Good game brother, I really appreciate the constant stream of content and the struggles we've seen you go through to provide it over the years. It's truly inspirational and is the main reason why I even mentioned my Discordia ranking there - you did a video jokingly saying Discordia is SS tier however long ago and then I picked up a character I really ended up enjoying. Your work doesn't go unnoticed, it isn't small because it's a video game, and you've been part of inspiring people to follow their passions in life. Keep doing you Sam, big love!
Welcome to my entiar GM career as a conquest main. It is so easy to get a team which messes up and takes 400 MMR away and demotes you down 2 ranks (As in number position eg. 22 -> 20th place in the rank) and get 1 or none MMR point.
It's like this in a lot of games with ranked because the playlists are so dead sometimes. In rocket league you could play someone who hasn't played a lot of 1v1 just for that season so their mmr is low and if you lose, you lose 4x the mmr you would have got if you won. It's absurd
What was the good part? I honestly don't see it. The discordia was worse than most I see on conquest, like 10x worse. He missed a majority of his kit, and a majority of his 2s, which has a giaaaant hitbox
@@SimplifiedHardness always the first excuse of every smoker ever lmao it really doesn't make people forget core principles. You don't forget that you use toilet paper to wipe your ass for example.
It's not a 1500 deficit it's a "whatever substats boots have" deficit and by endgame it saves u money but yeah for sure a deficit well played that discordia was legit too
I would say that you were not only caught up after First Blood, but you were actually ahead, since you had two full items, whereas he had one full item and boots
Dude if your mechanics and awareness weren't as good as they are, you'd have been done. Well played as usual and, once again, keep up the great content. PEACE!
@@SimplifiedHardnessI would never undersell his technique. It's why Sam can literally do the dumbest start and still manage a win against a talented player.
@@Leoj305 the player was real garbage. This game was only "competitive" for two reasons: Garbage builds from both, and the terrible potion start. Losing 40 power early on is horrible. 40 power is a lot early on.
What made you get the kill towards the latter stages was finally get your defense item so that you can take damage. Before that you were too squishy with useless sustain. Juking ofc was a big part but without defense he just had to hit you with something. He had pure cooldown and defense and no pen, so defense just completely shut him down.
ForbiddenAsinus always stay in the minion waves, as soon as you get rekt, just eat a minion and if you see you can’t win the fight, jump out of it (never use you jump if you cannot secure a kill). Always use your ult as soon as you can, remember that the circle Bakasura’s makes in his ult doesn’t let your opponent to jump when they are in the circle, use that to your advantage and as soon as they get out of the circle and try to escape (using their jump), use your jump and stick to them like a mosquito If you STILL can’t win any fights then just give up to the honor duels and farm until late game, it’s the ultimate Bakasura strat
@@DimKanGr you need to hit 3 autos for executioner to work, and merc is a one punch type of god, plus the flat 30 pen from toxic blade+asi makes more sense against someone with 1 defensive item. then stacking two % pen items like titans and exe... Executionner literally makes no sense here.
@@Drawfill lol wtf dude who talked about stucking those two together? I said that it would be better to go executioner instead of titan s bane. At 100 prot , exe reduces it to 74 prot and flat penetration reduces it even more ofc. Also the statement that if he has only one defence item you dont need percentage pen, i am not sure about it bro. The closer you get the enemy to 0 defences the closer your damage gets to become true damage( which means the damage you do without mitigation practically)
please play a hun batz or a raijin game they're both pretty underrated and I couldn't find a game less than 3 months on Rexsi, doubleJ or your channel. Thanks!
Finally subbing lol. Just got into smite and have been watching you for several days. Been learning a lot about 1v1s, and consequently, the solo role on conquest. Thanks man, keep up the good work.
I feel like each individual item was justified to be built at the time, but it culminated to you having 125 power by the time you had 4 items. I think if you try this again, you need a power spike sooner.
well... u were infront (goldwise) with that start... why? Cause of 1 factor: U dont have to sell a Starter Item nor Boots. with this in mind you're literally 3.650 Gold ahead if you do math its like this: 18.100 Gold that Discordia has to earn to get to her Full Build with Speedpot and Boots selled 14.450 Gold that Mercury has to earn to get to his Full Build and he doesn't even have to sell a Starter item nor his Boots. so you're literally 3.650 Gold ahead + you get a Red Potion before she's even full build lmao. with boots and starter item u would literally need to earn about 1 full item of Gold more than with your Start, Sam. which in total means: You were always ahead with Gold with your start.
@@taquitolayton68 Yes, but on Mercury this Start is kind of OP if you think about it, Mercury doesn't really loose that much Damage in the beginning with that Speed Pot cause of his Passive, ofc he still suffers a bit of damage but as u could see: Sam still cleared his camp pretty fast and he just had to stay for a wave and then back for a Tier1 item + Mana Potion and he was back in the game and once he had Golden Blade he was technicly "Ahead" if u wanna do your own math.
yeah why would you want to hit for ±30% less w pot compared to boots power spike just to save 100g early which you easily get back by a first blood, or worst case scenario, clearing a wave quicker and going for a buff Maths helps but the only good thing about this is surprise factor unless you wanna play farmville for 30 minutes while you get your other items against a Discordia
@@taquitolayton68 that's the thing, once he had Golden Blade online he could clear Camp's fast enough to not fall ridiciously behind and he most likely just had to keep his gold even with Discordia and his Level even with Discordia and if you're able to do that you're most likely not going to loose this game, ofc i can understand that u wouldn't do that and go for a more "safe" strat like buyin boots and going into Attacker's Blessing (which in my eyes is still the better option ofc. cause if u get first blooded and fall behind with the level you won't really do shit in that state) but if you're able to not get first blooded and simply keep up with the gold and level, you're mathematicly ahead (3.000 Gold) and once it get's to late game, you're full build while your enemy still has to sell something and earn more gold to get to the final state of the build. (i'm not sayin this is a strat evry merc should do, cause not evryone has the skill to pull it off, but im still in the believe that you could pull it off more times than one would think and even make this meta for mercury, once you've figured out what to build to increase the gold difference even more)
If you really think about it it’s not a horrible option, I know it sounds crazy but if you make it out of the esrly stages you are going to have the late build faster, plus Merc gains damage with movement speed so I would actually like to try this myself😂
Nice video. But you keep saying you are setting yourself back by 1500 due to buying the speed pot - i don't quite get that? Since the pot gives you the speed part of boots, comparing that to item stats you're more like 7-800 behind - and then making up for that since you can go into item 6 early. But it essentially only gets you to final build 550 gold early.
Well, if you think about it. Y oh're only losing 20 power and 25% attack speed if u went Ninja Tabi, or just 40 power if you went Warrior Tabi. You're buying boots, just without the stats, only movement speed.
waddleking587 I can’t tell if you’re intentionally missing the point or not. The fact that everyone is playing her is why it’s impressive that they’re number one. More competition. Understand bud?
So what's the theory here? Is it just frontloaded damage? or it is to save an item slot cause you don't need boots? alternatively, is the answer memes? Legit question here as I haven't played this game since... well I stopped before pele was a thing...
Well Merc gets extra power off of movement speed, so he'll get the power from speed potion, power from speed buff, and then he'll have his 2 so it'll be like having boots anyways, without actually having to buy boots
i guess it's just for the meme's but if u do your math, you'll notice once he got his Golden Blade online he was 3.000 Gold ahead without knowing it and cause he was Mercury he gained Power through Movement Speed, which in total mean's he gained all the power he needed in this very moment, now u simply need some skill and make the first blood and you're permanently ahead, as long as u dont get first blooded and dont fall behind with your level, you'll prob win this 10 out of 10 times.
@@whiterose8601 u could do that aswell and be faster in clearing the camps, one might figure out a strat with skipping boots and the speedpot, would love to see someone trying different strats and figure out what work's best tbh and maybe it's something worth to go for in the end, would be sick af in my eyes lmao.
@@haxkztasy I've done some experimentation with early speed pot on merc and I've always drawn the conclusion that it's terrible in every scenario. Boots are roughly the same price but give 40 more power. Also you will keep them for at least 20 minutes in most games. That's like a 20 minute red pot accessible at level 5. Also merc struggles against early pressure. Early speed pot absolutely cripples him.
Good game brother, I really appreciate the constant stream of content and the struggles we've seen you go through to provide it over the years. It's truly inspirational and is the main reason why I even mentioned my Discordia ranking there - you did a video jokingly saying Discordia is SS tier however long ago and then I picked up a character I really ended up enjoying. Your work doesn't go unnoticed, it isn't small because it's a video game, and you've been part of inspiring people to follow their passions in life. Keep doing you Sam, big love!
Like the hecken duck outta this mans comment if you appreciate Sam and feel the same way or similar!
@Flawlessviper xgn stfu bot
Great plays man
@@lewissimmons2749 Damn you must be rank one if your talking shit like that
waiting for this comment to be pinned by Sam.
This game went full meme to super sweat real fast
0MMR is a joke. No matter the matchup matchmaking gives you, you should never have to play with 100% risk and literal 0 reward.
Yeah thats a poor system, much like World of Warcrafts in the past. You essentially are forced to stream snipe higher MMR players just for elo.
Welcome to my entiar GM career as a conquest main. It is so easy to get a team which messes up and takes 400 MMR away and demotes you down 2 ranks (As in number position eg. 22 -> 20th place in the rank) and get 1 or none MMR point.
It's like this in a lot of games with ranked because the playlists are so dead sometimes. In rocket league you could play someone who hasn't played a lot of 1v1 just for that season so their mmr is low and if you lose, you lose 4x the mmr you would have got if you won. It's absurd
Scratch that. Probably 9-10x
@@smiteno_one8827 i agree with you and i think it sucks that you can't bring a full team to ranked so you have to gamble everytime you play.
Discordia: *uses a single ability once*
Sam: damn those cooldowns!
Oh my God you actually did
It’s been 3 days since Sam played Kuzenbo... when will he bless us again?
Hail the lord
The lord is Nene, Kuzenbo is just the emissary
May I watch thy nene good sir?
One day young one!
Our KuZenbo, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy NeNe
BaeWilix you always have my child.
Man, speed pot was three years ago, I remember being excited about the ability to finally change off of boots.
Dude I feel like I just saw this video already three years
i kinda wanna see a video where you msg the enemy EVERY time you do any buff.
Yo that sounds like a tasty Meme Monday next week
Colby Peacock best suggestion I’ve ever seen.
Scumbag Saturday
@@azucarblanca9047 "yo bitch im doing your speed buff"
Yes...this
Beats No1 Discordia in the world starting with 1500 pot
*0 MMR*
tbh no1 discordia doesnt mean she is the best discordia in the world :)
@@simonb.5236 Basically no1 means it's the best lol
@@blurryface2o1 that's not even close to how it works
@@simonb.5236 it does as far as the MMR ranking is concerned, which is why it's surprising that he got no MMR for winning.
@@bigfudge2031 No, god rankins are based on winrate.
*Discordia Dashes away*😂😂"Damn that cooldown"
Sam predicted no boots a whole year ago
I swear I keep hearing mercury say enema.
That was a good discordia. Much love to that guy. Good comeback too, felt the dread a bit after he took down Phoenix.
What was the good part? I honestly don't see it. The discordia was worse than most I see on conquest, like 10x worse. He missed a majority of his kit, and a majority of his 2s, which has a giaaaant hitbox
@@7PlayingWithFire7 He was pretty damn consistent considering he was up against Samda
Dude has slow immune in his two and has sprint.his response is gem of iso... lol
Bruh i forgot that was even in his kit i was high af
@@SimplifiedHardness if you had buy shard instead you would probably won, gg though
Yeah literally any pen item instead of that would have easily won him the game. Complete crutch item for bad players. As evidenced by the 0 pen build.
@@SimplifiedHardness always the first excuse of every smoker ever lmao it really doesn't make people forget core principles. You don't forget that you use toilet paper to wipe your ass for example.
7PlayingWithFire7 bc a little tidbit of “immune to slow” is a core principle 🤔
Wonder if he's still number 1 Discordia after this Vid.
In my country "Good shit brother" is an insult. lol
I watched this when it came out, got this recommended to watch again last year. And here it is again on my front page !! ❤️
I mean... you can't really get upset about being killed on a camp when you are in their spawn 🤷♂️
Great video, as always
1:45 you almost bought boots lol
It's not a 1500 deficit it's a "whatever substats boots have" deficit and by endgame it saves u money but yeah for sure a deficit well played that discordia was legit too
The first few minutes of this physically hurt me to the core. You're a true mad man sam
Wow watching old smite is a trip. Insane video.
2:10 "DICsordia!"
SamDaDude at the end: Come here you FUCKED!
Me: *Dying laugh*
I would say that you were not only caught up after First Blood, but you were actually ahead, since you had two full items, whereas he had one full item and boots
Dude if your mechanics and awareness weren't as good as they are, you'd have been done. Well played as usual and, once again, keep up the great content. PEACE!
IMSAYIN His tech is insane and shouldn't be undersold
@@SimplifiedHardnessI would never undersell his technique. It's why Sam can literally do the dumbest start and still manage a win against a talented player.
@@Leoj305 the player was real garbage. This game was only "competitive" for two reasons: Garbage builds from both, and the terrible potion start. Losing 40 power early on is horrible. 40 power is a lot early on.
Usually watch the videos later in the day but i saw the title and had to watch. That was a good game man
SAM: WHY WERE YOU THERE
WTF
My guy: I watch your videos daily.
SPEECHCRAFT: 100
So we learned that Sam is about an 1800 gold better Player than other grandmasters.
question, why no hydra's? cool down and pen plus the passive? wouldn't have been a good call? (I don't generally play assassin's)
Man this was the hypest damn game I've seen in a bit. Fuckin loved every minute.
I watched this vid on 2x speed, it was something...
I AM SPEED
What made you get the kill towards the latter stages was finally get your defense item so that you can take damage. Before that you were too squishy with useless sustain. Juking ofc was a big part but without defense he just had to hit you with something. He had pure cooldown and defense and no pen, so defense just completely shut him down.
Way to pull off that win sammie boi. Hope you are staying safe
Can anyone give me tips on how to deal with pressure and being outcleared in lane, AND HOW TO COUNTER HARD HITTING AA'S
defense and hiding under tower
Use abilities, run for your live, repeat
@@WackyWahooGuy what if your bakasura who isnt ability based
@@TGM-. go jungle
ForbiddenAsinus always stay in the minion waves, as soon as you get rekt, just eat a minion and if you see you can’t win the fight, jump out of it (never use you jump if you cannot secure a kill). Always use your ult as soon as you can, remember that the circle Bakasura’s makes in his ult doesn’t let your opponent to jump when they are in the circle, use that to your advantage and as soon as they get out of the circle and try to escape (using their jump), use your jump and stick to them like a mosquito
If you STILL can’t win any fights then just give up to the honor duels and farm until late game, it’s the ultimate Bakasura strat
love how the discordia was like SUPER FAN of him. hahahahaa
Sam, I feel like a cool idea would be a counter building tutorial, just looking at some strong builds and how to counter them
Watching this game again made me want to see a mercury death’s toll game lol
How do you always know where to punch when she’s in her hiding circle
"Oh, you main Discordia? Sorry, I don't feel comfortable talking to degenerates."
Have to always come back to these meme videos
Always a pleasure watching sam playing smite
The duel goat
Why everyone underestimates executioner lately...
He doesn't build executioner because the attack speed would be wasted with mercs 2. Titan's is just a better item overall for merc
@@Methusalute learn that at 100 physical protections titans bane does 22.5% penetration and executioner does 36% .
@@DimKanGr you need to hit 3 autos for executioner to work, and merc is a one punch type of god, plus the flat 30 pen from toxic blade+asi makes more sense against someone with 1 defensive item. then stacking two % pen items like titans and exe... Executionner literally makes no sense here.
@@Drawfill lol wtf dude who talked about stucking those two together? I said that it would be better to go executioner instead of titan s bane. At 100 prot , exe reduces it to 74 prot and flat penetration reduces it even more ofc. Also the statement that if he has only one defence item you dont need percentage pen, i am not sure about it bro. The closer you get the enemy to 0 defences the closer your damage gets to become true damage( which means the damage you do without mitigation practically)
@@Drawfill also hitting 3 autos with mercury isnt a problem considering he is an auto attack assasin
please play a hun batz or a raijin game they're both pretty underrated and I couldn't find a game less than 3 months on Rexsi, doubleJ or your channel. Thanks!
Itshak Chattopadhyay hun batz isn’t really under rated I though I mean he has one of the best
Team fight ults
I've always wondered why when I play merc I get these random "im the greatest" without hitting VEG haha glad im not the only one
That's from discordia ult
This a joke Right?
@@teriiyaki_god Oh I see I never read her abilities until now. Appreciate it brother
@@Sean3D2Y No
Does any one knows if that build works on conquest?
Finally subbing lol. Just got into smite and have been watching you for several days. Been learning a lot about 1v1s, and consequently, the solo role on conquest. Thanks man, keep up the good work.
Well, this start saves you some gold, because you don't have to sell your boots
He was there because that's his side of the map.
Indra yeah dude but come on, whoever goes to their own side of the map?
Thank you Sam for always giving great content
This video was recommended to me in 2023. I only watched 17 minutes and I'm here to finish what I started
Khepri video plz :)
Comment for the ol algorithm. Much love, bud.
well done bro!! very entertaining!
7:26 damn that was clutch
I feel like each individual item was justified to be built at the time, but it culminated to you having 125 power by the time you had 4 items. I think if you try this again, you need a power spike sooner.
If u r Merc is this a real 1500 disadvantage?? It’s a speed buff and his passive turns speed into power?
It's still not as much power as he would've gotten with full boots.
Not really, he doesn't need to buy boots with it so that essentially gives him more gold for other items
Sam getting aggressive lol :D
Do you need speed pot to type that fast?
This dude is really tough, its completely insane 0 mmr, makes no sense, anyway congrats to both for this awesome match
well... u were infront (goldwise) with that start... why? Cause of 1 factor: U dont have to sell a Starter Item nor Boots.
with this in mind you're literally 3.650 Gold ahead
if you do math its like this:
18.100 Gold that Discordia has to earn to get to her Full Build with Speedpot and Boots selled
14.450 Gold that Mercury has to earn to get to his Full Build and he doesn't even have to sell a Starter item nor his Boots.
so you're literally 3.650 Gold ahead + you get a Red Potion before she's even full build lmao.
with boots and starter item u would literally need to earn about 1 full item of Gold more than with your Start, Sam.
which in total means: You were always ahead with Gold with your start.
this man did the math......
except boots are fucking op and your basics will hit around 30% more than speed pot level 5, which means more kills and farm
@@taquitolayton68 Yes, but on Mercury this Start is kind of OP if you think about it, Mercury doesn't really loose that much Damage in the beginning with that Speed Pot cause of his Passive, ofc he still suffers a bit of damage but as u could see: Sam still cleared his camp pretty fast and he just had to stay for a wave and then back for a Tier1 item + Mana Potion and he was back in the game and once he had Golden Blade he was technicly "Ahead" if u wanna do your own math.
yeah why would you want to hit for ±30% less w pot compared to boots power spike just to save 100g early which you easily get back by a first blood, or worst case scenario, clearing a wave quicker and going for a buff
Maths helps but the only good thing about this is surprise factor unless you wanna play farmville for 30 minutes while you get your other items against a Discordia
@@taquitolayton68 that's the thing, once he had Golden Blade online he could clear Camp's fast enough to not fall ridiciously behind and he most likely just had to keep his gold even with Discordia and his Level even with Discordia and if you're able to do that you're most likely not going to loose this game, ofc i can understand that u wouldn't do that and go for a more "safe" strat like buyin boots and going into Attacker's Blessing (which in my eyes is still the better option ofc. cause if u get first blooded and fall behind with the level you won't really do shit in that state) but if you're able to not get first blooded and simply keep up with the gold and level, you're mathematicly ahead (3.000 Gold) and once it get's to late game, you're full build while your enemy still has to sell something and earn more gold to get to the final state of the build. (i'm not sayin this is a strat evry merc should do, cause not evryone has the skill to pull it off, but im still in the believe that you could pull it off more times than one would think and even make this meta for mercury, once you've figured out what to build to increase the gold difference even more)
This was an incredible video
Every time Merc throws his 1 out I hear him say enema
loved the 60% CDR
hahaha
with chronos :P
If you really think about it it’s not a horrible option, I know it sounds crazy but if you make it out of the esrly stages you are going to have the late build faster, plus Merc gains damage with movement speed so I would actually like to try this myself😂
I actually dont understand why there are many games sam didnt get any mmr
and the worst thing is that's not even new. Happened 80% of time last season, especially when your opponent surrended before 10mins
yes a sam vid, my day is complete
So what you're saying is 1500 speed pot mercury is the new S tier meta?
Nice vid. Love ur content. Keep up
Pestilence was a game changer
So stressful, but gg, great content
My friend swears by this start lmao 😂😂
I always wanted to see how this start would be.. and no i am not gonna install it again
Please play zeus like you mentioned yesterday, so we can learn how to play him better in deul
You sit under tower unless you one shot... your welcome
Nice video. But you keep saying you are setting yourself back by 1500 due to buying the speed pot - i don't quite get that? Since the pot gives you the speed part of boots, comparing that to item stats you're more like 7-800 behind - and then making up for that since you can go into item 6 early. But it essentially only gets you to final build 550 gold early.
Nice one sam!
yo sam can u make a vid about susano?
damn looking back, wtf is this build
"I put myself at a 1500 gold disadvantage."
*Has 600GP lead* 😂
Back to the drawing board bud
You got anti heal and precent pen before getting any sustain and defense
WHAT A GAME!
why is crit bad in duel? I never played duel before
Well, if you think about it. Y oh're only losing 20 power and 25% attack speed if u went Ninja Tabi, or just 40 power if you went Warrior Tabi. You're buying boots, just without the stats, only movement speed.
Dem Yukes SamAlamaDingDong
3:12 *1HP*
Only samdadaddy could do this! Lol
that was crazy
Being #1 in the world as an overpowered god isn’t a flex
waddleking587 How? If she’s overpowered I’m sure other people are trying to do the same.
Carry Smurph They are. I have yet to be in a single game where someone isn’t playing Discordia.
waddleking587 I can’t tell if you’re intentionally missing the point or not. The fact that everyone is playing her is why it’s impressive that they’re number one. More competition. Understand bud?
Carry Smurph I don’t think you understand that it doesn’t matter if you’re number 1 at that god if the god is overpowered. Understand bud?
waddleking587 Whatever you gotta tell yourself 👍🏻
should of built wind demon instead of asi if you wanted damage you get the passive and you get crit
with mercs 2 a little crit isnt bad
My new goal is to play Discordia and take #1 from that guy. Lol
It worked out, but I'd be lying if I said I thought Asi was a good idea when the thing you're complaining about is power
Nice comeback
First time watching and that was so fun to watch! GG and the guy you played was cool
Video idea: hire a smite coach on fiverr and than 1v1 him and destroy him
THA GRAYDUST
the def make diffenrence
Yoooo such a good gameeeee
Overcapping cooldown and buying Gem + Horrific against a God with Slow immunity in his kit and sprint, alright
Great vid.
11:00 is it a meme thouu?
So what's the theory here? Is it just frontloaded damage? or it is to save an item slot cause you don't need boots? alternatively, is the answer memes? Legit question here as I haven't played this game since... well I stopped before pele was a thing...
Well Merc gets extra power off of movement speed, so he'll get the power from speed potion, power from speed buff, and then he'll have his 2 so it'll be like having boots anyways, without actually having to buy boots
i guess it's just for the meme's but if u do your math, you'll notice once he got his Golden Blade online he was 3.000 Gold ahead without knowing it and cause he was Mercury he gained Power through Movement Speed, which in total mean's he gained all the power he needed in this very moment, now u simply need some skill and make the first blood and you're permanently ahead, as long as u dont get first blooded and dont fall behind with your level, you'll prob win this 10 out of 10 times.
A i t o m a r u or you can do the boring. Thing and just go into gold blade and then get pot or boots up to
@@whiterose8601 u could do that aswell and be faster in clearing the camps, one might figure out a strat with skipping boots and the speedpot, would love to see someone trying different strats and figure out what work's best tbh and maybe it's something worth to go for in the end, would be sick af in my eyes lmao.
@@haxkztasy I've done some experimentation with early speed pot on merc and I've always drawn the conclusion that it's terrible in every scenario.
Boots are roughly the same price but give 40 more power. Also you will keep them for at least 20 minutes in most games. That's like a 20 minute red pot accessible at level 5.
Also merc struggles against early pressure. Early speed pot absolutely cripples him.