I'm Literally too Hot for You! [Arena/Joust]

Hey Unstable,

Been seeing the progression on the build. Looks good overall, and your communication and willingness to listen to others and at the same time try things out for yourself is great.

Good also that you have an anti-tank build. However, I'm offering my own thoughts on possible revisions.

• Machine Gun Lifesteal: as previously discussed by others in these comments, Hastened Ring is not quite the best item, due to that cooldown. It's not that I don't think it has function though, just that the movement utility is taking the place of earlier damage potential, before you have enough AS items to really take advantage of its temporary passive.
  
  I think a better build order would be like your others, with Hastened Ring either 5th or 6th. As 6th, it'll take the place of Hunter's Blessing, which is perfect for maintaining AS without a temporary dropoff.
  
  
• Tanky Penetration: To me, the optimal anti-tank build would incorporate the base Demonic Grip, the added Obsidian Shard, and Soul Reaver for the increasing damage against high health targets. As such, my suggestion would be to switch out Typhon's for Reaver in the tanky build. It's not essential, but that feels like it flows better to me. Typhon's is still fine, of course, if you're looking for increased sustain to engage in an elongated fight.
  
  
• As for "Kaboom, Baby!": Reaver is great for the added burst, but again is a bit more functional against tanks with high health. It's fine here, but you might also consider alternative items.
  
  Also, you're still incorporating Obsidian Shard in this build. Shard is again great against tanks, but brings very little against squishy gods (as low as 7-8 pen), and does bring inefficiency to your overall penetration, due to the presence of Demonic Grip's % protection reduction. Not sure if you're familiar with how those pen stats interact. If you're not, you're welcome to check out the Protection Reduction / Penetration chapter of my Items guide.
  
  Based on the name and your writeup about focusing more on ability damage, I'm assuming your main target switches away from tanks back to squishies. You'll get better function from a flat pen item...such as either Divine Ruin (anti-heal) or Spear of Desolation (also has added CDR which is in line with you talking about using abilities more).

Thoughts?

Thanks to everyone for the comments so far. I spent all afternoon testing out everyone's suggestions, and mixing and matching this, that, and the other. I've updated the guide with some alternatives that worked well for me personally. Despite the stigma against Hastened Ring, I wiped the floor with enemies in Joust earlier, simply by prioritizing Bancroft's Talon and swapping out Spear of Desolation for Typhon's Fang. This was successful in 3 of 3 runs, with varying enemy team comps.

I had more success against tanky builds this time around, by adjusting the lack of penetration from my earlier item choices. The addition of Obsidian Shard went a long way, and simply adding Soul Reaver to the mix aided greatly against Ymirs and Odins (though Ymir seemed to go down with a full-blown attack speed build in previous matches, so there's that xD).

Hey Jason and welcome to Smite!

I'm not an expert on Sol or Smite, there are for more experienced players than me who will come by to give you advice, but your build looks not bad. As you've noticed Sol's strength and damage comes from her basic attack capability and not so much her abilities. This is probably a large reason to the success you've been seeing building around her basic attacks with attack speed items. If you're brand new to Smite you're probably a low level still but as you play more and gain experience you'll start playing against higher competition and might find that one build won't cut it for every match. At this point you might want to have some different situational items ready just in case so you can counter depending on the enemy team comp. I'll let someone more experienced explain some good counter items and strategy but what I sometimes like to build on Sol that maintains your basic attack focus is Polynomicon. What this does is after an ability, your next basic attack in the next 8 seconds gains +75% of your magical power as damage and can occur once every 3 seconds. This can really increase your burst when used after skills like Radiance and Stellar Burst.

This is something you can try if you want but if you do end up trying it let me know how it works out.

Build Order is lacking. Bancrofts is a staple first/second item on Sol before or after Boots. Hastened Ring is also a lacking item in its current state, although I have rarely seen it built on her by some pros, more recently the item has been moved away from for good reason. Getting Hastened second also leaves you with a very low amount of power early game. Since you like to play her heavily basic attack focused I will give a better build: Bancroft’s Talon / Shoes of the Magi (can build either first but depends on the game.), Demonic Grip, Divine Ruin OR Spear of Desolation, Telkhines Ring, Rod of Tahuti OR Obsidian Shard. Better start is: Hunter’s Blessing, Tiny Trinket and 2 health and 2 mana pots. Also the reason this is appearing as guide and not a build is because you wrote a lot under the build. For reference look at the recent build from here: https://smiteprobuilds.com/?p_filters_page=1&p_filters_search=&p_filters_god=2074&p_filters_pro=~&p_filters_opponent=~&p_filters_role=~&p_filters_league=~&p_filters_sort=~