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Janus Builds & Guides

Roman Mage Ranged Magical
Find the best Janus build guides for SMITE Patch 11.2. You will find builds for arena, joust, and conquest. However you choose to play Janus, The SMITEFire community will help you craft the best build for the S11 meta and your chosen game mode. Learn Janus' skills, stats and more.
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Year 11 Guides & Builds // Patch 11.3 & Patch 11.2

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Quick Janus Conquest Guide
by Kriega1 | Updated February 27, 2024
Guide In-Depth

Year 11 Guides & Builds // Other Patches

8.9
35 Votes 3
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Janus (Y11, 11.1) Conquest Mid Build
by ElLobezno | Updated February 16, 2024

Year 10 Guides & Builds

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portal smasher
by javiercubells | Updated October 18, 2023
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Janus SPL Builds
by DV-8 | Updated September 26, 2023
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Janus (10.9)
by JJustin | Updated September 5, 2023
8.9
47 Votes 7
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Burst Power (Very Strong and Fun)
by jonathanian | Updated July 27, 2023
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Janus 40% CDR
by HamsterBeast | Updated June 6, 2023
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Janus, The First Uber Driver (Y10)
by IllmaticXVII | Updated May 29, 2023
Guide In-Depth
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[10.4] Janus | JoShMiQueL Builds
by JoShMiQueL | Updated May 6, 2023
8.5
21 Votes 4
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Portal Master - Complete Janus Guide (Update 10.1)
by FinaruKamewamewa | Updated February 21, 2023
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Year 9 Guides & Builds

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Janus Sniper
by VinceyZ | Updated August 19, 2022
4
3 Votes 9
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Janus Breaks the Threshold : Lets Have Fun Series
by BeefJerkyyG | Updated February 23, 2022
8.5
57 Votes 10
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Build that has been working out for me with janus
by sLice099x | Updated February 7, 2022

Year 8 Guides & Builds

7.6
10 Votes 4
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Janus the Portal Machine
by Mizvkyy | Updated January 10, 2022
9.8
34 Votes 7
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Janus 13/11/21
by MigueLVallejoS | Updated November 13, 2021
7.2
10 Votes 5
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S8 Mid Conquest/Ranked
by BasedBerzerk | Updated April 20, 2021
6.3
5 Votes 4
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Янус руководство по сезону 8
by Janus and morrigan mein | Updated March 28, 2021
7.2
34 Votes 9
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Thinking with Portals: Janus guide for Season 8
by SmugLookingBarrel | Updated March 12, 2021
Guide In-Depth
7.2
62 Votes 12
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S8 - Janus - Conquest
by Moreton22 | Updated February 21, 2021

Year 7 Guides & Builds

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MID
by pxlse | Updated July 21, 2020
Favor: 5500 Gems: 200

Janus Statistics

560 (+74) Health
350 (+58) Mana
360 (+0) Speed
None Progression
55 (+0) Range
1 (+0.8) Attack / Sec
34 (+ 1.45) + 20% of Magical Power Damage

Janus Skills

Janus Skill Passages

PassagesPassive

Any time Janus transitions through a Portal or over a Threshold he becomes aged and wizened, gaining additional Magical scaling on his next ability cast.

Ability Type: Buff
Magical Scaling: 15%
Janus Skill Portal

Portal

1 X
Janus creates a portal in the world. If placed on a wall, the portal will create a passage through to the other side of the wall that Janus or any ally may use. The portal may be entered from either side, but closes after 1 use.

If placed on the ground, enemies and Janus will fall into the portal, being teleported into the air above it. Enemies take damage upon landing, and are considered banished during the fall.

Ability Type: Circle, Banish, Damage
Damage: 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 (+60% of your Magical Power)
Banish Duration: 1.5s
Wall Portal Duration: 5s
Wall Portal Range: 100
Range/Radius: 55/10
Cost: 70
Cooldown: 12s
Janus Skill Unstable Vortex

Unstable Vortex

2 A
Janus creates two tethered unstable portals, far too small to fit into, and flings them forward dealing damage to enemies in their path. Enemies hit by both portals take 15% damage on the second hit.

Ability Type: Area, Damage
Damage: 110 / 175 / 240 / 305 / 370 (+80% of your Magical Power)
Range: 70
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 9s
Janus Skill Threshold

Threshold

3 B
Passive: Janus increases the movement speed of himself and allies each time they go through a portal or over a Threshold (max. 2 Stacks).

Active: Janus opens a multi-dimensional rift. Enemies who pass over the rift are slowed, and marked with Phase. Targets in Phase take additional Magical scaling damage when hit by Janus' damaging abilities.

Ability Type: Line, Buff
Phase Slow: 25%
Additional Scaling: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60
Rift Duration: 3 / 3.5 / 4 / 4.5 / 5s
Movement Speed: 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20% per Portal
Passive Duration: 5s
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 13s
Janus Skill Through Space and Time

Through Space and Time

4 Y
Passive: Janus gains increased % Magical Penetration.

Active: Janus becomes CC Immune and blasts a ball of multi-dimensional energy across the battlefield, burning a portal into every surface it encounters within range 500. These portals last 10s, may be used by allies, and do not vanish after the first use.

Enemies hit take damage, increasing in Magical scaling the further the energy travels. Enemy gods cannot take more than 75% of their maximum Health as damage.

Ability Type: Line, Damage
Damage: 300 / 375 / 450 / 525 / 600 (+80% of your Magical Power)
Distance Scaling: 100% of your Magical Power at distance greater than 800
% Magical Penetration: 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20%
Range: Global
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 110s

Janus Lore

Many fear change. Venturing into the unknown. Deviating from a path of safety and certainty into something unexpected. But life is change; a journey through doorways both physical and emotional, with every moment a passage to something new, and it is Janus, God of Portals and Transitions that governs this.

Bearing two faces, Janus is ever looking to the future and to the past, knowing both but controlling neither. He is only the in-between, found in the changing of seasons, at the birth of a child, at the entrances to the temple and the tavern. For this reason the Romans named the first month after him: January – a portal between the old year and the new.

Yet the Roman emperors also attribute a strange tradition to Janus. At each end of his temple stand massive doors. In times of peace, these doors are closed, but in times of war, flung open. As Rome rose to power, rarely were these doors shut, but almost four hundred years of peace have clothed Rome since then and the temple has grown dusty with absence. These days, however, the doors are open once more. It seems war has returned, and the greatest of changes are upon us.

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