Thoughts 2 weeks back into Smite :: Zilby's Blog

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So been playing fairly consistently the past 2 weeks having gotten back into Smite, so I thought I'd share some thoughts I've been having (idk maybe someone will find this entertaining or something coming from someone who hasn't played for like 3 years).

More has stayed the same than changed. I'm sure that for most of you this will probably come as no surprise. Sure the jungle and maps have changed and there are new gods and whatnot, but good build practices have remained (from what I can tell) more or less the same, and the same old strategies still seem to work overall. Although selling boots for a potion is pretty dang weird.
I thought I would be worse. Like really, scroll back in my match history to see my first games coming back, my winrate definitely shouldn't be above 50%. Is matchmaking in Smite just so bad that they pair me with people consistently below my skill level? Idk, I don't get it, but it's hecka fun to wipe the floor with these players.
I (surprisingly) don't find myself interested in the new content. I used to look forward to every new character, but now I find myself exclusively playing old favorites and annoyed when I go up against something I'm not familiar with. I'm slowly working through all the new gods in jungle practice but my lord, this game needs a smaller roster.
How has it been three years and yet still no one knows to buy beads against Ares and Fenrir, or aegis against Poseidon. Also I love the fact that you now start out with a free ward ability, but it just makes it that much more sad when still discover teammates that go the whole game only placing like 1-2 wards. They're free. Use them. Smh.
On that note, dang there are still some really toxic players out there in this game! I truly can't understand people that go the whole game berating someone when our team is winning. It's crazy. I think my favorite was this one guy DC'd for part of one game, and came back after like 5 minutes. Then I have him in my next game where a different guy DCs and doesn't come back. As we surrender I say "What can you do, gg," to the chat and he replies "Report him," and I'm just thinking like '***** you just did the same thing!' Overall though most people are nice haha.
I still have no intent on fully rejoining this site, but I may browse a guide once in a while. As much fun as I've been having just playing the game, I'm still a bit concerned that my ADC builds are literally 3 years old (though they still seem to work somehow).

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Jup, most moba's don;t change that much, same goes for LoL. selling boots thing was not that weird for me tbh, however I was used to LoL were boots would get dropped for an item if games dragged on that long.

I feel smite uses some kind of MMR decay, I had the same thing, also could have been the better players got replaced by worse ones so the MMR shifted up (so your MMR stays the same however your bracket moved up a bit)

Smaller roster would be great however the game would probably have died. Same thing could be said about LoL. last season they reworked most gods so they started with a quick succession release of 3 champions (like last season LoL released 4 new characters over the whole season, others were reworks, then during pre season (or let's say the last 3 months) they pushed out 3 new characters of the bat)

well people have been warding slightly more. Also idk still see lots of people pick med on gods that absolutely don't need it.

toxic players stay a thing on the internet every online game has them. luckily smite has them less then LoL (played one game and ended up muting 1 person that was fighting in chat for no reason. I probably would have tilted if I kept him unmuted and we would have lost instead of won. that was my first LoL game that season haven;t played more solo queue there atm)

Honestly adc builds are the most stable ones. ATM it's pretty much:

Hunter's Blessing
Ninja Tabi (you can also rush a stacking item but getting boots first is considered the safe option and gives a reasonable spike early) warriors is still a valid option.
Transcendence, Bloodforge or Devourer's Gauntlet (more power or immediate power spike or more sustain. The buff to devo's may shift things a bit when next patch hits.
Asi or Rage (depending on if you got trans or not)
The Executioner
Rage or Deathbringer
Deathbringer or situational

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I think with you being gone, some of the matchmaking for your account might be reset a bit. That's just my guess.

I agree with the need for a smaller roster, but that's never going to happen, as we both know.

That's hilariously stupid about that DC guy. Seriously, people have major toxicity issues, I don't know what these people are like in person. All I know is if they were like this to someone's face, they'd get punched.

Your Medusa build was just fine. got buffed, and so you can do that Trans crit thing especially with someone like her.

I do list standard ADC type builds on the Conquest guide...you might just quickly review, but mostly things aren't changed much and with your build knowledge, you're pretty fine as-is.

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I've always preferred crit builds over those Qin's Sais based builds from back in the day (like being able to choose between getting some crits and committing vs missing crits and backing off), but I'll give your guide a look. And yeah, honestly that person wasn't even that bad I just found the hypocrisy hilarious.

Edit: after looking it over, is something like
|||||| not a thing anymore? I did notice that ichaival got quite the price hike. I feel like the end result is still very nice, but it's possible the power curve on a build like that kinda sucks now.

Ran that on to moderate success in a few games. I can see the appeal of swapping for and ditching entirely, but my worry then is that I'm taking a hit on my ability damage early on by choosing attack speed.

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I honestly do like that build direction (meaning getting Ich early), but at the same time I think I like it better for Qin's builds when you're looking for consistently high AS and regular boxing (rather than a bit more burst).

(also you meant , not ***Bless)

Thing is, power curve considered, if you're going crit and getting , you often want to stack it (now that it stacks), and so you'll trade off the 20 power from for 25% AS from . The AS from the blessing plus Ninja is enough to tide you over when you get Rage as 3rd main item, followed by and . Depending on need, you could fit in after that as a late-game pickup.

If you do go with a build (which is less appealing right now due to the recent crit buffs), then you might go two stacking directions, with the 3rd slot (after stacking + Boots of choice) being , , or perhaps when going with Devo's, or if you need the lifesteal when going (and you're not ).

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Yeah meant Hunters there haha. I can see that, I'm definitely not getting much use out of Ichaival's passive once I'm able to afford it, since the laning phase is almost over by that point anyway (which was half of its appeal when it was so cheap). I still don't know about getting rage before executioner since I feel like the power/attack speed curve would take a significant hit (even if you're able to build the stacks earlier), although I guess if you're in the lead you might be able to try to push it with something like that.

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Thing is, Ich has very strong base AS, and the base power isn't bad. Consider also that you can still get plenty of use out of Ich...you might get early stacks from nearby minions before engaging, or if you're teamfighting, keep in mind it's now a different counter than it used to be...old Ich reduced enemy power, while this one reduces enemy AS (so can be somewhat helpful if you're getting ganked by a basic attack jungler, for example).

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