Tips & Tricks To DOMINATE Assault In SMITE! 

finally some words about smite's most important mode

- 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.

Assault mains rise up to celebrate the obvious defacto best game mode in smite. About time it gets some love lol

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.

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.

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

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 feel like the reason people don’t realize sentinels value is because they think “when an enemy dies” only applies to enemy gods

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!

Suprsied you didn't mentioning dying to towers after you wipe to deny the enemy team shutdown bounties.

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.

Best game mode, been 95 percent of the smite I’ve played since probly season 6

Tainted steel is also a really broken starter item

I love assault at the moment it’s fun when conquest gets too toxic for the day

T1 Earing is my go to mp5 item. I normally dont get anything more than the t1 unless i am going for spikes later

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.

I could be wrong but I dont think you have posted your assault tier list video in the description.

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.

You forgot never ruin the jump party at the start. So many people do this

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.

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.

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

Thx for this!! Assault is the only mode that doesn't bore me anymore.

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

A slash guide would be very cool

How can i get your UI

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

Big tip Prophetics cloak can stack pretty fast if u have contagion mystical works as well but contagion is better. Dot dmg items too

As an assault main, THANK YOU!!

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

Assault main here love the vid

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.

Compassion is pretty good for late game fights against high magic damage

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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”.

Assault is my favorite gm in the game. Thanks! Also, Loki and Arachne are GREAT in Assault btw.

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^^

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

Who thinks that assault needs a change, map design..

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.

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.

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.

New God: any of the monsters from Evolve. PERFECT crossover, the destroyers of Shear would be an excellent addition to this game.

I would have mentionned the detail of trying to suicide without giving any kill credit by towers/pheonixes. Satisfying to do yo

Surely war flag and talisman is the most goated build when you have 2+aa gods

As an Assault main, i support this

Tip , don’t ever re roll Zues

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.

Personally the most fun game mode

Assault really be the 1

bro assault is the only mode that people play for fun, at least mention that assault isnt about winning but about actually enjoyiung smite

Damn it I hoped Boon would keep under the radar so I can keep just getting my free healing :P

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?

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

Build Ao full tank, that thing is unkillable and can solo an entire team.

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

I'm a simple man; I see Assault content, I press like.

No mage no win, pretty much every assualt game.

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.

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.

The best teamcomp is 3 Guardias and 2 ADCs

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.

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

ah yes, the classic losing a winning assault game because the team staggers too hard

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

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.

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.

They should make re rolls free there is no point to have it cost favor

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!

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.

As a guy who made jump parties and buying sov+hw popular I like this video😁

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.

OMG OMG its happening loooooool

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.

People gotta stop rr Frontline lok

How did you not mention stone of Gia its the strongest item in assault

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.

i mostly play smite because i don’t have all the gods lol

Noooo why would you post this. I roll games on tank once I get sentinels boon. Now others will do it 😢

You're not wronh TANKS ARE KING 5 tanks vs 5 damage they'll usually win

Stone of Gaia should be an auto buy on literally any tank at level 1. The sustain for both resources is ridiculous.

Stone of Gaia Wins me the early game every time

People here giving their tips to a gamemode based on luck

I will RR a guardian and warrior in a heartbeat. If no one trades. They are no fun what so ever.

assult is so fun, less sweats. so go away intersect your ruining it.

Nu Wa runs this game mode. No other god comes close, with ah puach second.

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.

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

Ward tp is insanely op if used correctly by a warrior or a assassin