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Jennifer? Nyx that. Nox! (OUTDATED)

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by OmgAsia updated February 1, 2017

Smite God: Nox

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Choose a Build: Stunning!
Stunning! Who Stacks? You Stacks! Protection in the Darkness Overkill? Probably!
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Nox Build

Full Squishy Damage Build

Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Book of Thoth Book of Thoth
Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus
Build Item Bancroft's Talon Bancroft's Talon
Build Item Rod of Tahuti Rod of Tahuti

Relics to Consider

Build Item Frenzy Frenzy
Build Item Purification Beads Purification Beads
Build Item Aegis Amulet Aegis Amulet
Build Item Cursed Ankh Cursed Ankh
Build Item Cloak of Meditation Cloak of Meditation
Build Item Sundering Spear Sundering Spear

Nox's Skill Order

Shadow Lock

1 X Y
Shadow Lock
2 8 11 12 14

Siphon Darkness

2 A B
Siphon Darkness
1 4 6 7 10

Shadow Step

3 B A
Shadow Step
3 15 16 18 19

Night Terror

4 Y X
Night Terror
5 9 13 17 20
Shadow Lock
2 8 11 12 14

Shadow Lock

1 X
Nox extends her shadow, rooting and crippling a single enemy god in place and dealing damage over time. Nox must channel and stay within range to maintain hold on the target, but may cancel this ability early. Nox will continue to channel this ability even if she is hit by Crowd Control effects. While channeling this ability Nox suffers no directional movement penalty.

Ability Type: Line
Damage: 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 (+20% of your Magical Power) every 0.5s
Damage (Minions): 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Duration: 2s
Range: 65
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 10s
Siphon Darkness
1 4 6 7 10

Siphon Darkness

2 A
Nox creates a void of darkness that silences all enemies within. After 2s it explodes, dealing damage.

Ability Type: Ground Target
Damage: 90 / 160 / 230 / 300 / 370 (+100% of your Magical Power)
Radius: 20
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 13s
Shadow Step
3 15 16 18 19

Shadow Step

3 B
Nox dashes forward, dealing damage to all enemies. If she hits an allied god, she leaps into their shadow, traveling with them. When Nox exits a shadow, she deals damage again in a radius around her. Nox may cancel this ability early to exit shadows.

Ability Type: Dash
Damage: 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+70% of your Magical Power)
Range: 55
Cost: 90
Cooldown: 15s
Night Terror
5 9 13 17 20

Night Terror

4 Y
Nox unleashes a vortex of dark energy that explodes on contact with an enemy god, dealing damage to all enemies in range 20 and applying damage over time. Enemies hit are also weakened, dealing less damage for the duration.

Ability Type: Line
Initial Damage: 200 / 250 / 300 / 350 / 400 (+75% of your Magical Power)
Damage: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 (+5% of your Magical Power) every 1s for 5s
Damage Reduction: 30% for 5s
Range: 120
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90 / 85 / 80 / 75 / 70s

Introduction

Note: Due to RL stuff I'm no longer able to keep this guide up to date at this time. I absolutely love Nox and if I get the time to bring this up to speed for S4 I definitely will, though I'm not making any promises. Thank you all so much for helping make this guide such a success, and please bear in mind that all info in this guide may be irrelevant as of Season 4.


Hey everyone! I'm OMGASIA, casual Smite addict. While I know how to enjoy all casual game modes, I mostly play Joust and Arena. This was originally my first guide, and I created it as I noticed there weren't many Nox guides up. My how it has grown!

This guide won The SmiteFire Season 2 Guide Contest! Thank you so very much, and congrats to all the winners! I have the coolest title ever now, Master of Magic! :D

As I continue to play Nox I will update this guide to keep it relevant. I will also take into consideration any suggestions you leave in the comments section. Yeah for healthy discussion!

Without further ado, here's Nox!

I want that dress!

The New Changes and You! (3.7 Patch Notes)

Patch 3.7 brought some love to our girl! See the full patch notes here!

Siphon Darkness


Decreased cooldown from 15s to 13s.


Shadow Step


Increased magic power scaling from +40% to +70%.


Night Terror


Damage Reduction increased from 30% to 40%.

Increased magical power scaling from +60% to +75%.

What do these changes mean for Nox players? It's now far more rewarding to Shadow Step through an enemy into an ally and then pop back out again. Night Terror is going to be a bit scarier as well with increased damage and debuff. We can also use Siphon Darkness more reliably with the shorter cooldown.



3.7 PTS Patch Notes


Season 3 Changes


Old Kit

Pros / Cons

Pros:
  • High single target damage

  • AOE Silence

  • One of the coolest abilities in the game, Shadow Step.

  • Has a sexy voice
Cons:
  • Her root is a channeled ability

  • Very squishy

  • One of her main damage abilities does nothing to minions or the Titan.

  • Jiggle Taunt (though this can be argued as a pro)

Skills


Passive - Flame of the Night
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1 - Shadow Lock

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2 - Siphon Darkness

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3 - Shadow Step

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4 - Night Terror

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Skill Combo
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Items

Just click the type of items you're interested in to see them. Mouse over the item for the item description.


Main Items


Other Defensive Substitutes


Relics


Builds

Stunning!


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Who Stacks? You Stacks!

warlock's sash
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Protection in the Darkness


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Overkill? Probably!

warlock's sash
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Playing With Other Gods

This section covers how Nox can interact with other gods. Each section will give you information on how Nox can play with and against the specific Gods.

This will likely take some time for me to complete as I have some family things going on, so I thank you for your patience.

Currently Warriors have been started.

Warriors


Guardians


Mages


Hunters


Assassins

Skins

Thank you Smite Wiki for powering this section!

Click on the skin name for more information!

Default


Crimson Eclipse (Recolor)


Golden


Legendary


Diamond


Madame Darkness


Grim Shadow

Conclusion

How the regal Mother of the Night used to intimidate her enemies.


Thanks for checking out my guide. I look forward to your comments and critique. We've been lucky to have some great discussion in the comments already from her previous kit and from Season 2. Lets keep that feel going!

Updates

9/9/2016

  • Updated "Conclusion" to reflect the upcoming removal of the boob shake taunt.

4/27/2016
  • Updated "The New Changes And You!" with live patch 3.7 info.
  • Fixed Siphon Darkness' skill info to properly reflect it at 2 seconds, not 3 seconds. (Thanks KingBahamut19!)
  • Added a new tip under Shadow Step in the "Skills" section.

4/22/2016
  • Updated "The New Changes And You!" with HirezScott's tweet info.

4/20/2016
  • Updated "The New Changes And You!" for PTS 3.7 Patch Notes.
  • Updated Skins section to include Grim Shadow. This section is not yet complete.

4/12/2016
  • Updated the text colors based on feedback from other users.

4/10/2016
  • Just updated Other Guides section.


2/22/2016
  • Fixed Builds section. It now doesn't claim "Stunning!" gives full CDR.


2/10/2016
  • Added Skin section.
  • Started updating the Playing With Other Gods section.


2/09/20161/30/2016
  • Updated Items section.
  • Finally removed the ability descriptions from the Skills section. Info is still there, just mouse over the ability!
  • Added my personal favorite build using the S3 items.
  • Updated the Pros and Cons section.
  • Felt bad about still not having anything done in the Playing With Other Gods section.


1/30/2016
  • Added the skeleton work for the Interacting With Other Gods Section.
  • Made various updates giving a heads up about the incoming item changes.


1/08/2016
  • Removed the "Please Pardon Our Appearance" chapter. Gods was that overdue.
  • Updated the list of planned changes to reflect current plans. I should have time now, so hopefully I can get those done!


6/16/2015

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1
sunny108108 (3) | April 12, 2017 8:17pm
great build for nox
1
Stealth241 | October 19, 2016 10:01pm
Why spear of the magus and not obsidian shard?
2
Branmuffin17 (394) | October 19, 2016 10:48pm
My guess is because Shadow Lock does DoT damage. It can easily build full stacks for Spear of the Magus.

Although you'll often initiate with Siphon Darkness, it doesn't do damage until the end, and it's quickly followed by Shadow Lock after being cast.

Spear of the Magus, when considering only Nox and her enemy, does the equivalent of 45 penetration (30 protection reduction at full stacks, 15 flat pen). This is superior to Obsidian Shard until an enemy gets around 135 magical protection (33% of 135 is around 45). A squishy building 0 protection items has around 30-50 magical protection at level 20, so even if they get 1 protection item, it's likely Spear is still going to be a better item.

Also, even Night Terror has a DoT effect, so for Nox...it just seems like the better choice. Make sense?
1
Stealth241 | October 19, 2016 11:31pm
Ya thanks!
1
OmgAsia (7) | April 27, 2016 9:10am

As a fellow nox player, very good guide, on your skill section though, you have Siphon of Darkness' duration wrong. Its 2 seconds, not 3. Good guide though. Not trying to hate on you


That must've flown under the radar when it changed! Thank you! I've updated it to reflect the 2 seconds properly.
1
KingBahamut19 | April 26, 2016 11:21pm
As a fellow nox player, very good guide, on your skill section though, you have Siphon of Darkness' duration wrong. Its 2 seconds, not 3. Good guide though. Not trying to hate on you
1
OmgAsia (7) | April 16, 2016 7:18pm
Technotoad64 wrote:

Thanks for fixing the colors!


You're welcome! Thanks for letting me know it was an issue :)
1
Technotoad64 (46) | April 15, 2016 2:22pm
Thanks for fixing the colors!
1
AlexV- | March 27, 2016 8:33pm
GameGeekFan wrote:

Welp i misunderstood then. Spear of the magus offers more inherent pen then Spear of Desolation, so magus is more preferred. If you still want desolation than replace the lifesteal. And desolation costs ALOT, it is easier to get when ahead.


It's alright, I'll just stick with Spear. I found another build and mixed the 2 up and love what I'm doing currently!
1
GameGeekFan (50) | March 27, 2016 6:26pm
Welp i misunderstood then. Spear of the magus offers more inherent pen then Spear of Desolation, so magus is more preferred. If you still want desolation than replace the lifesteal. And desolation costs ALOT, it is easier to get when ahead.
1
AlexV- | March 27, 2016 6:16pm
GameGeekFan wrote:

By Spear? Ima assume you mean rod of tahuti, and the answer is no. A 125 increase to 400 PLUS 25% of that power (which is around 125-135) makes your total power around 650. Its too big of a power boost to get rid of.


Spear of the magus
1
GameGeekFan (50) | March 27, 2016 6:03pm
By Spear? Ima assume you mean rod of tahuti, and the answer is no. A 125 increase to 400 PLUS 25% of that power (which is around 125-135) makes your total power around 650. Its too big of a power boost to get rid of.
1
AlexV- | March 27, 2016 5:13pm
Could I not just get the Spear of Desolation instead of the Spear? (Smite noob)
1
OmgAsia (7) | March 16, 2016 9:49am
Estidien wrote:

Honestly I was thinking maybe Warlock's Sash instaed of Book of Thoth this is the definition of supersquish, while the damage is good if something goes wrong, she's pretty screwed.


That's why t full build is labelled as super squish :) You'll find warlock's sash in the second build. I tend to use the 4th.
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