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Zeus Mid Season 6 Conquest Build Guide

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by Fonicz updated February 25, 2019

Smite God: Zeus

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Zeus Build

Health Heavy Tanks

Build Item Mage's Blessing Mage's Blessing
Build Item Magic Focus Magic Focus
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion
Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Gem of Isolation Gem of Isolation
Build Item Soul Reaver Soul Reaver
Build Item Rod of Tahuti Rod of Tahuti

Protection Heavy Tanks

Build Item Mage's Blessing Mage's Blessing
Build Item Magic Focus Magic Focus
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion
Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Gem of Isolation Gem of Isolation
Build Item Obsidian Shard Obsidian Shard
Build Item Rod of Tahuti Rod of Tahuti

Situational Items

Build Item Obsidian Shard Obsidian Shard
Build Item Shaman's Ring Shaman's Ring
Build Item Divine Ruin Divine Ruin
Build Item Winged Blade Winged Blade
Build Item Magi's Cloak Magi's Cloak
Build Item Celestial Legion Helm Celestial Legion Helm

Relic Items

Build Item Purification Beads Purification Beads
Build Item Aegis Amulet Aegis Amulet
Build Item Heavenly Wings Heavenly Wings

Zeus's Skill Order

Chain Lightning

1 X Y
Chain Lightning
2 8 11 12 14

Aegis Assault

2 A B
Aegis Assault
1 15 16 18 19

Detonate Charge

3 B A
Detonate Charge
3 4 6 7 9

Lightning Storm

4 Y X
Lightning Storm
5 10 13 17 20
Chain Lightning
2 8 11 12 14

Chain Lightning

1 X
Zeus fires a bolt of lightning that arcs between enemies, doing damage and applying a charge on each hit.

Ability Type: Projectile
Damage: 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Arcs: 4
Slow: 20%
Slow Duration: 2s
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 12s
Aegis Assault
1 15 16 18 19

Aegis Assault

2 A
Zeus throws his shield forward dealing damage to nearby enemies and apply a charge. The shield remains for 5s, and Zeus may target it with Basic Attacks or Chain Lightning. Each Basic Attack or first Chain Lightning arc that hits the shield will deal additional static damage and apply a charge in the area. While Zeus' shield is deployed, he gains Attack and Movement Speed. Zeus may refire the ability to recall the shield early.

Ability Type: Ground Target
Initial Damage: 60 / 105 / 150 / 195 / 240 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Static Damage: 55 / 65 / 75 / 85 / 95 (+30% of your Magical Power)
Attack Speed: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35%
Movement Speed: 15 / 17.5 / 20 / 22.5 / 25%
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 12s
Detonate Charge
3 4 6 7 9

Detonate Charge

3 B
Zeus detonates any charges that have accumulated on enemies, doing damage, multiplied by 1/1.7/2.4 depending on the number of charges.

Ability Type: Instant
Damage: 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 (+25% of your Magical Power)
Cost: 60
Cooldown: 10s
Lightning Storm
5 10 13 17 20

Lightning Storm

4 Y
Zeus conjures a Lightning Storm, striking enemies in the area every second. Applies a charge with each hit.

Ability Type: Ground Target
Damage per Hit: 100 / 145 / 190 / 235 / 280 (+55% of your Magical Power)
Max Damage: 500 / 650 / 800 / 950 / 1100 (+275% of your Magical Power)
Lifetime: 5s
Radius: 30
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

Summary

The main purpose of this build is to tackle the HP heavy tank builds of Season 6. Items like Blackthorn Hammer, Runeforgd Hammer, Witchblade, and others are becoming more commonplace and pure penetration build have no benefit against these types of items. Relying only on one penetration item allows for another slot to address damaging the health built by the opponents. An alternative build is provided for a more protection heavy tank build.

The Items Explained

The first four items are core on Zeus, the last two can vary depending on the opponent's team composition and their builds. Build one is the build that is most likely to handle what you'll see in Season 6, however; I will provide a second build showing an alternative build designed to deal with a protection heavy tank build rather than the more normal health heavy tank build.

Starting items:

Mage's Blessing gives you good damage and mana sustain early and pairing it with Magic Focus gives similar early clear compared to other starts while allowing you to rush Spear of the Magus after boots. YOU WILL SELL Mage's Blessing TO BUILD YOUR LAST ITEM.

Shoes of Focus:

Zeus is completely ability based and his only peel is killing anyone that comes near him. Zeus NEEDS cooldown reduction to maximize his damage and so once Mage's Blessingis stacked paired with Shoes of Focus you will have 20% CDR very early on.

Spear of the Magus:

Zeus makes great use of Spear of the Magus through his Chain Lightning and Lightning Storm abilities paired with his Detonate Charge. The first two abilities easily proc Spear of Magus' passive ability (reduces magical protections of the target by 10 each time they are hit by an ability, up to 5 stacks) and then the Detonate Charge drops the hammer with the protections shredded.

Chronos' Pendant:

Chronos' Pendant maximizes your CDR at 40% and with its passive lets you go above and beyond with your cooldowns. It has good power and gives MP5 but it is built for the CDR and passive.

Gem of Isolation:

Detonate Charge is the easiest ability to hit in SMITE, however; Zeus' other abilities can be a bit hard to confirm or follow up on. Gem of Isolation makes confirming your Detonate Charge stacks easier, guaranteeing more damage. Zeus' ultimate ability Lightning Storm greatly benefits from this item as its AoE nature combined with the slow allows for more lightning ticks from the ability. It also works well with the slow on your Chain Lightning.

Soul Reaver:

In late Season 5 and so far in Season 6 tanks tend to build more towards health than protections. They still build both but with DoT mages like Zeus ( Raijin, Agni, Ah Puch) I prefer to utilize the up to 65 protections shred from Spear of Magus as my sole pen source and attack the health through Soul Reaver and its passive. Soul Reaver also provides a large amount of power which makes it worth picking up despite its recently nerfed passive. If the enemy team has more protections then [b]Obsidian Shard[/b] would be the item to build instead of Soul Reaver.

Rod of Tahuti:

Rod of Tahuti was nerfed from THE late game mage item into a situational late game item awhile ago but DoT mages maximize the item's passive effectively as their damage will chip away at the target until their HP is below the 50% threshold and then, with Zeus specifically, you activate your Detonate Charge for maximum damage. If you don't love this item, Shaman's Ring is another good item that increases damage output through its passive and provides good power and more importantly movement speed for Zeus.

Situational Items

These items can be built in specific scenarios, which item they replace will be at your discretion but usually, it will replace Gem of Isolation or as the late game Shoes of Focus replacement.

Obsidian Shard - If you're facing a protection heavy composition forego Soul Reaver and purchase Obsidian Shard. This item ignores a % of the target's protections based on how many they have. It starts at 15% if the target has 40 magical protections going up to 45% if the target has 200 magical protections.

Shaman's Ring - If you're not a fan of Rod of Tahuti this item has less power but compensates for that with movement speed (which Zeus LOVES) and the passive of Shaman's Ring provides a smaller but more consistent damage buff than Rod of Tahuti's.

Divine Ruin - Build this penetration item if you are going against a mid laner that has healing in their kit or that prioritizes lifesteal. Gods with healing that you'll see in the mid lane include Aphrodite, Ah Puch, Hel, Chang'e, Ra, Baron Samedi, Zhong Kui and Hades. Gods that may prioritize lifesteal in their builds include Agni, Freya, Anubis, and Sol.

Winged Blade - Zeus is immobile with no self-protection or movement ability so he is a sitting duck. Winged Blade gives you movement speed while also making it so that you cannot be slowed while your item passive is up. Gods that have slows in the mid lane include Zhong Kui, Scylla, and Merlin.

Magi's Cloak - This item is built in a similar circumstance as Winged Blade but it is built to counter hard crowd control effects (usually things that stun, root, or displace you.) It does not proc on slows, disarms, silences, and other similar effects. Gods that rely heavily on hard crowd control include Scylla, Agni, Chronos, Janus, and Eset.

Celestial Legion Helm - When going against physical mid laners this is a great item to build as it acquires adequate power but also gives great physical protections with its passive. Common physical mid laners include Medusa, Hou Yi, Ullr, Anhur, Chiron, Ah Muzen Cab, and Neith.

Relics

There are only two real choices for Zeus in Conquest. Due to his immobility, you need to have Purification Beads and Aegis Amulet to allow you to survive ganks and dives during team fights.

Another option in the VERY RARE scenario where the enemy team is lacking any hard crowd control effects, Heavenly Wings could be picked in place of Purification Beads. The mobility provided from the relic gives yourself a pseudo-escape, benefits the team by giving them a greater chance of escaping,, and it can be used offensively to chase down targets and confirm kills.

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1
Kriega1 (143) | February 24, 2019 10:20am
no relics/situationals (e.g. divine ruin)?
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Fonicz | February 24, 2019 5:23pm
Updated.
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Gulfwulf (81) | February 24, 2019 5:30pm
You need to republish the guide because I'm not seeing the updates. All "save" does is save your guide. Hitting "publish" again will update the displayed guide with the changes.
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Fonicz | February 24, 2019 2:34pm
Going to update it, did this for a friend that's new to the game.
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Branmuffin17 (394) | February 24, 2019 9:56am
Agreed with Gulf, solid general build examples and good, simple, straightforward explanations. +1
1
Gulfwulf (81) | February 23, 2019 3:00pm
Nice writeup. Have a +1.
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Fonicz | February 23, 2019 6:12pm
Thanks dude!
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Gulfwulf (81) | February 23, 2019 7:02pm
Anytime. We need more knowledgeable people on here making guides.
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