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I'll use your powers against you! - 8.3 Nemesis Jungle Build

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8.8
by Leightandrew updated March 24, 2021

Smite God: Nemesis

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Build Summary

Starter - Both Builds

Notes When you back, get Warrior Tabi, then finish Stone-Cutting Sword

Eye Of The Jungle doesn't have any sustain, that's why you go 2 Healing Potion and 2 Mana Potion

Notes

When you back, get Warrior Tabi, then finish Stone-Cutting Sword

Eye Of The Jungle doesn't have any sustain, that's why you go 2 Healing Potion and 2 Mana Potion

Build Item Eye Of The Jungle Eye Of The Jungle
Build Item Katana Katana
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
2
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion
2
Build Item Blink Rune Blink Rune

Full Build - Hybrid

Notes Get Elixir of Speed and sell boots for The Executioner.

You can get Arondight first and then
sell boots for Shifter's Shield if you want more damage.

Notes

Get Elixir of Speed and sell boots for The Executioner.

You can get Arondight first and then
sell boots for Shifter's Shield if you want more damage.

Build Item Protector Of The Jungle Protector Of The Jungle
Build Item Ninja Tabi Ninja Tabi
Build Item Stone Cutting Sword Stone Cutting Sword
Build Item Shifter's Shield Shifter's Shield
Build Item Arondight Arondight
Build Item Qin's Sais Qin's Sais
Build Item Elixir of Speed Elixir of Speed
Build Item The Executioner The Executioner

Nemesis's Skill Order Notes Always put a point in Divine Judgement if possible, this awesome ult can make you super tanky if you use it on the support
and has an incredible chase potential.

Slice and Dice is maxed first, it is your main camp clear and engage tool, since the build doesn't have Hastened Katana as a core item.

Then you level Retribution for survivavility, sustain while clearing camps and easy Auto Attack-Cancelling (wich I'll be discussing later) it goes away after you receive a hard CC so be careful when using it on teamfights.

Swift Vengeance is maxed last because the cooldown remains the same through all ranks and you usually won't be using it for damage. (you put a point on it at level 2 for camp clear)

Notes

Always put a point in Divine Judgement if possible, this awesome ult can make you super tanky if you use it on the support
and has an incredible chase potential.

Slice and Dice is maxed first, it is your main camp clear and engage tool, since the build doesn't have Hastened Katana as a core item.

Then you level Retribution for survivavility, sustain while clearing camps and easy Auto Attack-Cancelling (wich I'll be discussing later) it goes away after you receive a hard CC so be careful when using it on teamfights.

Swift Vengeance is maxed last because the cooldown remains the same through all ranks and you usually won't be using it for damage. (you put a point on it at level 2 for camp clear)

Swift Vengeance

1 X Y
Swift Vengeance
2 15 16 18 19

Slice and Dice

2 A B
Slice and Dice
1 4 6 7 9

Retribution

3 B A
Retribution
3 8 11 12 13

Divine Judgement

4 Y X
Divine Judgement
5 10 14 17 20
Swift Vengeance
2 15 16 18 19

Swift Vengeance

1 X
Nemesis dashes in a line, dealing damage to enemies in her path and may dash again within 2s. She may use Basic Attacks and Abilities between the dashes.

Ability Type: Dash, Damage
Damage: 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 (+35% of your Physical Power)
Cost: 50
Cooldown: 13 / 12.5 / 12 / 11.5 / 11s
Slice and Dice
1 4 6 7 9

Slice and Dice

2 A
Nemesis swings her blade, dealing damage in an area in front of her. Enemies in the center of her swing are struck for 2x damage and Slowed for 2s.

Ability Type: Cone, Slow, Damage
Damage: 55 / 85 / 115 / 145 / 175 (+40% of your Physical Power)
Damage (Center): 110 / 170 / 230 / 290 / 350 (+80% of your Physical Power)
Slow: 30%
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 11s
Retribution
3 8 11 12 13

Retribution

3 B
Nemesis activates a temporary Shield around herself that protects her from a set amount of damage, or until time expires. A percentage of incoming damage from gods is healed and reflected back to the source. Hard Crowd Control effects remove the Shield.

Ability Type: Buff, Damage
Damage Reflect: 50% of damage received
Healing: 70% of damage received
Shield Health: 150 / 225 / 300 / 375 / 450
Duration: 2.5s
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 14s
Divine Judgement
5 10 14 17 20

Divine Judgement

4 Y
Nemesis chooses a single enemy god, reducing their Health and movement speed and stealing a portion of their Protections for a time period. Her movement speed is also increased during this time.

Ability Type: Buff
Damage: 15 / 17.5 / 20 / 22.5 / 25% of current HP
Protections: 25%
Movement Speed: 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20%
Target Debuff Duration: 5s
Nemesis Buff Duration: 5s
Cost: 90 / 95 / 100 / 105 / 110
Cooldown: 90s

Nemesis Threats

Tap each threat level to view Nemesis’s threats

Max
2
Major
2
Even
0
Minor
2
Tiny
0

Extended Build

Full Build - Attack Speed

Notes Get Elixir of Speed and sell boots for Berserker's Shield or Shifter's Shield.

I don't reccomend this build for begginners

You don't have any defense in this build, so if you are getting one-shotted get Shifter's Shield instead of Berserker's Shield
(you can get Shifter's Shield at any point in the build, but Berserker's Shield is a better item)

Notes

Get Elixir of Speed and sell boots for Berserker's Shield or Shifter's Shield.

I don't reccomend this build for begginners

You don't have any defense in this build, so if you are getting one-shotted get Shifter's Shield instead of Berserker's Shield
(you can get Shifter's Shield at any point in the build, but Berserker's Shield is a better item)

Build Item Protector Of The Jungle Protector Of The Jungle
Build Item Golden Blade Golden Blade
Build Item Ninja Tabi Ninja Tabi
Build Item Stone Cutting Sword Stone Cutting Sword
Build Item The Executioner The Executioner
Build Item Qin's Sais Qin's Sais
Build Item Elixir of Speed Elixir of Speed
Build Item Shifter's Shield Shifter's Shield

Alternative Starter

Notes Upgrade Bumba's Dagger to Bumba's Hammer.

This starter relies on Bumba's Dagger for sustain, as you don't have enough money to buy pots.

The early Combat Boots will make sure no one escapes you,
and since you move faster you can gank lanes more often.

Notes

Upgrade Bumba's Dagger to Bumba's Hammer.

This starter relies on Bumba's Dagger for sustain, as you don't have enough money to buy pots.

The early Combat Boots will make sure no one escapes you,
and since you move faster you can gank lanes more often.

Build Item Bumba's Dagger Bumba's Dagger
Build Item Combat Boots Combat Boots
Build Item Blink Rune Blink Rune

Other Boot Replacements (Both Builds)

Notes Hastened Katana to counter Winged Blade.
Toxic Blade to counter healing.
Magi's Cloak if the enemy has too much CC.

Notes

Hastened Katana to counter Winged Blade.
Toxic Blade to counter healing.
Magi's Cloak if the enemy has too much CC.

Build Item Ichaival Ichaival
Build Item Mantle of Discord Mantle of Discord
Build Item Hastened Katana Hastened Katana
Build Item Magi's Cloak Magi's Cloak
Build Item Toxic Blade Toxic Blade
Build Item Void Shield Void Shield
Build Item Berserker's Shield Berserker's Shield

Relics

Notes Blink Rune Better early ganking potential.

Purification Beads More farming oriented, or if the enemy team has a powerful CC gods like Anubis, Ullr or Nox.

Aegis Amulet A 2nd relic option if you got Purification Beads and feel like you don't need Blink Rune

Notes

Blink Rune Better early ganking potential.

Purification Beads More farming oriented, or if the enemy team has a powerful CC gods like Anubis, Ullr or Nox.

Aegis Amulet A 2nd relic option if you got Purification Beads and feel like you don't need Blink Rune

Build Item Blink Rune Blink Rune
Build Item Purification Beads Purification Beads
Build Item Aegis Amulet Aegis Amulet

Introduction

Welcome to my guide for Nemesis, Goddess of Revenge!



This is my first guide on SmiteFire, I was looking at the "News" section, saw the
Season 8 Guide Contest and decided to make a Nemesis guide, because Nemesis
was my first jungler and I have some experience with her.

Now let's get straight to the point!

Pros & Cons

Pros:
  • Good damage
  • Good survivavility with her Retribution and Divine Judgement
  • Great camp clear
  • Awesome mobility and escapes
  • Excellent ult, shreds even tanks if your team focuses on them
  • Hard, but very rewarding AA cancels (Auto-Attack Cancel)
Cons:
  • Not much sustain
  • Vulnerable to slows,
  • Some meta junglers counters her
  • Can get bullied early game
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Skills


Passive - Scales of Fate
With this passive, Nemesis can win almost any 1v1 especially at lategame.
You don't need to think of using this passive, just basic attack enemies and you'll be fine.

You will want a build that has some attack speed and high power (like this one) to gain/reduce power ASAP
1 - Swift Vengeance
Swift Vengeance is an awesome mobility skill, the only major downside is that it doesn't go through walls, so chasing people with leaps will be hard.
On the damage side, this skill is really good for a combat dash, it has big damage with proper AA cancels and it has two uses so you can dash in, do damage, and dash out.

2 - Slice and Dice
Slice and Dice is your main damage, engage or chase, clear and poke skill.
When clearing, make sure you hit the jungle monsters in the center of this skill, as it deals double damage there.
Use this skill when engaging, as it deals good damage and the slow will allow you to stick to your target, (since you don't have Hastened Katana as a core item)
Items or skills that prevent slows like Winged Blade and Arachne's Web
will be huge counters to you, so if you see the enemies picking Winged Blade
or if the other jungler has any way of cleansing slows, consider adding Hastened Katana into your build.

3 - Retribution
Retribution is an interesting ability, it is your only sustain in the jungle (and a very poor one) and your main survivavility skill.
The usage of this ability is pretty hard, as it goes away after you take any hard CC so you have to be careful when using it, try to use it when you're about to get hit by a big damage ult like Ymir's Shards of Ice or Ra's Searing Pain, it is like a better Aegis Amulet because it heals you.

Ultimate - Divine Judgement
Divine Judgement is an awesome ultimate, you steal movement speed and protection as well as reducing your target's HP by a pertentage.
If you are in a big teamfight, use this on the support to have the damage of an assassin and the protections of a warrior, if you are on a 1v1 using it will just simply make you win the fight, the enemy can't use Purification Beads because you still have an immense amount of movement speed, timing an Aegis Amulet is almost impossible as the ultimate comes out instantly, and they can't try to fight you because of the protections steal.
Combos

Gameplay


Early Game

Middle Game

Late Game

Conclusion

God's Difficulty: Medium-Hard


Nemesis is not an easy god to play, although not super difficult either.
This goddess is free so I reccomend you to try using her, at first it is weird, because you only have 1 damaging skill (and your dash), and you have a shield on a jungler!?
I thought "how am I even supposed to play this!?"
But when you learn how to use her you start crushing people.

The End


That's it for my Nemesis jungle guide, if you have any suggestions feel free to include them in the comments.

This guide has more than 12.000 characters (including coding) for anyone interested.



(Yeah i'm totally a pro player, not just a random win with good k/d/a between 4 losses)

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Moon Chyld | January 27, 2023 10:37pm
What about for season 10? Those boots are no longer available.
1
Kriega1 (143) | January 28, 2023 7:24am
Eye, Golden Blade, Exe, Qin's, Arondight, Serrated, sell Golden late for Bloodforge/Shadowdrinker/Crusher

Eye, Jotunn's, Hydra's, Arondight, Crusher, Heartseeker
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Big Damage (37) | March 6, 2021 2:54pm
I would ditch the Hydra's completely, it's OK but there are so many better options for Nem. Shifter's is great as a whole but if you're getting it you might as well take Crusher and rely on stone cutting sword as your main flat pen option to free up space for more essential items. With this in mind I would either build Nem like this;

Eye Of The Jungle > Ninja Tabi > Stone Cutting Sword > Shifter's Shield > Arondight > Qin's Sais > Protector Of The Jungle > Swap boots for Berserker's Shield / The Executioner

Or this;

Eye Of The Jungle > Warrior Tabi > The Crusher > Stone Cutting Sword > Arondight > Qin's Sais > Protector Of The Jungle > Swap boots for Berserker's Shield / The Executioner
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Leightandrew | March 7, 2021 2:33am
Thanks for the feedback! About the Hydra's I usually sell it lategame for Qin's Sais
but I agree that there are better items to choose, having the Stone Cutting's pen earlier seems nice too.
About the Shifter's, I personally like to build some defense on junglers in general (without sacrificing too much damage)
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Big Damage (37) | March 7, 2021 2:50am
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge shifter's fan at the moment with its high power and decent protections. It's just on Nemesis there are a lot of core items for her, being Protector Of The Jungle, Stone Cutting Sword, Arondight, Qin's Sais leaving you 2 slots for flexibility. Your boots already take up one of those slots and are gonna be swapped late game for one of the options I listed as they are efficient pick ups late game whereas Shifter's Shield and The Crusher aren't. This makes it a tie between those 2 items for your early to mid game item slot.
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