Every god in SMITE 2 has a couple of roles they excel in, or a build that is widely considered to be the absolute best for their kit. However, SMITE 2 allows for much more flexibility than the first game did, so we want you to get creative and think outside the box here.
Choose any SMITE 2 god and create an unorthodox - but importantly, a still viable - build for them. Explain how the build works, tips and tricks for using it, and how you came up with it. Don't just throw together random items with no synergy, and if you can show us a screenshot or video of you using the build yourself in-game, you'll get bonus points!
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swifty1/30/2025
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Cooldown Geb Aspect Build
Reasoning:
With the release of Aspects in SMITE 2, different playstyles have been made possible for different Gods. Generally, Geb is played as a peel/engage support looking for big engages with blink ults and peeling for carries in the backline.
However, Geb's aspect allows him to spec into a more warrior style gameplan with more damage in exchange for a reduction in his CC. His Aspect - Aspect of Calamity changes his Shock Wave (2) ability. Instead of dealing damage in a cone in front of him and knocking enemies into the air, it deals damage in a much larger radius around him AND reduces it's cooldown by 0.5 seconds for each enemy hit.
The cooldown reduction is what makes this build possible, if maximising how many targets your 2 hits, it is possible to cast your 2 every 3 seconds late game meaning enemy carries need to be much more cognizant of your dive capabilities.
The Builds:
There are 2 different builds you can try with this new aspect, the first of which is a full intelligence CD build that focuses on using the Staff of Myrriden active to instantly reset the cooldown of your 2 for a double cast in an attempt to one-shot any carries hit by your full combo. This build provides some protections in the form of Breastplate and Prophetic Cloak, which both provide some cooldown which is the most essential stat in this build. Your 2 sits around an 8 second cooldown with this build, if you hit all 5 enemy gods + any neutral minions or camps - your 2 cooldown will be halved resulting in incredible damage with soul reaver procs (as Geb base damage is not that high).
Full Intelligence Geb Build: Sands of Time, Chronos Pendant, Breastplate of Valor, Prophetic Cloak, Soul Reaver, Gem of Focus, Staff of Myrriden
The other build that can be viable with this aspect is more of a solo lane warrior focused build:
Geb CD Tank Build: Warrior's Axe, Prophetic Cloak, Stone of Binding, Hussar's Wings, Gladiator Shield, Breastplate of Valor and Genji's Guard.
While this build does not have as much raw damage, it makes up for it in terms of protections and tankiness. This version of the build has the same game plan, but is just focused on more sustained damage and harrasment of the backline carries instead of one-shotting them. This will allow you to frontline effectively, engage effectively and just be a general nuisance for the enemy team. Late game scaling on this build is very good as double guardian frontline can be extremely difficult to kill for some compositions.
Trying these new Geb builds have been incredibly fun for me, in SMITE 1, Geb was one of my least played characters as I am not a support player. However, with the release of his Aspect, his flexibility in other roles can be easily explored without being accused of trolling by your teammates!
GABOSER4/13/2025
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Cernunnos Lifesteal/Criticals
I use this build just for fun. It really works with any ADC, but it's better with Cernunos because of his extra lifesteal with his first ability. Also, if you need a little penetration, you can switch to the red stance or slow him down with the blue stance.
With this build, you can heal your entire life with about 5 or 6 basic hits. Besides, your basic hits aren't going to be bad; they deal between 400 and 500 damage to someone not wearing protection. And if you don't believe me, here's the proof.
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Empen4/8/2025
Won$5
This is a build I genuinely love going, it's funny, it's low-key kinda effective, and it makes an otherwise old and sluggish feeling god into one that kinda feels APM-heavy!
It looks a bit goofy, but this is a build for full cooldown Odin!
It's viable for both jungle and solo, but if you go solo I'd swap the last two items for Breastplate and Genjis, maybe. Walking through the build, in order:
Triton's Conch: It has good stats for the cost. This item itself packs a whole lot of hybrid stats and a good chunk of health, as you'll still need some survivability if you're leaping in with bird bombs. If you want to go full glass cannon, build Jotunns or Book of Thoth or Transcendence here instead.
Chronos Pendant: This is the funny. While the passive it has is technically less effective when you're stacking a bunch of CD, it can get a lot of value while we're giga spamming our abilities.
Gem of Focus & Tekko Kagi: Lots of movement speed. You'll be zooming. These also provide a huge amount of CD.
Soul Gem: CD and sustain, and you'll be proccing it often with how high your CD is.
Cosmic Devourer: You have a lot of mana issues with this build, so you can build an Oracle Staff earlier on in your build and eventually make that item into Cosmic Devourer. It provides 20CD, mana & mana regen, and a big chunk of INT.
Why intelligence? Odin's 3 pulses have a 120% INT scaling (60% for each hit). This is much more than most mages get on anything. In addition, your shield health scales with intelligence, which makes you surprisingly tanky so long as you keep moving with your high movement speed.
Max your 3 first, then your 2, with only 1 point in your ultimate, and early on or when you aren't specifically looking for a quick, bursty trade, but to play an extended fight, use your 3 with 1 pulse only. Most people don't know this, but Odin's 3 both gives attack speed, but also refunds half of the ability cooldown if you throw your spear after only 1 pulse. With one or two cooldown items, this gets your 3 down to a 2.5-3 second cooldown. You can spam the ever loving crap out of it, which is great when you're looking to brawl, especially so when you're in a long winded engagement.
Pros
Lots of fun
Tons of damage
Really funny when you're casting your Lunge, Shield, and 3 on a 2-3 second cooldown or lower
Tanks have a hard time killing you because they can't outdamage your shield or keep up with your frequent leaps
Amazing jungle clear & roams fast as hell
Cons
Mana hungry
Squishy and no pen (not great for this current tank meta, but great at focussing down squishies) (You can totally substitute something for pen if you need it though- Tritons Conch is probably the most cuttable item)
you gotta play odin for it (idk why some people dislike odin)
Anyways, if you try it, have fun- I wouldn't suggest running it in ranked until you're comfortable with it, though!
Ghorthan3/27/2025
In this video I tried a Build of 90 on cooldown reduction and inteligence for damage whit a Merlin, last God of Smite 2
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This is the complete build : Pendulum of the ages, Spear of desolation, Chronos' Pendant, Gem of focus, Staff of Myrddin, Soul Gem and The Cosmic Horror
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Loki3/6/2025
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This is my unorthodox build in smite 2
Anubis' full critical build for the ADC role
Critical chance is the strongest build in Smite 2 thats why adc role and hunters are the best in the game and they have the higest
win rate in the game, so Icame up with an idea of playing anubis crit and it worked so good
This build is fun, a mix of attack speed and critical chance items. You can play it on the duo lane.
And you will dominate all you need is to stun your enemy with your second ability, and melt him with basic attacks, and you still have intelligence for your abilities.
You can play it in normal conquest with your friends and have fun, and you can play with this build in conquest ranked if you are not on high rank like master to deity
But in low rank, you will get so many kills with this build, and with a good team, you will win the game.