Season 3: Viable Osiris Bruiser Builds and Guide

Greetings everyone, thank you for taking the time to look at my guide. Osiris is my favorite warrior in Smite, and I'm truly saddened no one picks him anymore. His viability hasn't gone away, you just have to know how to build him and practice with him is all! He is a great boxer, one of the better solo laners, and an overall satisfying front line god to play! I'm here to show you a variety of builds I use and have tested personally in all game modes and have had plenty of success with. If you have tried any of these builds and found them helpful please let me know in the comments section, I'm also open to critiques and suggestions by the community.


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Passive: Fragmented	Controllable damage mitigation and a strong passive that synergises with his 3rd ability. 6 stacks, and a total of 16% damage mitigation. Downside is after it's fully stacked it goes away in 6 strikes against any target, gods and minions alike. Shed body parts with your first three abilities every trip back to the fountain before returning to lane. Did I also mention it prevents you from being body blocked when fully stacked?
Ability 1: Sickle Strike	Makes catching up to enemies significantly easier than outrunning them. Damage is low so save this for comboing with Spirit Flail to slow their ***es down when chasing. However, I will say, watching someone get impaled by this ability and have it sit there for a few moments in their chest on it's own is quite hilarious.
Ability 2: Spirit Flail	Only source of wave clear outside his basic attacks. Also only reliable poke which has good early game damage.
Ability 3: Judgement Tether	Additional source of damage mitigation, every second he gains increased damage mitigation before the enemy is stunned. Numbers can go as high as 50% mitigation with a fully stacked passive. This is also his only hard cc ability and can be broken since it's an AOE ability and the stun doesn't kick in immediately, don't let it go to waste.
Ultimate: Lord of the Afterlife	This is why Osiris is so good in solo outside his crazy attack chain, solo is the sustain lane and he completely prevents any and all sustain with this ult. Use it to chase down fleeing foes who've tasted your wrath or escaping an ambush that would otherwise kill you(JK, you cannot kill that which is already dead.) Also keep in mind, it's a skill shot and your only built in escape. Use it wisely

For early game, Spirit Flail should be the only ability you use to do damage to your foe from a distance. Reason being is you want to be conservative with your manna and use Death's Toll and Mana Potion's to replenish your limited reserves.

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-Fantastic damage mitigation. -Strong attack Chain. -Can outbox multitude of foes whilst building bruiser.

-Versatile in how he can be built. -Built in Hastened Fatalis with passive.

-No escape outside ultimate. -High Skill Cap.

-Extremely susceptible to high amounts of burst cc and damage. -Built in slow is a skillshot.

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Osiris is very flexible when it comes to building his basic attack chain. The ideal Osiris build should generally compose of Shoes, 1 Physical defense, 1 Magical, Qin's Sais, and 2 situational items. Hybrid items are great for pairing with other healthy defense pieces.

Though Hide of the Urchin is a great at being hands down the best defense item in the game, having it as your only defense item is not recommended. Glass cannon builds will get you killed. Here's why I get Hide of the Urchin and Bulwark of Hope together in a standard build, because at rank 20 you end up having 142 physical protections, 173 magical, and 2625 hp. Even more so if you end up getting another healthy defense item or Frostbound Hammer. This is a sufficient effective health pool for bruising. The following list below is a short description of the builds I have created above and what their strengths and weaknesses are.

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Criticals

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Raw, indiscriminate power. This was how I first started building Osiris and is what I recommend everyone looking to pick him up start out with until they get a feel for how he plays. With this you achieve the highest DPS possible on his attack chain and can kill just about anyone that gets in your way. Downside is it's pricey and only serves to increase your Critical chance damage, and is not an ideal pen item on its own. Also you have no objective pen at all so good luck whacking towers for days without a minion wave!

Life Steal

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Life Steal has always been a favorite of mine on Osiris. It can be used when behind or ahead, preferably when behind so you aren't returning to base every time someone wounds you and you aren't spending all your money on health potions. It's a cheap build, gives you plenty of lane sustain, and allows you to fight 1v2's and the occasional 1v3 and still come out on top with more health than your unlucky adversaries. However, what you gain in sustain and some physical power, you lose in DPS.

Power and Penetration

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This is a "Hit things, break stuff," type of build. The idea is to strike a balance between Physical Power, Pen, and Attack Speed. All power builds I have listed will include to compliment damage so all foes will be on equal footing in terms of how much of a beating they will take from you. Not even objectives are safe. is a great item to equip in the solo lane. Kind of like how life steal gives you hp sustain, this gives you the manna sustain to keep poking your enemies out and stay in lane longer. Also it gives a **** ton of power.

There really are no downsides to a balanced composition.

AS/Armor Reduction

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It's similar to the Power and Pen except much greater attack speed.

Great individual harass and killing potential, as well as making it easier to for physical teammates to take out your opponents! Downside is not having a lot of physical power to back up your strikes, is pricey, and you have to stack your main damaging items to get the maximum damage output.

Tanky Frontline

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No one aggressing the enemy team? Are you getting your *** bursted down and life steal isn't helping? This is your go to build. Chalk full of protections and health to make sure you let those burst mages know that you won't go down so easily! Not exactly a true tank. Still a bruiser. Albeit a really hard to kill bruiser.

Upside is you won't die, downside is that the damage isn't great. You rely on Qin's Sais and The Executioner, or Stone Cutting Sword in order to kill people.

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Purchase Death's Toll, a potion of physical might, 3 Healing Potion's, 2 Mana Potion's always. This gives you the power you need to aggress the enemy solo. Assess your opponents level of skill through exchange of blows, and their behavior towards you, and how often their jungle ganks. Use this to determine whether to play offensively or defensively, then choose a build to work with. Lifesteal is great if they are giving you too much trouble and you cant afford to back every couple of minutes.

Level up your first and foremost and clear the back archers at all times, should always be your second maxed skill. Remember to combo your and to slow the **** out of your opponent should he choose to come fight you, and if you can't kill someone before they back then don't stress. What matters is that you are forcing them out of gold and experience and are able to take objectives while they are away.

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By this time you should have maxed your main source of wave clear and damage mitigation. As well, either your tower, or the enemies tower should be taken. If you have taken tier 1 objectives, work on rotating to mid and duo. You should also have 1 defensive item at this point to help you deal with the damage being thrown at you from various opponents. If you are behind in experience and gold, continue farming in your lane until you've caught up with the rest of the world. Push objectives if the opportunity arises, but don't shy from a team fight. You are your teams secondary frontline and they will need you.

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At this stage in the game, no one should be able to take you on in a 1v1 scenario, or a 1v2 scenario. Play aggressively, but not overly aggressively. Part of playing Osiris is waiting for opportunities to go H.A.M. Avoid jumping into the middle of your enemies unless your team has already engaged, then disrupt and take out high value targets. You will not always be the initiator in team fights, and that is okay. However, it is okay to initiate on targets getting too close for their own good, and in some cases simply standing near your teams carry can award you a kill or two should the enemy assassin decide to try to get in and get out.

God: Bellona Title: God of War Threat Level: Medium to High Most Threatening Stage: All Stages

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God: Ravana Title: Demon King of Lanka Threat Level: Very High Most Threatening Stage: Early

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God: Chang'e Title: Faerie of the Moon Threat Level: Easy to Medium Most Threatening Stage: Late

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God: Title: God of the Nile Threat Level: R.I.P Most Threatening Stage: Early

My recommendation for new players of Osiris is to practice with him in Arena. Short 20 minute matches will quickly get you antiquated with:
A.) How aggressive you should be in team fights.
B.) How much punishment you can take.
C.) Getting in the habit of shredding fragments to mitigate damage.
D.) Knowing WHEN to hack someone to pieces, and WHEN to avoid combat all together.

Once you think you have an idea of how you should play him, move onto conquest in the solo lane. Always get Death's Toll, a potion of physical might, 3 Healing Potion's, and 2 Mana Potion's right off the bat, regardless of your role. Assess your opponent in lane, save your damaging abilities for wave clearing and if they get too close, tag them with judgement tether and whack them till they back off. Pay attention to whether they are getting the better of you and ask yourself why that is.

Playing Osiris, and any god in general, is all about self awareness. Every time you almost die, or die, honestly analyze why that happened, and adjust your play style so you don't repeat that mistake again. Don't go H.A.M every time with Osiris, because for as powerful as he is, going headstrong at all times is not how you play him and it will get you killed.

Osiris is a great boxer with a lot of harass and killing potential at his disposal is one of my favorite gods, and currently favorite warrior, in Smite. These builds are viable for any game mode and can be used in the solo lane or jungle. If you like the build or have any questions or concerns please leave a comment below. I truly want to see Osiris make a comeback in the meta as he's still viable and a great god to bring to the fight. I encourage you to share what you've learned here with others for their benefit so they will understand how to wield the Broken God of the Afterlife.