"The way is open!" Smite Janus Conquest Guide (11.4)

STRENGTHS Good wave clear High damage output Strong mobility Great Ultimate for damage and (team)rotations Good secure/steal potential Strong in teamfights

WEAKNESSES High Skillfloor & Skillceiling No dash/leap/jump Needs good positioning Requires good warding and map/game awareness .

Passages Janus creates two tethered unstable portals, far too small to fit into, and flings them forward dealing damage to enemies in their path. Enemies hit by both portals take 15% damage on the second hit.

Portal Janus creates a portal in the world. If placed on a wall, the portal will create a passage through to the other side of the wall that Janus or any ally may use. The portal may be entered from either side, but closes after 1 use. If placed on the ground, enemies and Janus will fall into the portal, being teleported into the air above it. Enemies take damage upon landing, and are considered banished during the fall.

Unstable Vortex Janus creates two tethered unstable portals, far too small to fit into, and flings them forward dealing damage to enemies in their path. Enemies hit by both portals take 15% damage on the second hit.

Threshold Passive: Janus increases the movement speed of himself and allies each time they go through a portal or over a Threshold (max. 2 Stacks). Active: Janus opens a multi-dimensional rift. Enemies who pass over the rift are slowed, and marked with Phase. Targets in Phase take additional Magical scaling damage when hit by Janus' damaging abilities.

Through Space and Time Passive: Janus gains increased % Magical Penetration. Active: Janus becomes CC Immune and blasts a ball of multi-dimensional energy across the battlefield, burning a portal into every surface it encounters within range 500. These portals last 10s, may be used by allies, and do not vanish after the first use. Enemies hit take damage, increasing in Magical scaling the further the energy travels. Enemy gods cannot take more than 75% of their maximum Health as damage.

This combo can be implemented in two ways. The first way to implement it, is to place the Portal below the enemy and then hit them with your second ability Unstable Vortex. The damage output won't be really high since your portal doesn't do a lot of damage but is used more of a 'guaranteed' Unstable Vortex hit. The downside of this combo is that if you don't have your ultimate up (a form of escape), you're easily gankable by the enemy (jungler) if he's around.

The second form of this combo is to place the Portal at a wall, go through it (this activates your passive Passages) and then hit the enemy with Unstable Vortex, this way you will put out more damage compared to the first one. Also here, you would have to be sure you're save against enemy rotations or ganks since your only other form of escape would be your ultimate.

This one usually pretty easy to pull off depending how you like to use it. You could place Threshold below the enemy so they get slowed and marked with the debuff where you would then do more damage when hitting them with Unstable Vortex. The second way of implementing this combo is to place Threshold in such a way where both you and the enemy go over it, which then activates your passive Passages as well as placing the debuff on the enemy for even more damage output when hitting them with Unstable Vortex.

This combo has great damage output if both of the abilities hit the enemy. First you would time and (ideally) hit your ultimate Through Space and Time, use the portals to go towards the enemy (which also activates your passive Passages) and then hit the enemy with Unstable Vortex. You could also use Portal (depending on the situation) to chase down enemies even further, or use it for a quick escape afterwards.

This combo is the most deadliest out of all the combos listed above (if you time everything right ofcourse). It has the capability to one-shot squishy targets like ADC's, Assassins, and Mages, but also Supports and Warriors if they're at certain health. You would use your Threshold first, then time and use your ultimate Through Space and Time to hit the enemy, use the portals to go towards the enemy (if you timed it right you could then use Threshold again to debuff the enemy) and then hit them with Unstable Vortex for the maximum damage output.

You could also use this combo without using Unstable Vortex to secure/steal objectives like the Gold Fury or Fire Giant (and maybe also hit the enemy at the same time). You would follow the exact same steps mentioned above, but you could then decide if you want to portal over to gank the enemy (after stealing the objective), or to just only snipe and steal the objective instead.

• You want to pull both Damage Buff]] Red and Speed camps together with your jungler towards your tower at the start of the match. Use Unstable Vortex to clear the camps (you pick up red buff and the jungler the speedbuff). You will hit level 2 at this point and should put a point into your first ability Portal.
  
  
• Then you go to the other side of the jungle to help out your jungler with clearing the second speedbuff. After that you go back to your lane (using your portal to get to your lane faster). Your jungler will either help out your lane, or gank the duo lane after they've cleared the XP camps.
  
  
• From here you will meet the enemy mid-laner on the first wave. You should use Unstable Vortex to hit the entire wave and then use Portal on the archer minions which will kill them. After that you'd basic attack the remaining 2/3 melee-minions. Depending on who has better early pressure/clear, you can decide whether you'll be able to engage in a fight or back up and wait for your jungler/second wave.
  
  
• After the second minion wave has been cleared, depending on if your jungler is there or not, you could either engage in a fight if the enemy has no escape/is low health, or go for the sideharpies and get XP/Gold. If the enemy mid-laner has more pressure, I would suggest you either go for the sideharpies or back up towards your tower and clear the minion wave safely.
  
  
• From here on you'll mainly focus on clearing your minion waves, contest/clear Sideharpies, clear the Rogue camp (next to the T1 tower), clear/secure the Red buff, clear the spirit totem camps (if your jungler is on the other side of the map) and look for rotations when possible.

• Aside from clearing your minion wave and the usual farm you would get from the jungle camps, you would also be focusing on controlling/contesting/stealing the Stygian Beacon and the Bull Demon King (in the Fire Giant pit), Pyromancer and Gold Fury.
  
  
• Ideally you'd want to capture/contest the Stygian Beacon as often as possible, this depends on various circumstances like how many enemies are on it and are you (and your teammates) able to contest (and take) it. In 1v1 situations you have to decide who has more pressure and outplay potential to capture it.
  
  
• Most people forget about the Bull Demon King as it is a new early/mid-game objective which is very useful since it reveals all enemy wards on the map. Try to get/contest/steal the Bull Demon King as early as possible. As for the Gold Fury and Pyromancer, this depends on how much pressure you have as a team to capture/contest these objectives. If you have your ultimate Through Space and Time up, try and time it so you can steal the objectives if the enemy is on it and your teammates aren't there to contest it.

• In the late-game you'll be focusing on clearing waves, rotating/roaming and capturing/contesting/defending objectives like Fire Giant, Gold Fury and Phoenixes.
  
  
• When it comes to teamfights you want to position yourself close/behind walls and your tanks (Support and Solo laners), play around your ADC and poke/damage/kill the enemy with Threshold and Unstable Vortex or other combos that I listed above.
  
  
• Try to be annoying towards the enemy squishies.As Janus you'd want to play like a mosquito and try to catch the enemies off-guard poke/damage them and get out. Doing this can force the enemy to back since you've poked them hard enough which turns potential teamfights and objective captures to your favour.

In the image below you'll see the current Season 11 (11.4) Conquest map with the green circles resembling as the in-game Wards. These are the ideal spots to place your wards as a midlaner in the early/mid-game. It will help you and your team to stay aware of the enemies rotations. As long as you ward at these spot and stay aware of your surroundings, you'll be safe.




In the second image below you'll see the ward placement for the late-game. As you can see the wards are placed generally deeper towards the enemies side of the jungle as well as the objectives like the Gold Fury and Fire Giant. You'd want to use the Sentry Ward on and around objectives since those will be contested and warded the most by the enemy.