Smite is the Hardest Platinum That No One is Talking About 

as someone whos played this game for about a decade it was so refreshing to see a new players' experience in 2024. Good on you for sticking with it, as the learning curve is very hard and the community can be really mean if you don't play as well as they do while you're learning. Great vid!

"I enjoy Thor, hes a very versatile assassin, hes like a warrior." Ah young padawan if you only knew old smite. He was a warrior, Hades was a guardian.

5k hours in smite and still havent gotten all 270ish achievements, good thing you are doing this on playstation and not xbox or steam. Some of the god specific achievements are actually nuts like getting a triple kill with cupid's heart bomb.

Glad to see new people come into a game that I used to play a ton, but man was it rough to watch the gameplay lol. Saying that He Bo doesn't do much damage is a crazy statement.

I’ve played over 2000 hours of Smite and I have a couple tips for you. First I would highly recommend switching your controller layout to Savage, it may be hard to learn at first but trust me it’s way better and a lot of high skill controller players would agree savage is the best controller layout. You can aim while casting abilities since you don’t have to press the face buttons plus using relics requires less button presses. Second make sure whenever you’re playing squishes to always buy beads and aegis as your relics, you can also buy blink if you’re playing an assassin but relics like sprint or shell are mostly only used on guardians or warriors. Aegis and Beads will keep you alive as a squishy so I would buy them pretty much every game. Third when you’re leveling your abilities after you’ve reached level 5 and you have every ability unlocked, pick one ability (usually the one that does the most damage or is best at killing the minions) and level that one up to max before leveling up the other abilities (except for your ultimate, level up your ult every time you can). Fourth getting the trophy for killing 5 gods with one ability is extremely difficult as you can probably already tell. By far the best way to get this legitimately would be playing Scylla in arena while building as much power and penetration as you can. If you have max power on Scylla you can 1 hit kill squishes with your ultimate and every time you get a kill your ultimate resets. Your ultimate can even 1 hit kill squishies while they are in their fountain so in arena don’t be afraid to ult over the wall into the fountain for a kill they won’t see coming. To be fair though her ultimate won’t be 1 shotting anyone till like 15min+ into the game but once you get your build online she can do a lot of damage. It will probably take dozens if not a couple hundred games to pull it off unless you get super lucky. It may be best to find a team to play with who will let you get all 5 kills because even if you get lucky and kill 4 people only using her ult there’s a chance someone could take that fifth kill. Anyways though good luck and I can’t wait to see the next Smite video!

It's a really hard game to get into after over 10 years since its release! As you pointed out, a huge part of the difficulty is the roster, it'll take quite a long time before you know what to expect from each character when you play against them. And the skill ceiling is indeed massive, I've played since beta and got probably 5-6k hours so far, so I'm quite decent at the game. It's still not rare for me to face players who absolutely decimate me, they read me like a book and just outplay me with their positioning, general awareness and their ability to hit their stuff. Knowing what battles to pick is a skill which takes a long time to truly master. Thoroughly enjoyed the video, it was nice to reminiscence about my early days of playing Smite! I'm not the biggest guardian fan either, but Bacchus, Cthulhu and Kuzenbo are my favorite ones. They're more aggressive,when compared to gods like Geb or Khepri for example, so you might enjoy them.

It's so wholesome to see new players trying to figure out the game raw! So cool.

This video is so good. Your enthusiasm for a game I love made my day.

bro that last few warrior clips made me so fucking proud, that was pretty good, you that doggggg

As a 6k hour masters player in smite this was fun to watch, would be epic to see more people try because of this!

I've been playing Smite since season 2 and this was so cool to watch. The beginning is extremely hard since the game is very deeo, but it becomes very fun once you understand the mechanics and have a decent knowledge on how the gods work (specially so that you can predict what the enemies are doing. Keep it up man, it was so cool to watch your video :D

Love seeing new people play the game, I used to play alot back in 2015-2017 and only picked it up again in the past year. Definitely a learning (and relearning) curve, but it’s possible! Can’t wait to see your progress!

Also, purification beads is a must to get you out of hard crowd control moves from enemies. You will die much less if you use the purification beads relic and use that relic whenever you get cc’d or caught out of position.

Great video! Your enthusiasm for the game rocks!

I really enjoyed your video! I'm also a completionist, took years to get all guardians and mages diamond (level 10) and that felt really good! Joining/creating a community of players who are in voice chat (Discord, in game, etc) where you share things and laugh at your wins and losses is a huge bonus for staying power.

As a very long time Smite player this was extremely fun to watch lol. I really hope there is a part 2 in the future!

I loved seeing all the little mistakes you made while learning that are common play to not mess up. People have played this game for about 12 years and forget how much there is to know its just become second hand knowledge to experienced players that makes you realize just how much smite is not new player friendly

Hey man, i actually started playing smite back in like 2016 on xbox and later decided to get the plat when i switched to playstation gaming. as you alluded to, 90% of the difficulty of the game just comes from knowing how to play it correctly and understanding all the gods and kits. They best advice i can give is play a lot, but also watch others play. I highly highly HIGHLY recommend both trellirelli and callmemast (i think his youtube is just mast). these guys are extremely high level players and will showcase how to play gods most efficiently. this will also give you additional exposure to the variety of gods and what they do. the hardest trophy by far is going to be killing 5 gods with 1 ability. the only real way to do this "easily" is using scyllas ult and wiping a whole team since it lets you fire again everytime you get a killing blow with it. good luck man, smite is definitely a marathon not a sprint. Even with close to 2k hours logged, im still only an average player but i was able to get the plat with the right dedication and time input.

This explains so much when I see some people in this game. I forget home much time I have spent on it.

The guide said Smite's platinum trophy difficulty was 3/10. Surely it wouldn't lie?

Ah yes, Earl. My favorite stance switching hunter 😂

As someone who has played a lot of smite, like too much smite, its nice to see new people give the game a try! Good luck to this challenge and many more in the future!

I like this series and like to see new people playing smite. Just keep playing and learning and observing you’ll get better I have over 2000 hours in smite and the meta is always shifting! It definitely a challenging game but also very fun!

wait until you hear the first 5 games are bot matches

Loved the Video! Great to see you have so much fun with a game I have over 4k hours in, and who has helped his friends in the past to get past the insanely high skill floor smite has to offer. Honestly, the hardest achievement to get is really final form, which is also on steam one of the hardest (probably the hardest aside from the "impossible" god achievements), so best of luck for that! One thing I noticed in the video a lot (now I know the vid is already 3 weeks old so that might already old news to you), but builds are more often than not what can keep you from really getting better, on any role for that matter. But there is a good way to not build wrong stuff as someone who doesn't know every item yet! in the shop, you can switch to the tab "Popular", which are basically items most players build with said god, so (usually), you can't really miss with that. I say usually, as exceptions always happen, but this might help until you can free up some energy from learning gods to learning items! On another note, item related, if you enjoy assassins and mages, I recommend always starting with items that give you the stat penetration, not the % one, the flat number. That's because that's the best stat to get early on as a damagedealer, some players even build 2 or 3 of those! Granted you will have less mana, movement speed or similar stats for the first few levels, which can be really irritating if you already got used to it, but I believe that you can manage! You can also always try items or builds out in the jungle pratice against a bot that is always the same lvl as you (also hint hint, you can test every skin in the game there, if you are unsure of buying a skin or not~) Last note, kind of funny you said loki is so hated, as he isn't hated for years now, players who hate him usually are new, bad, or deaf (Loki makes a VERY audible sound when going invisible, which you can hear from very far away if you pay attention to it). Also every other ability people hate has been removed from Loki with a rework, which basically fixed every frustration Loki's old kit had. Anyway, if any divine deity bothered reading my wall of text, have a good week and stay hydrated~

Seeing some of this gameplay gave me an aneurysm but really glad that you enjoyed it and gave this game some attention lmao. It got a playerbase but very little publicity which is a bit of a problem considering that smite 2 is coming up and the studio behind smite is.... well they don't have the best past with giving their projects the attention they needed and deserved. Just look what happened with their actually really good games like Rogue company. :( Ok but the biggest crime of this video is how u pronounced ullr lmao

Awesome video. Long time smite player we’ve all been through the struggle. Very impressed considering you learned on your own and how many gods we have now. I’m so glad to hear you stuck with it. Looking forward to part two for sure

you did well as a new player! great explanation as to why smite is hard

I never thought, I would enjoy a video like that (no Platinum, not my type of game), BUT you made the video interesting enough. You explained enough to keep me interested. I salut you for going on this journey. Good luck with the rest of the journey.

Fun Fact about Thor (because you said he almost feels like a warrior): he actually was a warrior at first and got changed to an assassin after a bit. Great video, i spent like 4.5k hours in this game so it was incredible to see someone just learning it from the start. Also you got extremely good for the relatively short amount of time played, great video!

I’ll be here for part two! This game will definitely be a quest. Good luck on the god specific trophies

Great video friendo! Good luck with the plat, looks like a grind 😬

When I saw this video in my recommended I immediately jumped on it. Been a bout a month or two since I played smite that being after taking a lengthy 4 year break. I have had so much fun with this game over the years. I have found memories of soloing gold furies in the days when no one know how to play. I have a decent amount of trophies just from playing so much over the years but I couldn't imagine platinuming this game.

With the tmnt skin if u jump while using it, it’ll kick flip 😊

I started smite a few years ago and it was very fun playing with my friend group we don’t play as much anymore sadly. I have diamond mastery (max mastery level) on 4 gods and the hardest thing I had to learn was playing conquest as a warrior and assassin since those 2 roles have the most impact on a game. Also you don’t have to play gods in their designated roles as long as you understand how to build items correctly some examples are playing certain mages in the support lane while building full defence and cooldown reduction as well as some hunters in the mid lane with full damage and cool down. Not sure if you know this but moving while basic attacking makes you slower as it stops your momentum what you actually want to do when chasing and using your basic attack is move forward attack wait for the animation to finish then repeat

The reason Loki is so hated by the community is because its a very beginner god. It seems no matter what, new players gravitate towards Loki.

It took me a year to learn everything on this game, it’s one of those games that is so satisfying knowing every gods abilities and items.

+3500 hours and still missing the trophy of killing the fire giant like a few minutes after it spawns Edit: dont worry, we all were a loki main at one point in our smite career :)

Been playing since the ps4 beta and im still mising 6 i think. Huge props for trying this.

As the resident wolf of our discord, I respectfully request the wolf skin for Artio.

That gilga and bellona clips actually gave me chills bro😮‍💨 Good stuff bro keep it going I believe🫡

Smite is my favorite game ever i'm actually getting tired of it after playing for hours a day every day for years I have completed every trophy except final form that has to be the hardest trophy in existence. I love seeing newbs trying to play glad to see you enjoying it. I love how all your footage is you just missing all your abilities lmao its painful to watch

That was super interesting to watch! I've been playing Smite since January 2014 and even played quite a lot in ranked games. It is very hard to introduce new people into this game, congratz for having enough patience and dedication, glad you enjoyed the journey

I didnt click this video the first times it popped up. Im glad I finally did though. Great video

This video is so awesome to watch. I have around 4500 hours in the game and it’s always so cool to see a new perspective. You’re also picking up things pretty quickly. Also if you want to play a guardian that does more damage, I would highly recommend Atlas and Cerberus. These 2 do a lot of damage and are relatively safe because they have a dash/leap. Good luck on the battleground of the gods my friend!

Great video, interesting hearing your process getting into Smite and being able to contrast that to mine. I am a trophy/achievement hunter as well (I play on PC), but I have around 10,000 hours in Smite, won the college world championship for the game a few times, masters every year blah blah blah. If you want any advice just LMK, but it seems like you're already improving naturally as you go. I think once you have a better idea of what each class should really be doing it will click more with you. Guardian is mostly about creating space, displacing enemies, and protecting, assassin is for picking off enemy hunters & mages, although hunters DPS is very high, their main purpose is killing opponent tanks and objectives, Warrior is a more tanky assassin-like dive, that's not as worried about helping your backline (at least for most of them), and Mages you want to throw out your damage to align with crowd control that your Warrior/Guardian are putting out and play with a good amount of space while you wait for them to create those windows. Personally I started the game playing Kumbhakarna and got him to rank 10, even though I'm not a tank player now and immediately became a Jungle/ADC player afterwards. I do think starting with a tankier role is good because you're allowed more margin for error, and they're really good and do a ton of damage as well. Although a recent patch makes them much less tanky than they have been for previous years. I don't remember if there is a trophy for getting a character to rank 10, but if there is I HIGHLY recommend grinding your favorite character to rank 10 before jumping around to a ton of different characters- I feel this gives you a much deeper understanding of what a classes role is and what items may be good on them, while getting a look at what it's like to play against so many other characters so you know who you might want to play next. Oh and for the penta-kill achievement you probably want to play full crit + bloodforge ADC in arena, or bloodforge Thanatos, for the 5 with one ability I believe Bakasura, Vamana, Scylla, Achillies are the easiest. Good luck on the platinum!

Ullr being called Earl is now something I am required to do lmao. Glad to see you playing smite, I've played this game for 10 years now and it has been a blast, keep it up!

as a guy with well over 5000 hours in this game and hearing this stuff from a new player perspective feels like came a long way and the fact people are still coming on the game i love/hate keeping it alive cause it hard to forgot 5000 hours of gameplay knowledge see it from a blank slate

One thing you may not have noticed while playing ares is that if you hit his chain ability, you can do it again up to 3 times. It's his biggest damage source, but only if you use all 3. It does damage over time, so hitting multiple people or waiting a second before the next chain does MASSIVE damage, more than some mages.

I hope you enjoyed the game! Thanks for playing and highlighting Smite

From someone’s who’s played smite for over 7 years this was interesting to watch. You did a good job explaining the roles and learning how conquest is so complex. I started on console as well. The skill ceiling is ridiculous on PC. Still an awesome game with amazing skins.

I'm honestly surprised you jumped in raw without looking up any videos on high level tutorials especially in conquest. I think even in game there are high level overview tutorial videos that explain the game mode in depth further. But also just RU-vid videos on simple things like finish leveling one ability before leveling another, or what gods are the "easiest" to play. Merlin being one of the hardest gods with the stance switching. It was Soo cool to watch this whole video though! 😊

Been playing Smite since season 2 and i'm still TERRIFIED of conquest lmao. I used to try and learn the meta from streamers but nowadays there's just not many i enjoy anymore and i'm also not an aggresive player so i just get very anxious (leftover from all the toxicity back when i wasn't very good). I'm an arena warrior through and through. It is great seeing people still getting into the game and learning to enjoy it as it has been a massive part of my life, so thank you for this vid! (also good getting confirmation that the game may not be as easy as some people make it out to be, it helps heal my insecure inner child who got absolutely thrashed all those years ago)

I'm glad I found you through this. This reminds me of when I tried to platinum it for a week, and still had about 4 or 5 trophies left. I gave up and just play for fun now. 3000 hours later and I just log in for fun. I'd help you out if you still want to go for it

Smite is still one of my all time favorite games. Even after 1000s of hours, I still enjoy learning new stuff. Good on ya trying to get the achievements!

Love seeing new players in the game! I have over 5k hrs in SMITE and am a bit of a junky as ive hit high ranks in Joust, Duel, and Conquest. Ive got over 17k worshipers on a single god with over 70 at diamond. I have recently got 3 new players hooked on the game, so I definatly know there are other newbies out there hitting the grind with you. Best of luck to ya!

very cool video! thanks for giving some attention on a game that deserves way more ❤

As someone who has the platinum on this game. I’m wishing you massive amounts of luck on your journey I know the amount of dedication needed for this one and even after I was done with my journey on it I still had no idea what the f**k I was doing on it 😂

I’m glad there’s still people who can get into the game now and enjoy it. It’s definitely difficult to get into but the only way to maintain it is for people to be friendly with new players like you.

Joust is probably the mode thats the sweatiest and arguablly most popular for competition . Smite is a game you probably need to play a whole year to scratch diamond lobbies in conquest and joust : and then a whole another level to get higher than that

This was a really fun watch. I really enjoy teaching new players the game and the idea of working torwards a specific goal is fun. Might be joining the Kendom, atleast with an alt.

I gave up on trying to get every achievement long ago due to how impossible some are, but a couple months ago I finally got every single god to diamond rank, which honestly I feel is way more satisfying.

Honestly, Kudos for sticking with the game in the rough first parts. I remember my first time playing this game on the Xbox with the release of Ah Puch and getting told to uninstall for how bad I was. It can be a rough time in a MOBA continuously losing and banter from teammates and enemies alike in post game lobbies can seriously dampen the experience further. For all its faults, I still hold this game close to my heart even if I take extended breaks and get frustrated with it

Got recommended this! Great video man, def is a tough one to get into😂

You may never see this but if you do my top tip is when buying items you want to fully upgrade the item before starting the next. It's important to get the bonuses they offer at each max upgrade

Can’t imagine going for the triple kill with cupid heart bomb and one shot with kuku health is way too high to oneshot anyone ancient achievement

Ive played smite everyday since the beta around 11 years ago. Im glad you stuck around the game is difficult yes but i feel like the fun kinda overshadows it lol. Ive hit masters a handul of times and basically the number one thing you wanna do is stick to meta builds and experiment as least as possible with builds and focus more on positition, playing better, and game IQ. Also knowing what the items do is very important. I would love to help in your journey I play pretty much daily. Awesome video btw!

Final Form is basically impossible without insanely good luck. You need the entire enemy team to be low enough, close enough, dumb enough, with no relics, and that's just before how good you are comes in.

300+ hrs after and I'm 2 trophies away from my platinum, and looking for people that will help me and get them aswell... It's Golden Greed and Flaming Speed. Would appreciate a lot the help, been looking everywhere for help and nothing 😔 it can take 15 minutes to get both trophies. And GL on your Trophy Hunting ;)

omg i remember you streaming this a few weeks ago and hopping into a few arena matches with you (Paradisin @ 7:10 & 10:20 - sadly the NA/EU server ping diff was rough), but I'm surprised you kept with it and stuck it out enough to make this video. Good luck with the grind to the platinum trophy!! I feel the struggle, I've been trying to get all the Steam achievements for this game for so long now and I'm still only at 279/319 (87%) but its all god-specific ones now at least

After i started playing smite around 2 or so years ago i was glad i had friends to help me with it. After a year of playing I realized how many achievements there are. And I barley knocked any of them off but i moved to playing it on pc after I got one. The difference between M&K and controllers is just crazy.

Mans picked all the difficult gods to play😂 picking the morrigan was daring to say the least lol. Great vid

You chose a hell of a time to try smite, going into smite 2 with a bunch of patch reverts has kept the game in a less balanced/more fun state, which I can imagine you don’t really feel this early in the game.

Very nice video bro, i enjoyed a lot watching you playing this amazing game

I’ve been playing smite on console since 2016 and only in February of 2024 I unlocked my last trophy (final form) it was never my interest to get the platinum trophy but just by playing the game for fun this is how long it took me to get the platinum, worth to mention that I probably have over 10k hours in smite, a game I enjoyed playing for the past 8 years

Such a great video mate!! As someone who's played smite & still needs to finish it off also i know just how much of a grind it can be lol keen to see you get it done in the future! 🤘😎🤘

You can use worshiper boosts just before the game launches to master gods faster.

As a smite veteran who played since 2012... entertaining video :)

Been hooked for three years. Prior to Smite was an FPS gamer with 5k hrs in CSGO and another 5k on a variety of other shooters. The never ending challenge of improvement is what has kept me coming back. The community was insufferable for my first two years and still can be. If it wasn't for the terrible culture this game would have likely been much more successful as the gameplay and depth is fantastic.

Man I wish I could've somehow helped you with this endeavor. You say that you don't like the guardians but you like warriors and you like solo lane, I would've told you to just play guardians in the solo lane. There are so many that are really fun and pretty damn effective in the solo lane. To name a few that I think are a lot of fun, there's Ymir of course, Kuzenbo, Cthulu who's amazing fun in solo, Bake Kujira who's also hilarious in solo, Artio is great in solo, Cabrakan can solo or even Jungle, Geb is a very deceiving character for beginners. Geb can solo, his main role is support, but you'd think of Geb as a hard support character who only exists to buff his team with the shields, but honestly, I find the most success with him building him hybrid/bruiser and playing VERY aggressive with him. He's an absolute menace to squishies, and it does feel awesome to save a teammate with the shield, but it's ok to just shield yourself too. The top two hardest trophies, imo, is the one where you have to kill 5 enemies with one ability. There's a way to cheese that trophy! Idk if it still works, but used to, Ullr's stance swap was considered an ability. So you would swap stance, and all you had to do was kill 5 enemies without dying and without using any other abilities, and if you did that then the game would register it as 5 kills with one ability, granting you the trophy. If not, then Scylla ult is your best bet. The other difficult trophy is one that's a lot easier in a 5-stack or if the enemy team has a DC, and that trophy is killing the Fire Giant within one minute of it spawning. FG spawns at 10:00, if you have your team help you get this trophy, it's really not that hard because the enemies never suspect someone to try killing FG at 10:00. But it does help a lot if they have a DC, I've helped dozens of people get that trophy. Probably the longest comment ever but dude, I've loved watching this! Brings back so many nostalgic memories of how it was for me learning this game. Glad to see that you're enjoying it and having a positive attitude towards the game. Good on you brother.

Tips to new/intermediate players from a s1 5k hr player: 1.) Switching your casting type to instant cast in controls is a learning curve but makes a night and day difference it ability casting speed 2.) Strafing and attacking slow you down so time your attacks for when your close enough to secure the kill and not be to slow to miss the kill. 3.) Auto attack canceling is basic attacking then as soon as you see the damage number cast and ability then when you see that damage number basic attack again this allows you to cancel the ability animation therefore allowing you to get more damage in quicker 4.) Work on foot work dodging attack is just as important as hitting them you cant fight if your dead move side to side or just turn around and move straight to avoid the movement penalty for strafing. Stop basic attacking for a moment so you’ll have enough speed to dodge 5.) Avoid body blocking your team you can cause them to get hit by abilities when they try to dodge.Do body block the enemy team if your a tank to protect teammates or to prevent them from running when your team is attacking. 6.Playing from behind when your losing dont just surrender farm more xp a one level difference is huge in this game minion waves give more xp than jungle camps dont steal to much of your teammates farm tho. Kill major objective fire giant can turn a game around us wards if you keep getting ganked,gold fury gives alotta xp and gold.Try ganking the enemy teams top frag when you are on a killing spree you get a gold and xp bounty on your head those that kill you gain almost the same lvl you are plus about 600 gold 7).BEADS AND AEGIS ARE S TIER RELICS AS A SQUISHY YOU SHOULD ALMOST ALWAYS BUY THEM IS YOUR KIT DOESNT HAVE CC IMMUNITY

Hey man. I'd suggest looking up some builds for the gods you like to play. If I had one other suggestion it would be to try to support you team as much as possible. Being by yourself is typically a bad idea. When you are near teammates you can play off their crowd control abilities making it easier to hit your own abilities.

Positioning, and kit mastery are key pick one god and really learn the kit its combos its immunities nothing easy about smite you'll have to earn it but i can see you have the love and that makes all us veterans of the wars smile keep it up.

6/13 is a genuinely really good score for a first ever conquest game. Some like 6+ year veterans get that score often! Also, I get not liking guardians so much, but there are some that are very aggro and also, you don't have to build protection on them. Some gods, like Cabrakan, are immense fun when built full damage/glass cannon. People call him 'Fat Loki' for a reason, because his burst is wild.

I have this game's platinum trophy, the hardest one to get is Final Form, which requires you to kill 5 gods with a single ability. I did it only using/leveling the 3 (Honey) with item proc effects (heartseeker/crusher ect) in AMC's 3 in Assault mode.

As someone who’s unfortunately been addicted to this game for over a decade now, it’s really cool to see a new player experience the game I love for the first time. It’s been so long since ive been a new player that I completely forgot what this is like for someone new. Well done, super cool to see!

ngl I reckon if I hopped on a new account I could probably get all trophies in like 10/15 hours (barring ones that require more by nature of e.g. having to be level 30) but because you're a new player, learning will obviously add many hours into the game. Love seeing new players coming to the game. Also gotta shoutout the fact you like Poseidon, he's my favourite god and carried me into top 100 world back when I played. Seems we enjoy the same types of characters. I think many people underestimate just how difficult this game is, cause they think it's like a casual version of League, which yeah, kinda, but just cause it's more casual doesn't make it easier, especially at a higher level. If you REALLY struggle with some achievements like getting 5 kills with 1 ability I can give you a cheesy way to get it, you might not like it since it's kinda cheap and exploitative but at the same time it's incredibly difficult to get under normal circumstances, especially since matchmaking pairs you with players around your level..

@13:25 “My favorite was Earl” 😂😂😂

I started playing this when they announced the transformers collaboration, it is very fun but don't think I could ever plat it 😭 congrats man (Also shout out to My Hero Ultra Rumble 😉)

I got the smite platinum in 2016, but I’ve also helped 3 friends get it in the last year. If you’re willing to do some ‘cheese’ methods, there’s a couple tricks to getting the 5 kills with 1 ability, getting 20 kills and only dying once, and both the kill the gold fury/fire giant within a short time; you would do this by playing co-op vs bots, but you have to get queued with a real player not in your party for it to work (so no 5 stacking, but the simple work around is to just queue at the same time and you’ll likely get queued together). I’d be willing to help you get some trophies or just elaborate more on some of the strategies I’ve used before. Enjoy smite, smite 2 is coming soon

Starting the game on guardians i ALWAYS recommend kumba first, he's the easiest to learn and doesn't require much to be decent at all

I have over 2k hours in Smite on ps4 and the only trophy left is Final form, which requires to kill the entire enemy team with one ability. I will probably never get this because i switched to pc years ago. Needless to say and as you've already realized: getting that plat in Smite is a serious commitment, as is playing the game in general. 300 hours is probably quite optimistic but i think if you specifically hunt for the trophies you wont need nearly as long as i did. Btw you can actually get the final form trophy in a 1v1 custom match with a friend. Your friend just stays in base to never level up, preferably with a very squishy god like Ra. You pick Scylla, a mage with an ultimate that resets every time you get a kill. You farm up until you can one shot him with your ultimate. Then you move into the titan room from the jungle (which you can do on one of the joust maps). If you path correctly, the titan will not attack you. Then you use your ultimate to one shot your friend. His death timer will be low enough for him to respawn before your ult runs out and you can do it again and again until you kill him 5 times and that's the trophy. I've never done this myself, but i helped a friend do it when he was also missing that one trophy. Unless this has been patched out it should still work and it's probably the only reliable way to ever get this trophy. If you feel like this is cheating you can always run Scylla in arena and hope that you get a pentakill with your ultimate. That would probably be the next easiest way. Either way good luck!

Seeing you not level your ult when you unlocked it made me understand why you feel embarrassed lol. Its awesome to watch someone elses smite journey, i forgot what it was like

Some tricks to you about guardians, there are 2 types of guardians, defensive ones and aggressive ones, the aggressive ones are the gods that you can build some power with defense like Cabrakan, he has a lot of damage skill and you are able to get some kills ou just doing a lot of damage. Some guardians you don't even need to build damage to destroy the enemy team alone like Cthulhu, Bakegujira or Charonte. I'm saying this because a lot of people don't try to be flexible in this lane as a support guardian, they think that you just need to die and tank damage every time like in a boring game but is not like that, you just need to know your limits to know when you will attack and when you will retreat

Lmfao that build at the start😂

SMITE JUMP SCARE! Pushing 5k hours at this point. Been around since beta. As an old head now that ur officially in the smite community welcome, new players are always encouraged + banger video. You summee up smite so well through a new set of eyes. But also as an old head, f*ck you, ur dog water, suboptimal build, that pick wasn't meta, (etc. You get it). Excellent content brother.

Very fun video to watch, i died a bit inside every time I saw a small mistake but still was a great watch ;)

Not sure if you already have the trophy or not since I’m 2 weeks late but I got the plat trophy like a year ago a tip for my three hardest trophies are: Kill fire giant before a time limit (it’s like 15 seconds after in spawns or something): play a limited time mode where you get a random god in conquest and like 100,000 gold (I forgot the name sorry) and just get your team at fire giant just before he spawns at like 10 ish minutes Kill the gold furry in a time limit: you have to do it while you’re snow balling, gaining a tiny lead early that just keeps becoming a bigger and bigger lead or same LTM as the fire giant one and kill at 5 mins Kill 5 gods with one ability: The best two to do get this one is Scylla or Achilles because their ults get a second use if you kill someone with it. Or there’s some gods that glitch it for some reason like I played as rajin and I had to hit a certain combo over and over again in an arena game and it finally counted after doing it like 7 times. this one is kinda scummy but this trophy is crazy hard anyway. Now this way doesn’t feel great but after spending enough time to get Scylla from like rank 4 to 10 I didn’t care that much

Some of the achievements in this game are wild hahah, good luck!

Not sure if anybody has mentioned this but you mentioned not liking the guardian class, but there are quite a few guardians that play a lot more like warriors and are viable/intended to be played in solo lane. These being Jorm, Cerberus, Artio, and Bake Kujira. There are probably some others that I am forgetting but for the most part despite being called guardians they are more like warriors.