Ymir Guide

Father of the Frost Giants

Overview:
Ymir is one of the most useful, fun, and easy to use Guardian in SMITE. Being one of the free gods, he is a good god to play if you are a new to the game. His entire kit gives him 3 ways to control the engagement and still gives him decent damage.He is played in the duo lane with an ADC, aggressively or defensively depending on what the ADC needs and can be useful on his own if he has to be.

Ymir's Passive gives your basic attacks 100% more damage if an enemy is hit by an ability first.
Ymir's 1 is a wall that rises from the ground can block enemies movements.
Ymir's 2 is a line attack that does damage and slows enemies.
Ymir's 3 freezes enemies in place for a short time and does damage.

Ymir's Ult is an AOE slow enemies in the area and does damage after being channeled for 3s but can be canceled for less damage.

Abilities:
1. FrostBite (Passive)

  If Ymir uses an ability that affects enemies it applies a debuff to enemies that make Ymir’s basic attacks do 100% more damage.

• Ability: Buff 
• Frostbite Damage Bonus: 100%

2.Ice Wall

For Ymir’s first ability he summons a wall that rises from the ground and blocks player movement. This is useful to trap escaping enemies or to block off enemies as you or your team escape.

• Ability: Ground Target
• Cost: 60/65/70/75/80
• Cooldown: 14s
• Lifetime: 2/3/4/5/6s

3.Glacial Strike

    Ymir strikes the ground with his club damaging enemies in front of him and slowing them.This applies Frostbite. This is his main damaging ability and clear and this is a really good way to slow enemies before they escape or to just do damage.

• Ability: Line
• Cost: 55/60/65/70/75
• Cooldown: 8s
• Damage: 90/160/230/300/370 (+70% of your magical power)
• Slow: 35%
• Slow Duration: 4s

4.Frost Breath

Ymir uses his frost breath in a cone shape attack that freezes all enemies in it. This is Ymir’s bread and butter and what makes him able to be played both aggressively or defensively. 

• Ability: Cone
• Cost: 60/65/70/75/80
• Cooldown: 18s
• Damage: 50/90/130/170/210 (+50% of your magical power)
• Stun: 1.25/1.5/1.75/2/2.25s

5.Shards of Ice

For Ymir’s ult he freezes the air around him and growing shards of ice on his back and slowing enemies. After channeling for 3s he unleashes and does damage to all enemies in range. This applies Frostbite and it can be cancelled at anytime but it does less damage. 

• Ability: Area
• Radius: 35
• Cost: 80/90/100/110/120 
• Cooldown: 90/85/80/75/70s
• Damage: 500/650/800/950/1100 (+150% of your magical power) 
• Slow: 30%

How Do I Build Ymir?

  When I play Ymir I build to be as tanky and annoying as possible because it fits with Ymir's abilities and base stats. This build gives you a huge amounts of physical protections, magical protections, health, mana, a slow off of your damaging abilities, decent cooldown and a decent amount of power.

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    To get this build you want to start the game by buying Mark of the Vanguard to get early game sustain and defense. Then Shoes of Focus so you can cast more often and have some more mana. Next you want to buy Sovereignty and Heartward Amulet to get physical protection and magical protection retrospectively. In most situation you want to get Sovereignty because Hunters, minions, towers, etc. do physical damage first but if you are facing a team that has a magical ADC you might want to get Heartward instead but minions will still hurt a lot so it's up to you.Which ever you don't get first you get the other because these are very essential to a support not only because they give you protection but also because Sovereignty gives all allies 20 Magical Protection and 20HP5 and Heartward gives all allies 20 physical protection and 20MP5.

    After I have both of those finished, I like buying Hide of the Urchin to get as tanky as possible as it gives you both physical protection, magical protection, health and mana. 3 of the 4 making you more tanky and the 4th allows you freeze more people and make them run into walls.(Which is funny and helps the team) After that I build Gem of Isolation because it gives you power, health and its passive slows enemies hit by your damaging abilities. 

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    To finish off my Ymir build I usually finish it off by buying Ethereal Staff to get A LOT of health man and some more power and its passive that converts 2% of your max health to power. This item goes really well with you build because all of you items except for Shoes of Focus gives you health AKA you can support your team and still hit the other team pretty hard.

What Do I Do As Ymir? 

•  As Ymir you can be a very effective Support and just a good team player. He can be aggressive or defensive depending on your playstyle and your team's playstyle. You want to take full advantage of you freeze, wall and ult to control the enemy team. 

• Take advantage of your passive and always basic enemies hit by your abilities if you can 

• Using your freeze and wall to set up a kill or help teammates escape is such a useful asset in a team and makes Ymir a great support at every phase of the game

• Ymir combo Freeze and enemy, use your 2 to get some damage, throw a wall up to make it harder to run away and then ult to slow them when they thaw out and for damage.

• If you have full boots and put a wall up at your feet as you run, you will put the wall right behind you 

• Be careful not to wall your team or you into a bad position

• Using Blink to get behind the enemy team before you use an aggressive combo is really good

• Early game remember you are not tanky yet and minions hurt A LOT!!!

• Remember although Ymir and this build has can do damage BUT you are a support so you usually won’t get a lot of kills, it's you job to set up kills for teammates and protect them.

• Using your ult on an objective to secure an objective if a Gold Fury,Fire Giant or Titan is getting low

     - this can also be used to steal an objective as well as securing but to steal you want to blink in, ult and RUN AWAY