This guide has not yet been updated for the current season. Please keep this in mind while reading. You can see the most recently updated guides on the browse guides page
Vote received! Would you like to let the author know their guide helped you and leave them a message?
Hand Of The Gods (Old)
Purification Beads (Old)
Tabi
Warrior Tabi
Fatalis
Hastened Fatalis
Bloodforge
Asi
Rage
Malice
Deathbringer
Qin's Blades
Qin's Sais
Frostbound Hammer
Golden Bow
Heartseeker
Warrior Tabi
Asi
Hastened Fatalis
Qin's Sais
Malice
Rage
Aegis Amulet (Old)
Enfeebling Curse
Purification Beads (Old)
Fist of the Gods
Hand Of The Gods (Old)
Y
B
A
X
(credited to Darwine)
Bakasura seems to receive.
Bakasura, when played properly, can be quite an intimidating opponent to any single player who is unlucky enough to cross him within the Jungle during Conquest, or to be blindsided by him during a game of Arena. His raw, physical power and true damage is easily enough to attract any budding assassin player to him.
Bakasura is definitely a situational god. DO NOT auto-lock him just because you want to play as him or think he's 'cool'. In any team based game, it is important to watch and see what your team builds towards. If you're lacking in a Bruiser/Assassin, feel free to pick Bakasura; HOWEVER, it is generally a BAD idea to stack assassins.
|
Pros! [1.] Amazing damage. [2.] Passive fits well for his character:  Insatiable Hunger[3.] Can sustain himself [4.] Great Jungler (for conquest games) [5.] Ganks will almost always ensure a kill [6.] Can clear Jungle Camps with ease with the use of  Hand of the Godsand eat minions [7.] Has a useful escape ( Take Down)[8.] Quite honestly one of the BEST voicepacks in the game. [9.] He's simply 'the bestest' Cons! [1.] Immensely squishy. [2.] Head literally explodes at the sight of CC titans. (  Bacchus,  Freya,  Agni,  Ao Kuang, etc..)[3.] Little to none CC ( Regurgitate being the only slight instance of CC)[4.] Ultimate's CC immunity is only 1.5 seconds long, (Previously mentioned unnecessary nerf.) this makes it difficult to secure a large number of kills without receiving, if not all, a load of CC -- possibly ending Bakasura's ult early.[5.] Bakasura's jump is just ridiculous.
|
Warrior Tabi Bakasura can be a ridiculously slow character in comparison to other gods early on in a game. With the aid of Warrior Tabi you're not only getting a slight boost in movement speed, which SHOULD hold you over until the next item, but also offers a bit of extra penetration -- A word Bakasura knows oh too well about.
Hastened Fatalis Hastened Fatalis do to my preference of it's passive. Regular Fatalis increases your movement and attack speed upon each successful hit, which is great! Don't get me wrong; however, Hastened Fatalis allows for the user to not only move and get off multiple attacks quickly, (maybe not as fast as regular Fatalis, but still pretty damn fast.) but also effectively chase and almost 'stick' to an enemy do to no speed debuff from attacking.
Qin's Sais Qin's Blades is set aside as a "situational" item to be put into a build; however, with the way that I personally build up Bakasura, Qin's Sais is an essential. For lack of a better term, these are what will keep you alive early and mid game. Not only do they offer a bit of an extra punch to Bakasura's already insane damage output, but they also add onto his constantly growing attack speed (which is great for his ult) and offer the first bit of lifesteal to help better sustain and keep Bakasura out and about in the jungle or arena match.
Malice Rage do to it's ridiculous crit damage and the fact that the chance constantly heightens if you do not land a crit; HOWEVER, Malice serves as a fantastic secondary. (personally even my favourite over Rage) Not only does it give you more physical power (+5 over Rage), but also holds a whopping 40% increase in crit striking. An increase that, when mixed with Hastened Fatalis and Qin's Sais, seems to occur even more so than regular Rage can dish out.
Deathbringer Bakasura on a build of this stature. The item not only adds to the absolute terror combo of the previously mentioned Hastened Fatalis + Qin's Sais + Malice, but also offers insane amounts of extra physical power, and it's amazing passive of making your crits from hitting around 300/400 to 400/500.
Asi Asi for it's low cost as a final item, but also for it's additional sustain that it offers the oh so squishy Bakasura that has literally turned into a hell spawn by the end of this build. The item also offers ridiculous buffs in Bakasura's well needed Attack Speed whilst giving him a bit extra Physical penetration to get behind those tanky guardians.
Hand of the Gods Hand of the Gods comes in. Not only can you use it at the beginning of a Jungle Camp assault to soften up the buff carrier, ending it all with a nice Eat Minions skill, but it can also be used later on to do moderate damage to the Minotaur or even take out the Fire Giant or Gold Fury like they were regular buff carriers.
Fist of the Gods Hand of the Gods it's counterpart Fist of the Gods can do ultimately the same thing; however, it does have one major difference. Instead of being able to do damage to the Fire Giant or Gold Fury -- it instead is able to stun enemy players and minions for 1s within a 15 ft radius. An active that could mean life or death for Bakasura.
Enfeebling Curse Enfeebling Curse is one of those items that, if you as a Bakasura are having a hard time securing kills from escaping enemies, is a crippling god-send. Not only is it useful in terms of keeping an enemy from escaping Bakasura's wrath, but also it's quite useful in a team fight for slowing enemies and allowing one of your Guardians to rain liquid CC.
Purification Beads Purification Beads is one of those items that EVERYONE utilizes do to it's helpful nature of legitimately being a "Get out of jail free card". As Bakasura, it'll allow you to easily escape any plotted CC setups (Like Ares 
No Escape skill.)
Bakasura! Things are great, you're feeling good, looking as intimidating as ever, but something is wrong. From this guide, you were hoping you'd be some kind of bonefied badass and easily wrecking the enemy team; however, it's quite the opposite! You can't seem to get a bead on any one and you're constantly coming down with a case of 'violently exploding head syndrome' (VEHS). The problem here is that while, yes, you are an assassin, you're not playing arena (that'll come next.) As Bakasura you'll want to start out by equipping yourself properly (listed above) and moving out to secure jungle buff camps, for you and your allies, as well as fury camps to situate a bit of gold for you and your team. After about 4 to 5 fury/jungle camps, you should be at a point where your first three skills: Take Down, Eat Minions and Butcher Blades are active. Once at this point you should feel comfortable in assisting teammates with lanes, (via gank or just holding off minions) going to the other side of the jungle to secure enemy jungle camps/furies, or to even roam and spot enemies leaving lanes and entering the jungle or possibly where the enemy jungler is heading -- this can ensure an easy, early set of kills for you and your team. Bakasura stage. For the majority of the early game you've stuck to farming furies and jungle camps, hopefully keeping the enemy from having either, and you may have secured a kill or two during heavily supported ganking operations; however, you've begun to transform into a beast that can sustain itself now. At this point you'll be wanting to focus more on ganking and assisting teammates in taking towers whenever possible. The enemy team will, more than likely, not be expecting the sheer damage output that you'll be able to deliver from souly farming furies and jungle camps. At this point you should be working your way through Qin's Sais and even onto Rage; however, just because you can do a lot of damage, whilst sustaining yourself, at a high rate, doesn't make you immortal. CC Focus on you from one or two gods can easily grant the enemy team an early end to you. So don't do anything too crazy and stick close to either a support or healer whenever possible. You're wanting to harass and scare the enemy -- not feed them and give them an upper hand.
Bakasura can surely do it all, there does come a point where he needs a bit of help! As there is one where he should DEFINITELY not be in lane with specified gods.
Foes
|
Bakasura
The Great Devourer |
Allies
|
Noxious Fumes and 
Flame Wave skills -- both of which will allow him to stun and do massive damage to you. Even if you attempt to escape, his Path of flame skill will allow him to easily close the gap and his Ult 
Rain Fire can easily block your path of escape, very easily securing kills. Rain Fire.
Ice Wall skill he's able to possibly block you off while a mage or warrior hacks away at you. Now, it's not really the problem since Bakasura has his Take Down skill and can easily pass over this wall; however, Ymir also packs 
Frost Breath and 
Glacial Strike in his arsenal. Both skills that not only can do damage while slowing, but also literally freeze you in spot while enemy gods take pot shots at you. Ymir's ult 
Shards of Ice really doesn't have any danger other than having a potential snare effect until you can exit the AOE. Hastened Fatalis you'll be able to literally stick to him and hammer away while he desperately attempts to Ice Wall you out of existence. An action that not only blocks him from turning back, but possibly also stops pursuing allies. The only other skill that could serve some trouble is Frost Breath which potentially could stop you dead in place as he laughs all the way back to base.
Ares or 
Hades and he follows up their ults with his own Spirit Tempest Bakasura, the norm and best case of action is to take most gods behind; however, this can prove difficult with a character like Ao Kuang since he's almost ALWAYS backed up by some form of support or warrior. The best course of action, in this case, would be to wait for him to waste some CC, turn on Butcher Blades and wreak havoc with a combination of Qin's Sais and Hastened Fatalis
Pulse ability that not only slows you and all allies nearby, but also heals Freya with each connecting hit. Her 
Banish skill also can ruin your day by launching you air-born and 'snaring' you while she either escapes or prepares to 
Irradiate you out of existence. Her Ult 
Valkyrie's Discretion is no laughing matter either -- for it does essentially the same thing that Pulse does, but with the added annoyance of Freya being invulnerable to any form of CC or attack. In short, SHE NEEDS A PATCH.
Hel, 
Ymir and Bakasura. The best course of action being to let her waste some CC on your tank and support, and go in for the kill as she goes to retreat -- this being if she doesn't instantly ult and fly away from you while blowing you up with pulse orbs.
Warrior's Will and 
Taolu Assault skills, but can then negate the damage he received in his crazy attack, whilst also healing his allies, do to his 
Conviction skill. Not to mention he has possibly one of the best chases in the game 
Cavalry Charge, a move that literally allows him to do damage to you, whilst avoiding all CC, slowing you down by 25% and then snaring you in place when he dismounts his horse.
Wing Gust ability she can easily out maneuver you and propel herself away from danger whilst doing moderate damage to you and allies. Her 
Spirit Ball ability can easily stun you and any ally within a vicinity to allow maximum ganking from enemy gods or further wrath of Isis. Isis's 
Dispel Magic ability can also slow you and allies whilst dropping your overall magical protection if you manage to get trapped within it's range, and to top it all off, her 
Circle of Protection ultimate can easily stop you from securing kills whilst potentially killing or damaging you excessively from it's second ability if you manage to get trapped within it's radius.
Water Cannon being a prime example of him being able to reach widely (a cone if you will) and do moderate damage. This is normally followed by his next ability 
Waterspout which allows him to reach ridiculously far out and launch you into the air, doing tons of damage and topping it off with a 2s stun. Although I said He Bo isn't exactly super CC focused, he does have his 
Atlas of the Yellow River ability that allows him and allies to quickly move across it's vicinity whilst slowing enemies that move into it. Typically, this is followed by his ult 
Crushing Wave which is a full frontal attack that propels himself forward and obliterates anything that is unlucky enough to get caught -- normally squishy assassins.
Chug is his first ability that fits this description to a 't'. It allows Bacchus to not only resist magical and physical damage, but also carries onto his passive which in turn reduces the damage he receives even more. His 
Belly Flop ability adds to the annoyance as he's able to fling all allies into the air whilst slowing them for 2s if he's reached 'tipsy' level. This move is quite normally followed by 
Belch of the Gods which does magical damage every .5s for 2s whilst stunning allies if he's 'tipsy', but to end this graceful encounter with this obnoxious god is his ult 
Intoxicate one of the most vile moves I've ever come across in Smite. It literally 'intoxicates' all allies into a free falling stumble whilst doing 70% of Bacchus's magical power. To top it off, if Bacchus is at the 'smashed' level of his passive, he gains a magical buff.
Ao Kuang or 
Poseidon it is quite honestly easy to negate that (with the use of Purification Beads) His real problem is 
Shackles an ability that prevents you from using movement abilities ( Take Down) whilst slowing you and doing magical damage. To top it off, he can fire this up to three times at you within 2 seconds. His next ability 
Bolster Defenses is more of a buff to his allies than anything; however, if you're slowed and prevented from doing movement abilities, this move also protects him and his allies from your physical damage and any CC your allies may try to throw at them. 
Searing Flesh isn't so much dangerous for it's damage output, but the fact that Ares is immune to knockback during the duration of this ability, but to finish it all, No Escape was the ability previously mentioned that draws all enemies inwards and stuns them whilst doing 40% of magical damage.
Stop Time and 
Time Rift a move that not only gradually slows you before stunning but also does up to 85% of Chronos's magical power. Also in his arsenal are the skills 
Accelerate a move that literally makes Chronos move and attack faster (typically done with his basic attack) and 
Rewind an Ult that literally lets Chronos return to a previous status of health.
Spirit Arrow, soften up and harass an enemy with 
Unravel, slow and potentially give you the kill shot while she retreats with 
Backflip, but also can snare an enemy that's currently retreating away from you (or even kill an escaping enemy) with 
World Weaver. All in all a solid laner and even better potentiality for kills.
Blight in affect, all of his abilities have various additional effects. 
Death From Below will not only do a solid chunk of damage, whilst being a good initiator, but also slow the enemy down long enough for Bakasura to get a good bead. 
Shroud of Darkness offers an excellent way to repel enemies off of Bakasura's back by causing fear, or to leave them open with no chance of CC use so Bakasura can secure the kill. 
Devour Souls is an excellent explosive based move that also can heal nearby allies if they're in range whilst doing moderate damage, and 
Pillar of Agony is simply an amazing snare/draw in that not only constantly does damage, but also lowers the enemies defenses -- a great time for Bakasura to use Regurgitate (if two or more enemies are present.)
Trident is an excellent move for Poseidon to soften up a fleeing enemy while Bakasura readies for a kill. 
Whirlpool is much like Hades's ult in terms of pulling enemies constantly inwards whilst doing damage -- potentially softening up beefier targets, and finally Release the Kraken is an excellent ult that knocks enemies up, stunning them, while doing massive damage. Leaving them none the wiser to an onslaught of Butcher Blades.
Celestial Beam offers a great distraction to enemies, while also doing moderate damage if it manages to hit. 
Divine Light is the previously mentioned slow that also does a moderate bit of damage while also blinding enemies for a short time. 
Solar Blessing is Ra's healing ability that allows all allies/minions that stand within the beam to be healed whilst doing damage to enemy gods and minions, and 
Searing Pain is Ra's ult that allows for him to potentially slay or severely wound a fleeing or potential target.
Glacial Strike ability while also being able to prevent a fleeing enemy (or pursuing) enemy access to base or you with Ice Wall. Frost Breath offers a good snare that keeps enemies in place while you ready to deliver the final blow, while his ult Shards of Ice can be the needed benefit to keeping a large group of enemies together while you ready your own ult.
Mummify (A snare) + 
Grasping Hands (AOE damage and slow) + plague of locust (magical attack) combo offers series damage to an already wounded (securing a kill) or to an unsuspecting, pursuing enemy. To end it all, his ult 
Death Gaze almost will always ensure to scare off any pursuing enemies.
Vengeful Assault offers a barrage of ranged attack on an enemy, quickly softening them up. 
Suppress The Insolent offers a good chunk of damage to a god whilst slowing them -- allowing Bakasura to quickly catch up or execute the fleeing enemy, and I would be distraught not to mention 
Calydonian Boar one of my favourite pairs as Bakasura -- The move quickly moves around to gods in a vicinity, stunning and damaging them, giving Bakasura the chance to execute his Regurgitate Ult or Butcher Blades.
Driving Strike can potentially deliver an enemy to Bakasura's open gullet, or drive one away so you can go cry in a corner and tend to your wounds. 
Earthbreaker does a moderate amount of damage and if hits right, will launch an enemy into the air, delivering them at Hercules and Bakasura's feet. 
Mitigate Wounds is more or less for Hercules sake, but it does make him very self reliant, and 
Excavate allows Hercules to 'chase' down enemies with a giant boulder. Great for escaping, wounded enemies.
Master's Will offers a bit of a knockup to surrounding enemies while doing damage -- an effect that can give Bakasura just enough time to escape. 
72 Transformations is useful 2/3 of the times. His Ox transformation has a nice popup effect, once again, allowing Bakasura to escape, whilst his Tiger transformation does a nice amount of damage while stunning an enemy in place. 
Somersault Cloud is an effective matter of allowing Bakasura to have an 'OP minion' fight along his side whilst Sun Wukong prepares to strike down and possibly deliver killing blows.
Swarm offers a fair bit of damage that's constant and can jump to multiple enemies and when in pair with 
Hive there's practically an endless swarm of bees to constantly infect and attack afflicted gods (this making them light up on your minimap). 
Honey allows for not only an amazing slow, but also in pair with Hive a debilitating swarm of angry bees, and his ult 
Stinger can be a debilitating end to an enemy god for, if it doesn't kill them, applies his passive bees (lighting them up on your minimap) and slowing them for 3s.
26/11/13 - Log created
27/11/13 - 'An ode to actives!' added
2/12/13 - Added an 'Arena' build.
6/03/14 - Tweaked final build example and general 'updating' so I'm not expired anymore.
Don't forget to comment and upvote!
SMITEFire is the place to find the perfect build guide to take your game to the next level. Learn how to play a new god, or fine tune your favorite SMITE gods’s build and strategy.
Copyright © 2019 SMITEFire | All Rights Reserved
Regarding Arena, you may want to pick up some cooldown reduction. Your ultimate is your greatest asset in this mode, as it cripples and enables your cone attacks. The more you can use this ultimate, the more kills you will probably get.
Because, lets face it, Bakasura ultimate pretty much guarantees a kill.
Great guide! Useful and insightful information.
I'd disagree here. No item to sacrifice for CDR. Just get sprint and/or weakening curse
good guide btw
Either give useful insight or remove the section.
I believe sprint is really valuable on Bakasura. Mobility can sometimes make up for your lack of CC. A simple slow can hinder your engagement quite a lot.
One thing I notice, however, is that you have Bumba's Mask listed in the 'Ode to Actives' section when it isn't an Active. :P
Easy upvote.
But, I'll mention one thing that bugged me through the entire guide, your use of the word "do" rather than "due". Sometimes I'd be reading a sentence and see "do" there and think it was a typo, then reread the sentence a few times to finally figure out you meant it as "due".
Sorry about the grammar Nazi, it just made it really difficult for me to read for some reason.
Why yes, I was referring to you b-baka.
Anywho! I wasn't quite sure if going into detail as to when to use Bakasura's skill would seem like first nature or not, but now that you say it would help, I think I'll add just that! Possibly even pictures for the death.
And I totally am working on the actives as of right now!
1. Your username.
2. The "Baka-head" (if you were referring to the Japanese word ばか)
3. Going over the fact that just because you want to play Baka doesn't mean you should play him - team composition is important.
4. Solid explanations of what how to play as the game progresses from early to late game.
5. The Friends and Foes section.
6. The solid BBCoding.
Normally, I think describing when and how to use every skill is essential, but considering it's Bakasura (lol) and how you cover what to do against many gods, I think it's fine. It would still be great to explain them, though. Actives are just as important to explain as items, as Zombie mentioned, so going over the ones to get (and ones to not get) would be cool beans.
Nice job.
I understand entirely where you're coming from, and quite honestly, I agree with you! However, that's why I state that this build is honestly quite situational. Bakasura is a man of many faces depending on how you buy and focus your items. There's countless times that I buy Asi over Qin's Sais FIRST in order to capture the Gold fury. The builds I posted are just what I NORMALLY end up building as, but I can see where you're coming from (being a fellow player of Bakasura).
I appreciate your time looking over this colossal guide though! And I'll take a look at adding a page about Actives.
Some things that you may want to consider: If you're doing well early game and your team helps you with the jungle and you are getting the mid camps, try rushing Hastened Fatalis before Warrior Tabi allowing you to do far more work with your 3. Once again, if you've finished your main course and you're suitably ahead when it comes to damage output it may be better to push through another lifesteal item like Asi or (my personal fav) Bloodforge, as Qin's Sais' 15% never quite feels enough for me.
Other than that, you may want to include some guidance on Actives. Beads, Enfeebling/Weakening Curse or Blink seem to be my go to options.
Great guide, top level info and humour to boot :)
"You're on fire"