Win the War With Damage / How to play Warriors as Bruisers.

Hello, this is my first guide and in it i will explain the reason behind my playstyle and the strategy i use to play Warriors as Bruisers on Conquest and Casual modes like Arena and Clash. Since the beggining of season 3 i have loved warriors and recently,some months ago, i decided to completely main them and i also plan on getting all warriors to diamond. For kow i have only gotten Tyr,Odin,Hercules,Sun Wukong,Chaac,Ravana and Guan Yu to diamond.Ill leave clear that i dont want to break the meta,i guess building full tank gives you indeed a higher chance of winning,but building Bruiser Warrior is more fun than winning ranked in my opinion.(Also im not english native speaker so sorry if i make a mistake.)

If you want to get right into the guide,jump to the ''Ok but,how do i play Bruiser Warriors?'' section. I wont be taling about every Warrior ability and im suposing you know from memory every Warrior's kit and details of the abilities i talk about. If youre unsure of why should you play like this,keep reading from here.
In SMITE, your team will need alot of things in order to win,you will need Crown Control to tie up the enemy in a offensive and a defensive situation,movility,survivavility to give you more oportunities to fight and most importantly, damage, Warriors built correctly and played correctly as bruisers can do all of this effectively,they can effectevely not only be a CC and tanky threat,but also a threat to the enemies HP in ALL stages of the game,as bruisers can 100-0 squishies if not dealt with,and finishing off kills that would otherwise escape like a assasin would...in other words,you can kill the squishies by yourself and carry your team with this guide.

The pros and cons of a Warrior built bruiser are:

Pros: Can take out a squishy's HP with his whole abilities and some basic attacks if necessary. Scaring paired with a good Tank,specially when he initiates. Can more effectively zone. Amazing in prolonged fights. High treat late game. Can snowball really hard. Its super fun(*******it!) while still being effective and useful to his team.

Cons: Weak in heavy outnumbered fights.(1v3,1v4,1v5,even 1v2 if youre weak early or are behind) Cant frontline alone agaisnt a pack of 3 enemies or higher without ult. Suffers if he has no tank,having to play defensibely like a squishy,even tho it wont die that fast. Enemy team can coordinate if they are being tryhards and shut you down when trying to kill someone,not neccesary kill you but stop you,but they could kill you. Heaviest counter is to being CC chained and focused down by all the enemy team,not that efective if theyre are only 3 people tho,you can just escape. You would probably get flamed if you do this in ranked.

I have recolected some recent clips from xbox live (cant record on pc cuz i have no pc,just a ****ty laptop and if i record while playing i would be playing at 1 FPS :( ) that show some of the things this playstyle allows you to do.Unfortunately i didnt record any clips where i fought 5v5 teamfights and most of the clips i end up dying because o greed,but please think of the context of the clips,just because i die doesnt mean the playstyle is bad,everyone dies just look at my score and how the match is going.

• In the first example,notice that my team is behind,im fed and the Cernunnos is almost full build and can do alot of damage,but since i have full build and ult is up,i walk up to him,ult him and use my 1 to finish him.Remember that this is in late game and im killing a adc with 2 abilities when he is half hp,my ult did at least 500 damage to everyone hit and my 3 did 350 to Cern inmediatly,if that isnt assasin-like idk what is.Lets calculate for a second: My ult does at least 500 damage,my 1 does 350,my 2 can do a litle more plus 50% ( if you dash through a enemy,the enemy takes 50% of the base damage additionaly),so,500 plus 350=850,plus 350+175=525,850+525=1375 damage,without counting the free autos you would land that for every 2 autos you deal 300 damage with pen,taking in consideration also that with the silence and slow they cant evade your autos or escpae you or your team.Well,considering most Gods at lvl 20 have at least 1700 hp, that does sound like alot; oh,did i forget to mention Chaac also tanked a full Anubis 1,2 ticks of Anubis's 3,a Xing Tian Ult,a Discordia ult and finally died with her 2?Thats alot of abilties on one guy.Also,only Xing Tian survived so we won the teamfight.(Btw,the bm i did there was because Cern was laughspaming the whole game :l )
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• In this next example,i help Cama burst down the mage that stood there for some reason o.O,notice that the moment i go help him,i heal him,then i dash to the enemy,then some mere 3 seconds later i heal him again (he died before the heal went off) but this is a example of why full cdr on Warriors are so good,specially on Guan,after he gets smoked,i back off a litle to avoid damage and get my CD's up,and when my 3 is up,i steal 20 protections from neith and then proceed to follow her leap and kill her with all hits from my ult (notice how she was like 85% hp,and still died to my ult alone! Thats the power of Titans bane baby!..and how she literally stood there for 4 seconds but screw conterplay like just evading my ult hey?)
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• In this example,I chase a kill from really far away,but then i get focused by the rest of the team,i have to admit it wasnt the best decision and it cost us the teamfight,but i killed a loki that was 30% hp! :PAlso,they burned 2 ults to focus me down,dont know if it was necessary,but i did something.
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• In this last clip, i chase a kill,but i forgot to dash to close the gap and land the stun,so i had to escape,but if i had used the dash,i could of stun her and hit her with basic attacks and kill her,even if Medusa killed me,cuz kamikaze bruh im playing a casual...and then my friends procced to bm me in VGS cuz i didnt finish the kill :c.

Warriors can give a possitive response to almost all situations,you will have to develop by experience which is the best reaction to your situation. But i will give you some general rules. As i said before, Warriors are a hybrid betwen a Assasin and a Guardian,and you should play them like that,but in a WHOLE new level.

• First of all,your damage is conditional: you can only 100-0 squishies with FULL kit; remember this: a warrior with ultimate up and a warrior without ultimate are two completely different gods (Line taken from ma boi **** Huap), if you look closely,all the ultimates from the warriors have a key component to their combos, be it CC to let them do their combo,say Odin and Chaac,the extra needed damage to kill them,say Ravana and Hercules, or a advantage stat,say Erlang Shen with dam mitigation and heal and Chaac with 50% damage mitigation,cc and damage;also,you can kill a squishy that is 50% hp or lower with a combo of your normal abilities,but without ult,even if he had 65%,it wouldnt be enought,so dont be fooled by his health bar.
  
• Second,Survivability: bruisers are tanky,but are not tanks,so try to avoid 1v3's,1v4's and 1v5's...you could still win a 1v2 tho,as a warrior,you have to use your abilities in a teamfight,ALOT,meaning that you have to value your life: you cant die inmediatly the fight starts.Even tho you arent as tanky, you should survive such the same time the Guardian should: the whole fight. The best outcome for a warrior is to use as much abilities,deal as much CC,damage and utility it can in a teamfight,all while evading as much damage as posible,since the enemy damage dealers have more power items than you,if you facetank all their abilities,youll lose alot of HP,IF not die, so dont pretend to be a secondary tank,youre not,youre a bruiser,and youre not less useful or important, youve just exchanged tankyness for damage,so please be always concious that you are not a tank.
  
• Third, even tho you can do everything decently,focus on doing what your god is best at; Chaac,for example,is amazing at counter-attacking or turning the tie of battle around,he can use his ult to counter the oponent's ults with the CC inmunity,50% damage mitigation and silence,he can use the silence to freely use his abilities and turn the battle around; another example is Osiris,his best caracteristic in my opinion is his ability to destroy tanks by himself with executioner and qin sais, you can use it to focus one single enemy from a distance with his 1 and 2 or you can just zone people and punish them if they dive the ADC by both of you focusing.
  
• Forth, everyone can be your prey in the right situations, if the tanks are behind,and you know the ADC,assasins or mages can burst them up(or you know you yourself can kill them),prepare a ambush and focus the HEL out of them,since youll be building pen and alot of power,you can just chat with your teammates and tell them to focus the HEL out of em.This is beneficial,not only to get a free kill,but because we are punishing our heaviest obstacle to winning,since Guardians can stop you from diving the backline and getting kills. On the oposite case,if you know the tank wont die that easily,just ignore him/them; just as you would be as you were playing a assasin,focus the backline(if you can,of course). Osiris and Erlang Shen in my opinion are special in the sense that they can build Qin Sais and Executioner,alloing them to kill tanks waay faster,including other Warriors that build full tank.So see them from the ADC perspective ok? :P
  
• Fifth, if youre behind,try to play defensively and stay cloce to your carries,in this situation,you will play like a secondary support that has more damage and less tankyness,all of your teammates have to work together to get back into the game:You cant initiate EXCEPT if the kill is extremely easy,like,4 people defending a lane and 1 guy is 1v1ing another guy,then all 5 of you gank that besterd; if the enemy initiates on you,the best thing you can do in my opinion is to coordinate,CC the tank(yes,cc the tank so he cant CC YOU anymore,dont CC him if he already used his abilities tho,it would be a big waste) and focus the hell out of one or hopefully 2 guys, then run back and retreat; the objective is to get one or 2 kills little by little,get as much XP and gold as you can and then take what you have,dont die and run.
  
• Lastly,ALWAYS DO DAMAGE WHEN YOU CAN!,initiate teamfights with your CC in early and mid game,if you dont stay and try to kill the enemy,half your items are useless,dont be afraid if youre low HP,youre a warrior,keep fighting until you win,you die or you cant win and have to retreat!Also,abuse the hell out of your lead! A tanky warrior that can 100-0 squishies is the most difficult thing to stop if there is no heavy coordination on the enemy team.

The Bruiser builds gravitate around penetration,the most cooldown reduction possible and defense.The order of purchase is: first build warrior tabi on all Warrios,then build breatplate of valor,then another defensive item, at this time of the game,it would be like 12 minutes into the game,so your damage will start to fall off,meaning that you will need to build titans bane and jotuns next,then change your boots if you have to and breatplate for Shifters Shield and then build the last Cape of defense.A general rule is: build boots,then 2 defensive items,then start building damage and then the remaining defensive items.If youre building frostbound,build it after breastplate,then continue the previous rule.To be a Bruiser,always have at least a pen item(titans or exe) and a damage item to back it up,like shifters or exe,if you need to counter build.Ill give you the build i always go to when i want to carry as a tanky Warrior,with this build,i can get up to 243 physical defense and 201 magical defense with reinforced and shifters passive up,full CDR and CCR reduction, 115 power,33% penetration of all the damage i do and a safe passive with mantle,without counting the potencial damage evaded with kiting and healed back up with healing.:

• Reinforced Greaves:Since you would be building some power,the lost 30 power is replaced by at least Titans Bane's power; its beneficial to sell warrior tabi for Reinforced Greaves,since the passive counters up to 2 flat pen items,one physical and one magical,and the lost power doesnt do much of a difference,i tried it. Also the Crown Control Reduction helps with escaping and making quick fights since CC wont affect you that hard,trust me, CCR DOES help,you just need to pay attention to when youre CCed,compare and youll notice.
• Spirit Robe: 40 protections,damage mitigation,CCR and cooldown reduction,literally everything is amazing about this item.
• Mantle of Discord: Same reasoning as Spirit tobe,and his passive helps you in most situations.
• Shifter's Shield: Core on this build,its literally the real reason this kind of builds can work.If you payed attention, youll notice that most of the defensive items just have defense but have great defensive stats,this means that you dont get special passives like Mistical Mail or Genji's Guard,but this isnt a problem,because what you are looking for is for pure damage,pure CDR and pure defenses,if they add something else as a passive or something,good,but you prioratize these stats as a Warrior Bruiser.
• Jotunn's Wrath: I dont understand why the hate for this item,seriously,i have seen it on Assasins for years but if a Warrior picks it becomes a sin to buy it,it gives you 20% freaking cooldown,increasing your healing,cc and damage output in a ongoing fight by a really good amount(thats literally half the CDR limit!),power and penetration,why is that so bad? Its literally more damage in every way,plus survivavility cuz movement/sustain abilities.
• Titan's Bane Such a amazing item,increases your base ability damage,your basic attacks damage and the scaling damage from your power,his passive says ''do 33% more damage to all enemies'',like,AMAZING!

This build is for warriors with high base survivavility and ability based like Tyr, Chaac, Ravana and Sun Wukong.Some variations to the build would be to exchange Spirit Robe for Hide of the Urchin if youre playing a warrior with low protections like Guan Yu, Odin and Hercules (if the enemy builds antiheal you better be more tanky!);some warriors need Frostbound Hammer in their build,in that case i recoment exchanging Jotuns for it and build and keep Ninja Tabi to use Frostbound's passive better and have higher DPS since your basics hit harder with Titans Bane, Bellona would also need Hide of the Urching since in my opinion for some reason she is kind of squishy,but does really good damage,same with Amaterasu; Vamana would build Mantle and Frostbound, Erlang Shen would build frostbound with The Executioner instead of Titans, Qin Sais instead of jotuns,Urchin,mantle and Reinforced; Osiris would build qin's and exe,i like to build him with Hide of the Nemean Lion and Bulwark of Hope with mantle and any tabi i feel like; Nike...i dont know how to play her,she has such low damage but a amazing ult so...na ill play her full damage and leave her last to get to diamond :P;finally, Cu Chulain...build full defense,he literally has 2 ults,you can still kill people as this second tank.I remember when i played him on xbox,everytime i killed someone while having half HP building full tank, getting a double kill with my 2 ults or just doing stupid stuff,i would tell and even scream a litle to my friend in voicechat:''IM BALANCED FERNANDO! IM BALANCED! IM THE MOST BALANCED GOD IN THE GAME!!!'' And he'll be like: ''Dude stfu...''

I dont have nobody to credit to,i have been playing for almost half a year with this strategy and i always have a ton of fun,i feel like i can win more and actually play a brusier in SMITE.Thank you for reading,and remember to ward.