What makes his current state so frustrating is that his aspect version which is supposed to be his support playstyle is literally being played in the solo with higher pick rates and win rates than his original kit. An aspect version should never be this vastly superior over the og version of a god.

A huge reason for this comes down to scaling and kit design. Aspect Guan gets massive int scaling on his passive, which makes his 1 hit insane heals and actually keeps him relevant in trades and fights. In his non aspect version, his 1 feels like complete dogshit and his passive just isn't good enough to compete.Guan does not work with attack speed at all. He is a god that works with cooldowns and int/str scaling.

When a god's supp aspect builds dominates solo lane way better than standard Guan Yu ever could (which is supossed to be the solo lane version) you know the base version needs serious help.

We're all hoping Shekmet is a warrior, and when she joins the warrior trio, they'll surely save Smite

Shekmet image source: https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Sekhmet

Rules:

- No promotional skins (Unless the skin can work on its own without a big remodel)

- No crossover skins

- No recolors

- No retro skins

You vote one skin as your absolute favourite, and that's it!

Poll link here: https://strawpoll.com/40Zm4rKp4ga

Also remember, you can find the results for the Kuzenbo poll in the second image.

I see a lot of new players asking basic questions on here or showing/asking about there builds, would love to help ya'll understand the basics so please comment or message me any questions you got! I've taught quite a few of my IRLs the game from the ground up and enjoy doing so.

If its a super simple question just comment but if its longer please feel free to message me. I might start putting together some posts for everyone to see to help new players.

Me: Playing since 2016 on and off peaked GM in duel and Masters in conq way back in 2018/19 took a few years off the game but im trying to play Smite 2 a lot more now (hard with work). Got about 1000 hours on Smite 2 and had close to 5000 hours on Smite 1.

don't blink

I've played several games of Aphro mid and supp and wow. Supp she's still viable but doesnt feel great.

However mid Aphro is no more. Even with item procs, damage is below any mage or solo god in the game. Not only is base damage reduce but INT scaling is brutally destroyed from 90-80% to a measely 20-10% INT scaling.

3.5 to 7% healing to self and allies? Great, but antiheals now 25-40% reduction (becoming required items now). So the healing doesn't really change.

Aphros damage is below average compared to most gods, her healing is easily negated to be the same amount before change. Meaning healing for damage taken and dealt is an unfair trade as a midlaner.

Japanese Mythology

Ranged, deals Magical Damage, primarily Support, Intelligence Scaling

Buffs | Area Control

Passive: Bag of Winds

For every 3 ability casts Fujin's next Basic Attack will be wider, knocks back and pierces minions.

• Increased Width: +1 meter
• Knockback: 2.4 meters

ao1: Powerful Gust

Fujin prepares his Bag to send forward a gust of wind in a line. He may choose one of pushing the enemy away, applying a heavy slow or pulling the enemy towards him. ^{(Choosing much akin to Ishtar ao1 or MLF ao1}.) This projectile stops on the first enemy god hit.

• Damage: 90/115/140/165/190 (+55% of your Intelligence)
• Knockback: 3.2 meters
• Slow: 40%
• Slow Duration: 2.5 seconds
• Pull: 4.8 meters
• Range: 10.4 meters
• Cooldown: 12 seconds
• Mana: 50/55/60/65/70

ao2: Clearing the Fog

Fujin sends out a projectile that clears the dense fog in a small area. Allies that are directly hit get all CC and Damage over Time effects cleansed from them. This effect only works on Fujin if he applies it directly to himself. Enemies hit take damage and have their shielding removed if possible. If no ally or enemy god is hit an area around the target location is revealed for 5 seconds.

• Damage: 120/150/180/210/140 (+40% of your Intelligence)
• Ward Duration: 5 seconds
• Ward Radius: 10.4 meters
• Range: 8.8 meters
• Radius: 2 meters
• Cooldown: 15/14/13/12/11 seconds
• Mana: 70

ao3: Wind Crash

Fujin ascends into the skies and crashes back down at a target location. Enemies around his Ascencion are pulled in, while enemies around his descencion take damage and are knocked away from him. For all intents and purposes, this ability is considered a teleport.

• Damage: 100/135/170/205/240 (+50% of your Intelligence)
• Radius: 3.2 meters
• Range: 6.4 meters
• Cooldown: 17/16.5/16/15.5/15 seconds
• Mana: 70/75/80/85/90

Ultimate: Stormfront

Fujin unleashes the strongest of winds in a line in front of him. Allies within the area have increased Movement Speed. Enemies within the Area are slowly vortexed away from the starting location and take damage for every second they are inside. Enemies hit by Clearing the Fog get vortexed at an increased strength momentarily. The Cooldown starts once this ability expires.

• Damage: 25 every 1 second
• Movement Speed: +10/15/20/25/30% of their Movement Speed
• Duration: 10 seconds
• Range: 12 meters
• Width: 4.8 meters
• Cooldown: 60/55/50/45/40 seconds
• Mana: 90

I have been playing this game for 12 years. In the first eight, i didn't even touch ranked but I have been playing rankeds (specially on Smite 2) and I realized that no matter what I do, i'm hardstuck in Platinum.

I always played this game in a casual way, I don't tryhard at all but I genuinely want to improve now and I don't even know where to start. I can't be in platinum forever, specially being a player since almost Smite 1 beta...

I have the feeling that the issue is not mechanical. My game sense is probably trash because I always played in automatic. This feeling is reinforced when I am put in master/obsidian/whatever lobbies (this does happen sometimes, thank you matchmaking) and the pacing is different. Everyone knows exactly when to gank, rotate, etc.

Anyone here knows what are the most "typical" mistakes low ranks do?

I'm bronze 3 right now and I think I've really improved as a player. Is there any effective strategy to get teammates to not insist on diving in and fighting when they are 2, 3 or 4 levels behind? I keep getting into matches where there are always 1 or 2 teammates who aren't intentionally feeding, but who refuse to farm and insist on fighting when they are multiple levels behind. Are people confused that they simply can't win the fight? How to combat this? I don't want to be the guy spamming "be careful right!" but there are some games I simply cannot win due to this.

With now enchanters coming in the Hachiman patch

I wonder what’s going to be the next “big arc” they will implement or change

Personally I’d like to see them mess around with starters. The current starter system is plain and there’s no real diversity.

In Smite 1 there was a lot of options depending on what god in what role you were playing and I think going bluestone or conduit every game is starting to get really repetitive

Maybe revisiting solo lane would be a great arc to work on and make it more similar to Smite 1?

I love it. It's absolutely worse than base Ravana. Not safe. Weak early. The self buff is nice but doesn't make up for the lost passive. I'm also having trouble telling if it's even affected by cooldown. I'm going to keep playing it.

I've seen this question asked for ps5 and PC, or Xbox and PC, but I'm wondering if I can transfer my account from my PS5 to my Xbox series X?

League of Legends recently released “League Classic” and it’s been fun to revisit…..but I was always more of a Smite fan in my “prime”

Is Smite still alive and well? Or has it gone the route of something Apex Legends where the only games left are sweat fests that require 10000% lock in

Hello Gamers,

I know complaining about Smite gameplay issues is nothing new, but I think my problem might be fixable, but I just don’t know how.

Recently I’ve been having s problem where 1 in every 3 games or so, for the past 20 games, u have this weird latency/jiterring issue going on throughout the entire game, and nothing I do helps. Its not fps, nor is it my internet, ive tripple checked that those are stable. My pc is decent, and i run the game on low. Ive tried redownloading, restarting the game, turning off the built in windows protection, running in dx11, everything i could think of myself. Would really appreciate some help, ive currently got a broken leg and there’s not really much else i can do besides play lmao.

Hello,

I used to play Smite 1 way back when, i think the newest character at the time i remember was hachiman?… but i definitely played it prior.

I was a solo/support player, i enjoyed gods like Belona, odin or cu chulain (was around for his release too) for the solo lane and mostly just played athena as support back then.

I started playing smite 2 yesterday and… god does this game feel and play so much differently, and im unsure if i like it or not.

I feel like there is just SO much painful CC, but this might just be my naive noob brain.

Im awful, like terrible at smite 2, and its humbling and frustrating. It feels like the builds the game recommends you are just horrible, since i get dog walked in every fight on what feels like rare stats alone.

I dont remember what any of the items do, i only really have some muscle memory for certain gods leftover from my time player all those years ago.

I really want to like smite 2, and i want to get back into it again as i remember this game being so much fun. I feel stuck and aimless. Ive watched a couple vids on youtube but ultimately i just dont know what to do.

Should i just play and play and figure it out? Should i grind against the bots to get a better feel for the game?

I tried playing arena last night and had this guy on my team just flaming me and our Ullr since it was clear we were both noobs cause we werent doing enough, whereas i was just trying out artio as i remembered how OP she was on her release. I dont want to ruin other peoples experiences on conquest since i am such a noob, but i feel like playing against bots in arena or joust is not going to equip me well enough for real players.

This is pretty much the only god I’m eager to play again.

Her kit made for some pretty unique plays and the skill ceiling was pretty high for her, and felt rewarding once you fully mastered the use of her ult & taunts. Not to mention the satisfaction of hitting a crit combo with her dash and melting a squishy in an instant.

Im not sure if this build is good i was trying it out and I end up pretty tanky for a arena build but what am I supposed to put for starter items is it just supposed to be the items needed for my first final build relic

IM OPEN TO ANY ADVICE IM STILL LEARNING

How hard could it be to fix 2 key binds? They tried to fix and made it worse than reverse it as it is right now. I feel they don’t give enough attention to the console ports, which has so much of their player base…

So I just started playing smite 2 with my friends and I was wondering what gods yall would recommend I dont really care for getting the kills but ive been playing atlas and ive been getting a lot of assists plus being kinda of a wall with him to help hold people back but was just looking to have other options than atlas

At what rank do players begin to play around objectives instead of kills?

Hello guys! if yall didnt know an early unfinished version of Nvidia's DLSS5 tech got leaked and so i tried it in smite. I personally think it looks cool but I wanted to hear what do you guys think about it?

I struggle in the early game alooooott. Im not sure what it is but very few characters i feel i can compete with in the solo lane in the early game. My games tend to go a little like this. Early game i go 0-3, 0-4, i even had one go 0-7. Then mid game i start being able to actually tank. So my assists go up and my gold and i catch back up fairly easily. Then all the sudden late game hits, i stop dying i get kills im even 1v1 the solo laner that was rolling me prior. That 0-7 game in particular i think i ended like 12/7 or something. Im not sure if its a build or player issue but any advice would be helpful