Full SMITE guide to Protections, Penetration, True Damage, and Mitigations!

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For those of you that want to know more about the deeper side of Smite, I've got a guide today that breaks down protections, penetration, true damage, and mitigations. These four components are huge in Smite and ultimately determine exactly how much damage you will deal and take, so they're important to understand.
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[@RisenUponTomorrow]

I'd love to see Void Stone, Jade Emp crown, Void Shield, and Runic Shield come back in some way even if they wouldn't have any power attached. Those passives still have a niche in the current item set and could be valuable in specific games

[@keyzzz9798]

You've been on fire with the youtube game, love the dedication 👏

[@Inbowned]

Thank you!

[@yoanbertrand7926]

my favorite smite youtuber so far! Make me want to play support ahah

[@somecallmejorge2462]

All of these are important effect to take into account with respect to different God kits. For instance, stealing protections with Guan Yu 3 and using percent pen doesn't work as well as using flat pen or armor reduction. Knowing how these mechanics work with respect to your kit can make all the difference in a match.

[@frederickali4044]

This is a phenomenal video Bobby, great content

[@gsocangel2673]

I think this is the best vid describing this subject, thank you!!

[@nicholasbyerly6811]

Inbowned did a great job explaining these concepts in the video and I’m sure he’ll be talking about some more stuff similar to this in the future. Until then if you are interested in more of the math involved in how the game works please look up WORD OF THOTH. I don’t know if it’s been updated since season 7 (so a lot of the gold and xp values for things will be out of date) but it does a very great job explaining concepts in this video and all kinds of other information. Smite would be a utopia if everyone playing it read that pdf.

[@hanzenarchitecture7555]

Thank you for making this video! After playing smite for almost 9 years, I still learnt a lot from this video, everything explained are simple and crystal clear but yet very informative! I NEVER know that is how protections are calculated.

[@Sp1rK]

This video really IS very informative and should be for NEW players, but dude... 9 years and you don't know how the game works.

[@hanzenarchitecture7555]

@@Sp1rK So? I'm just saying i never know that formula. Is your life that boring that you have to draw attention in a youtube comment?

[@TranquillizeMe_]

This is good info! I think there's an opportunity to talk about % damage increase (effectively negative mitigations) in this series, and I think you could have used Stone of Binding for the flat pen reduction but overall good info

[@Phantom-bh5ru]

stone of binding is hands down my favorite. Not only does it prob extremely easily, takes away a lot of ports it also gives very good defense

[@scoutmaster5]

See Bobby you be coming in clutch man!!

[@angeloaquinojj]

Pumping that good content dawg. Maybe items like silver branch, runic, celestial legion helm, the power shredders on the next one. Hirez kinda stopped playing with power shred items

[@annaliaomasis4305]

Thank you for the explanation, sir.

[@duckie7787]

This is a great video, I been trying to find build guides n such so I can stop practicing against bots lol. I been looking for a discord to join that would help people learn if there's such a thing, also I'm on psn. Keep up those great videos.😊

[@llezmrtz]

are you including the base stats? for example odin has 86 physical protection at lvl 20

[@JACKWEASEL]

Love this video! And I’m not going to mention Ao Kuang Support with War Banner, Prof Cloak, berserkers, sho guns, telk ring, and cyclop ring! I would never mention that on this video because of how good this video is! Great job Bobby!

[@somecallmejorge2462]

One thing you didn't cover (or I might have missed it) is how proc damage from items is calculated (e.g. soul reaver, qins). It's obvious from reading it how it is scaled, and anyone that looks at it would know that if they want to do more damage to opponents with a lot of health should build them, but do protections also effect their potency? If so does penetration/armour reduction?

[@hanzenarchitecture7555]

^ That's very true, hopefully someone who know this can explain! Does qins damage get deducted by prots or straight % of their health? Pretty sure it will still be reduced by mitigation.

[@Inbowned]

It will be reduced by protections and mitigations the same as normal damage!

[@MaxNaef]

Pretty sure ik the answer to this one but anyways; does overcapping prots increase your prots when you get reduced below cap, e.g. having 350 prots, getting reduced by 50, will the overcapped 25 prots get counted in anyway or are they just dead? Nice explanation by the way!

[@theonlyonenut]

Awesome video and I think you broke down a very complex topic in a very simple to understand way. I'd love for you to make another video off this... maybe an "Advanced" guide to this stuff. I know a lot of this can be subjective to the specific game/god you're playing, but I'd love to learn more about the min/maxing of items as in "I already have X amount of protections, so a damage/utility item would be better here than another protection item", what should be your "target protections" every game, etc... I think this would help me understand patch notes a bit better so I can focus more on the stats of items instead of their passives.

[@gsocangel2673]

100% agree

[@AnimeTnk]

Is CCR protection important as a support

[@guillermobaldracco1090]

Question Bobby, how exactly does dmg increase (like spear of the magus passive) work? It’s a multiplier like mitigations I get that but do they essentially cancel out or say with magus you do 107.5% dmg and then after that mitigations apply?

[@Moe.6770]

Think of it as a temporary boost to damage, mitigations can only apply when you receive damage so they can only ever apply after the spear proc.

[@yubeluchiha]

So basically no need to build pen if your opponent not building defense items?

[@darionmeeks2272]

Can you do a moui build

[@ggmalaka]

Sentinel's embrace, thebes, spirit's robe, binding, and two flex items based on what you need to survive

[@wheeliesmalls9464]

You could go Boon if you are tanking towers and targeting backline

[@ggmalaka]

@@wheeliesmalls9464 Don't think boon is worth at all. maybe on Fafnir

[@BasedChadman]

Buff tanks

[@PullingCreamers]

It’s all fun and games untill herc pops his 3

[@nickvaandamme747]

You need to not talk so fast