Miss Piggy Ultimate ADC crit builds S8.9 Updated!

Hi! Thanks for clicking. This was my first build and I'm excited to return to Smite to find out my main squeeze Artemis went from C tier trash to S+ broken tier ADC! She's not as broken anymore with the updates but all the buffs she's received has finally made her into a very popular, powerful ADC choice in the meta. xZeroStrike has an excellent in-depth guide already out there which helped me out a lot. I'm just going over builds and I'm not sure why this got tagged as "in-depth guide" but I'm a build junkie. If you'd like to read his guide to learn Artemis and how to play her you can check it out here: A much better Guide on Artemis than I could ever make. So let's talk about my favorite hunter.


Are you tired of missing your wall bounces on Hou Yi? Are you tired of missing your axes on Ullr? Are you tired of missing your snipes with Rama? Do you hate when people beads your ultimate as Heimdallr? Are you tired of playing Cupid... because he's Cupid. Well ladies and gentlemen do I have the solution for you! Introducing:

Her Calydonian Boar is a stun you literally can't miss with. It hits multiple people within the radius. Her traps Transgressor's Fate will make your enemies feel like Sideshow Bob stepping on a dozen rakes. With the recent buff her trap are now on much faster cooldowns meaning you can spam them till your heart's content. She has one the best passives for hunters and attack speed/movement speed buff with Vengeful Assault only adds to her overwhelming attack speed. And finally her AoE Suppress The Insolent has a nice width to it while doing decent damage. Calydonian Boar might honestly be the best ultimate in any hunter's arsenal. The boar will target a cone like area in front of you line of you stunning them while doing decent damage, then chases down anyone else in circle radius with good range one by one. With some items in you bag you can run from one squishy to the next killing them off as Miss Piggy does her thing. This really is in my opinion the best hunter ultimate in the game and the entire reason to pick her. The stun is really unique as well where it doesn't stun all your enemies at once in an AoE, no instead it stuns enemies one by one with a small pause in between. Why is that good? Because with a full build you could easily kill a squishy in the time they're stunned and then target the next person the Boar stuns after. It's like having a personal support CC enemies for you one by one to get easy kills. This ultimate is built for triple kills.

Ranked Warning

This is a very easy to learn hunter. However mastering her will take a lot of practice but you'll be rewarded with having one of the best ADC hunters in your arsenal. The real difficulty in learning Artemis is positioning. This is one hunter you cannot afford to be out of position on. I don't know how many times I mention she has no escape in this guide(?) but I will mention it a million more times as it's the reason she's so difficult to use on ranked. Playing Artemis in ranked might be the toughest hunter to play as. Teams know you're an unstoppable machine gun late game that will wipe whole teams by yourself. They also know you don't have escapes, dashes or leaps and you're bad early game so they'll take advantage of that. They will find you. They will dive you. And they will kill you. Be ever vigilant and proper warding is absolutely required to know where jungle will be coming from to gank you. Don't just ward your lanes, ward the enemy purple buff, ward the enemy red buff, don't be afraid to deep ward in enemy lines because knowing where the jungle is most of the game will help you out. Learning to play Artemis requires learning from mistakes. And as Artemis you'll be punished for any little mistakes make. But it's worth it for those games you reach your full build and completely take control of team fights with your insane damage and pressure. Artemis is fun late game. You just have to survive till then.

I'll explain my two ADC builds, while the Silverbranch build I made is really just a fun experiment at the moment but it has potential so far.




Anti-Heal: Anti-Heal on ADC's has always been rather niche since but with the new update I'm pleased to say Shadowsteel Shuriken actually feels a lot better than Toxic Blade if you're doing a crit build. The movement speed on Toxic Blade is nice and I still find myself building it if I need that but Shadowsteel's stats on top of high crit chance builds makes it a great choice. With these builds you're pretty much guaranteed to get a crit almost every auto and one crit applies the full anti heal.

Building to take down squishy targets isn't much of a thought process. Get some attack speed, get some power and a lot of crit. The item I think is really the main attraction is Blink Rune. Nothing wrong with picking up Aegis Amulet instead especially if you feel the game is close and don't want to play too risky. However Blink just feels so good on Artemis given her lack of dash, leap or any mobility. I found many times I missed an easy kill due to them having some sort of chase option and even with Heavenly Wings was not able to catch up. Blink gives you the ability to play like an Assassin.

Use blink to flank a teamfight from behind a wall and pick off anyone out of position or too far from their team. Blinking into someone running around in jungle and letting your Calydonian Boar go to work on them. Blink to catch up to someone running away from you. Or to use it to avoid dying. Blink gives you the element of surprise and get in close enough so that beads aren't going to help them. Just be sure to let your team know you're blinking into a team fight to pick off carries so after you kill them they can help you get out alive. But the best way to live if just killing everyone. So here's the bread and butter Miss Piggy combo.

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Combo

I tend to save Suppress The Insolent for the finishing move as they'll most likely beads the ultimate but if you blinked behind them you'll hit enough autos to get their health down enough to kill with your Suppress The Insolent. The real trick to this combo is using Transgressor's Fate effectively. If you know their beads is down then Blink in and use your trap first before starting your combo placing it slightly behind them. If you think they still have beads place the trap far enough behind them so they won't be CC immune and they'll be forced to move around it or hopefully just run into it. You can also use it to cut off an escape route. I see a lot of Artemis players using the traps ineffectively which can make or break an Artemis. This ability adds a layer of chess like strategy to her complexity. Knowing where your enemies will move and how to use the trap effectively takes some planning.

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Death's Embrace When it comes to the debate for Hunter's Cowl vs Death's Embrace I think it comes down to preference. The lifesteal and attack speed from Cowl are extremely valuable especially for someone like Artemis. But the reason I tend to sell for Death's Embrace more often is simply for the massive power spike in damage. The passive will also provide very good lifsteal as well as mana stealing which is great to have for someone who spams traps and speed abilities. Fail-Not The Fail-Not isn't seen too often anymore. I don't care. This is my favorite item on Artemis. She has the best ultimate for ADC's in the game. Any item that provides cooldown is extremely valuable. It also provides pen, power and crit so it still fits well into this build. Wind Demon Wind Demon The Wind Demon is the go to crit item for any build. I swear Hi-Rez is lying about the crit chance with this thing. This item alone provides a massive amount of crit chance that the game is hiding away in the coding. This item is a staple as the passive allows you to shmoove and carve through armor. As for Qin's Deathbringer and Devour these are all staple ADC items for sustain, crit damage and dealing with high health enemies. Beads are your lifeline. Never engage too deep into a fight without beads. I'd recommend upgrading it before you even finish stacks on Devo. Should you get stunned your ability to sustain with lifesteal goes out the window and you'll be easily killed. With the amount of crit you'll get from all 3 items you'll proc Wind Demon easily adding a lot of great benefits to your stats. Rage is pretty niche since Wind Demon provides so much crit chance, plus you'd have to leave out something like Deathbringer although any crit build without that item is just losing out on massive damage. Yes this build does lack in attack speed. However your 2 ability will provide you attack speed. This is a build that's better suited to people who are good at hitting autos, which will hit like a mack-truck at full build since crit runs off your passive due to the ultimate and trap CCs that adds bonus damage to targets WHICH is your ultimate so that will proc Fail-Not to make sure every hit is a crit! Damage on top of damage on top of damage with this build. Item Counters: If you see tanks getting Spectral Armor that's when you should switch up your build. Crit will still work well against squishy targets but mix up some crit items for more beefy damage. Instead of Fail-Not you can get Dominance, switch Wind Demon with The Executioner and lastly Deathbringer can be replaced with Ichaival or even Atalanta's Bow. Basically just switch to the attack speed build.

Why bully tanks?

ADC's act real tough when their supports are leading the fight. You take them out and now you have a scared squishy ADC running for the tower. I like building heavy pen% for ADC's mainly because you're always dealing with tanks. Solo players love diving squishy targets and supports are annoying constantly peeling you off easy kills. You take them out of the picture and now you're free to do whatever you want to the enemy team. Your mid lane mage, solo laner and jungler will have no problem dealing with squishy targets so I always felt like ADC's should focus on the role of dealing with tanks. Hunters can melt tanks way faster than any other role so why not make that your primary job?

Optional KEEP YOU ALIVE ITEMS!
Don't always ignore the defensive items especially for Artemis. Consider these options if you're getting dived a lot or need some some help escaping situations.

Mantle of Discord

Don't always sell boots for more power. I used to make the mistake of ignoring defensive items cause I was a power addict. Mantle of Discord is a fantastic item that can help you out massively later in the game. If you're getting dived and peeled you need this item. The stun AoE will ensure you can stop the pressure and either escape or start hitting them back to regain your health if you have your Devourer's Gauntlet stacked up. Even if you need it as a 6th item, you can sell boots for something else. Magi's Cloak is also pretty good but it's an item that really benefits gods with some sort of escape. However Magi's Cloak does show up in my Crit build pretty often just so I can kill squishy targets without error.

Magi's Cloak

While Mantle of Discord is my preferred item for defense Magi's Cloak can be pretty useful for the health and free beads if you're picking off squishy carries. The last thing you want is to get CCed the second you blink in to hit someone and die immediately. Especially late game while you're trying to pick someone off running around, there's are so many builds designed to one-shot. This item will make sure when you blink in you'll get your combo off. It's happen to me a few times where I flank in an area where I don't think there's a Ward but sadly there is. They have their CC ready and aimed at my route then I walk right into it. Magi's Cloak will save you from that embarrassment.

A little trick I like doing which is kind of a niche situation but it has worked a few times. When you're running away from someone who's right behind you put down a trap in front of you then try to jump on top of it. If you have a dark or solid color stamp it will obscure their vision a little. (Maybe they patched this now and enemies can't see jump stamps? I don't know if anyone knows if this works anymore?) Your jump stamp goes under markings but it will make it harder to see. Your enemy might think you're just playing around jumping while running away. Whenever I play against Artemis the trap's marking is usually red so if you have a red stamp that makes this even more effective. Might be a dirty trick but you got to work with what you got.

I feel like there's some really amazing Silverbranch build that can be done on Artemis in ranked games. With these new starter items they can add insane attack speed numbers. For Artemis and her buff this means Silverbranch will do massive damage for her. I just don't feel comfortable building it in ranked just yet cause I can't find the right build stacking item on her.

This build however almost reach power cap once you active your 2. It has decent pen to deal with tanks. It's just a little lackluster compared to heavy damage power items though.