Smite Ymir Build Guide: Move like a jungler, sting...harder than you should

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Smite God: Ymir

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Ymir Build

Finished build

Shoes of Focus

Chronos' Pendant

Polynomicon

Obsidian Shard

Soul Reaver

Rod of Tahuti

Spawn

Watcher's Gift

Healing Potion

Ward

Blink Rune

First back (asap)

Shoes

Magic Shoes

Shoes of Focus

Greater Blink

Second back ( cdr )

Lost Artifact

Restored Artifact

Chronos' Pendant

Third back ( lifesteal )

Tiny Trinket

Enchanted Trinket

Polynomicon

Penetration

Magic Focus

Spell Focus

Obsidian Shard

Extra mp+mana

Book of Souls

Spellbook

Soul Reaver

Extra mp

Lost Artifact

Restored Artifact

Rod of Tahuti

Jungle start

Bumba's Mask

Healing Potion

Ward

Blink Rune

Ymir's Skill Order

Ice Wall

1 X

3 15 16 18 19

Glacial Strike

2 A

1 4 7 10 11

Frost Breath

3 B

2 6 8 12 14

Shards of Ice

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

Updates/Edits

Latest patch

Alien Attack

Released: September 22nd 2015
Updated on: September 26th 2015

The changes that are listen under only effect this specific guide.

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With all these changes made to blink, the game-plan is changed, but only for the duration of the cooldown. This nerf was targeted towards junglers who already have high mobility , , because they could use this active to get into combat and then use their escape to get out of it. Nevertheless, these nerfs only affect the gameplay if you use to get out of trouble ( should be used for getting out of trouble), you will have some problems. If greater blink is used for engaging the enemy, so you can get closer instantly for your then, there are no problems with this nerf.

Introduction

Lore

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Ymir is a tank, and most people consider that he can only be built like that. Thankfully, that's not the case, this fat ice shard can do a lot more than just take hits for others. This build shows how a Ymir can be built for pure attack and destruction. Yes, it does leave him with out a lot of his protections, but he is a tank and can still take quite a beating before going down. Beware of CC chains as they will rip you apart (as they would anybody). So for the love of God (whichever one you like) don't bash the people you see trying to play a Ymir like this. It is not easy, the difficulty is average to medium hard, nothing too scary, but you need to give people time to adjust because you might just have one of the greatest matches ever.

Items

I have specifically picked these items for reduced cool down and more power for Ymir. Even tho in the end of the match you might have not done so much player damage you will still have a ton of kills because in a way you're acting as a fat assassin.

Watcher's gift

Price: 800
+100 Health
+5 Mp5

Passive

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Basic starter item for any tank/support, gives back health and mana allowing you to stay in lane longer, also the extra gold income helps you get your next items sooner.

Shoes of focus

Price: 1500
+15% CDR
+30 MP
+18% Movespeed

Perfect item for this Ymir build. As you have to have some shoes on these are just the thing. Giving you cooldown reduction that you need to spam your as much as you can for lane clear and for emergencies or attacks.

Greater blink

Price: 900
Cooldown: 45s

Active

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Great active to use especially for jungle Ymir. Allows you to move faster across the map and even gank (blink in) from the jungle. The short cooldown is what makes this better than the combat blink which is used more for escaping than engaging.

Chronos' Pendant

Price: 2400
+75 MP
+25 Mp5

Passive

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No need for too much explanation on this one, gives decent MP and the passive helps you to spam abilities more often.

Polynomicon

+75 MP
+10% Lifestel
+300 Mana

Passive

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Just the perfect thing to go along with Ymir's passive which gives 100% additional damage after using an ability. Which makes 160% extra damage on the next basic attack. Also this item gives lifesteal, again making you stay in lane even longer.

Obsidian shard

Price: 2050
+70 MP

Passive

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You've probably seen this on a lot of other mages, nothing to be really smart about here, gives magical power and magical penetration to help you tear trough protection on enemies.

Soul reaver

Price: 2940
+300 Mana
+100 MP

Passive

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If we set the high price of the item aside it gives more than decent MP plus the 15% damage. Also gives extra mana so your active is left for emergencies.

Rod of Tahuti

Price: 3320
+125 MP
+15 Mp5

Passive

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Pricy item, thus built last, gives more MP and some extra percents on top of that. One of the items that is used often on mages to deal decent amounts of damage.

Skills

Ymir is a melee magical guardian. So by default all of his abilities will either be around him or near him. He has no dashes, jumps or anything else that could help him move out of trouble faster, can be used, or . This makes Ymir a in your face God and he has to be played as one.

Frostbite

Frostbite dmg bonus: 100%
Ability type: Self buff
DOES NOT STACK

All of Ymir's abilities that affect enemies apply a debuff to the enemy called Frostbite. All of Ymir's basic melee strikes against a target afflicted by Frostbite do 100% more damage.

Ice Wall

Lifetime:2/3/4/5/6s
Ability Type: Ground Target
Cost: 60/65/70/75/80 Mana
Cooldown: 14s

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You should get this ability at level 3 and leave it like that until you max out your other abilities. The extra time of the wall is useless against enemy gods unless they are cornered. It gives you just enough time to move away from your enemy. The wall should be used after the enemy God has dashed towards you. Also, the wall can be jumped through ( , ) or jumped over ( ). It blocks off physical attacks but you can still be hit through it with stun, or you can use to freeze through it.

Glacial Strike

Damage:
90/160/230/300/370 (+70% magical power)
Slow: 35%
Slow duration: 4s
Ability type: Line
Cooldown: 8s
Cost: 55/60/65/70/75 Mana

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Ymir's main damage ability, with the selected items the cooldown drops to 3 seconds which allows you to literally spam it if needed. This ability has a tiny delay from activating it to it actually doing damage, while Ymir swings his giant Popsicle. So unless an enemy is stunned it should be planned ahead for the location of enemy so you don't miss the attack. When used with lifesteal on a minion wave gives some health back, but since Ymir has one of the best life scaling in Smite it might seem minor.

Frost breath

Damage:
50/90/130/170/210 (+50% magical power)
Stun: 1.25/1.5/1.75/2/2.25 s
Ability type: Cone
Cooldown: 18s
Cost: 60/65/70/75/80 Mana

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Ymir's stun ability, perfect for setting up for yourself or any other teammate. If your enemy is low on health or has no dashes or jumps you can combine this with your ult and do more than a decent amount of damage.

Shards of ice

Damage:
500/650/800/950/1100 (+150% magical power)
Slow: 30%
Ability type: Area
Radius: 35
Cooldown: 90/85/80/75/70 s
Cost: 80/90/100/110/120 Mana

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Ymir ult is just that, an ult. It does insane amounts of damage and it can do it to multiple enemies at once. In combination with ult or ult it is even better. Actually any stun can help Ymir ( even ) to destroy the opposition. Honestly, very, very rarely will you be able to fire off your ult at it's full potential, but still you can get good kills with it.

Pros / Cons

Pros

high damage
can jungle
can even go adc (Yes I tried this)
high mobility

Cons

squishier than usual
no escapes
ult can be evaded
can be killed during ult charging

Creeping / Jungling

If you decide to go jungle Ymir there are a few things you need to know. First of all instead of you need to get as it's one of the usual jungle starter items. Don't bother getting rage of gods or wrath of gods because you can put out enough damage. Instead of getting meditation first, get so you can move around faster and gank easier. Like any jungler you need to announce your ganks to your team especially because you are a huge ice shard that (at least in the beginning) moves really, really slow. If you haven't already, try this as soon as you can because it is tons of fun.

Team Work

As I already mentioned, you do not have as many protections as you usually do, so now you should not, I repeat, should not go into the middle of a teamfight all willy-nilly. You need to be careful, and (sometimes) point out to your team that you will not be doing the tanking but the damage. I've seen enough people who cannot conclude (by the items bought) that you are squishier than usual.
All that aside, if you have a good team build with several other gods who have Aoe abilities like , or even you will be fine with good team work.

Works good paired with

Should stay away from

Odin (can't escape ulti)
Loki (when low on health)
Awilix

Summary

This concludes my guide for damage Ymir.
If built properly, with proper team work this build can be used in any position and in any occasion - solo, support, adc (yes adc), jungle, even mid, even tho I would not recommend the last option as it's really hard to play it without any protections and minimum escapes. Hope this build makes you happy as it made me the first time I tried this "crazy" idea. You have the full liberty to adjust the build and change any parts of it if you think it will benefit your gameplay. Also any new ideas, comments and improvements are welcomed very gladly as I wish to improve this guide as time passes.

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I personally used this build for Seige/Conquest/Arena/and Clash. Did amazingly well every game and even had 0 deaths in all but arena (Got super focused after being an annoyance). Great build :D

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This is a very well written guide deserving of a +1

... and then I saw that you put in meditation -_- ... please just no. Buy 5 mana pots if you're that worried about it. You'll get more mana early game from doing this, and you won't be locked into an active that's bad late.

Ymir needs blink for sure, and he wants something else too, there are so many better actives, locking in to med is just a shot in the foot for your team. , , etc...

Ok, rant over. I like this guide a lot, still getting +1 Good job :)

I wasn't even sure about it myseld.
There quick edit over the phone :D

Thank you fine sir

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Table of Contents

Updates/Edits

Introduction

Items

Skills

Pros / Cons

Creeping / Jungling

Team Work

Summary

Move like a jungler, sting...harder than you should

Smite God: Ymir

Ymir Build

Finished build

Spawn

First back (asap)

Second back ( cdr )

Third back ( lifesteal )

Penetration

Extra mp+mana

Extra mp

Jungle start