Smite Joust , Duel , Arena (The Meta Of tommorow)

[devlos]

Hello there im Kaichon , a veteran Player of smite , having over 3k hours 1,6k in steam and around 1.4k outside the steam client Smite Standalone , i always had something in mind and to tell to the audience and players about how i feel about those gamemodes Ranked as Casual.

My Ranks

Conquest:Platinum 2
Joust:Platinum 4
Duel: Diamond 5

Explaining that these game modes are nothing more then One sided , Dull and require no strategy , to get a High chance to win.

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Let's start with Joust

Joust in my Opinion is not the worst or the best , Most joust game consist of a Awilix , Nox , This is particular since te map is so small , It's easy to pull of a Ult on awilix you cant leap out , When you lose a fight , The nox will silence you whenever your close to the ground forcing you to use Beads , leaving you vurnable to a awilix ult all the time , I only see nox in this gamemode well n the silence the small map the area taken to silence , picks up the whole lane almost Making it easy to silence out and win a teamfight , Especially when they have odin using that combo you can't leap out she will ult you and silenced within a cage , The only thing you need to do in that particular situation is use your beads if you still have them when the poke was used early , You Will lose the teamfight whatsoever

The answer to this is simple get CC , high area crowd control , with a Reasonable amount of damage and you can pick them off like chickens , and you will win easily , by the means of that you will get ahead particular levels , get fed and win the game.

That's the only thing you need to do in casual.

This was the Casual Joust Review

Now let's go to ranked

Ranked will consist of the same gods , if you dont ban them , Anyone who can pull of early High CC , will be picked But you can't ban them all.

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Now Arena

Arena , Same problem Get Odin , any high Area damage Nox , high CC , and maybe a pretty Tanky/huge Damage guardian Example:Bachus , Perfect combo , all you need to do Is Trap 2/5 In a cage , Pick them off and boom you have free tickets , Also To Secure it There will Most of the time be a hades , or any kind High Arena , High CC god Artemis , Zeus It's all so Easy because the map is pretty small.

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Ranked Duel

Oh god , I remember playing in gold 1 , and now im In diamond division on duel , 90% of the time you get matched against a ADC , and in Particular a Ah muzen Cab , Hou yi or a Ullr , Just Because Duel consist of Being in Lane for a period of time keeping your mana Usage low Securing your farm and camps , A ADC auto attacks are th best method to poke or be in a teamfight , Get this with a Huge amount of Lifesteal Early And the sustain will just Wash away that Poke you got from any mage or god , like nothing happend

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By Saying this The META Needs to Change i Hope they will do something about it

These Modes are nothing more then Braindeath Auto-Click combo fights.


PS: i Was In a Rush to write this out , so Spelling or any other kind of mistakes while writing I Apoligize for it.

[EmethSAS]

Unfortunately HiRez doesn't balance for these modes at all, so we're not likely to see this really change anytime soon. Also, if you're trying to get them to do something about it, you really should go talk about this at forums.smitegame.com or on the Smite subreddit as no-one from HiRez really pays attention to the Steam forums. I'm just a community-volunteer Mod, as are the other Mods here.

[Black_Knight]

What I like about Arena that even the most stupid teamup can work if you got the right teamplay and the meta is worth nothing, making the game really casual and stress-relieving even if you lose, but at the same time can be stressful on those close games when both teams are great, making it really fun. Changing it would kind of ruin the mode in my opinion.

[b0nehead]

ALl i play is assault. Dont care about ranks as there are none. Been playing for years now and id be a decked out Admiral in nano league if it existed.

That game mode will never be balanced and neither will any other except for boring old conquest because every single company needs to compete with dota and LOL. I dont personally enjoy watching awkward kids compete at this supposed high level, but this is the direction hirez is going for some time now, and there seems to be people that like it...i guess. So who am i to judge/

Thus you have your current system.

[DeadFish]

i only play arena for the most parts, and while the metas are annoying, they are so familiar that workarounds are possible, as apposed to the constantly changing metas that ensue due to attempted balancing which never 100% works and thus still gives certain characters advantages.

long story short i'd rather deal with odin and zeus every match than whatever gods win the patch roulette for the month.