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Warrior Tabi
Jotunn's Wrath
Void Shield
Bloodforge
Hydra's Lament
Magi's Cloak
Hand of the Gods
Ward
Sentry Ward
Purification Beads
Boots
Bumba's Mask
Ward
Multi Potion
Hand of the Gods
Purification Beads
Warrior Tabi
Ward
Mana Potion
Jotunn's Wrath
Void Shield
Hide of the Urchin
Breastplate of Regrowth
Gauntlet of Thebes
Genji's Guard
Magi's Cloak
Runic Shield
Spirit Robe
Shifter's Shield
Bloodforge
Brawler's Beat Stick
Titan's Bane
Transcendence
Heartseeker
Blink Rune
Phantom Veil
Aegis Amulet
Cursed Ankh
Elixir of Power
Sentry Ward
Potion of Power
Healing Potion
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Known as EpilepticRabbit or tradtrad100 amongst the online community I have written numerous guides for league of legends champions such as Tahm Kench, which received 1 million views, a guide for Trundle which has 600k views, I would say that I am in a good place to start, for a God build in Smite.
An avid player of ranked I reached Plat 1 in League of Legends I went from Bronze 3 to plat 1 in 3 seasons, before moving over to Smite where I hope to do the same.
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Magi's Blessing
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Sanctuary Phantom |
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A short extract from his lore telling the story of 
Xbalanque and the death of his twin Hunahpu.
Bat Out of Hell makes him immune to crowd control
Bumba's Mask: This item is what you want to buy since you will be jungling, it is essential as it gives you and gold for shared jungle clears and that is very important for getting gold at the start, in addition it means you will be able to tank more hits for your laner in the jungler and helps you sustain in general when jungling.
Warrior Tabi: These boots are quintessential over all the other boots available, due to the nature of your kit which gives you 4 damaging abilities you need as much physical power as possible.
Jotunn's Wrath: There's a reason why this item is staple on almost every physical damage God, it is because it gives a perfect mixture of stats from cooldown, damage, armour penetration and even mana which is awesome. You will want to buy this every game
Void Shield: This item is very strong against physical teams and is good in early skirmishes since it reduces damage from enemy auto attacks in addition to their hunter, jungler and usually solo. It is also a pseudo armour penetration which you don't have to be too close to proc so it will increase your damage dealt indirectly.
Shifter's Shield: Another staple item on warriors and fighters as it switches it's usefulness depending on your health, hence the name. This is good because it allows you to fight when you need and defend when you need giving a nice mixture of stats, however you may want to build a cloak with this.
Hydra's Lament: This is cheap and causes heavy damage in early game as well as scaling into late game due to it's passive, in addition to that beautiful mana regeneration which you will run quite low on due to your ability kit.
Bloodforge: I personally like this item due to the clutch nature, you can kill someone get a shield, some movement speed and bail out. The lifesteal it gives is very useful, however what you buy this for is the immense 75 physical damage it gives which is monster.
Transcendence: This item is good if acquired early as you can scale it quite well, once you buy 
Morningstar you can still build it into Hydra's Lament if you start falling behind or just choose not to build it, however it does give quite a bit of physical damage, especially with Jotunn's Wrath and Hide of the Urchin who's mana(s) contributes to the damage.
Genji's Guard: This is good if they have an 
Ao Kuang in the jungle or a triple magic damage composition. It is also very good in trades involving the enemy midlaner.
Runic Shield: A great anti mage item as it reduces their strength and their attack speed. This means that they are less effective than you in every way, in addition to this it gives you more physical power.A perfect item when they have a mage like 
Ra in the solo lane or 
Chronos/
Freya in the carry role.
Heartseeker: A perfect item for when your behind, it is very cheap, and if you play correctly you can use it's power spike to your advantage to try and pull yourself back into the game with it. The power buff works nicely with your Vampire Bats buff from buff holding monsters.
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Magi's Blessing
| Magi's Blessing is one of my favourite defensive items, this is because not only does it stop the crowd control that it going to hit you, but also gives you 1s of cc immunity, this may not seem like a lot but especially at lower levels where players just stack cc instead of chaining it, you have a good chance of mitigating more than one spells crowd control effect. Late in the game this can keep you alive if you misstep, however the downside is that it is quite weak in terms of raw stats and it won't save you if you do get caught.A tip is to always let it go down before using Purification. | ||
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Spirit Robe is pretty good of a solo defensive item due to the passive, however it works even better when paired with one of the other cloaks, it gives you indispensable crowd control reduction as well as cooldown reduction which can help you hit the cap of %40 (With Jotunn's Wrath and Hydra's Lament The damage mitigation after crowd control is very useful with Magi's Blessing and the stats go well with Hide of the Urchin. | |||
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Hide of the Urchin is situational, the thing is it works very well if you are falling behind and can't quite get those kills, since you may get assists with your other spells or just a proximity assist, however it does cost quite a bit and the items that build into it are quite expensive for t2 items. It does give the best raw stats however which are only improved further by getting assists. The mana will contribute to damage with Transcendence. The downside is that as an assassin you are lumping quite a bit of your early gold into defenses and going down this path usually means you will have to build a second defensive item and play like an offtank | |||
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Thor or 
Thanatos. This means that you starve them of gold and experience which they could've been getting if they got the kill or just kept farming the jungle. And I can tell you from first hand experience how annoying it is when I bother to walk all the way to a lane and they just sit at tower and then I have to walk back losing even more time. It's all about mind games.
Essence Drinker (Passive)
Screech (1)
Vampire Bats (2)
Sun Wukong's Magic Cudgel in the way that you can change adjust the direction of the projectile after being casted.
Devour (3)
Bat Out of Hell (4)
Essence Drinker is why your sustain is so high, you have a built in 5% lifesteal and self healing increase, in addition any deaths by any Gods on either team spawn a pool at the place of death which you can heal on if you move around, this can restore up to 20% of your life and mana, if you stand still this regeneration becomes quicker. These pools stack so if you stand on 2 at the same time you get double the healing.
Camazotz you want to try and land your 2 on buff camps at least once to get the physical power and lifesteal buffs. When fighting someone who you will fight you bad start with your Vampire Bats (2) so that you can bank on your heal to help you, it will also be able to be used twice in longer fights, note that this stops on first target hit including minions and jungle camps, so you may have to use your Devour (3) to land it safely. Vampire Bats (2) is that while it packs a punch, it heals you and it can give you a buff, it is very hard to land as it is a linear, thin skillshot which stops upon first target hit. This means that if mispositioned even slightly and you lose a massive portion of damage. Consider backing out of a fight if you miss this. Devour (3) and then apply your Screech (1) and try to catch it, which will allow you to see the enemy like if they were standing on a ward, this should also reveal invisible units, however I haven't tested this yet. Then you can use your Vampire Bats (2) and follow with your ult Bat Out of Hell (4) Bat Out of Hell (4) to come into the lane around a wall. You may want to tell your laner to initiate a fight and pull them towards your tower so you can move in behind them while auto attacking them whenever you can, however BEWARE OF MINION AGGRO.
As with every character there will always be some downfalls and things that counter you, which is why you need to be wary of these, and how to counter or avoid them if necessary.
Now given that you are a character who relies on healing you can expect someone on the enemy team to get Curse, Brawler's Beat Stick or 
Divine Ruin. This means you should know when to fight or avoid them. Sprint is good vs Curse, especially for your team as it negates the slow portion. Gauntlet of Thebes partially counters the healing debuffs.
Another problem is your lack of mobility and cc, and therefore stickiness. This means you must be behind the enemy when ganking to give you some extra time to decide your plan of action, if you already don't have one. This also makes it harder to escape as you cannot jump walls or get that far away, but you can cancel some crowd control with Bat Out of Hell.
Another thing you should watch out for is enemy wards. You should be especially careful when ganking, counter jungling, or doing objectives in the jungle. Try to get your laners to drop a pink ward in the enemies jungle/behind them on the side of the lane which simultaneously wards both. Worst case scenario buy one yourself, and you may discover a ward, kill it and rush in; or come back later when you know it isn't warded. You get 50g for killing a ward so that means sentry wards actually cost 70 gold if you destroy and enemy ward. This cost becomes even less insignificant if you kill the enemy laner.
Great thanks to:
Branmuffin17 - For indepth review of guide, giving help with BBCoding and replying to messages swiftly to help improve the guide as quickly as possible.#
Change Log:
13/06/2016 - Updated divider links as they were taken down on site which I uploaded them to. Added new descriptions "The Cloaks" and "Things to watch out for" sections. Updated item build, build paths, descriptions and coding.
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Can tell you're familiar with guide-making, and welcome to SF. What you think of Smite compared to LoL?
With regard to your build...well, understand that I haven't even played him yet, so my feedback and opinion doesn't have any direct experience on him behind it.
That said, here are the basic points as I see it:
Camazotz is definitely an ability-based Assassin. Hence you considering 
Jotunn's Wrath and 
Hydra's Lament as core items. With this in mind, although crit items often provide good power (e.g. 
Malice and 
Deathbringer), they're probably not the best idea for this god. Including 
Warrior Tabi, that's 3 item slots taken up already. You'll want more focused penetration from some item, and at least 1 protection item is important for most Assassins...so I just don't see them fitting well.
- Further to the crits, usually, to max DPS from crits, you want
Deathbringer as the 2nd crit item. If you DO build crits, I thus would probably not suggest the combo you list. Since it looks like he only has 1 CC ability (and it's only soft CC slow), 
Poisoned Star might be functional, though its crit chance and power are lower...still, the passive damage decrease can also be helpful if you do need to duke it out while abilities are on CD.
- I'd suggest
Jotunn's Wrath as the 2nd item, definitely before 
Hydra's Lament. Although it's a bit more expensive, it's going to be more functional early...it'll be your first item with any penetration, and the 5% higher CDR, although minor, is useful. More specifically, though, I suggest 
Hydra's Lament be delayed a bit (maybe 4th or 5th item? I dunno) because the extra damage it provides from the passive is more functional the more power you have. Earlier in the build, that extra damage won't be too much. If you'd really want the CD, you could consider getting 
Hydra's Star 3rd, then working on another item before finishing it as 
Hydra's Lament...it's only 1,000 gold so is pretty efficient, cost-wise, and provides 10% CDR and a weaker version of the passive.
- Lifesteal...I'm not sure how necessary or good this is for him. He's already got 2 abilities with a bit of healing, and all physical lifesteal items require basic attacks to get the benefit, while this build is focusing mostly on abilities.
Bloodforge is also really expensive, and can put you behind at that stage of the game. Yes, the power is great, and the blood shield can help keep you alive after you get a kill...but think there might be better items for him at this stage of the game. Make sense?
- Penetration: You have
Void Shield in your example build as item #5. Although it's pricey, this is a great item in the early-mid game, though the stats tend to fall off a bit in the late game...the power and protection are good, but the passive 20 protection reduction is pretty low at that point. That + Jotunn's (combining essentially for an effect equivalent to 30 pen) may be fine if you're attacking glass cannon Mages and Hunters, but you're going to find significantly reduced damage vs. anyone building some protections. If you do build this, it should probably be as item #2 or 3, specifically to counter a physical Jungler + other enemies. Otherwise, you should probably consider a strong solo pen item like 
Titan's Bane.
- Protections: Your protections consist of
Void Shield (previously mentioned) and Magi's Blessing. Combined, you'll get blown away by a Mage, as unfortunately Magi's just doesn't provide much magical protection at all. I've heard Cama is best when he's got some protections, sort of like how people build 
Thanatos. Thus, I would then suggest considering a single balanced protection item like 
Hide of the Urchin. It's the strongest all-around protection item with both good magical and physical protection, along with some health to increase your total effective health. I understand you liking Magi's for the passive Purification effect...and if you really value that and find it effective, by all means use it.
Based on all of that...well, I'm not trying to write the guide, and am not looking to offend...and again, don't have direct experience with him...so take with a grain of salt...but this would probably be how I'd build him standard...
Bumba's Mask + 
Boots + potions
Warrior Tabi
Jotunn's Wrath
Hydra's Star
Hide of the Urchin- Finish Star as
Hydra's Lament
Titan's Bane- Sell Bumba's, get
Brawler's Beat Stick or 
Bloodforge or 
Shifter's Shield
Curious to see what you think here. In any case, hope this helps!Yes I will work on removing the critical strike build since it does seem to be pretty inefficient, overall, since I did do quite well with them over some games but they seemed to be anomalies.
Reviewing what I put as the item's I will agree that
However I will firmly stick with my choice of Magi's Blessing over
That's how Magi's Blessing is better. On the other hand if your solo laner or Guardian are relatively squishy you may have to build
Lastly the reason why I didn't put
As always, thanks for the review :)
EpilepticRabbit.
I can appreciate you sticking to your guns with Magi's, and your explanation is solid. I'm still not sure I'd build it on him in most situations, but at that point, it's personal preference...I just almost never build that item.
Not sure how it might fit in, but been hearing that Shield of Regrowth is also a functional item on him, since 2 of his abilities proc the passive. If you did build it, thinking it would take the place of
Anyway, appreciate your positive attitude and for contributing to the site!