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by CakeSlapping updated September 4, 2016

Smite God: Nox

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Nox Build

Safe start

Build Item Vampiric Shroud Vampiric Shroud
Build Item Lost Artifact Lost Artifact
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
2

Risky start

Build Item Vampiric Shroud Vampiric Shroud
Build Item Spellbook Spellbook

1st - Stacks - pick one

Build Item Book of Thoth Book of Thoth
Build Item Warlock's Staff Warlock's Staff
Build Item Soul Reaver Soul Reaver

2nd - Boots - pick one

Build Item Shoes of the Magi Shoes of the Magi
Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus

3rd - cooldown - pick one

Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Breastplate of Valor Breastplate of Valor

4th - penetration - pick one

Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus
Build Item Void Stone Void Stone
Build Item Obsidian Shard Obsidian Shard

5th - lifesteal - pick one

Build Item Bancroft's Talon Bancroft's Talon
Build Item Divine Ruin Divine Ruin
Build Item Pythagorem's Piece Pythagorem's Piece
Build Item Soul Reaver Soul Reaver

6th - Power - pick one

Build Item Rod of Tahuti Rod of Tahuti
Build Item Spear of Desolation Spear of Desolation

Useful relics

Build Item Purification Beads Purification Beads
Build Item Aegis Amulet Aegis Amulet

My preferred build

Build Item Book of Thoth Book of Thoth
Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Obsidian Shard Obsidian Shard
Build Item Pythagorem's Piece Pythagorem's Piece
Build Item Spear of Desolation Spear of Desolation

Example defensive build (mid lane build, but also works well solo lane in casual play)

Build Item Warlock's Staff Warlock's Staff
Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Breastplate of Valor Breastplate of Valor
Build Item Void Stone Void Stone
Build Item Pythagorem's Piece Pythagorem's Piece
Build Item Rod of Tahuti Rod of Tahuti

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 (+110% 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: 75
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

Hi guys and girls,
I'm CakeSlapping or CAKE SLAP, a casual player who's been enjoying Smite since the Xbox beta.
I've loved the thrill of PvP ever since the first time I played against my brother at Micro Machines on the PS1, and have since become competent at various PvP genres, however Smite is my first MOBA.

So, I've now built up the competence/confidence to write my first guide for my current favourite God, Nox.
Hopefully this guide will help improve someone's game, and drum up some enthusiasm for a God who seems to receive little love from the player base.

Hope you enjoy.

Updates coming soon...

I'm currently taking a short break from Smite, but I will be updating this guide to reflect the most recent patches when I come back to the game, in a few weeks time.

Who is Nox?

Noxis a widely underestimated God, who is great in both 1-on-1s and team fights. She is able to have a great deal of control over the battlefield using her abilities, and is generally very disruptive and obnoxious to the enemy team, which can be very influential in swaying the course of any team fights/Ganks and whatnot.


She is capable of massive single target burst damage by using her abilities in combination with each other, with her main combo often able to one shot squishies mid-late game.

Something to watch

Here's a small collection of my own fun clips, from Season 2, that I've put together, which will hopefully give you an insight into how useful Nox's kit is, and how fun she can be to play.

Obviously this isn't a showcase of the worlds best Nox plays, but it should give you a rough idea of what she's about.
Have a watch and then read on with the guide.

Pros and Cons

Pros
-Great control with Shadow Lock and Siphon Darkness
-Great damage scaling
-Large AoE silence
-Great synergy with a lot of gods
-Decent mobility and utility with Shadow Step dash
- Night Terror is good for both initiating fights and finishing weak gods
-Good gank potential with her ability to lock gods down
-Very disruptive to ability based gods

Cons
-Very weak wave clear until at least level 6
-Very long Cooldowns
-Main combo can be difficult to land
-Easily overwhelmed if out of position
-Dash is short range
-AA based gods can be problematic

Abilities

Flame of the Night

Flame of the Night is a simple passive. Every time Nox casts an ability she lights one of her candles, up to a max of 4, giving her an extra 3% magic per candle. A candle is extinguished upon each instance of damage Nox takes.

Lightin' Up



Shadow Lock
Shadow Lock is a great ability which allows Nox to root an enemy and deal tick damage for 2 seconds, as long as she channels the ability.

Putting them in Lockdown



Siphon Darkness
Siphon Darkness is Nox's big damage dealer, and main wave clear. Siphon Darkness is a large AoE silence which detonates for massive damage.

Detonating shadows


Shadow Step
Not going to say too much about Shadow Step. Its a dash which deals damage when you hit enemies, but it also has a unique twist in that you can dash inside a teammate and then explode out of them dealing damage around you. It's useful for hitching a ride with more mobile gods or hiding inside a teammate to avoid damage.

Step into the dark



Night Terror
At first Night Terror might seem like quite a weak ultimate for a Mage, but look a little deeper and you'll find that this is a brilliant ultimate.
Nox gains cc immunity and fires out a big ball of darkness which travels extremely fast in a straight line in front of her, over a very long distance (the same distance as Ra's ult, I believe). The projectile deals a block of damage on impact, followed by five seconds tick damage, and causes enemies to do 30% less damage for the ticks duration.

Give them Nightmares

Item Build

Starter items

You want to pick starting items to give you the best opportunity to not fall behind early game. There are two starts I pick between, and it's important I pick an appropriate start to ensure I don't fall behind early game.

Born in the dark. Moulded by it...



1st Item-Stacks
Building a stacking item and collecting stacks will help you become very powerful very early and allow you to bully your lane opponent.
You'll be less mobile early game building this first, but as long as you don't push up too far too often, then Shadow Step is generally all you need to escape any early ganks. Just make sure to save it for when that happens.
If for any reason you fall behind by more than a level or are being bullied badly in lane then you should buy this second and get your boots first, for a cheaper and earlier, but smaller, power boost to help you keep up

Building Fat Stacks



2nd Item-Boots
Next you want to build your boots for the mobility, which will make it much easier for you to try and outmanuever your lane opponent and also make it much easier to survive ganks, which become more commonplace around this time in the match.

Getting up to speed



3rd Item-Cooldown
Thirdly you want an item with a big cooldown reduction, as Nox's cooldowns are so long, which will enable you to use your big damage abilities much more often.

Just be cool(down)



4th Item-Penetration
Buying penetration next will make your abilities hit much harder, by allowing you to shred/bypass your enemies' protections. If however you're behind at this point in the game, then buying lifesteal before penetration will help you stay in lane longer to catch up on minion farm.

More than just the tip



5th Item-Lifesteal
Buying lifesteal will give you a decent amount of sustain which will allow you stay in the action for longer.
As this item gives you sustain you can sell your Vampiric Shroud to be able to afford it, if you're at base already and just short of enough gold to buy it.

keeping topped up



Final Item-Power!
At this point in the game you should have every thing you need to fight your opponents effectively. This final item will be the pitch black icing on the cake of your enemies suffering.

afraid of the dark? You should be...




Relics
As Nox is a squishy Mage you will want Relics that help with your survivability. It is up to you what to take at level 1 and at level 12, but you generally want to have the one you think you'll need most at the start of the match.

Covering your shortfalls

Game Strategy

Early Game

Getting Started



Mid Game

Becoming a bully



Late game

You are the danger



Team Fighting

Play together, stay together

Summary

Nox is an underrated gem, who is a brilliant choice for mid lane. She may be quite squishy, but with her great sustain and wave clear, and incredible burst damage capability, any enemy will be wary of approaching you.


Hopefully this guide will help some of you, and encourage more people to try out Nox.


As this is my first guide I understand it's not amazing and the BBcoding can be a bit iffy, but I welcome all constructive criticism, feedback and input from anyone who wishes to leave a comment.

Any ways thanks for reading and have fun turning the lights out on your enemies.


Credit to branmuffin17, Zilby and Devampi for feedback which has helped significantly improve this guide, and special thanks to Janitsu for the PizzaNox artwork.

Further updates coming soon...

This has just been a quick update to make the guide appropriate to season 3, but I will likely do further updates once the season 3 meta has started to settle, and it becomes clearer what items and tactics are better/more appropriate.

My other Guides

Please feel free to take a look a my other build guides, on this site:


Land of the Rising Sun - Amaterasu Jungle Guide


"Winter is Coming..."


Thanks for looking!

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DucksRock (41) | July 24, 2016 2:28am
dunno if this is outdated or not, but i like the Soul Stone and t1 Celestial Legion Helm start, pretty good against jungler aggression early on.
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CakeSlapping (29) | July 24, 2016 7:10am
All my guides are a little outdated at the moment, I think.

Just can't find a time when I can bring myself to update them.
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CakeSlapping (29) | March 21, 2016 1:36pm
Jykai wrote:

This is a very good build. Similar to what i would do. But I would disagree with only 1 Cooldown item. Get pen boots. Warlocks is fine. Then go Breastplate of valor into a Chronos Pendant. Then a shard. Then Rod. I play league. Thats why i prefer a more tanky mage. Vids up on my channel Drop a like and sub.

PS

I personally think cooldown boots are pointless. Unless your mana hungry early game. Then you can get max cooldown and sell up.

Yeah, I've come to find that the season 3 changes to penetration have really hurt Nox in the damage department, so I tend to build her a little tankier than my recommended build on this guide.

I now usually build
Cooldown boots, warlock's, Chronos/breastplate/spirit robe (depending on what I need), spear/shard/void stone (again depending what I need), Pythag (cos I like lifesteal on Nox), and either tahuti or desolation to finish.

I'll update the guide soon, to reflect this, but I'm a little busy at the moment.

Anyways, thanks for the feedback!
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Jykai | March 21, 2016 10:26am
This is a very good build. Similar to what i would do. But I would disagree with only 1 Cooldown item. Get pen boots. Warlocks is fine. Then go Breastplate of valor into a Chronos Pendant. Then a shard. Then Rod. I play league. Thats why i prefer a more tanky mage. Vids up on my channel Drop a like and sub.

PS

I personally think cooldown boots are pointless. Unless your mana hungry early game. Then you can get max cooldown and sell up.
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CakeSlapping (29) | February 14, 2016 9:53am
ToX1C K9 wrote:
I would recommend to put more into the abilities section like "when should I use my dash".


When to use your Dash
When you need to escape, or reposition yourself quickly.


How's that? ;)
The reason I don't really explain into it much is because 99% of the time you'll be using it to escape or reposition.
Fair enough it is a very diverse skill, so I may add in a bit of detail about other ways you can use it, but using it for anything other than escaping or repositioning leaves you VERY vulnerable for the duration of its cooldown, so it's something you need to know in your gut when to commit to, so by not explaining I thought it would allow people to build that instinct of when to use it offensively by themself.
Does that make sense?


Anyways cheers for the feedback, I hope you give Nox a spin!

Also I could give you a few tips on BBcoding if you want, just send me a message!
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ToX1C K9 | February 14, 2016 7:55am
This is a really good guide! I don't play Nox at all but this should help me out with the basics of playing her. You BB coding is WAY better than mine. I would recommend to put more into the abilities section like "when should I use my dash". I say this most because Nox's dash has so many purposes besides just escaping. But great guide and way and keep up the good work!
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CakeSlapping (29) | February 4, 2016 6:25am
Guide has been updated to be bought in line with the season 3 item changes and whatnot.

Happy Noxxing this season guys and girls!
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CakeSlapping (29) | January 16, 2016 1:42pm
Aquaipride wrote:

I'm having with nox builds and would be a big help for me. I recently started smit two month but picked up noxs after about a few weeks. I get wins here and there but since I'm doing a team I want to improve on that game.

As my first builds I go for breastplate of valor and boots of focus to boost cool down and have defence and mobility.

Then I use warlock stash and then into spear of the Magnus then to rod of tahuli then final bancrGifts talon or obsidian shard.


I hope my guide can help you improve to a level you're happy with.

As a general rule - I wouldn't build Breastplate of Valor first unless you are against a physical God in lane (which is very rare for nox). If you're against another Mage then the Defense from breastplate will not help you against them.
Against a Mage you're better off building into warlock's saah first for the extra health, which will help you against them, then start building your Shoes of Focus.
Or you could build the shoes then the sash, if you want your cooldown before your health.

Hope that makes sense, and you find it helpful
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Aquaipride | January 14, 2016 8:30pm
I'm having with nox builds and would be a big help for me. I recently started smit two month but picked up noxs after about a few weeks. I get wins here and there but since I'm doing a team I want to improve on that game.

As my first builds I go for breastplate of valor and boots of focus to boost cool down and have defence and mobility.

Then I use warlock stash and then into spear of the Magnus then to rod of tahuli then final bancrGifts talon or obsidian shard.
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CakeSlapping (29) | January 14, 2016 5:31am
Yeah Im not sure of the maths on the extra penetration and whatnot, but I do tend to find myself killing people in 1 combo more often when I build pen boots over cooldown, and then buy Pythagorem's Piece to supplement my cooldown later on.

And if you read through the comments on this guide you'll find a bunch of BBcoding tips that some of the users gave me, which would probably be useful to you too.

Thanks for the feedback :)
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ReedP (5) | January 14, 2016 5:08am
Hmmm this doesn't differ too much from the way I myself build nox which is good to see since I hadn't looked at any guides just yet. Loved her before the re kit but couldn't play her at all. Recently tried her again and have gotten some major killing sprees. Granted I play arena 80% of the time. But I never build the pen boots... Honestly think I should just to see cause I'm usually just shy of maybe 100 damage in one combo-ing people. But I'm not the greatest as landing her skill shots all the time so I sorta rely on that CDR. Anyhow great guide. I'll definitely be taking notes on how to improve the first one I recently wrote. I knew mine didn't look very appealing without any of the fancy pictures of what not haha definitely need to figure out the coding. Upvote for sure
1
CakeSlapping (29) | December 30, 2015 11:44am
Thud224 wrote:

Tried out Nox last night for the first time and this build definitely brought me some glory. Mainly played Clash and had a lot of fun with her combo. Great guide I think I found my go to Mid-lane god.


Glad to hear that!

Thanks for the feedback
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Thud224 | December 30, 2015 5:09am
Tried out Nox last night for the first time and this build definitely brought me some glory. Mainly played Clash and had a lot of fun with her combo. Great guide I think I found my go to Mid-lane god.
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Introduction
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Who is Nox?
Something to watch
Pros and Cons
Abilities
Item Build
Game Strategy
Summary
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