How to be a more helpful team mate in Smite!

Ever wanted to know how to improve your teamplay, and leave with a satisfied and good feeling even when you lost? Then this guide is just the right place for you. My first ever guide, delivered right to your Shift+Tab menu.

Introduction

Hello! Thank you to everyone who has taken their time out of their day to figure out how to just become a better team mate. There's a lot of guides out there to show you the best builds for hunters, guardians, and mages, so we will not be covering that here.

We will instead be covering how you in times of need can be of help to your team mates. Feel free to leave a comment below if you also have suggestions for other players, and as always, please rate my post, since it's the only thing that keeps me fed at night.

Additionally, please remember that I am in no way a licensed professional smite player and talk purely out of personal experience that I've gathered.

As a guardian!

So, just how can you become better at being a guardian? Guardians are required in almost every game mode, and are therefor also a really important role in the game. Though sometimes not respected as much, they control much of the outer edges of combat like healing, saving, and especially tanking in the first few seconds of a hot pursuit.

Khepri is a great example of a god that can do all of the above. He can even save your team mates, and with just the right timing you will be loved in no time. Key to being a good khepri is ulting right before the potential death of your team mate.

Once you as Khepri, or as any other guardian god, have done your job and your team mates decide to run in and kill themselves, it's of upmost importance that you take all responsability for their actions - because we all know who truly was the person that ran in, it was you, you monster.

However, if you're more of an aggressive guardian, it's advised that *you* instead of your team attack -- without any of your team around, of course, and in turn blame them and have them take all responsability for your actions.

As any other role!

So how about those other roles? I mean, as a guardian it's easy, you just help out your team mates by killing them in the process on purpose. We should never forget though, that Guardians aren't the only roles in the game. It's 2017 guys, come on.

All the other roles have one major thing in common; they will all blame everyone else before themselves. This is key to becoming a better and more professional Smite player. Once you've decided to run in and tower dive when your team is returning back to base, or spend your time in the jungle as your titan is under attack it's key that you first try to blame the guardian (most effective when the guardian is Khepri, who at all times must be at every place in the map to babysit you.)

If that fails, the next way to improve your skill level and that of your team mates is to tower dive again, and when the guardian fails to rescue you in your times of desperate needs, you should spam the chat with negative remarks about someone's mother.

Tip! If the 10 minute mark has not been reached, it's time that you tell other players to get good, and remove their ability to become better by screaming "F6 at 10", and flame even more and harder at anyone who has the experience to see that the game is still winnable.

Another tip! Threaten your team that you will leave the game at all times, but never actually leave. Play hockey in spawn to increase your experience with dodging tower shots the next time you attempt to bravely run in to kill yourself.

Now what about after the game ends? Clearly it wasn't your fault, you did all you could, and the guardian is there to save you at all times, right? Well, then it's time to critically but with love for the team spirit explain to the guardian how to improve his next gameplay by making comments along the lines of "never play again", "uninstall the game", and of course; my personal favorite: "reported for feeding" (this one works especially great when nobody has fed, since it re-inforces their motivation never to feed again)

Obviously you should distance yourself from anything you may have done wrong, because as a professional smite player, you would know by now - that you are the one and only, the only thing that kept you from winning was your team, who clearly is far inferior.

Character Selection!

Character selection is simple, and should be kept as such. Once you've joined any lobby (e,g Conquest, or Ranked Conquest), you pick the guy you feel you're best at and lock yourself in. Your team needs the character you are best at, so you shouldn't have to think much about anyone else in the process.

If anyone in any case selects the character you're best at, it's best to tell them to switch. People who say they will pick a character are clearly not as good or driven to play the given character, or help the team, as someone who's excited enough to quickly pick it.

Here's a list of character selection messages people may put in chat, and the translation or meaning behind them (you are not suppose to acknowledge these, as they are simply just comments):

• ADC - Translation: I'm fine with any character. "I don't care."
  
• MID - Translation: I'd like to be in the middle of the fights, not behind them.
  
• Sup - Support; I'm here to watch you trying to fight people.
  
• Jungle - Probably as obvious as it sounds; looking at the jungle from outside of the jungle.

People who place these messages in chat are to be avoided as they clearly are willing to ruin the game for you, and these codewords are an indicator that they may be a troll.

So what if you die, and it isn't your fault?

Just remember guys, if you died, it's your team's fault. To alleviate yourself of that feel-bad death it's advised to think about the following:

• 1. Did those ♥♥♥♥♥ call missing or what?
  
• 2. If they did call missing, do they ever ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gank?
  
• 3. If they do gank, are they worse than you at the game?
  
• 4. If they are worse at you at the game, have you insulted them yet?

You can place beacons to inform your team mates where you have died. In fact, you can do this many times, a few dozen times to be exact, this way your team is more able to triangulate the possible position of the enemies.

As an addition to placing beacons to triangulate the cooardinates of enemies, you could also repeat VVA in order to let your team know that it was okay that you died - that they shouldn't have to feel bad. Telling them VER if someone is nearby let's them know that they are doing fine, that there's nothing to worry about.

Tip! The best way to deal with a loss or a death is to report the person you feel is responsible for it.

Catchy compliments for you and your team!

Motivation and cheering is what life is all about, and since you are probably too busy winning every single game you play in except those pescy team games, I've compiled a bunch of frequently used compliments (used by real motivational speakers, so trust me guys, they work) you could use to further motivate your team!

• F6 at 10 pls
  
• VVGG, VER, VVX
  
• omg its over
  
• ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gank you moron
  
• why are u defending titan when im in jungle??
  
• feeder
  
• reported
  
• repoted
  
• cyyyykkaaa blyaaat
  
• jajaajajajajaja espanol lalalalala

Conclusions

• Casual games should be taken just as serious as the moral struggle of whether a plane with two people is just as important to save as a plane with fifty people, because they are not made to practice, or to play without the need of playing perfectly - I mean, new players shouldn't even play the game. We all know this.
  
• Never forget that even if you are ahead in kills, gold, and are a late game team, you have lost - practice and persistency does not make perfect, your mother is a ♥♥♥♥♥, and you should uninstall the game.

[Achillea]

I feel like some people got hard wooshed here. completely missed the fucking joke.

[鬼Shadiclink神]

so sorry for laughing at your struggles man XD this too real XDXDXD

[鬼Shadiclink神]

Best smite guide ever.

[province]

You forgot the best advice for a guardian! Make sure to gank 1vs3 in Joust when the enemies all have full health!

[Nuggs]

You have to remember to also critique a new player after they typed in chat that they are new cause you telling them that they suck is just as good as someone telling them how to play

ur mom gey lol

[Toxic but really Bad]

You're gettng it!

[AraidenFreudianHarpy]

Another thing to remember: if you die and Aphrodite is in your team- it is her fault, so be sure to air your views on her skill or lack thereof. Also, if you don't die and Aphrodite is on your team, call her a noob anyway, to really up her motivation to heal you.

[ONE TAP MAN]

cabrakan damage turns into ca-broken

[shkulyevich]

You made a fatal mistake with guardians dude, you are supposed to go full damage and just destroy people with it. That's my secret to getting 20/1/10 Ymir on Joust

[yomo]

Unfortunate. I thought this was a legitimate guide.