New Player

[Kiro]

Hello
I would like to ask how a new person can start their adventure with the game Smite.
I've downloaded it and I'm thrilled that the mob can be from TPS view, it's a very enjoyable game however as a new player it's hard for me.
When I enter a queue I run into experienced players and I keep getting destroyed ending up with stats of 1/10.
So I would like to ask you, how to learn how to play Smite without being hit by others all the time and have fun with the game.
I like the game and I would like to have fun with it.
Maybe you have some advice for a newbie?

[Jack mg shen dzu]

Play all the tutorials, extremely boring but quite helpful for a total beginner.

Also watching a couple videos / streams could help a bit.

Generally you only have to make more practice.

[iExiiT[GER]]

as a new player you nromaly should have botmatches first before getting into real players (i mean if you q not the mode) ...

but to be fair, playing against experienced players is the best way to learn, i mean sure it can suck to get totaly destroyd but you also will learn much more from it ^^
also you could try to find others to play with, with discord and voice it would be even better, they can help you and give you some tips

[Echo NO Aim]

Watch some YouTube video guides on specific gods you want to play.
I know it's a bit annoying to watch instead of playing yourself but this really prevents you from getting griefed and flamed. Inform yourself about how to play before playing online instead of learning by doing first.

[Seth]

playing vs AI will help you as well .when i want to test new things i do it vs AI

[【ボス B o s s】]

Do the tutorials.
Understand the 5 different roles (adc, support, jungler, top and mid) and which characters are what role.
Mute your teammates (95% of the time they'll flame you.)
Practice bot matches (especially if learning a new character.)
Once you get the hang of things, give Arena or Assault a try.
Only play main game modes like Conquest and Joust once you have a decent understanding of how to play the game and the characters.

[MapleShroud]

I recommend you mute your team for a while if youre new thanks to smite matchmaking youre likely playing with people who either A: Are also new or B: have been playing this game for half a decade. muting will allow you to strictly focus on the game without getting your screen clogged with vgs spam/paragraphs of angry-stubborn people. Its honestly i tip i tell to anyone i know whos trying to start playing smite. Just passing it along

[【ボス B o s s】]

Originally posted by MapleShroud:

I recommend you mute your team for a while if youre new thanks to smite matchmaking youre likely playing with people who either A: Are also new or B: have been playing this game for half a decade. muting will allow you to strictly focus on the game without getting your screen clogged with vgs spam/paragraphs of angry-stubborn people. Its honestly i tip i tell to anyone i know whos trying to start playing smite. Just passing it along

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW68goC4_es
Absolutely spot on. I'm ashamed to admit i forgot this crucial point.

[John]

Information regarding PvE and bots

-General information:
When practicing against bots, knowing your lanes is very important. In pvp you can use plenty of other chars in other lanes, there are a few mages who can function rather well for solo lane (Tiamat for instance) or someone like Aphrodite or Hel can function pretty well as support. Or an Osiris who is for some reason, an amazing jungler.

-Bot role order:
However, even though you can select what role you play as, bots don't care about what role you choose, only what kind of character you have. If you pick Medusa and designate yourself for the solo lane, bots don't care, you are Medusa so you are a hunter, and hunter = carry. Bots will always pick a missing role in order, the order goes as followed:
1- Support (guardian)
2- Jungler (assassin)
3- Mid (mage)
4- Carry (hunter)
5- Solo (warrior)
So if you pick an assassin, the bots see you as a jungler and will pick (if 4 bots are present) the other 4 roles. (this by the way, goes for any game mode, including the ones with less players)

-Messing with the bot role order:
When you do pve you can see, in the lobby, next to the chat how many people are in there. If it's 1, it means it's just you, if it's 2 it means there is someone else. This is important, this means you can play with the order a bit.
Let's say your teammate is going for mid lane and chooses a mage. Now mid is in use and you can still choose your character, because there are only 3 bots now, you can choose more options if you choose solo lane. It doesn't matter if you choose a warrior or a mage for solo lane now. If you do so, the bots see you as a mid laner and the bots will choose the following jobs in order of availability, 1, 2 and 4, meaning 5 is open and you can just take it as a second mage.
The more people, the more you can play with the order.

-People quitting mid game:
This is thankfully not as frustrating as it is in pvp, if one of your teammates quits a bot on the opposing team will quit as well. There is a downside, cause the game doesn't check what character or role just disconnected. It simply uses the bot role order list backwards:
1- Solo
2- Carry
3- Mid
4- Jungler
5- Support

So if your carry quits, the bots solo will be gone first. At this point it might be better for someone, if it can be done, to help in the left lane.

-Difficulty:
Depending on difficulty you can encounter different bots (why i have no clue, it's not like their AI's are any different), but bots also become stronger. The bots in your team are always the same strength, no matter the difficulty. Enemy bots are very different.
Easy: Enemy bots get debuffs, they seem to take more damage and deal less.
Medium: The base bot
Hard: They take less damage, have more cooldown reduction, more Crowd control reduction, get more gold, get more exp and probably some other things i missed.

This is pretty much the important information regarding bots, hope it's useful in some way.

[MeowMix CatFood]

-Don't fight, farm. This is tough because all the other noobs and even seemingly experienced players play aggressively. But, this is a farming game. If you are the better farmer, then you win the fighting parts at the end of each match.

-Ask streamers about builds and things you're trying to learn. Don't ask the busy streamers, ask the ones who don't have a lot of viewers and are eager to chat.

-Look at enemy builds. This will explain a lot about why they are either hurting you or not taking damage from you.

A lot of the other stuff just comes from observation. Pay attention to what happens and why it happens. Oh, and play a lot of bot matches so you can experiment.

[Papa Bear]

I'm also new and have been trying to learn with bots. From what I can tell, the AI enemy bots and your AI teammates must have been programmed by different folks. On Joust hard, my AI teammatess always go 0-13 or something equally poor. I don't really understand how that is supposed to promote learning to play in a group when my AI teammates just feed the other team easy kills.

[John]

Originally posted by Papa Bear:

I'm also new and have been trying to learn with bots. From what I can tell, the AI enemy bots and your AI teammates must have been programmed by different folks. On Joust hard, my AI teammatess always go 0-13 or something equally poor. I don't really understand how that is supposed to promote learning to play in a group when my AI teammates just feed the other team easy kills.

I quote myself here:

Originally posted by John:

-Difficulty:
Depending on difficulty you can encounter different bots (why i have no clue, it's not like their AI's are any different), but bots also become stronger. The bots in your team are always the same strength, no matter the difficulty. Enemy bots are very different.
Easy: Enemy bots get debuffs, they seem to take more damage and deal less.
Medium: The base bot
Hard: They take less damage, have more cooldown reduction, more Crowd control reduction, get more gold, get more exp and probably some other things i missed.