I made the decision very early to go aura protections to help my team because I figured being a member down we needed the extra group protections more than anything else. We ended up making a big push at the end and only ended up losing by 51 points and had gotten within about 30 at one point. My totals were not sexy 5/5/12 but we had to do a lot of running, pushed a mino or two through, and just kept hanging in there. I did mitigate 87k and took 51k damage and was tanking like crazy for my team. I came sooooooo close on so many other kills, but I had to pull back a lot because they were covering really well for each other.
I was patient and carefully chose spots to engage and support my team and even though it was a loss, it is one of my matches I am most proud of just because I feel like building like I did helped us hang in there until the end and at one point had a slim shot to over take them. Normally in 5-6 we get completely blasted by 200-250 points.
I know it's just arena and a lot of people are like "who cares", but thank you to everyone who has been talking strategy and giving me different suggestions and for just helping me evolve my game to the point where I can successfully counterbuild(although until I learn all the different gods kits it is still sort of hit or miss at times).
Anytime i have seen discussions about Exe it has seemed that i keep seeing it's kind of a waste if you don't get it with qin's, so that is why i didn't consider it, I also wanted to keep adding defense through the build as I kept going, until i got the pen at the end. I don't even know why i didn't get reinforced greaves. lol. I guess I just get locked so into the ninja tabi i never went back and changed after the person dc'ed. Thanks for the input.
lol. yeah, I thought about it, but even with no health add I felt like shifter's was the better play to try to help close more plus to be more beefy in bad situation and with the nike pest I wanted to add pen since I was holding up well at that point.
yeah, like I mentioned, one of those situations I didn't know enough about nike and she kept causing problems. My initial play was going to just be to get SCS. The info on exe is nice to know and thinking about it, makes since because it plays into her kit's strengths, as opposed to Titan's. I just got stuck on the negativity I saw about not running qin's when you run exe.
I haven't used crusher that much on her, will have to do so more often.
yeah I normally go straight tank until the last item, maybe the last 2 depending on the match and sometimes will still get 3 offensive items depending on match flow. I will still usually start pretty tanky, because sometimes having another guardian/war means nothing in arena. lol. With working on my guide when i can here and there I am really jumping back on her to examine everything again.
I mean at its core, aside from very new players who don't bother to read the full descriptions or don't consider what they are getting/giving up, everything for a tank is counterbuilding at some level. Sort of how there are builds, like Boogie's Jorgumandr build, that differentiate between standard and selfish tank setups and such. It may not seem like much of a counter build but you still have to consider the situation. there were still different options to go through in this match.
I could have gone with some standard physical/magical specific counters since it was more of a balanced group, but I also had to consider that we were down one person and so there were more opportunities for double, triple teams etc on my team because of that. When i first started I would probably have gone all selfish tank items and my team would have not had any support.
If I had picked specific counters, then I wouldn't be accounting for the lopsided matchups. I might have gotten items that would have helped part of my team but the auras from Thebes, Heartward, and Sov were what i figured gave us the best chance for survival. I mean it might seem mundane and standard for you, since you have probably played since launch.
There were a lot of different ways I could have went to try and counter, but just because I felt like a simple counter was the one i needed to go with, doesn't make it any less a counter.
I almost over thought it and would have come up with some kind of wacky build(although i know you feel it was a bit due to the comment on Titan's. I didn't even buy that until I sold my shoes at the end.). The only reason I got titan's was because i wasn't really checking builds because i was zoned in on getting out to support my team and they seemed to be having a lot of trouble with the nike and she was sustaining very well(I also only very recently bought her and looked over her kit so I don't really have much to go on how she works. I even stated in my blog post that until I get that information down for more gods "it is sort of hit or miss at times"). From the beginning I wanted to help curb damage from physical and magical for my whole team, so I was not interested in other counters than that until the end and Nike continued to be such a thorn in their side.
For a good while after I just started playing Smite in that same match we would have been absolutely blitzkrieged like a typical 6 on 5. We still lost, but I was able to help give our team a shot at least, even if it was with a SIMPLE counter.