So, I got in this arena match yesterday, https://smite.guru/match/941913075 , and our nemesis dc'ed very early into the match. Even as early as a month ago I probably wouldn't have countered nearly as effectively as I did this match to compensate from my second item. I am sure a lot of you, if you take the time to look, would have gone different routes. It was also a -sr match, we were -12sr. I know a lot of you don't put a lot of stock in that, but usually when I am in those matches and look back at them, those are most of my more difficult matches.

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 mitigat…
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Okay, so i was just playing a joust game as Ares. This game was one of the few losses that I have had since jumping back in. Well, they got our Pheonix and prior to that the other two had been aggressively pushing near the other team's phoenix some time after we got their tower, but while i had lots of health, i had no mana, no trinket and they were barely at around half health and had almost no mana. I was playing with A Chaac and Vulcan.

My teammates kept pushing and i backed off and ported and went back to our tower. They pushed with me single on it with their minions and killed me and got our tower and it was too long on their timers so that is when they got our phoenix. My team came back and chased them off, and then decided they wanted to go for fire giant. Because i have seen it so many times before where the enemy team just bypasses while no phoenix for an easy titan kill i stayed right there for defense where the phoenix spawns, and one of them died and one of them was t…
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