so ive been playing smite for a month or so and i still suck

so I've basically been playing smite for a bit got the all god pack and my first mastered god was anhur. so before I've feed a lot and not known what i was doing but now, i still feed but still at least i know what i'm doing anyways I've figured out that "i need a god that can run away" so looking at the gods i thought" hey why not mercury? he has 2 dashes a buff and a poke sounds perfect!"so here i am 1 month later with a lvl x mastered mercury with 540 kills and 1,203 assists so as you can tell i cant kill things.i main mercury and i suck at him, i suck at smite in general because i don't know what to buy or and combos/ strategies with any gods while my friend who introduced me to smite is good at any god he chooses and 99.99999% of the time he goes positive. i don't know why i suck. I've lvl 27 which is the same lvl as my friend who has been playing for half a year and a little more so why do i still suck? I've done everything looked in guides watched videos everything but yet none of it helps . so that's why i'm here to ask for a mentor to help guide me to actually going positive more often . but then again i don't know what i'm doing wrong

Is the problem that you're just not building right?

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