Should You Play Solo in SMITE?
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If you want to play as a Solo in SMITE, you need to know how to lane without a lot of rotations coming, counter build your opponents, be a bruiser doing damage teamfights and be able to tank when you need to.
If you answered yes, keep reading. If you don’t know what position you want to play or if you want to try Solo anyway keep reading. If not try another Role Guide or keep reading for fun, I would.
If you answered yes, keep reading. If you don’t know what position you want to play or if you want to try Solo anyway keep reading. If not try another Role Guide or keep reading for fun, I would.
What is a Solo Laner?
When playing in the solo lane you should expect to face pretty much anything but in general this is where you will find tanky gods and/or gods that can heal themselves. In this lane you want to be farm as much as possible and not lose your tower. Basically in the Solo Lane you gotta Ride SOLO and make sure your towers health doesn't get so low..get it...Ok even I know that was bad... let's just pretend that didn't happen.
What Do Solo Laner's Build?
Since most gods can be played in Solo your build will vary from game to game and you want to try and counter build the enemy solo laner. For now I'm just going to create a generic Warrior since they perform well in the solo lane are easy to use especially for a beginner.
I start off by buying blue stone for the passive(enemies hit by your damaging Abilities take additional 30 damage over 2s and can stack twice) to help with clearing and get more mana. Then I move into Warrior's Tabi for power and movement speed to hit harder and move faster. Then I get Jotunn's Wrath which gives more power,pen, along with some much needed mana and cooldown. This is just so you can use your abilities and heal more often plus you hurt enemies a lot more.
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After that I move into the tanky part of the build buying either Runeforged Hammer or Stone Gaia depending on if the enemy solo laner is a physical or magical god and then you buy the other for my 5th item. Runeforged gives you physical protection, health and a passive that turns 15% of your Physical protection and turns it into Physical Power(yeah it is as useful as it sounds). Stone of Gaia gives magical protections,health MP5, HP5 and a passive Regenerates 2% of your max health every 5 seconds. For my 6th item I then buy Hide of the Urchin because it gives you phyical protection,magical protection, health and mana. This build makes you really tanky but still allows you to do some damage.
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Once you finish your main build you sell Blue Stone Pendant and buy a situational item that fits your playstyle and what you need in that specific game. For this build I ended it with Titan's Bane because it gives you power and alot of penetration which can help you take objectives quickly since you might be the one tanking up the damage. Other good items are Mail of Renewal, Mystical Mail, Frostbound Hammer etc. it just depends on what you need and how you play. If you are being aggressive and its working get power or pen, if like playing tanky and it works get some defense. For Actives I usually get and recommend Teleport to get back to lane faster early and get around the map faster late game. Other than that I either Purification Beads if I'm getting hit by alot of CC, Sprint to help my team speed up, or Weaken Curse to slow the enemy team and their healing down.
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What do I do as as Solo?
Start:
Early Game:
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When the game starts you want to get Blue Stone Pendant, Shoes Level 1, 2 Health and 2 Mana potions. Then you go with your jungler to the speed buff, clear it so the jungler get his buff, then both of you will go take mana buff for yourself then head to lane and start farming.
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Early Game:
Farm, Farm, Farm. You want to try and out fight your opponent by clearing the waves as fast as you can and only poking (hitting them without the intent to fight) them when it is safe to do so. Do Not try To fight if there are enemy minions in the lane because they are annoying and hurt really really bad early game. Clear your wave, hit the enemy god if its safe, and then back off unless you jungler goes for a gank. The first time you back buy teleport so you can get to lane faster and upgrade it as necessary.
Mid Game:
You still want to focus on farming and poking the enemy. As you get your build going you can fight but always be careful for ganks and ward by your blue buff if you are getting pushed under tower or by the enemy enemy blue buff if you are pushing them under tower. When you rotate you want to make sure either the enemy solo laner is rotating at the same time or they're dead. If your team is taking an early objective if you have phyical protection built you can tank it for a little bit and be fine just be very careful when you do it. Keep an Eye on the Minimap and Listen for Ward Pings.
Late Game:This is the time where you are the team's front line with your support, you tank up hits while still being able to hit the enemies in the face. Most warriors have some form of healing or damage mitigation, use this in team fights to either save yourself, your team or even change the tide of the fight. For example Guan Yu, the free warrior in SMITE, has a heal that get stronger as he deals and takes damage until it is full stacked. This can be used to save himself or his team and definitely can change the tide of a teamfight if the other team isn't careful and works well since he deals and takes a lot of damage as a front liner. With objectives be ready to tank it , hit it hard and then fall back to recover when your team needs you to, your abilities can often debuff enemies so be very aware of that because it could save you or your team and remember that you are tanky but you can still die fast if you get swallowed.
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| Wards For Solo Aggressive Wards are Purple Defensive Wards are Green |
Late Game:This is the time where you are the team's front line with your support, you tank up hits while still being able to hit the enemies in the face. Most warriors have some form of healing or damage mitigation, use this in team fights to either save yourself, your team or even change the tide of the fight. For example Guan Yu, the free warrior in SMITE, has a heal that get stronger as he deals and takes damage until it is full stacked. This can be used to save himself or his team and definitely can change the tide of a teamfight if the other team isn't careful and works well since he deals and takes a lot of damage as a front liner. With objectives be ready to tank it , hit it hard and then fall back to recover when your team needs you to, your abilities can often debuff enemies so be very aware of that because it could save you or your team and remember that you are tanky but you can still die fast if you get swallowed.
Tips for Solo:
- Keep an eye on the map.
- Don't fight if your opponent has minions early game.
- Pay attention to what enemy solo laner is building and adjust if you need to.
- If you're playing a god with a heal use your heal when you need it but don't waste it.
- Once you are tanky, you can tank a tower if your support isn't close by.
- You are only as tanky as you build and are only as strong as you build, always keep that in mind when fighting and building
- Call Enemy Missing if the enemy solo is missing. VF1 for Enemy Missing Left or VF3 for Enemy Missing Right.
- Be Careful
- Have Fun
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