Explain how strength and intelligence work in SMITE 2!

Strength is typically associated with gods who focus on physical damage. Most of their abilities and basic attacks scale with Strength, which boosts the effectiveness of their physical-based skills.

Intelligence applies primarily to gods dealing magical damage, and their abilities scale accordingly with this stat.

The key difference in SMITE 2 is that basic attacks for all gods scale off both Strength and Intelligence, but with different ratios (i think is 100% of Strength and 20% of Intelligence, but i am not 100% sure)​.

Some abilities also scale off a mix of both stats, creating hybrid scaling where players can experiment with different builds depending on the god. For example, gods like Sol might benefit from building both Strength and Intelligence to maximize certain abilities.

This mechanics opens up more flexibility and creativity in how you build and play each god.

Strength and intelligence are very important in Smite 2. They differ greatly from Smite 1, making it more complex to build characters. They are very important for generating a good performance from the gods during battles in the game. Let's talk about each one now:

Strength: This is responsible for guaranteeing the character's physical damage, and is usually associated with characters who don't have skills focused on magic damage. Gods who use melee attacks, such as warriors or assassins, are the ones who benefit the most, gaining some benefits such as increased physical damage, scaled damage in skills and increased physical resistance

• Increased Physical Damage: Increases the damage of basic attacks and physical abilities.

• Scaled damage: Certain skills are scaled based on a percentage of strength. Thus, the higher the strength, the stronger the skill.

• Physical Resistance: Increases resistance to physical damage, literally that!

Intelligence: This is normally used to increase magical power and is the best option for classes such as sorcerers, mages and god supports with magic-based attacks. Intelligence will confer some benefits such as increased magic damage, more mana and regeneration and reduced recharge time

• Increased Magic Damage: More intelligence means more magic damage for skills.

• More Mana and Regeneration: It provides greater mana capacity and increases regeneration rates, something perfect for mages!

• Reduced Recharge Time: Intelligence reduces the recharge time for skills, which, in simple terms, allows gods to cast spells more often.

Although most gods in SMITE 2 focus on strength or intelligence, depending on the god's function, some hybrids can also appear. For example, some warriors or guardians are able to increase both their physical power - which can be based on strength - and magical power, which can be based on intelligence, depending on the choices of items for flexibility in battle.

It's a question of balancing strength and intelligence, depending on the role of the God and the style of play.

In SMITE 2, the concepts of strength (STR) and intelligence (INT) are very important if you want to understand how much damage the gods do. All gods cause physical or magical damage, and you will influence this damage according to the attributes you acquire.

Strength, in general, increases physical damage and that of the skills that scale with it, as well as improving your auto-attack (Here it should be explained that auto-attack is made up of 100% strength and 20% intelligence, so that champions who focus on intelligence still have an impact with their auto-attack, albeit lower), while intelligence amplifies the magical damage of the skills that scale with it. That's the basic definition you need to have.

As I've explained how strength and intelligence will influence damage, I think it's important to understand how to defend against both. You build physical protection to defend yourself from strength and you will build magical protection to protect yourself from those dependent on intelligence.

Ultimately, any confusion around the strength and intelligence is people being confused as to why Sol, a magical character, isn't doing physical damage if she builds crit, and so on.

The change from Smite 1 to 2 is pretty simple. Physical was changed to STR, Magical was changed to INT, however, now there is no restrictions on the type of damage each character can pick, but the output of the damage is always the same as the god's damage type, not the item's stats.

That means a full STR/Crit Ymir or Sol will be doing magical damage and you should buy magic defense, same with Cernunnos building full INT!

However, all basics so far (wtih the exception of Mordred) are scaled at 100% STR and 20% INT, so take that into account!

Remember to familiarize yourself with the damage types of all the gods, what they're building isn't irrelevant per say, but it helps to know what protections to build!

Strength vs Intelligence "int"

Strength and int are the two ways to increase your dmg dealt.
first off every gods auto attacks scales of 100% of the strength you build and 20% of the intellegence you build. If you are wanting to really buff up your auto attacks you want prioritize strength.

Abilities are different, each ability can scale differently so make sure to check how the ability scales before purchasing items. Some will scale soley on strength or int and sometimes both.

On the defensive side of things, build physical protection to guard against strength and magical to guard against int.