Mulan- Aspect of Victory

Passive: The flag from her passive now has double range. Allies standing in the flag radius gain 10 prots, 10 strength, and 10 intelligence.

Ability 1- reduced damage dealt. Extra hit from mastery shreds 5 protections.

Ability 2- reduced damage dealt. Healing on the second hit it's given to allies in addition to yourself.

Ability 3- this ability no longer takes you to the enemies location, instead it stuns and marks the enemy. Allies move 10% faster toward a marked enemy.

Ability 4- reduce damage dealt and remove the root. Allies in the dash radius are healed 5% of your max HP. Hitting an enemy with the arrow now provides a shield to nearby allies.

Yes this would struggle massively because teammates still won't place wards, but at least with her on your team you might see someone ward.

Theia, Greek goddess of sight and vision

Role: Support

Damage: magical

Auto Attacks: Melee

Passive:

When enemies are pings by wards, gain a 10% speed buff for 3s. This is reset each time an enemy is pinged by a ward.

You gain a free sentry ward every 180s.

Ability 1 - Sight is power

Place a ward that can be seen by the enemy team. Enemies in its radius are slowed 20% and lose prots scaling

2/4/6/8/10. Only one can be placed on the map at a time.

Cool down 12s

Ability 2 - I See You

All wards release a pulse that roots and damages enemies in its radius. This also gives allies in the ward radius a heal equal to damage dealt

Damage 10/20/35/50/65 + 5% int

Cooldown 13s

Ability 3 - Now you see me

Leap. At your original location leave a temporary ward lasting 3s. This ward acts like a regular ward for its duration. When the ward expires a blind will happen in radius around you and your ward.

Damage on leap: 50/ 75/ 100/ 125/ 150 + 20% int

Damage on blind: 50/ 100/ 150/ 200/ 250 + 20% int.

Blind duration 1s.

Ability 4 - Divine Light

You reveal the entire map for 5s. All allies game 10% movement speed. And all enemy wards are comondeered for your team for 10s. Giving you vision where they placed wards and removing thier vision.

This made me feel like a bully but I had to.

1. Before you jump into Smite 2 I recommend watching a couple guides on the general gameplay.

2. Leave auto build on for a while. The item store is hard to get used to. When you first start building your own, put together the build before the game and follow it to get used to the store. Then you can start to learn counter building. Dont try to learn it all at once.

3. Pick a God for each role and practice them to get used to the mechanics of the game as a whole. Then branch out. Playing a lot of gods and understanding their kits will help you know what you like and how to play against each of them.

4. Use assault or arena to learn new God's abilities without needing to have the same level of map awareness as other modes.

5. This is a big one. Mute other players quickly. It's not worth the back and forth banter. Its easy to get sucked into an insult competition or to get a feeling that you have to prove yourself to your team. Both of these can distract you and make you play worse. If someone bothers you, mute and keep playing.

Design a MOTD:

Although there aren't modes of the day in game yet, they used to put a lot of love into those. I think it would be fun to see what the community thinks would make good modes of the day in smite 2.

I would give Smite 2 a 5/7 in its current state. I want to give it a flying colors review, but there are a few issues that really make that difficult. Let's start with the pros:

1. You can build however you want to. Having freedom in item builds is super fun and let's me do stupid and fun play styles.

2. Consistent updates keeps the game fresh and moving forward.

3. All the gods from smite 1 feel the same with improvements that give them a fresh edge and has even made me enjoy gods I never really liked before.

4. Aspects are a huge boost to the game to allow more counter play and strategy in picking phase.

But there are some serious cons right now so let's look at those:

1. This games balance is already in complete disarray and new God's being added weekly makes that worse. They just keep pushing out new stuff and almost every new god throws off the balance somehow. Certain picks can win games without knowing how to play them.

2. Item freedom leads to complete lack of knowledge on how to build. New players really struggle to understand how to build and why and the auto builds can't keep up with balance changes.

3. New players have a harder time understanding what type of damage enemies deal. With the strength and intelligence stat being your power increase you don't know what kind of prots to build unless you already know the gods list and who does what. Or you check your damage report and understand the symbols.

4. And of course it's an online multiplayer game so you have to mention toxicity, however I think the chat filter is a bigger issues than toxic players. Right now toxic players just berate you over voice chat so there isn't a written record to report. And with chat filtered I can't type to give recommendations or help without it blocking most things.

All in all. You should play smite 2. It is constantly growing, and the balance will eventually be better as they constantly update. It's a fun game and worth getting a group together to try to learn.