during that time.

Build

This god is a support and does not have many possible variations, therefore I will show you the support build that I use with said character, as well as optional items that depend on the situation.

These are the optional items that you can use depending on the enemy gods you got, these items have actives that help counteract certain gods.

How to play

Khepri is a god who bases his gameplay on being aware of others and always helping them.

My recommendations for playing khepri are basic

• -Take advantage of your passive to generate a health shield for your allies while you push or just wait to give them an advantage over the enemy when it comes to a fight.

• -Use the abdcut to either pull an enemy to kill him, or to pull him to prevent an ally from being killed, or to escape from being killed, or just to annoy and waste time.

• -The second ability is perfect for harassing enemy gods and lowering their defenses for a fight, also before entering a fight to buff your allies and is a great pushing tool

• -The third ability, being ranged and targeted, is very useful for attacking an enemy by surprise, leaving them rooted to fight or escape, or simply annoying them.

• -The ulty or fourth ability is extremely useful in fights since you can buff an allied god to fight without fear of dying by giving him buffs or in such a case save a god from death. Remember This ability is not only for saving but can also be used for fighting and it is worth remembering that it can be used on oneself.

Conclusion

Khepri is a character purely for playing support and helping the games, it is a perfect character for those players who want to save, help and protect their allies.

It is also an easy character to use in case you are starting and want to play support, it is a perfect option.