- Looking at the teamcomps is _essential._ If theyre 4/5 or 5/5 on a single damage type, or if they have a lot of sustain, AA characters etc. then you better counterbuild accordingly. - Never underestimate the importance of MP5, especially early!!! Heartward's/Talisman's MP5 Auras are some of the most useful support utilities you could give to your team. Sure, the Thebes and Prophetic early stacks are nice - but you really turn the early game in your favor just by having your team capable of throwing more abilities! - It's not just counterbuilding - what items could benefit your team in other ways? If you're a Hunter and your own team has a sizable amount of other Phys damage, building Exe early can help the rest of your team's damage numbers. As a Mage, Pythagorem's Auras can benefit your whole team. - Charon's Coin is a veery cool item in Assault. Alongside MP5 and 20% Pen, when stacked it gives also HP5 + movement speed. It literally gives you all the best useful stats except CDR. - Don't immediately lose heart if you're stuck with a difficult Assassin. It can be surprisingly effective to build tanky and just be a heckin annoying sponge. You can spare your more useful teammates from some of that poke, and give them more opportunities for plays. I'm an Assault main and MP5 is my favorite stat.
But now that the sweatiest sweat drip tips are written down, I'll tell the actually most important things. - We're playing a game. - Respecting jump parties and other goofing off before the first minion wave is good sportsmanship, and simply fun. - Keep an open mind, and a light heart. Anyone can have a good/bad game with any god.
In late 2014-early 2015, it was my first few Assault matches (I don't remember if it was the very first, but I hadn't played more than two or three before this) and I got Hercules. Towards the beginning, an enemy was jumping around, so I combo'ed them into tower for first blood. My teammates were horrified and it took me a minute to realize what a breach of etiquette it had been. For a second, it seemed like a Rocky moment of 'he didn't think this was a show, he thinks it's a fight,' until my team reassured me that the jump party is an actual thing. Yeah, I felt bad after that, as I should have. My crime weighs on me the better part of a decade later.@@xaxscratchxax926
It's where I go to hide between a particularly broken release and the first nerf (unless there's a good counter-pick, then I spam playing the counter since there will dependably be one of the new character in every match).
@@ketsuki.7117 most newbies jump into conq and main 1 god and try to play that god in every role. Its better for them to start out playing assault and learn the gods and their roles and then move onto the main game mode once they have an understanding of all the gods
Another tip is to look at the enemy teams comp because there's a good chance they only have one damage type so you can focus your defense items and not end up with a half stacked Prophetic.
I always chuckle when my team is all one damage type and I see an enemy with prophetic cloak. Usually, they sell it after a bit (probably because an ally pointed out that it will never evolve).
Even with a 1-4 or a 2-3 split, it can be difficult sometimes. If their only magical is Merlin, you're gonna have a hard time getting that stacked. I'd also like to mention Baba Yaga is busted in this mode partly because of prophetic and Thebes.
@@jacobawojtowicz At least with splits like that it is possible, I've seen so many people end games with a prophetic at 15 stacks because they just didn't look at the enemy teams comp.
Anti-heal is more important in this mode because most people regen items and if you can shut down their healing they won't be able to regen unless their hiding in tower. Speaking of anti-heal tainted breastplate can be applied with item procs which means it synergizes with golden bow procs and makes it easier for adc to apply aoe anti-heal, if you are melee golden blade does it as well. If you are a mage and enemy team has more than one front liner look into ethereal staff it helps you sustain long and it stacks so multiple mages can apply.
@@jacobawojtowicz That does work but it is a specific character synergy although I will admit amc is strong in assualt. But it should also proc warriors and sundering if I remember correctly.
Assault is my go-to mode when a new release is broken (which is common). Prophetic cloak I like, but it's more dependent on the match-up. If they have a 2/3 split of each damage type, I'm likely to buy it. If it's a 1/4 split, it would need to be a frontliner for the 1 of whichever damage type (otherwise it might be really difficult to stack if it's 1 ranged character who hangs really far back for the only magical or physical). Also, many Assault matches are 10-minute surrenders. Starting with 3,000 gold means you can begin stacking prophetic right away, but your team might get annoyed if you don't have an aura soon enough. I've had teammates rage super hard that I went prophetic cloak into gauntlet of Thebes because they wanted an aura sooner (granted, I don't get that sort of teammate very often, so it's likely an outlier). In Assault, my pet peeve is absolutely one thing: when there's only one tank and they start stone of gaia instead of an aura. Yes, it helps their stats... but the opportunity cost is extremely high for the team. Now, a mid-game stone of gaia can be fine. 8:03 "Burning your beads and/or ageis..." Honestly, I don't mind if people start beads over med when the enemy has some beads-or-die ultimate (Ares, Da Ji, Cerberus, Xing Tian, Fenrir, Morrigan when your team has one of the previous, etc...). However, when an ally gets beads and ageis in Assault, it seems a bit selfish. Part of it is the mentality of players who tend to do this, though (like the ones who get beads+ageis with alternate timeline, but still go 1/9/4). When the enemy has a Ymir, Athena, or someone else with a good cc apart from their ultimate, I tend to go back towards looking down on starting beads over med. Yes, the pros would likely start beads, but they would also be skilled enough to not just die 16 seconds later when that ability is off cooldown. As a note, I don't mind if someone starts med and gets beads as second active against an enemy Ymir, it's just questionable to do first unless it's for Ares or someone whose beads-forcing ability has a long cooldown. For Assault tips: - If you have the only magical or physical in lobby, do not re-roll (even if you're terrible with that character). - If an ally re-rolls the only magical or physical and you can't reroll, build around what you don't have. Normally, Manakin's scepter/mace/hidden blade aren't very good in Assault due to not having jungle camps; however, if you have a magical auto-attacker on an all-magic team, Manakin's mace can actually be good (or hidden blade can be good on certain poke mages). Gladiator's shield is really nice for a guardian or tanky mage (mostly Hades or Zhong Kui) in all magic teams. Contagion, mystical mail, archdruid's fury, thorns, and animosity are good for all physical teams. - Protection reduction is strong in Assault for the same reasons given for tanks being over-powered. Items like stone of binding help immensely. Sometimes, even a tank might build a damage item early-ish (maybe 4th item... probably more mid-game); like Bellona building heavy executioner on a team of all physical can really help, since it won't lower the attack speed cap of the damage dealers and those damage dealers will get the full benefits. - Spend starting gold on either sustain or an investment. For instance, getting vampiric shroud with spear of desolation on a mage will give a good amount of sustain with some power, flat pen, and CDR. Starting death's toll and Griffonwing earrings is good for most hunters. heartward amulet or sovereignty are both nice if you don't plan to stack prophetic or Thebes (if a teammate starts prophetic, I usually start either heartward or sov to leave Thebes for them, since more protections is better for the player with prophetic so they can get the mitigation more easily). For an investment, starting rage, Charon's coin, prophetic cloak, gauntlet of Thebes, or tablet of destinies will be good for the poke war and the rougher early game will often pay for itself later on. Starting something like deathbringer can be tempting, but I see it fail more often than succeed since it doesn't improve as an item by stacking/evolving it and doesn't have any sustain). - If you're the only guardian or warrior (and there isn't one of the other class either), like it or not: you're the tank. The only exception to this is if you're the only character of that damage type and there's another character who can tank (Fenrir, Zhong Kui, etc...). I see lots of people as the only guardian (with no warrior on the team) start rod of Tahuti. If your team already has 2 mages, they'll need a guardian way more than they'll need a 3rd mage. Usually, the reason for these full damage starts boils down to the player preferring that their team lose than actually building like a tank. - Matchmaking for Assault is worse than other modes, because they game has a harder time predicting how well people will play. The 10-star Aphro mains find themselves playing as Kuzenbo, Thor, or someone else who they aren't good with (the computer sees someone who plays well in general and doesn't take into account how much worse they're going to play as a character other than Aphro). Because of this, you'll often find a player on the enemy team which you can farm mercilessly. At first, they'll be a good source of gold and xp. After a bit, they'll fall behind and even when they're alive their team will be 4v5 for all practical purposes (or they'll ragequit, making their team 4v5 for all actual purposes). Find them and focus them. Save your ult for them until they get too behind to give much reward. - Don't buy alternate timeline. I see lots of alternate timeline in Assault. 85% of the time, it prolongs the user's life by a few seconds once every five minutes. It does occasionally save someone and then they don't die within a second or two of reviving. Still, it's using a starter upgrade to do that, and it's very unlikely that it gets used more than once in a match. Occasionally it can be good for a high-level ranked player who is in casuals and is massively carrying. That said, there are far more players who think that they are far better than their teammates than ones who actually are. I wouldn't say to absolutely never buy this item, but I would say that a vast majority of the times I see it bought should have been something else.
Talisman of Energy IS GODLIKE it doesnt provide the little protection aura as heartward but the insane MP5 and movement speed helps a lot even more with flag
For tank items: talisman of energy is very strong since it essentially gives you entire team infinite mana, since it will always be stacked and everyone is always in its aura range. Gaia is also amazing if they have one or two knock ups because it’s got so much HP5 and the passive health regen.
I have such a high appreciation for assault. My friend convinced me to give it a try with him and it helped me learn SO many characters so quickly ! I definitely found some favorites whenever we played!
As an Assault main, every single one of these tips are EXTREMELY good! Seriously can't agree enough with regularly buying Prophetic + Thebes, and especially just how important % pen and other anti tank items are. You really can't ever get enough unless the other team just has no tanks at all.
Personally, my favorite thing is the Teleport Relic + Ward Chalice + Eldritch Dagger… Either upgrade works well with the dagger. Heroic works well with the dagger’s protections boost, while persistent meshes better with the dagger’s relic CDR. Throw on a chalice (which is also a good idea in itself to have to peek around the corner of if they breach your phoenix, place a ward where it was so they can’t hide while fighting the titan) and you can warp around the map for all sorts of shenanigans: ⚪️Poach enemy minions to boost yourself while denying the enemy the chance to push… ⚪️Gobble up the healing orbs and ninja cyclops so they have nothing to heal off of… ⚪️Ambush the enemy team, either when they’re alone or in the middle of a team fight… ⚪️Have them chase you around like a lunatic, buying time for everyone else to do whatever…. ⚪️Wait for them to get wounded, and pick them off while also boxing them in for the rest of your team… ⚪️…And destroy weakened towers, maybe even finish off the titan yourself. Since recall is not a thing in assault, they’d have to chase you on foot to stop you, giving your team plenty of time to mount a renewed “assault”.
Relic dagger hell yeah, wards and teleport are a hard hell no, its a single lane, there's nowhere to hide, even the side lane in the middle makes it pretty obvious where someone is, and tp only has value for the first 10 or so minutes. Movespeed scales up over time, and once you lose towers its useless.
@@dainbramage3558 Ok, think like this… You’re in assault, as a god with a good team fight Ult like Ah Puch, Cerberus, etc… You have a heroic teleport, an eldritch dagger and a ward behind enemy lines, and they’re pushing your phoenix while your team defends it… You can warp over, devour the first line or 2 or minions that would push the phoenix, then make your way over to behind the increasingly wounded and confused enemy team while stealing all the healing orbs they could retreat to. You get into position, drop your ult and suddenly the enemy finds themselves between a rock and a hard place: They turn to face you, but NOW their backs are turned to YOUR team and they’re picked apart one by one because they can’t focus in any single direction.
@@eriksyrnyk3528 With teleport on assault, you have to be ready to make the big brain plays, set up the wards in advance and work to win the overall war above winning each battle.
It baffles me that I haven't thought about sentinals boon in assault. Other tips? Well, it wouldnt be as good as sentinals boon, but if you got another starter and need that sustain, consider stone of Gaia. A ton of health, some hp5 and mp5, the constant %health healing, and the knock up passive can be great for keeping you alive when you need to be. I don't think I heard Inter say this but I could have missed it: if its a good time to die, lots of gold, no mana, your allies can defend until you come back. Aim to get away from the enemies but die to their towers or fountain, get you back to respawning without giving them the gold from kill or assist. Or you could communicate with your team what you're doing and chunk some of the enemy health as you go to put them in a worse place to defend against your team as you wait out your timer. Beware of Ah Puch, not only does he have crazy sustain, burst damage, and anti heal; but you can easily kill your teamate with an aoe heal like meditation if they're hit with his 3. Don't over or under-estimate meditation. It's great for sustaining your team, and the upgrades can be absolutely clutch, but you probably don't need 5 of them, and if you're an immobile mage, perhaps purification could be a better pick. Some of the best gods for assault are healers, so remember to pick up anti heal so the Hel or Guan doesn't just steamroll you. That's about all I can think of.
One item that also really needs mention is war flag/banner. Buy this thing, seriously, you NEED at least one war banner in your team. Like seriously it doesn't matter if you a Hunter, Assassin or Mage just get one if no one else bought it already. It gives similar sustain to Gift early and late game it gives the signle strongest aura in the game. I had so many games there we been stuck under phoenix, just to win one fight and kill 2 or 3 enemy gods, and one minute later we already kill enemy Titan. The a.s. gives a giant dmg boost to your team and m.s. means enemies just can't run from you, so we just catch them before they get to the phoenix and take it down in like 10 sec. through backdoor. Even if someone respawn it's gonna be 1/2 vs 4/5 and not change anything. So buy War Flag/Banner this thing can, and will, single handedly win you at least every 3rd game. P.S. Same can be said for Arena too btw.
About the assassins, I found that Thanatos, Ne Zha and Tsukuyomi can do really well. Thanatos has self-sustain, very important in this game mode, and the other two, I build with lifesteal, it works well. I actually was able to get a Penta from Thanatos and Tsukuyomi in Assault, so yeah, I would not turn them down.
Tsuku, I would usually use Soul Eater, Jotunn's, Serrated, Hydra's, Heartseeker. Bloodforge sometimes. Than I don't do lifesteal too much, but what works for me is Soul Eater, Jotunn's, Shadowbinder, Hydra's, Bloodforge and the Crusher. I realized I use much less Lifesteal than I remembered with Ne Zha, but here is what works for me. Rage, Jotunn's, Demon blade, bladed boomerange, bloodforge and Titan's Bane. I don't see the point of taking starter items in Assault, as you don't always even have a chance to upgrade it.
@@levseb yea. Her 3 is very good for absorbing aoe dmg / ults in the team fights, great sustain. And her 2 / ult basically guarentees a kill when u want to dive for one and dash out
My friends and I are assault mains since we play smite casually. These are great tips.! Another honorable mention is rod of asclepeus on a guardian even if you don't have a healer. Since youre always next to your teammates, a 10% cdr aura is cracked, plus it also increases the healing from the heal orbs.
Support Main here. When I first started playing Smite I was an ADC Main like everyone else but through playing Assault I realised how much I enjoyed tanky high cc gods. Funny how that goes but now I mostly play Slash and have been a pure Support Main for years.
You can't say, "2broken tank items and not immediately say Sov and heartward" you can still stack gauntlet at just about any phase of an assault game and while prophetics Aura isn't to be taken lightly, there really just is no substitute for the aura of HP5/MP5 THAT early in the game when you first buy. If you have 2 melee and you cover both your team can shrug off both poke and ability costs
So as an assault main myself, you definitely got most things right, but certainly many things wrong. First off, you undersold lifesteal a lot, but it’s not the way you think. Going hard for lifesteal isnt good, but 3 if the best items in assault are in fact lifesteal items. Vampiric shroud, soul gem, and the best physical item in the mode, soul eater! Vampiric is basically offensive sentinels boon, big burst healing is always strong. Soul gem gets proc’ed constantly due to the nature of the mode, so you get insane healing constantly, while also gaining free burst damage! But soul eater is easily the best item for all physical damage gods, you can buy it plus a starter item AND a couple mana pots at the start, have it stacked in a couple minutes, and with a heartward from a teammate you basically never die. Add the %pen and cdr, it’s GOATed in assault, and unless youre playing rama or something like him with almost no damaging abilities, it’s pretty much a must-buy item! As for gods, assassins are actually great, but as you said, bruiser assassins are the way to go. Hell, even full tank assassins are incredible, simply due to their higher base damage they can still be hugely important in teamfights. But dont underestimate damage assassins, honestly, most assassins can still be very deadly in assault if youre good with them! The only ones that truly struggle almost universally are the basic attack focused assassins, arachne, baka, nem, etc. Any god that excels only in 1v1 scenarios will struggle in team fight the game mode! As for the rest, if you play patient and choose your moments wisely, damage assassins can still turn the tide. Couldnt tell you how many times ive carried my team as hun batz, loki, or my main Bastet. Underestimating the assassins is the quickest way to find yourself in a shallow grave!
The idea of the video was moreso to be general about things. Of course there are specific lifesteal items that are great, especially the ones that have built-in flat healing like Soul Gem and Vamp as mentioned. I just think general lifesteal as a stat without other factors is overrated. Same for Assassins, there are for sure some Assassins that work but as a rule of thumb they're not great. You'd just rather have a tank or hunter or mage for most of them. The good assassins are ones that fill those roles rather than an actual Assassin role.
One item that I find extremely useful but not often built is T1 earrings. They're effectively a 400 gold mana chalice that can be sold for 133 gold at the end of your build, or upgraded into something if you can use one of the items. It really helps with the early MP5
If they have a nu wa, arachne, kuzenbo, vulcan, or tiamat, benevolence can be broken because it stacks on the death of their minions. If 2 non-clearing gods on the team get benevolence, you can easily heal your team for thousands of HP throughout the game with no cost. You also get so much gold that you'll never be behind despite not clearing.
I was wondering why I saw you in my assault games recently :D Would be nice to have some more jump parties with ya :) Great video, Talisman of energy didnt get the attention it deserves tho^^
Another tip… get your starter upgraded as soon as possible. Starters are level gated because of how powerful they are. I see so many people wait until the rest of the their build is finished to level their starter. Not a better place to spend your gold.
I just want it to be semetrical. One side has a wide angle by "jungle" and tier 1. The other has a tight angle, meaning its much easier to seige, you can launch abilities from behind that wall.
Underrated item would be Relic dagger. I usually buy it 2nd and upgrade Meditation and it definitely helps keep you and the team happy and healthy. And I'd they have AA heavy gods buy the Red Gylph and if you want to a bit more tanks buy the Blue Gylph. I can't tell you how many times it has saved my team and it is pretty consistent.
Hunters horrible start is griffonwing and a starter. Go Dominance and t1 earring you’ll always have mana and it’s easy pen at the start. Sure % penetration isn’t good in early but you also get mp5 and attack speed and power. It’s just 1 more stat that could be used. Also mage start should almost always chronos pendant and t1 earring. People love gettin a starter and feel like they have to and just sit at fountain waiting to buy Charon coin when really Charon coin can be stacked in a single team fight mid game, nothing is going on first 5 minutes usually, where that 20% cdr will be beneficial for starting fights since you have the abilities up more often. If these starts were normalized, then tanks wouldn’t feel the pressure to build heartward or talisman and they can get stacking auras or a different item.
For some of the "bad" assault gods namely bakasura and arachne start axe and cannoneers so that you can stack your berries maxing your heal first then build berserker or shoguns next depending on where the damage is followed by qins and pen. With their our of conquest buffs those 2 are amazing tanks if you sustain right and are just the same left mouse button w key demons that they're known to be late game
Stone of Gia use to be really good. It's not as good anymore because you don't get that secondary passive of the .5 max health regain but it's still good depending on the team
I think relic dagger is super nice to have meditation up way more often, and it also helps with other team fight relics. For 400 gold tier 1 earring is really nice for early MP5. Might be a controversial opinion but Chronos Pendent is over bought on mages first item.
I do think talisman of energy is very good regardless like max mp5 movement and attack speed Keeps the team mana banks full And I always combine it with sentinels to keep me sustained because most of the time my rsndoms or allies don’t know how to manage their mana and so I end up with an oom team
One thing I didn't see mentioned...At least one person on your team should be going warflag and talisman of energy. You'll essentially be able to w key the enemy team to death.
Why is NOBODY ever talking about talisman of energy in assault. Its passive is always procced giving your team infinite mana spam all game. Building it is an auto advantage to the team
Okay, so no one talked about emperor armor?? the one item made for siege that for some reason can be used in a full siege game mode, and allow u to 1v5 undertower? C'mon where are the assault mains?
not so much a tip rather thena preference but meditation is over-rated in assault. TP has way more functionallity imo. not just for the classic Backdoor but also helps to get to lane quicker. and in some cases you can ward behind the enemy and if you're low on health or you want to back you can tp behind them and walk into tower denying them the kill gold and xp.
This is not good advice. Starting Thebes in assault is very troll because you aren’t tanky or helping your team until 5 minutes. Starting HW or Sov in assault is a must because it’s immediately providing prots and unlimited mana and hp5 for your team.
I feel like they should stop focusing on conquest visual changes, it’s taking so much time and effort which can be used on fun god designs (not skin), gameplay mechanics and even a new gamemode/adventure
The most important rule is that if a teammate doesnt grab meds, and they are NOT a healer, they lose med privilege for the entire match. No heals for you.
One of the worst feelings in this game mode for me is playing a support or warrior being tanky as shit but I can’t die because my team will instantly lose the fight, then I can’t really push up because I’m sitting on 3 or 4K gold. I sit there and watch my team over-extend and die lose a tower and before I know it I’m in the situation where if I die we are going to lose the game 90% of the time.
One of the worst feelings in this game mode for me is playing a support or warrior being tanky as shit but I can’t die because my team will instantly lose the fight, then I can’t really push up because I’m sitting on 3 or 4K gold. I sit there and watch my team over-extend and die lose a tower and before I know it I’m in the situation where if I die we are going to lose the game 90% of the time.
One of the worst feelings in this game mode for me is playing a support or warrior being tanky as shit but I can’t die because my team will instantly lose the fight, then I can’t really push up because I’m sitting on 3 or 4K gold. I sit there and watch my team over-extend and die lose a tower and before I know it I’m in the situation where if I die we are going to lose the game 90% of the time.
One of the worst feelings in this game mode for me is playing a support or warrior being tanky as shit but I can’t die because my team will instantly lose the fight, then I can’t really push up because I’m sitting on 3 or 4K gold. I sit there and watch my team over-extend and die lose a tower and before I know it I’m in the situation where if I die we are going to lose the game 90% of the time.
One of the worst feelings in this game mode for me is playing a support or warrior being tanky as shit but I can’t die because my team will instantly lose the fight, then I can’t really push up because I’m sitting on 3 or 4K gold. I sit there and watch my team over-extend and die lose a tower and before I know it I’m in the situation where if I die we are going to lose the game 90% of the time.
Just recently played a game where the whole enemy team rerolled I assume and they didn’t have a warrior or guardian 😂 we had 3 guardians and 2 hunters. We steamrolled tf out of them 😂 they didn’t do a single point of structure damage
Omw to see my Nike not build heartword as my 3 mages all suffer in not enough mp5 as the enemy team team is also 4 magicals and nike proceeds to build only 1 mdef item
Lifesteal is overrated but i will argue its very strong on few characters. Hades, Zhong, Anubis obviously. AA mages are going to build bancrofts for the glyph anyways so might as well throw a Typhons on that.
I guess I'll share some pointers too. At the beginning of the game, the region for Stone of Gaia. Is extremely good. If I'm not building Full tank or Solo queuing This is my go to.. Additionally getting the Tier 2 for Stone of Gaia as well as cursed orb Gives enough HP5 and MP 5 to coast. The early portion of the game. While giving A nice suite of stats.
Getting early stone of Gaia can be questionable, though. It gives amazing stats and sustain... to the person who bought it. Getting it second full item (after heartward, sovereignty, or Thebes) is kinder to your team. Once again, it is nice for the person who bought it, but usually the opportunity cost is too high (an economic cost, not an accounting cost; your team doesn't literally lose something like they would with an accounting cost: it would be the higher benefit to the team of a supportive item which is being forgone, making it an economic cost). Now, even with a full tank build, I might build Gaia later in the game. Staring Gaia when there are lots of tanks might be okay, though (one would go prophetic into Thebes, one would go heartward, one would go sovereignty... it wouldn't matter much if the remaining couple of players rushed Gaia after all that). Now, that many tanks might be difficult to take towers with, so there could be other problems.
I personally like to throw absolution into the mix. that item has come in handy for my team against gods that have huge aoe cc like ares. not always necessary, but a game saver when needed.
Another tip - If you're sweating Assault so badly to the point where you saw the need to view this vid then you should seriously consider going outside and touching grass. Whilst you're at it maybe have a long hard think about what you're actually doing with your life and where you see yourself in 10 years time.
If people living their lives to is detrimental to the enjoyment of others how can i not say something? There is a reason why Ranked arena no longer exists (if you know - you know) Some game modes are simply there for people to just have fun and there's nothing more unfun for the casual gamer than coming up against people tryharding and treating shit like its ranked where wins and losses mean something. What's next optimal team comps for Match of the Day?@@TheUnkindness
- Looking at the teamcomps is _essential._ If theyre 4/5 or 5/5 on a single damage type, or if they have a lot of sustain, AA characters etc. then you better counterbuild accordingly.
- Never underestimate the importance of MP5, especially early!!! Heartward's/Talisman's MP5 Auras are some of the most useful support utilities you could give to your team. Sure, the Thebes and Prophetic early stacks are nice - but you really turn the early game in your favor just by having your team capable of throwing more abilities!
- It's not just counterbuilding - what items could benefit your team in other ways? If you're a Hunter and your own team has a sizable amount of other Phys damage, building Exe early can help the rest of your team's damage numbers. As a Mage, Pythagorem's Auras can benefit your whole team.
- Charon's Coin is a veery cool item in Assault. Alongside MP5 and 20% Pen, when stacked it gives also HP5 + movement speed. It literally gives you all the best useful stats except CDR.
- Don't immediately lose heart if you're stuck with a difficult Assassin. It can be surprisingly effective to build tanky and just be a heckin annoying sponge. You can spare your more useful teammates from some of that poke, and give them more opportunities for plays.
I'm an Assault main and MP5 is my favorite stat.
But now that the sweatiest sweat drip tips are written down, I'll tell the actually most important things.
- We're playing a game.
- Respecting jump parties and other goofing off before the first minion wave is good sportsmanship, and simply fun.
- Keep an open mind, and a light heart. Anyone can have a good/bad game with any god.
As an Assault main, I wholeheartedly agree with MP5 being top tier especially early.
@@Akwatypusnah, we interrupting jump party for first blood every single time
Never trust Sobek in a jump party
In late 2014-early 2015, it was my first few Assault matches (I don't remember if it was the very first, but I hadn't played more than two or three before this) and I got Hercules. Towards the beginning, an enemy was jumping around, so I combo'ed them into tower for first blood. My teammates were horrified and it took me a minute to realize what a breach of etiquette it had been. For a second, it seemed like a Rocky moment of 'he didn't think this was a show, he thinks it's a fight,' until my team reassured me that the jump party is an actual thing.
Yeah, I felt bad after that, as I should have. My crime weighs on me the better part of a decade later.@@xaxscratchxax926
finally some words about smite's most important mode
Literally how I learned to play smite, just played assault till I got good. Newbies should be playing this instead of conq
a lot of people don't know this but DMBrandon was an assault main back when he played the game, just Google "DMBrandon assault"
It's where I go to hide between a particularly broken release and the first nerf (unless there's a good counter-pick, then I spam playing the counter since there will dependably be one of the new character in every match).
@@ariel_alonso13but then you don’t learn how to properly play smite
@@ketsuki.7117 most newbies jump into conq and main 1 god and try to play that god in every role. Its better for them to start out playing assault and learn the gods and their roles and then move onto the main game mode once they have an understanding of all the gods
Another tip is to look at the enemy teams comp because there's a good chance they only have one damage type so you can focus your defense items and not end up with a half stacked Prophetic.
I always chuckle when my team is all one damage type and I see an enemy with prophetic cloak. Usually, they sell it after a bit (probably because an ally pointed out that it will never evolve).
Even with a 1-4 or a 2-3 split, it can be difficult sometimes. If their only magical is Merlin, you're gonna have a hard time getting that stacked.
I'd also like to mention Baba Yaga is busted in this mode partly because of prophetic and Thebes.
@@jacobawojtowicz At least with splits like that it is possible, I've seen so many people end games with a prophetic at 15 stacks because they just didn't look at the enemy teams comp.
Anti-heal is more important in this mode because most people regen items and if you can shut down their healing they won't be able to regen unless their hiding in tower. Speaking of anti-heal tainted breastplate can be applied with item procs which means it synergizes with golden bow procs and makes it easier for adc to apply aoe anti-heal, if you are melee golden blade does it as well.
If you are a mage and enemy team has more than one front liner look into ethereal staff it helps you sustain long and it stacks so multiple mages can apply.
True and based. The amount of people who don’t buy anti heal is ABSURD.
AMC main here, divulging secrets I never thought I'd tell the world. Tainted + bees is absolutely busted in assault.
@@jacobawojtowicz That does work but it is a specific character synergy although I will admit amc is strong in assualt.
But it should also proc warriors and sundering if I remember correctly.
@@jacobawojtowicznobody wants tainted 😂blue stone is absolutely lethal.
Assault is my go-to mode when a new release is broken (which is common).
Prophetic cloak I like, but it's more dependent on the match-up. If they have a 2/3 split of each damage type, I'm likely to buy it. If it's a 1/4 split, it would need to be a frontliner for the 1 of whichever damage type (otherwise it might be really difficult to stack if it's 1 ranged character who hangs really far back for the only magical or physical). Also, many Assault matches are 10-minute surrenders. Starting with 3,000 gold means you can begin stacking prophetic right away, but your team might get annoyed if you don't have an aura soon enough. I've had teammates rage super hard that I went prophetic cloak into gauntlet of Thebes because they wanted an aura sooner (granted, I don't get that sort of teammate very often, so it's likely an outlier).
In Assault, my pet peeve is absolutely one thing: when there's only one tank and they start stone of gaia instead of an aura. Yes, it helps their stats... but the opportunity cost is extremely high for the team. Now, a mid-game stone of gaia can be fine.
8:03 "Burning your beads and/or ageis..." Honestly, I don't mind if people start beads over med when the enemy has some beads-or-die ultimate (Ares, Da Ji, Cerberus, Xing Tian, Fenrir, Morrigan when your team has one of the previous, etc...). However, when an ally gets beads and ageis in Assault, it seems a bit selfish. Part of it is the mentality of players who tend to do this, though (like the ones who get beads+ageis with alternate timeline, but still go 1/9/4). When the enemy has a Ymir, Athena, or someone else with a good cc apart from their ultimate, I tend to go back towards looking down on starting beads over med. Yes, the pros would likely start beads, but they would also be skilled enough to not just die 16 seconds later when that ability is off cooldown. As a note, I don't mind if someone starts med and gets beads as second active against an enemy Ymir, it's just questionable to do first unless it's for Ares or someone whose beads-forcing ability has a long cooldown.
For Assault tips:
- If you have the only magical or physical in lobby, do not re-roll (even if you're terrible with that character).
- If an ally re-rolls the only magical or physical and you can't reroll, build around what you don't have. Normally, Manakin's scepter/mace/hidden blade aren't very good in Assault due to not having jungle camps; however, if you have a magical auto-attacker on an all-magic team, Manakin's mace can actually be good (or hidden blade can be good on certain poke mages). Gladiator's shield is really nice for a guardian or tanky mage (mostly Hades or Zhong Kui) in all magic teams. Contagion, mystical mail, archdruid's fury, thorns, and animosity are good for all physical teams.
- Protection reduction is strong in Assault for the same reasons given for tanks being over-powered. Items like stone of binding help immensely. Sometimes, even a tank might build a damage item early-ish (maybe 4th item... probably more mid-game); like Bellona building heavy executioner on a team of all physical can really help, since it won't lower the attack speed cap of the damage dealers and those damage dealers will get the full benefits.
- Spend starting gold on either sustain or an investment. For instance, getting vampiric shroud with spear of desolation on a mage will give a good amount of sustain with some power, flat pen, and CDR. Starting death's toll and Griffonwing earrings is good for most hunters. heartward amulet or sovereignty are both nice if you don't plan to stack prophetic or Thebes (if a teammate starts prophetic, I usually start either heartward or sov to leave Thebes for them, since more protections is better for the player with prophetic so they can get the mitigation more easily). For an investment, starting rage, Charon's coin, prophetic cloak, gauntlet of Thebes, or tablet of destinies will be good for the poke war and the rougher early game will often pay for itself later on. Starting something like deathbringer can be tempting, but I see it fail more often than succeed since it doesn't improve as an item by stacking/evolving it and doesn't have any sustain).
- If you're the only guardian or warrior (and there isn't one of the other class either), like it or not: you're the tank. The only exception to this is if you're the only character of that damage type and there's another character who can tank (Fenrir, Zhong Kui, etc...). I see lots of people as the only guardian (with no warrior on the team) start rod of Tahuti. If your team already has 2 mages, they'll need a guardian way more than they'll need a 3rd mage. Usually, the reason for these full damage starts boils down to the player preferring that their team lose than actually building like a tank.
- Matchmaking for Assault is worse than other modes, because they game has a harder time predicting how well people will play. The 10-star Aphro mains find themselves playing as Kuzenbo, Thor, or someone else who they aren't good with (the computer sees someone who plays well in general and doesn't take into account how much worse they're going to play as a character other than Aphro). Because of this, you'll often find a player on the enemy team which you can farm mercilessly. At first, they'll be a good source of gold and xp. After a bit, they'll fall behind and even when they're alive their team will be 4v5 for all practical purposes (or they'll ragequit, making their team 4v5 for all actual purposes). Find them and focus them. Save your ult for them until they get too behind to give much reward.
- Don't buy alternate timeline. I see lots of alternate timeline in Assault. 85% of the time, it prolongs the user's life by a few seconds once every five minutes. It does occasionally save someone and then they don't die within a second or two of reviving. Still, it's using a starter upgrade to do that, and it's very unlikely that it gets used more than once in a match. Occasionally it can be good for a high-level ranked player who is in casuals and is massively carrying. That said, there are far more players who think that they are far better than their teammates than ones who actually are. I wouldn't say to absolutely never buy this item, but I would say that a vast majority of the times I see it bought should have been something else.
I didn't read all of this but take a like for the effort xD
Bruh
Assault mains rise up to celebrate the obvious defacto best game mode in smite. About time it gets some love lol
Here here!
Talisman of Energy IS GODLIKE it doesnt provide the little protection aura as heartward but the insane MP5 and movement speed helps a lot even more with flag
For tank items: talisman of energy is very strong since it essentially gives you entire team infinite mana, since it will always be stacked and everyone is always in its aura range. Gaia is also amazing if they have one or two knock ups because it’s got so much HP5 and the passive health regen.
I have such a high appreciation for assault. My friend convinced me to give it a try with him and it helped me learn SO many characters so quickly !
I definitely found some favorites whenever we played!
I feel like the reason people don’t realize sentinels value is because they think “when an enemy dies” only applies to enemy gods
As an Assault main, every single one of these tips are EXTREMELY good! Seriously can't agree enough with regularly buying Prophetic + Thebes, and especially just how important % pen and other anti tank items are. You really can't ever get enough unless the other team just has no tanks at all.
Personally, my favorite thing is the Teleport Relic + Ward Chalice + Eldritch Dagger…
Either upgrade works well with the dagger. Heroic works well with the dagger’s protections boost, while persistent meshes better with the dagger’s relic CDR.
Throw on a chalice (which is also a good idea in itself to have to peek around the corner of if they breach your phoenix, place a ward where it was so they can’t hide while fighting the titan) and you can warp around the map for all sorts of shenanigans:
⚪️Poach enemy minions to boost yourself while denying the enemy the chance to push…
⚪️Gobble up the healing orbs and ninja cyclops so they have nothing to heal off of…
⚪️Ambush the enemy team, either when they’re alone or in the middle of a team fight…
⚪️Have them chase you around like a lunatic, buying time for everyone else to do whatever….
⚪️Wait for them to get wounded, and pick them off while also boxing them in for the rest of your team…
⚪️…And destroy weakened towers, maybe even finish off the titan yourself.
Since recall is not a thing in assault, they’d have to chase you on foot to stop you, giving your team plenty of time to mount a renewed “assault”.
otherwise known as scumlord tactics
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Hey, if it hurts, it works, right?
Relic dagger hell yeah, wards and teleport are a hard hell no, its a single lane, there's nowhere to hide, even the side lane in the middle makes it pretty obvious where someone is, and tp only has value for the first 10 or so minutes. Movespeed scales up over time, and once you lose towers its useless.
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Ok, think like this… You’re in assault, as a god with a good team fight Ult like Ah Puch, Cerberus, etc… You have a heroic teleport, an eldritch dagger and a ward behind enemy lines, and they’re pushing your phoenix while your team defends it…
You can warp over, devour the first line or 2 or minions that would push the phoenix, then make your way over to behind the increasingly wounded and confused enemy team while stealing all the healing orbs they could retreat to. You get into position, drop your ult and suddenly the enemy finds themselves between a rock and a hard place: They turn to face you, but NOW their backs are turned to YOUR team and they’re picked apart one by one because they can’t focus in any single direction.
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With teleport on assault, you have to be ready to make the big brain plays, set up the wards in advance and work to win the overall war above winning each battle.
It baffles me that I haven't thought about sentinals boon in assault.
Other tips? Well, it wouldnt be as good as sentinals boon, but if you got another starter and need that sustain, consider stone of Gaia. A ton of health, some hp5 and mp5, the constant %health healing, and the knock up passive can be great for keeping you alive when you need to be.
I don't think I heard Inter say this but I could have missed it: if its a good time to die, lots of gold, no mana, your allies can defend until you come back. Aim to get away from the enemies but die to their towers or fountain, get you back to respawning without giving them the gold from kill or assist. Or you could communicate with your team what you're doing and chunk some of the enemy health as you go to put them in a worse place to defend against your team as you wait out your timer.
Beware of Ah Puch, not only does he have crazy sustain, burst damage, and anti heal; but you can easily kill your teamate with an aoe heal like meditation if they're hit with his 3.
Don't over or under-estimate meditation. It's great for sustaining your team, and the upgrades can be absolutely clutch, but you probably don't need 5 of them, and if you're an immobile mage, perhaps purification could be a better pick.
Some of the best gods for assault are healers, so remember to pick up anti heal so the Hel or Guan doesn't just steamroll you.
That's about all I can think of.
One item that also really needs mention is war flag/banner. Buy this thing, seriously, you NEED at least one war banner in your team.
Like seriously it doesn't matter if you a Hunter, Assassin or Mage just get one if no one else bought it already.
It gives similar sustain to Gift early and late game it gives the signle strongest aura in the game. I had so many games there we been stuck under phoenix, just to win one fight and kill 2 or 3 enemy gods, and one minute later we already kill enemy Titan. The a.s. gives a giant dmg boost to your team and m.s. means enemies just can't run from you, so we just catch them before they get to the phoenix and take it down in like 10 sec. through backdoor. Even if someone respawn it's gonna be 1/2 vs 4/5 and not change anything.
So buy War Flag/Banner this thing can, and will, single handedly win you at least every 3rd game.
P.S. Same can be said for Arena too btw.
Suprsied you didn't mentioning dying to towers after you wipe to deny the enemy team shutdown bounties.
Best game mode, been 95 percent of the smite I’ve played since probly season 6
About the assassins, I found that Thanatos, Ne Zha and Tsukuyomi can do really well. Thanatos has self-sustain, very important in this game mode, and the other two, I build with lifesteal, it works well. I actually was able to get a Penta from Thanatos and Tsukuyomi in Assault, so yeah, I would not turn them down.
what items do you suggest?
Tsuku, I would usually use Soul Eater, Jotunn's, Serrated, Hydra's, Heartseeker. Bloodforge sometimes.
Than I don't do lifesteal too much, but what works for me is Soul Eater, Jotunn's, Shadowbinder, Hydra's, Bloodforge and the Crusher.
I realized I use much less Lifesteal than I remembered with Ne Zha, but here is what works for me. Rage, Jotunn's, Demon blade, bladed boomerange, bloodforge and Titan's Bane.
I don't see the point of taking starter items in Assault, as you don't always even have a chance to upgrade it.
Nemesis is the best assault character, not even just assassins 😅
@@mattwhite7287 it's fun that she works for you. I personally sucks with her. That's too bad, because she has amazing skins...
@@levseb yea. Her 3 is very good for absorbing aoe dmg / ults in the team fights, great sustain. And her 2 / ult basically guarentees a kill when u want to dive for one and dash out
I love assault at the moment it’s fun when conquest gets too toxic for the day
^^ i never play conquest, but assault is toxic af.. but at least it's humorous and way less farming than conquest.
Assault is easily the chillest game mode. Even Arena has its try hards
Tainted steel is also a really broken starter item
My friends and I are assault mains since we play smite casually. These are great tips.! Another honorable mention is rod of asclepeus on a guardian even if you don't have a healer. Since youre always next to your teammates, a 10% cdr aura is cracked, plus it also increases the healing from the heal orbs.
Big tip Prophetics cloak can stack pretty fast if u have contagion mystical works as well but contagion is better. Dot dmg items too
T1 Earing is my go to mp5 item. I normally dont get anything more than the t1 unless i am going for spikes later
Support Main here. When I first started playing Smite I was an ADC Main like everyone else but through playing Assault I realised how much I enjoyed tanky high cc gods. Funny how that goes but now I mostly play Slash and have been a pure Support Main for years.
This is a great video. I do not play conquest, and dable in Arena and Slash. I spend the majority of my games in Assault. Thanks.
Assault main here love the vid
Same!
You can't say, "2broken tank items and not immediately say Sov and heartward" you can still stack gauntlet at just about any phase of an assault game and while prophetics Aura isn't to be taken lightly, there really just is no substitute for the aura of HP5/MP5 THAT early in the game when you first buy. If you have 2 melee and you cover both your team can shrug off both poke and ability costs
So as an assault main myself, you definitely got most things right, but certainly many things wrong. First off, you undersold lifesteal a lot, but it’s not the way you think. Going hard for lifesteal isnt good, but 3 if the best items in assault are in fact lifesteal items. Vampiric shroud, soul gem, and the best physical item in the mode, soul eater! Vampiric is basically offensive sentinels boon, big burst healing is always strong. Soul gem gets proc’ed constantly due to the nature of the mode, so you get insane healing constantly, while also gaining free burst damage! But soul eater is easily the best item for all physical damage gods, you can buy it plus a starter item AND a couple mana pots at the start, have it stacked in a couple minutes, and with a heartward from a teammate you basically never die. Add the %pen and cdr, it’s GOATed in assault, and unless youre playing rama or something like him with almost no damaging abilities, it’s pretty much a must-buy item!
As for gods, assassins are actually great, but as you said, bruiser assassins are the way to go. Hell, even full tank assassins are incredible, simply due to their higher base damage they can still be hugely important in teamfights. But dont underestimate damage assassins, honestly, most assassins can still be very deadly in assault if youre good with them! The only ones that truly struggle almost universally are the basic attack focused assassins, arachne, baka, nem, etc. Any god that excels only in 1v1 scenarios will struggle in team fight the game mode! As for the rest, if you play patient and choose your moments wisely, damage assassins can still turn the tide. Couldnt tell you how many times ive carried my team as hun batz, loki, or my main Bastet. Underestimating the assassins is the quickest way to find yourself in a shallow grave!
The idea of the video was moreso to be general about things. Of course there are specific lifesteal items that are great, especially the ones that have built-in flat healing like Soul Gem and Vamp as mentioned. I just think general lifesteal as a stat without other factors is overrated. Same for Assassins, there are for sure some Assassins that work but as a rule of thumb they're not great. You'd just rather have a tank or hunter or mage for most of them. The good assassins are ones that fill those roles rather than an actual Assassin role.
One item that I find extremely useful but not often built is T1 earrings. They're effectively a 400 gold mana chalice that can be sold for 133 gold at the end of your build, or upgraded into something if you can use one of the items. It really helps with the early MP5
You forgot never ruin the jump party at the start. So many people do this
Whoever ruins jump party gets targeted by me the entire game
If they have a nu wa, arachne, kuzenbo, vulcan, or tiamat, benevolence can be broken because it stacks on the death of their minions. If 2 non-clearing gods on the team get benevolence, you can easily heal your team for thousands of HP throughout the game with no cost. You also get so much gold that you'll never be behind despite not clearing.
I was wondering why I saw you in my assault games recently :D Would be nice to have some more jump parties with ya :)
Great video, Talisman of energy didnt get the attention it deserves tho^^
Another tip… get your starter upgraded as soon as possible. Starters are level gated because of how powerful they are. I see so many people wait until the rest of the their build is finished to level their starter. Not a better place to spend your gold.
Thx for this!! Assault is the only mode that doesn't bore me anymore.
Who thinks that assault needs a change, map design..
I just want it to be semetrical. One side has a wide angle by "jungle" and tier 1. The other has a tight angle, meaning its much easier to seige, you can launch abilities from behind that wall.
Underrated item would be Relic dagger. I usually buy it 2nd and upgrade Meditation and it definitely helps keep you and the team happy and healthy. And I'd they have AA heavy gods buy the Red Gylph and if you want to a bit more tanks buy the Blue Gylph. I can't tell you how many times it has saved my team and it is pretty consistent.
Also, i usually buy Frenzy as the 2nd relic just so that we have consistent damage and it helps clear the towers faster.
Hunters horrible start is griffonwing and a starter. Go Dominance and t1 earring you’ll always have mana and it’s easy pen at the start. Sure % penetration isn’t good in early but you also get mp5 and attack speed and power. It’s just 1 more stat that could be used. Also mage start should almost always chronos pendant and t1 earring. People love gettin a starter and feel like they have to and just sit at fountain waiting to buy Charon coin when really Charon coin can be stacked in a single team fight mid game, nothing is going on first 5 minutes usually, where that 20% cdr will be beneficial for starting fights since you have the abilities up more often. If these starts were normalized, then tanks wouldn’t feel the pressure to build heartward or talisman and they can get stacking auras or a different item.
For some of the "bad" assault gods namely bakasura and arachne start axe and cannoneers so that you can stack your berries maxing your heal first then build berserker or shoguns next depending on where the damage is followed by qins and pen. With their our of conquest buffs those 2 are amazing tanks if you sustain right and are just the same left mouse button w key demons that they're known to be late game
early start.. mp5 is king. So many mana hungry gods.
Stone of Gia use to be really good. It's not as good anymore because you don't get that secondary passive of the .5 max health regain but it's still good depending on the team
Assault is my favorite gm in the game. Thanks! Also, Loki and Arachne are GREAT in Assault btw.
I love this guy already was afraid he was gonna say that noob trap item stone of Gaia lol he’s setting new players off on the right foot chad.
Went to the comments ,glad to see the gospel of Energy Talksman..
I think relic dagger is super nice to have meditation up way more often, and it also helps with other team fight relics. For 400 gold tier 1 earring is really nice for early MP5. Might be a controversial opinion but Chronos Pendent is over bought on mages first item.
Hi, I'm people-who-know-how-the-game-mode-works-and-wants-to-improve-their-skills-a-little-bit.
Thanks a lot for this video.
bro assault is the only mode that people play for fun, at least mention that assault isnt about winning but about actually enjoyiung smite
Its all i play 😂
I could be wrong but I dont think you have posted your assault tier list video in the description.
Ah sorry about that, ua-cam.com/video/74haoCBDSEc/v-deo.html
I do think talisman of energy is very good regardless like max mp5 movement and attack speed
Keeps the team mana banks full
And I always combine it with sentinels to keep me sustained because most of the time my rsndoms or allies don’t know how to manage their mana and so I end up with an oom team
To my random teammates when we get a full phys/magical team and they agree when I ask if we can leave it that way: You guys are the real mvps
New God: any of the monsters from Evolve. PERFECT crossover, the destroyers of Shear would be an excellent addition to this game.
Tip , don’t ever re roll Zues
Ward tp is insanely op if used correctly by a warrior or a assassin
Ah that explains why I caught you in an assault the other day. Also thank god no footage of that made it on here, I was utter trash in that game.
Compassion is pretty good for late game fights against high magic damage
Surely war flag and talisman is the most goated build when you have 2+aa gods
Throw Shogun's in there?
One thing I didn't see mentioned...At least one person on your team should be going warflag and talisman of energy. You'll essentially be able to w key the enemy team to death.
I would have mentionned the detail of trying to suicide without giving any kill credit by towers/pheonixes. Satisfying to do yo
As an Assault main, i support this
As an assault main, THANK YOU!!
Why is NOBODY ever talking about talisman of energy in assault.
Its passive is always procced giving your team infinite mana spam all game.
Building it is an auto advantage to the team
How can i get your UI
A slash guide would be very cool
Personally the most fun game mode
Build Ao full tank, that thing is unkillable and can solo an entire team.
yea its the single worst thing about assault at the moment imo
Okay, so no one talked about emperor armor?? the one item made for siege that for some reason can be used in a full siege game mode, and allow u to 1v5 undertower?
C'mon where are the assault mains?
not so much a tip rather thena preference but meditation is over-rated in assault. TP has way more functionallity imo. not just for the classic Backdoor but also helps to get to lane quicker. and in some cases you can ward behind the enemy and if you're low on health or you want to back you can tp behind them and walk into tower denying them the kill gold and xp.
This is not good advice. Starting Thebes in assault is very troll because you aren’t tanky or helping your team until 5 minutes. Starting HW or Sov in assault is a must because it’s immediately providing prots and unlimited mana and hp5 for your team.
I feel like they should stop focusing on conquest visual changes, it’s taking so much time and effort which can be used on fun god designs (not skin), gameplay mechanics and even a new gamemode/adventure
Assault really be the 1
No mage no win, pretty much every assualt game.
Do not re-roll loki, just rush blue, crusher, and other ability items and just spam the poison, you will be focused hard, your ult is an escape now.
You should 100% reroll Loki. Agonising Visions isn't great poke even with Crusher. Loki's kit just doesn't work in assault.
As a guy who made jump parties and buying sov+hw popular I like this video😁
Assault is my favorite mode. But it is also my least favorite because I always seem to get my 10 worst gods in it every match.
I'm a simple man; I see Assault content, I press like.
The best teamcomp is 3 Guardias and 2 ADCs
The most important rule is that if a teammate doesnt grab meds, and they are NOT a healer, they lose med privilege for the entire match. No heals for you.
They should make re rolls free there is no point to have it cost favor
Damn it I hoped Boon would keep under the radar so I can keep just getting my free healing :P
7:40 and this will only work if your team understands team fight dynamics and that a 4v5 is not a fight you should take.
One of the worst feelings in this game mode for me is playing a support or warrior being tanky as shit but I can’t die because my team will instantly lose the fight, then I can’t really push up because I’m sitting on 3 or 4K gold. I sit there and watch my team over-extend and die lose a tower and before I know it I’m in the situation where if I die we are going to lose the game 90% of the time.
One of the worst feelings in this game mode for me is playing a support or warrior being tanky as shit but I can’t die because my team will instantly lose the fight, then I can’t really push up because I’m sitting on 3 or 4K gold. I sit there and watch my team over-extend and die lose a tower and before I know it I’m in the situation where if I die we are going to lose the game 90% of the time.
One of the worst feelings in this game mode for me is playing a support or warrior being tanky as shit but I can’t die because my team will instantly lose the fight, then I can’t really push up because I’m sitting on 3 or 4K gold. I sit there and watch my team over-extend and die lose a tower and before I know it I’m in the situation where if I die we are going to lose the game 90% of the time.
One of the worst feelings in this game mode for me is playing a support or warrior being tanky as shit but I can’t die because my team will instantly lose the fight, then I can’t really push up because I’m sitting on 3 or 4K gold. I sit there and watch my team over-extend and die lose a tower and before I know it I’m in the situation where if I die we are going to lose the game 90% of the time.
One of the worst feelings in this game mode for me is playing a support or warrior being tanky as shit but I can’t die because my team will instantly lose the fight, then I can’t really push up because I’m sitting on 3 or 4K gold. I sit there and watch my team over-extend and die lose a tower and before I know it I’m in the situation where if I die we are going to lose the game 90% of the time.
Just recently played a game where the whole enemy team rerolled I assume and they didn’t have a warrior or guardian 😂 we had 3 guardians and 2 hunters. We steamrolled tf out of them 😂 they didn’t do a single point of structure damage
Omw to see my Nike not build heartword as my 3 mages all suffer in not enough mp5 as the enemy team team is also 4 magicals and nike proceeds to build only 1 mdef item
Lifesteal is overrated but i will argue its very strong on few characters. Hades, Zhong, Anubis obviously. AA mages are going to build bancrofts for the glyph anyways so might as well throw a Typhons on that.
I like giving lifesteal to Ne Zha and Tsukuyomi, works very well!
I guess I'll share some pointers too.
At the beginning of the game, the region for Stone of Gaia.
Is extremely good. If I'm not building Full tank or Solo queuing This is my go to.. Additionally getting the Tier 2 for Stone of Gaia as well as cursed orb Gives enough HP5 and MP 5 to coast.
The early portion of the game. While giving
A nice suite of stats.
Nope immediately wrong lol stone is dog ass such a noob trap item.
Getting early stone of Gaia can be questionable, though. It gives amazing stats and sustain... to the person who bought it. Getting it second full item (after heartward, sovereignty, or Thebes) is kinder to your team. Once again, it is nice for the person who bought it, but usually the opportunity cost is too high (an economic cost, not an accounting cost; your team doesn't literally lose something like they would with an accounting cost: it would be the higher benefit to the team of a supportive item which is being forgone, making it an economic cost). Now, even with a full tank build, I might build Gaia later in the game.
Staring Gaia when there are lots of tanks might be okay, though (one would go prophetic into Thebes, one would go heartward, one would go sovereignty... it wouldn't matter much if the remaining couple of players rushed Gaia after all that). Now, that many tanks might be difficult to take towers with, so there could be other problems.
People gotta stop rr Frontline lok
ah yes, the classic losing a winning assault game because the team staggers too hard
OMG OMG its happening loooooool
Stone of Gaia should be an auto buy on literally any tank at level 1. The sustain for both resources is ridiculous.
i mostly play smite because i don’t have all the gods lol
How did you not mention stone of Gia its the strongest item in assault
You're not wronh TANKS ARE KING 5 tanks vs 5 damage they'll usually win
Stone of Gaia Wins me the early game every time
Noooo why would you post this. I roll games on tank once I get sentinels boon. Now others will do it 😢
I personally like to throw absolution into the mix. that item has come in handy for my team against gods that have huge aoe cc like ares. not always necessary, but a game saver when needed.
assult is so fun, less sweats. so go away intersect your ruining it.
I will RR a guardian and warrior in a heartbeat. If no one trades. They are no fun what so ever.
Only if you don't know what fun is.
Nu Wa runs this game mode. No other god comes close, with ah puach second.
Kuku?
are you high?
@dainbramage3558 nah just been playing smite since 2012
nah.. nu wa is only broken in All Out Assault.. she is pretty good overall, but nowhere near close to top 10
[*Additional generic comment in disgareement*]
People here giving their tips to a gamemode based on luck
Luck? Ive rolled up 15 win streaks playing solo. 😂
Luck is a component, but knowhow is also key to consistency.
Another tip - If you're sweating Assault so badly to the point where you saw the need to view this vid then you should seriously consider going outside and touching grass. Whilst you're at it maybe have a long hard think about what you're actually doing with your life and where you see yourself in 10 years time.
If this is your view on it, maybe you should have your own life and let people live theirs however tf they want.
If people living their lives to is detrimental to the enjoyment of others how can i not say something? There is a reason why Ranked arena no longer exists (if you know - you know) Some game modes are simply there for people to just have fun and there's nothing more unfun for the casual gamer than coming up against people tryharding and treating shit like its ranked where wins and losses mean something. What's next optimal team comps for Match of the Day?@@TheUnkindness
Or, because it’s a causal game mode, that’s not even conquest, just play the game however you want and troll cause it’s assault and tryharding is lame
winning is everything.. i don't even have to tryhard.. i just try my best. Every game again.
Trolling is lame