One punch Mercury

This is my first guide and build on SMITEFire, but I'll try to make it the best I can.

Mercury is an assassin that works well with critical power, or attack speed, but I prefer critical. The highest damage I have done was about 1800, but the enemy probably had zero protections, and was just squishy. But hey, if you can do that much on a player without protections, you'll probably do good damage on other players.

So in my build, you get the Warrior Tabi for mobility and power, but if you want more attack speed go with ninja tabi.



Next, is the Hydra's Lament. This is for total power so that you can do damage all the way up to end game, and it just makes it a LOT better. However, this only takes effect when you do an ability first, so either hit them with Made You Look, or Special Delivery first.



Then, I have Rage. Rage semi-early game can be good because you can get those criticals in. Rage is only good for a certain amount of time though before it starts to lose it affect, so later, you should switch it out with a different crit item.



After that, is Bloodforge. With almost any assassin, you should get some kind of life steal, and with this you will get power too, so you can just keep adding those layers of juicy power.



Then the last two, Malice and Deathbringer are the conclusion to my build because with these two, your critical hits will skyrocket up.

These items will get you to very high power stats, when you crit, however some of the items are pretty pricey, so make sure you get enough kills to get the gold.

Pros
fast
high damage
great boxer (1v1)

cons
kinda squish
vulnerable to stuns