Smite Item: Transcendence

Well, trans objective is offer power and a huge mana pool, so, if your hunter rely on abilities (not necessary too much like Chiron does, can be a hybrid too like Cupid), you build trans. Yeah, trans may offer a boxing potential but, mid to late game devo LS is much more helpful if you don't rely on skills. And to finish, your support hardly ever affect your build, so no, if you don't have an hybrid/ability based hunter, keep going with devo.

No, it's for boxing all game, and sustain if there is thorns on the enemy team or you're building crit into Nemean Lion. Or, it can be paired with Asi for even more sustain, but that's dependent on if you don't need Titan's Bane (if building crit/fail-not with Devos).

Not really. It doesen't really affect your item choices.



It's mainly question of whether you're using a hunter who relies on abilities vs. a hunter who relies mainly on autos.

Ullr, Neith, and Chiron are all ability based gods. Ullr's stance switch does give him a passive of increased AS. However all of these gods have hard hitting abilities. It is beneficial for you to amplify that with high power items like transcendence, and other power/pen items. Think titans bane, crusher, etc. A good way to think of this is you're a physical mage.

AA based hunters include gods like Rama, Jing Wei, & Artemis. These gods have some AS steroid or some other amplification to their autos. Also their abilities don't necessarily have a lot of damage (though this varies per hunter). They need AS and lifesteal. Thus devos is important.

And there are some cases where a god can go either, e.g. Chernobog (but which one you go with is affected by role and matchups).

Knowing the exact amount of power you get from Transcendence at any point of time is not useful.

Here are the facts about this item
- It is the item that will give you the most power in the game (and apparently it's not going to change in Season 4)
- It gives you between 300 - 1050 more mana depending of the stacks.
- The % power from mana is more relevant from your base mana than from items. (Ex: Jotunn's Wrath = 4 power, Breastplate of Valor = 9 power).
- Stacking the item completely gives you 22 more power.

Therefore, all you need to know is
- This item can solve your mana issues if you buy it early game.
- This item is OK early game, but is more potent late game.
- Stacking is not that mandatory, so picking it as 6th item can still be a viable option.
- DPS wise, power is often eclipsed by other stats, like Penetration, Crit % and attack speed (depending of the god).

Sorry, but this is... fairly inaccurate. Serqet's mana pool at level 20 is 1040 not 1840, and you need to include Transcendence in the build (ie: Replace Jotunn's Wrath so subtract another 150 mana).

Your equation (which doesn't need the extra parenthesis) then reads:
35+(0.03(15(50)+300+1040+400)) = 109.7 physical power.

You can generally expect about 100 power from Transcendence on hunters and assassins at level 20. Building another mana item (like Breastplate of Valor) will increase this number, but it's also slightly less efficient since your mana needs are already taken care of for the most part by Transcendence alone.

Uhm. "Assuming this build" - that build doesn't even have Transcendence to begin with...

I doubt anybody would care enough to actually do the maths to calculate how much power their Trans provides them, just that it does.

But I do like the way you presented it though.