SMITE's Most (& Least) Skilled Gods! 

I was really surprised that Tyr of all gods was at the top. I'm biased af here, bcs I absolutely hate playing against him, but, like, c'mon.

what warrior would you personally put above tyr? I do agree that hes way WAY too high up. Between his free prots, 3 fucking mobility tools, one of the best tank passives in the game and cc out the fucking wazoo he has essentially infinite mistake allowance, even more so then wukong id say. Cause at least the monkey fuck has to sit down for 2.4 seconds when ymir breathes in his face warriors that i myself found more skillful then tyr are Arthur, Osiris, Cu Cu and Achilles

@@hartmann4710 I agree with Arthur, Cu Chu and Achi needing more skill to play well, but I wouldn't put Osiris up there. It would be something like Horus, maybe, since you need to balance supporting and being aggressive, and you basically don't have an ult in pubs.

It's because us tyr players think we're geniuses. But in all seriousness tyr is a god with a pretty low skill floor, you can do okay just pushing buttons but a reasonably high skill ceiling that is really rewarding of skillful positioning and timing. Buttons easy, functions hard

i read this comment before watching the video and have lost interest in the video you right Tyr being listed as most skilled warrior does speak volumes and those below arguing how king Arthur also takes skill aren't helping

Kaldrs passive is so annoying 😢

Yeah kaldrs passive "skadi" is a great combo for kaldrs kit

Kaldr has a very solid passive that can help him in a pinch. Overall, I don't think he takes that much skill. Same with Argus, he and his passive have enough cc and damage to deal with most threats.

Yeah once you learn the axe-double bow shot combo that’s basically it for aggressive options on ullr, i don’t play him bc i find it boring not bc i cant learn that combo even on console its easy if you just lab for 5 min

Basically, if you can hit the Axe stun, you can play Ullr.

Yah I legit think anhur is a lot skill intensive.

Heim, anhur, and hou yi are all more skill expressive and intensive gods and I used to be a ullr main.

@@nonomen6665 his axe is easier than baron ramp to root which i find to be an easy ability to hit. in my opinion if you can land that 80 unit snipe more than half the time you can play ullr at close to max efficiency, if you have proper game knowledge as well

He's where he is simply for for fact that 90% of your game play is literally just drop a 'nado and leave. Occasionally you can might hit the slow for extra effect and a poly proc or leave faster woth his movement stim but frankly it's not that necessary. The tornados alone are ridiculous since even just barely touching it once will take like 1/3 to 1/2 of tour health in follow up ticks in you're squishy. The skill level of the Ult is kinda higher I guess but it comes down to practice and prediction or waiting for set-up.

People play like that? I use the nados for pure area denial and lane clear? I’m a kuku main and I assumed he was ranked so low because of his crazy damage lol

yes pls!

Pls

hard agree on this Like, IMO, the easiest mage to play would probaly be something like Scylla or Disco. Both have 2 spammable abilities, both have an escape and both have ults that are pretty easy to understand. If you can hit circles, wich people tend to be able to, you can deal damage as both Scylla and kuku, but if we throw in stuff like positioning and ability to fight back vs dive, scylla suddenly looks much more noob friendly and yea, th skill level thing could be curious aswell. Thats probaly where the Kuku votes come from even: if the enemy doesnt dive well, Kuku is easy as balls, but once you got to worry about a sentient warrior and/ or assassin, things get pretty tough without instant mobility

Out of all the mages I expected Hades to be the easiest. His lane phase is extremely safe and full clears very early in the game, all his abilities are just circles as well, no skill shots, on top of doing lots of damage. doesn't get easier then that

​@@unbiddenisland i agree on laning phase hades, but against any sorta competent enemys, positioning and actually contributing in teamfights besides pressing 4 and getting obliterated is not very easy Is he highskill? Not at fucking all, lmao Is he lower in terms of skill floor then safe mages like scylla or discordia? Nah

Yeah I’m a Kuku main and he can be pretty damn fragile, like you can just walk up and spam nado, you have to spam nado from a distance! Lol

oh most skilled for sure, sometimes you gotta pause when rolling your fingers over the keys to rest and that can leave an opening

Probably about 1/3rd of responders would've thought of him as very hard, another 1/3rd as braindead easy, and then the final 1/3rd at varying points in between.

Meh king arthurs pretty simple just press ability thats not on cooldown, and be ontop of the enemy your targeting, obviously theres a order for cc chaining but you have so much youll figure it out pretty easily

He kind of sits at an average point considering Vamana as lowest

Oh yeah, it’s so hard to spam abilities consistently. That’s such a hard thing to do if anything king Arthur is one of the most brain dead warriors to begin with

Am I missing something, because I thought that AA Kuang was just something brought out in casuals to pubstomp. Unless something changed, ability Ao Kuang is better, and is more skill intensive than AA Ao.

I see it and agree with it Mr Burrito

Most stance based gods also fall into a similar category, it’s essentially an additional kit to learn on top of knowing when to switch stances

Ooooh that's not the only issue. Plenty of issues Trolls purposefully putting wrong numbers, rank of players - a bronze will see one thing way different than diamond or higher, interpreting the question as well - is it easiest/hardest to play mechanically, or macro?, easiest/hardest to win with if they're a low WR, E/H low skills ceiling vs high So many factors But the biggest surprise for me is still Tiamat being that low..not only 3 stance switcher, but a shit ton of unique abilities within the stances. Not like ullr where it's still basically the same, Tiamat has 8 pretty unique skills and targeters and weird mechanics.

Honestly Morri’s ult is not even a major part of her difficulty at all, in my opinion. It’s the other things you listed, the fact that she has to be close to combo you and her escape requires planning to even use. She would still be a difficult god even with some other generic ult. Less difficult, sure, but somewhere up there. I’m a Tia main so not a stranger to more challenging gods but could never quite make friends with Morri.

Insane that anyone didn’t put her at 5

And you can't always turn into damage sometimes u need to turn into a tank so u can get out safe as well

​@@zazollo Completely agree with everything you said. With Tiamat, I feel she has more leeway thanks to her scales and cc that give her more survivability than Morrigan.

​@@derrickmims9169 thats actually what I do most of the time. The only times I turn into a squishy is if they have a strong cc ult that I can reliably hit. If not, I'm not risking it. Otherwise, I find more success sneaking behind the backline and transforming into a god like Gilgamesh or Odin, since that gives my jungler and solo a chance to dive in and use their ults, which I can then follow up with my own base kit.

fair point tbh shes among the safest gods in the game with literally 3 of her 5 abilities+ passive being used almost exclusively as peel tools with one of them just blatantly ignoring some of the strongest ccs in the game

I don't agree at all, awilix has a straightforward kit yes, but it has so much more dept. Without talking about the mechanical skills like being able to react to all kind of knockups with a lot of absurdly short ones and knowing how many autos you can fit in depending on the height before landing the 2, how to space properly around ennemies and use the 2 for immunity, when to use the 1 for engage or to just put it on CD to keep a chase, when to use the ult just as a stim to kill faster rather than to pull someone, and all the mindgames with her 3... She definetly deserves her top 5 spot, ullr or the other side is just pure mechanical skill and good positionning.

I don't see how anyone can play any hunter on controller, let alone Ullr.

she has a low skill floor but an INSANE skill ceiling

@OLExGREG i mostly play hunters on ps4 and i don’t have any issues, i’m not good but i’m a stable mid plat player and i main carry. Ullr is not impossible to play, the only issue is the 3 from far distances in bow stance

She's easy if the enemy isn't playing around you. Awilix is the most obvious "Knowledge Check" character where she becomes less of a problem the more you know how to play against her. The easiest way to stop her from doing anything is by not leaping and facing her. Obviously some gods like Fenrir will have a difficult time fighting her, but even with the basic knowledge of just facing her, she becomes less of a threat.

Id agree that heat management and her ult are a bit difficult but her 2 is unironically some of the most free poke on earth and aslong as you pay a bit of attention, you never die in a 1v1 or even 2v1 with your 3 up

@@hartmann4710 oh definitly ! I agree with you on these parts. But it does requiere a bit of adaptation at the start in my experience.

This.

Nu wa is possibly the worst god in high comp

You also have to get decently close on Nu Wa, who has no escape, to land abilities.

You're just talking about Awilix skill floor. Her flip has immunity frames and her ult is a situational pull and a stim. You need to know when to use them for max effect

@@Droid6689 the skill ceiling is really not that high to click a button when you see a giant moon and to know when someones going to use an ability to immune it…

@louis4809 When to use the stim, not the pull. And deciding when to use the flip for damage or to hold it longer to dodge an ability Also when to use it for range rather than max damage You must not be as "avid" as you let on

His ult and one are pretty tricky to hit in a fight, especially a 1v1. The amount of times I’ve barely whiffed either is insane. If he had any hard CC (or CC beyond a weak slow) I’d understand his ranking, but he was definitely misranked here

amc is not skillful at all, xbal honestly is because a hunters main role is laning and he is a weird laner with fluctuating power spike levels throughout the lane phase because he doesnt have a traditional dmg ability.

also neith's double hit 1 on a single target is skill imo

We don't.

Yeah but to play her and not get nuked every game takes a bit of skill since her skills are so close range

The skill in Mulan is making it 2 your upgraded abilities even or ahead past that you just roll your face on the keyboard and do a bunch of damage. The only skill testing thing you can do is use the 3s immunity frames to dodge certain abilities

That was....something.

you mean automatically winning lane with plants and not caring about dying?

@@switch-e1769 I mean the play gap between new players and experienced. New ones go like 2 and 9 while an experienced dude terrifies an entire lobby.

morrigan has always been a low skill god with a idiotic amount of cope around her. Her 1-3 kit are generally low skill abilities and the cope " Well ackshoeally you have to be able to play every god in the game perfect to play her perfect" Is so ridiculously laughable every time its typed out she wouldn't ever consider turning into half the roster at least and what she transforms into arent skilled gods its something like picking thana and double ulting someone or double hunbatz ulting. She picks whoever has the biggest most annoying and easily applicable button to sway a fight in teamfights or whoever has the best duel god to beat someone in a 1v1 or simply turning into the god the guy is already playing and winning a 1v1 because she mathmatically just gets to use that gods whole kit alongside morris 3 buttons so she should never lose it barring relic diff. The actual only part of skill around the god is her ultimate but not for the actual transformation but managing the cooldown so you dont use it at a bad time and get stuck having to play as a terrible mage in the next teamfight.

Yea I played her only once in bot games and got destroyed, she just feels so clunky and stiff to me for some reason, I will never play her again, her stance switch has got me killed under the tower more than three times lol

@@xuzhang1527 I also tried her against a bot first and I did quite well ... but that's just because bots are dumb as hell - not meant as an offence, I still understand your frustration - and so I got the impression of Tiamat "not being that difficult" ... but my first matches against real players proved me otherwise.

I have like 6 stars on Tia and I also go heavy negative a lot (4/7, 5/9) I feel like she has a decent amount of bad match ups, her clear early game isn’t great, not terrible but will often get out cleared. Plus like what Inter said her play style nearly completely changes with her stance and if you played other characters in a match prior you probably still have their play style in your mind and then Tiamat has mechanics that resemble other gods but then you change stance and she’s completely different and can no longer fit that play style. Ever since bruiser items were removed I feel like a lot of mages and guardians have struggled in solo where they used to be really good or at least passable, ignoring the fact there isn’t a magical solo starter (I guess there’s Tainted but most people feel that’s situational) unless you abuse damaging item effects so much they place a restraining order against you you’re really not gonna do anything in solo other than die as nearly any magical

As a Tia main, one of the main things that makes her difficult is her playstyle is just SO matchup dependent. There’s really no way to just be naturally good at her, you have to learn how to best utilize all of your abilities in every situation and you can only learn that through experience. I just happen to find her super cool and rewarding so that’s why I stuck with it regardless of how bad I was doing, but I understand how others would find her more frustrating than fun.

@@zazollo it’s not even about frustration or anything, I just find her very clunky and unplayable if that makes any sense? Like I’d rather play a mage without any mobility than her, and I thought it was because of her stance switch thing, but then I can do pretty well with that hunter which switch between his bow and axe, but when it comes to timat it’s just not working lol

I think it’s mostly about the positioning of the sand clones, it can be a bit more tricky than most other god’s sets, but yeah I didn’t think is that difficult

Plus Set requires a different mindset than most gods, some people are just built to be set mains lmao

susano is pretty braindead, hold left click and spam abilities. 2 forms of escape and a self peel with a massive knockup

He’s so easy what as long as you know how to auto cancel

@@ryanfield4926 that's what I struggle with lol

@imgonnacream he just doesn't mesh with my playstyle. I think Yemoja is easy because she fits my style so well but Sus is hard

@@ryanfield4926 auto canceling isnt really even a thing to "learn" all you do is hold left click and use abilities and it does it automatically

Well that would make plenty of sense coming from you considering that the account "Meawman" was only plat last season

@@X28X282X legit who is u bro

@@X28X282X also looking at u u went silver last split? god damn talk about the pot calling the kettle black

@@Meaw523 "who is you" not the white guy speaking ebonics

@@X28X282X not the washed up loki 1 trick trying to sound intelligent

terra has one of the higher caps in the game but yeah i mean shes just kinda like a knockup immune blink bot in practice.

Who tf is Nike ? jk but nobody plays her so obviously she won't be ranked top 10 or bottom 10.

Ao plays fairly differently in higher ranks.

He is, and definitely one of the harder hunters to play. I just think top 5 hardest in the game is very overrated. I would put him somewhere more like top 15-20. He is mechanically difficult but doesn't have a complex gameplan or as many decisions to make as someone like Tiamat, Yemoja, Morrigan, etc.

@@Inters3ct I don't even think hes top 3 hardest hunters. He doesn't have skill expression despite rexsi's propaganda campaign ullr is just a poke mage there is not deeper skill to any of the things he does. poke enemies with the 3 or hit a stun and get confirmed dmg. He only aims 2 abilites and its only sometimes his axe and his freehand 3. there is genuinely 0 thinking involved with playing ullr its just try to hit them with all your buttons and run away with your 2. The only reason he's considered hard is because his axe was hard like sylvanus pull 6 years ago and his bow 3 is a smaller circle but you know who else has targeters the same size and is more important for them to hit that we don't consider hard the 3 updowners Bellona, Ravana, Osiris same size targeter and 2 of them don't even get a free stun setup.

I agree with this statement. The Skill ceiling here, is what makes him a whole other beast. Grandmasters make him look S-tier when played to his fullest. While no Grandmaster is out here making neith look S-tier imo.

@@keepaneyeout7364 you can definitely make neith look good in ranked. shes honestly pretty underrated or at least was before the bstone nerfs but they werent that severe so shes probably still good

@@Inters3ct I mean fair u can’t argue with opinions because that’s what they are opinions, I just don’t see morrg is a hard god or even Maui but maybe because I main them and played for 6 plus years so maybe that’s why? Idk I feel like ullr takes more skill in sense of not tunnel visioning, you have to focus one god with full kit to blow them up, plus his bow 3 is a small circle most people can’t hit also he’s a stance changer so that doesn’t help to being noob friendly plus most people that play him don’t even know what his 2 does on both stances or is he also only has four damaging abilities for being a stance changer that isn’t tanky like artio so that doesn’t help noobs either

who would you switch out for those, personally I disagree, serqet/clio feels way more questionable to me.

@unbiddenisland just staying in the same class, is say Thor, Jorm and Artio are higher skilled. Terra and Maui arent easy to play at high level by any means, but i never found their gameplay to be super challenging for rabked match ups in the platinum/ diamond games

@@solcloudchaser4988JORM AND ARTIO WHAT LMAO BOTH ARE 1s

@@ryanfield4926 ???

@@solcloudchaser4988 Hard disagree with you if those are your support options. Jorm and Arito are only played 1 way, W Key and Jorm depending on the team comp hes agaisnt doesnt even have to think about the laner hes against cause they cant actually disrupt him (ex. Tyr). Terra is easily way harder then both of those gods, while yes she also has the option to w key with her 3 and ult being a lare aoe circle, her ability types are much harder to use. Her 3 and wall are both obstacles that you can body block with, these are unconventional and hard to consistently get a body block with, its not always pop these abilities just for damage, you can leave them up to body block or furthe, slow the oponents with your aoe autos. You have much more options of outplay potential. Shes also a healer, so you have to choose wether the cooldowns with then also be used to heal or be aggressive (artio on the other hand ALWAYS has to hit the oponents to heal, again being only a w key god). ON TOP OF THAT, Terras abilities make her knock up immune, so stagering out your abilitys to make sure you always have an option to just use your 2 or 3 just to be knock up immune is very realistic (fighting into xian tian ult is an example). Maui also has a varied play style, while i dont think hes really TOP 10 hardest gods, hes defenitly harder then jorm or artio Thor I agree with, Honeslty set never seemed like a hard god, No way would I ever put him the hardest.

except shiva, hes a -5

Excuses , ullr on console isn't difficult

Ullr can’t hold a candle to Rama on console

Her 3 is unmissable, 2 is definitely very hard to miss, and she has infinite stance switching. Her only difficulty is hitting the 1, which isn’t terribly hard to hit.

hope you mean top ten easiest

@@Shikidiky Maui, Ullr and Awilix are easy as fuck

I genuinely do not see what people find hard about Hel. Please explain what you find hard about her, I'm interested in seeing what it is.

@@nonomen6665 Are you referring to skill ceilings or skill floors? Because the skill floor of gods like Yemoja is really low as well