100% I feel like midguardian is just better... not sure why they nerfed nemian lmao

He'll most likely be better this current patch, but keep in mind that items like phoenix shield aren't really getting touched, outside of like 50 health nerf... and, items like abyssal stone might make him good in a different way.

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That build is pretty solid. I'd probably stay away from manticore spikes on Achilles as the only cc you get benefit from is your 1st ability but you can still make it work. Currently, the go to generally build for Achilles would be: infused sigil, shifters shield, archdruids, glad shield/oni hunters garb, mantle of discord/spirit robe, and probably last item would be jotunns. There are a lot of good items to build on tanks so you can interchange a lot of items, but I think the items I listed above are almost always good to go every game; some items are better to go then others depending on the enemies team comp as well as yours. I go over almost all the items that are good for every class in my "meta builds update" video for 11.7 if you want a more in depth explanation on builds and items!

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Any god that has a lot of abilites or spams out abilities like ix chel, soulreaver is good to buy. Gods that don't work well with soul reaver imo would be gods like sol and olorun for example. If you have more questions, be sure to join the discord and ask away!

I did not; I think he's just a really good god rn. If I would've tho, he would've been in SS 😉

Yeah I forgot about the 10 extra from it's passive. Good catch

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For ao kuang, I would build him more tankier so something like: axe of animosity, shifters, shoguns, berserkers, cyclopean ring, estaff. Some other items you can think about is archdruids fury especially if you're going up against double physical as archdruids gives decent mp5 for your 2nd item slot. And obviously, mantle, spirit robe, and demonic grip for tankier targets if you'd like. For mages like sol who are more auto attack centric I'd build something like this: Sands of time, nimble bancroft talon, telkhines ring, poly, typhons fang, and rod of Tahuti. Keep in mind, gods like sol and chronos who can go auto attack based can also go pure power, pure auto attack OR even a hybrid between them. I prefer the hybrid route but other items to think about are vamp shroud, cyclopean ring, demonic grip, ring of hecate and hastened fatalis if you want to stick to people. These items would exchange some of the items that don't have any auto attack speed but honestly, I prefer having some auto attack speed items mixed with some damage items. And if you wanna go full damage build obviously you'd follow the same mage build I talked about in the video while mixing in a few other items like maybe poly and typhons fang as those are specifically good on sol and chronos for example.

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As of right now: serqet, mulan, cerberus, Medusa, ares, odin. These gods are my priority over anything. After that I'm still banning Achilles, nezha, ix chel, thoth, and ullr

@@BuZz-Smite oh ok thank you very much, I used to play joust conquest and duel in maestro but I have already had 2 seasons without playing ranked and I don't know what the meta is, on Friday I will play a joust tournament and that's why I wanted to find out, excellent channel, very well explained everything and fun, keep it up

@terryac9158 yeah no problem brother! Good luck on your tournament!

Yeah, ik dom doesn't affect the yellow numbers from qins as qins is based solely off the enemies health and dom is percent pen which are totally unrelated stats. Dom and qins are good together tho because dom gives percent pen allowing you to do more damage via your autos while qins gives you additional yellow numbers on top of the damage from autos.

@BuZz-Smite You know what pen% iteam is good with Qin's it would be titans bane since that would help the yellow numbers or I'd you like serrated edge give really good stats all around but I personally wouldn't build Dom with Qin's their other iteams that are very good with Dom. I might be looking at it from a different point but if it work for you aint no reason to change it.

Yeah, titans bane is very good as an option for hunters, I even say it in the video, and usually you buy dominance with either executioner or titans bane, which both increase qins. If you don't want dominance and instead you want exe, you can do that and you'll do more damage, but keep in mind you'll not have any mana or mp5 which on a lot of your good hunters in joust like xbal, is not good. There's a bit of a trade off between the 2 and I don't think the damage difference is that crazy for all the mp5 and mana as they all do similar damage anyways. Obviously the more protections and health they have the more is scales so, if they have close to cap as well as like 3500 health, then I think the damage is better. Close to like 10 extra damage for qins, so I think it's more worth there, but a lot of the tanks in joust don't get really close to cap.

@BuZz-Smite Yea I can see that most definitely that make sense there. But if your a AA hunter you don't need alot of mana just enough to last a fight unless your fights last long which they don't know since the changes. Xbal is a special in the sense his 1 uses a shit ton of mana so on him I can see that build working better on him then most hunter.

Yeah in that case if you really don't need mana then exe is probably better but even hunters like hachi or cupid or medusa or hou yi who use decent amount of mana benefit from dom especially seeing as dom gives you that 20% pen right out the gate. So at the end of the day, as long as you building some sort of pen whether it's dom with exe or titans or exe and titans, you should be good. Just gets down the minutiae of what u prefer more!

Keep in mind, it's going to be harder to carry as a guardian if you're looking to do damage but fafnir does a huge amount of damage without building pure power. I'd suggest going: warriors axe, shifters shield, shoguns Kusari, pridwen, mantle of discord/spirit robe/relic dagger, and ethereal staff/cyclopean ring. Other items you can interchange is demonic grip if you're against tanks and ancile maybe if you want more damage.

@@BuZz-Smite Thx for your fast answer 😃 Have a nice day

I have not but that's a fun ass build idea!

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Yep they confirmed joust will in smite 2

Good catch. I believe they messed up on the numbers. So it's most likely 7.5% for magical and 10% for physical. I'll confirm later

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Yep, meta builds are coming soon as a lot has changed! In terms of countering, I look at it more as: which gods would be good or bad going up against a particular god. There are really only a handful of true counters, the obvious ones i'm sure you are aware of. But I usually look at particular kits and interactions between gods to determine this. For example, gods like Cerberus that can be easily interrupted in his breath, 2nd ability, would not be great going into a god like shiva that has 2 forms of knock up that easily interrupt. On top of the fact that shiva can completely counter Cerb's ult. Another one could be a high mobility god like Serqet that can be easily punished by Ares with his chains. Also, looking at certain interactions as well is helpful as Cerberus' passive has healing reduction by 40% and Cerberus receives 80% of the heal which can completely nullify gods' healing like Aphrodite and Hel. Lastly, other things like CC immunity are important things to pay attention to as well. Gods like Vulcan or Cabrakan don't have CC immune ults meaning if you go into a high CC team, it'd probably be best to avoid or have a specific plan if you want to go gods like this. So basically, its a general thought process about which interactions would be good or bad into a particular god.

Also, keep in mind at what point you pick certain gods as if you pick easily counterable gods early on into the god selection, you will get countered.

@@BuZz-Smite Thank you for the response. I really appreciate it!

Yes, I hope the extra gold spooling along with the gold increase for camps and minions doesn't make it impossible for you to get lvl 20. But I think it'll be easier with a lot more camps on the map... hopefully

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Yeah that infinite grab team comp is nasty!