Teach us how to play Baron Samedi in SMITE 2!

Baron Samedi is a very versatile and interesting god to play, as his abilities mix damage, healing and group control.

Passive - Hysteria: its damage applies hysteria to enemies and when it reaches the maximum value, it reduces the damage you receive, as well as providing healing and mana to allies, through the “Baron's Brew” portion, which can still be thrown at the enemy and generate damage.

Skill 1 - Vivid Gaze: summons two skeleton heads that emit X-shaped rays, generating damage and also reducing strength, intelligence and attack speed on targets with more than 30 hysteria. I like to use it a lot both in direct combat and in group fights.

Skill 2 - Consign Spirits: this skill creates an area in a circle that deals damage to enemies and heals allies. Very important to use to support the team while weakening enemies. When opponents have more than 30 hysteria, the skill also grants buffs to allies.

Skill 3 - Wrap it Up: Throws a snake at an enemy and slows them down. As with the others, if he has more than 30 hysteria, he becomes rooted. Excellent for stopping the advance of enemies or running away.

Ultimate - Life of the Party: Baron Samedi opens his cone-shaped coffin and pulls enemies towards him, dealing damage and stunning. And over 30 hysteria, more intensity. The ultimate is a very strong point, very useful for starting a fight or breaking up enemy formations.

To level up the skills, I always like to prioritize: ultimate - skill 2 - skill 1 - skill 3. I think that this way you strengthen the god well.

The build varies depending on whether you want to do more damage and support or play as a support. For damage, you can't forget items like “shoes of the magi”, “rod of tahuti” and “obsidiar shard”, as well as situational items like “polynomicon”.

To do well, it's important to pay close attention to your positioning in order to apply hysteria to your enemies and maximize the impact of your skills - this is essential! Also make sure that the enemies are at 30 hysteria in order to use the skills and ensure the additional effects, exploit this passive well. Know the right time to use the ultimate, don't waste it. Securing points like these greatly influences the outcome of a battle.

So Baron Samedi will need you a little of time to master it since it's learning curve is a little higher than other gods, but let's make this task a little easier! The special thing about this god is his passive skill, that apply a effect to the enemy he attacks, called Hysteria. Hysteria basically consists in an effect that will make the enemy weak to Baron Samedi and give the options when maxed out to allies gods to buy Baron's Brew.

Now the Baron's Brew is throwable, that will causes magical damages to the enemy god and will apply a good amount of Hysteria!

before we talk about the other abilities remember that the Hysteria will start to drop after a few seconds after you stop damaging the enemy god.

Now about the first skill, the Vivid Gaze, it just throw two skulls in a x shape, dealing magical damage and if the god has some Hysteria applied to them it will give some debuffs as well.

The Consign Spirits, his second skill works like a life steal, since it will deal damage at the same time it will heal you and other gods nearby, but for that heal happen the enemy should have Hysteria applied. And you see what I said that this god ha a steep learning curve, since you always have to be managing the hysteria to be able to have the desire effect.

With Wrap It Up you will summon a snake that will deal magical damage to the enemy by warping them up while slowing them in the process and if have again the right amount of hysteria applied to them this snake will explode at the end of the skill! Remember that this explosion will have a good range and will also apply Mesmerize to close enemies.

Now the Baron Samedi ultra, the Life of the Party, consists in a vortex created by his coffin that will pull every enemy with some amount of Hysteria, while stunning and dealing damage to the gods.

Tips:

How you could see this is a god that will require you extra attention to the passive skill, so it's good to start to play with it as a support since you have some help in the duo lane while you can help him with the Consign Spirits since it will heal it as well, after you get some mastery it will be easy to prove yourself with it in the mid lane, it can make some headache but the great point is his ultra skill.

The time has finally come to talk about the “god of life and death” (I admit that when this god arrived in the game, he was the god of death, so strong was he haha). I like Baron a lot, mainly because of his versatility, I can play with him in mid and support. Let's get to the skills:

Passive - Hysteria: Your damage applies hysteria to opponents, which when at its maximum (70) deals 20% reduced damage to you. In addition, your allies can buy “Baron's Brew”, a potion that recovers life and mana and can be thrown at the enemy to deal damage.

Skill 1 - Vivid Gaze: Summons two skeleton heads that emit rays in the shape of half an X. Applies a reduction in strength, intelligence and attack speed to targets with more than 30 hysteria.

Skill 2 - Consign Spirits: Bursts a circular area that damages enemies and heals allies. On targets with more than 30 hysteria, its healing applies a Speed bonus and immunity to slows.

Skill 3 - Wrap it Up: Throws a snake that will slow down the enemy. On targets with more than 30 hysteria it will root you.

Ultimate - Life of the Party: You open your cone-shaped coffin, pulling opponents towards the baron, dealing damage and stunning them. Targets with more than 30 hysteria are pulled more intensely.

Gameplay:

His God is extremely punishing to opponents in the wrong position, EXPLORE THAT, his ultimate is simply too strong. Your god is complete, he has high damage, healing and crowd control, so you will be focused, you will have to have good positioning.

Use your Vivid Gaze, it's a good poke.

Ability Leveling Order: 4>2>1>3

Build:

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