SMITE: 12 More Beginner Mistakes & How To Fix Them!

[@yurrboyjeremy]

Meditation cloak is somehow coming into my games again and I don't Know what I did to deserve this

[@fadeddragon123]

I see people level 130+ still buying it. Lmao

[@notkyle6969]

@@fadeddragon123 had a level 123 mid conquest get it first relic and tp second relic who went 2/14. They had 2000 assault games played and 60.conq games played made me want to puke.

[@fadeddragon123]

Kyle Harbeck sadly some players learn slower than others. The issue is that you can’t be rude and tell them they are bad. You need to tell them what will make them a better player respectfully. Thats how MOBAs and high skill ceiling games should be, if they don’t wanna listen oh well. That’s not on you

[@notkyle6969]

@@fadeddragon123 the other worst thing is I have friends who want to play with me who get med every game and ill tell them that other relics are more beneficial and they still get it.

[@fadeddragon123]

Kyle Harbeck it becomes a habit at some point. Some people need the mana for some reason. I play solo mostly so I don’t run into that problem.HOWEVER at least upgraded med is decent in team fights for the cooldown part of it. Only gods that should buy it are change or supports. (Shell is still better though. Med is just better early game )

[@captainswag9324]

Here's a mistake that isn't just limited to new players, considering I see plenty of 'experienced' players guilty of it: *being under the impression that getting kills matters* First Blood matters, shutting down streaks matters, and getting picks before an objective push definitely matters. Beyond that, pushing someone out of lane and forcing a back is just as useful as a kill. Waaaay to many people (usually the ones playing jungle) do literally nothing but lurk and pick off enemies who are backing. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've had a player BM the rest of the team for losing, when he's 14-0 but we've spent literally every team fight in a 4v5, we lose most of them, and then he picks up one or two free kills after each one, burns his Beads, Aegis and ult to escape, and thinks he's 'good' and that his team is 'bad'.

[@kimberg2539]

Picking targets after teamfights is the strength of many gods like loki, ao, morrigan, serqet. Ofc you should contribute to your team. But it is the frontlines job to make sure the jung, mid and carry has an opening in a fight. Solo n supp is supposed to cc the most imminient threats so that the dps can reap a kill or two in the shortest time possible. What loses the most games overall is unsync with your team. No help when an oppurtunity is revealed. Smite is all about teamplay AND correct use of time. Pressuring objectives etc. It is not COD.

[@captainswag9324]

@@kimberg2539 Picking after team fights is fine, so long as you aren't throwing for your team because all you're doing is sitting and waiting for it to be over and for people to start retreating to the jungle to back. Picking off their support mid-back is literally pointless, considering they won the fight and are now taking our tower. Those are the kinds of people I'm talking about. "I just got a two-piece." "You popped their support and mid while they were backing, because that's all we managed to get low in the last 4v5. Their carry just took a Tier 2 and their jungle and solo just took Gold. And you had Baka ult the whole time, but you literally just used it to overkill a 2 HP Nu Wa." "I'm 9-0, you're 2-4. Shut up, trash."

[@AzrealsGift]

BRO PREACH. It's about the objectives. Yes team fight and wiping out enemy team is goal hyper late game but not really anything else except for what you said.

[@captainswag9324]

@@AzrealsGift And the only reason kills become a goal hyper late is because it's the only way to take the Titan. Unless you've got a back-door strat, or are facing a team who doesn't know to defend for a downed Phoenix, that is. Generally, the kill is worthless. It's what you're able to take *because* of the kill, that matters. And that dovetails into another thing: It's infuriating to watch an allied mid-laner (or ally in general, mid just comes to mind first) get an early kill on the enemy mid, during my first jungle rotation, and then just back. Go get early push on their T1. Come help me gobble up their buff. Go steal mid camps. Otherwise your kill doesn't really help you or the team.

[@AzrealsGift]

@@captainswag9324 Exactly. Kills=objectives. You could go 100-0 but if they kill you're titan it's over.

[@kestonsmith1354]

Number 1 mistake: Not warding/no map awareness.

[@billflynn9962]

100%.. wards are really cheap in smite compared to other MOBAs. Wards are even better if you can't rely on your team to peel, cc, etc and your enemy has mobile assassins.

[@fblazquezgil]

The best advice I think I can give to new players, is to play all the gods, don’t have “ main “ gods, play all of them so you can understand how to counter them

[@DjinnsĘnigma]

110 gods.... Multiple months worth of playing them all to know there quirks. Just to get this one but of knowledge. It sucks, but it's worth it.

[@FuzenHua]

I wanna also add that at least learning a god of each different role (guardian, mage, hunter, etc) is good so not only will you have knowledge on a variety of gods, you'll also get to learn how to play each role. I found this is important because most of the time, almost no one wants to play guardian (in arena) because they want "big damage" and "kills", then they end up tunnelling and the guardian ends up being the carry

[@Jormyyy]

Oh boy Duke now you have everyone saying "ahoy" lol!

[@DukeSloth]

Good!

[@absoruriver5621]

I like it! It's how we greet each other in the Czech Republic.

[@Byzzardo]

Yeah, either Duke got really into sailing or he has a secret Czech heritage. :D

[@davidpurcell9497]

Wouldn’t it make sense to rename the blessings to help new players? Support blessing, solo blessing etc would make things a lot less confusing for new players.

[@RamboUnchained]

Man, I started playing smite in the beta and played consistently up until season 2 or 3. I haven’t really played since early 2013 and trying to hop back in now is daunting! So much has changed lol. Trying to figure out who counters who and stuff is killing me lol.

[@karlopetkovic9745]

Who counters who is wrong approach on the game after so many years. Just play and focus on expanding god pool and your own item knowledge

[@RamboUnchained]

Karlo Petkovic I’m gonna get BM’d so much 😂😂. There’s like 40 gods I’ve never played in conquest due to the hiatus

[@karlopetkovic9745]

@@RamboUnchained you ll catch up soon dont you worry

[@cantoutfoxafox8853]

Building on the crit section, I have noticed that when I play with my newer friends a fair amount of people build crit on assassins that it doesn't make sense to do so on. I'm talking Awilix, Rat (before the crit acorn), Pele, etc.

[@absentgraph9864]

why not on Pele?

[@theotherky]

Is there a way to set up auto buy so that it applies a custom build?

[@cryomagus]

We need this tutorials added into the gaming. It's being exhausting trying to make new players aware of all this, loosing games because they refuse to hear and then called flamer for giving them advice or teaching the basics. Edit: I'll add new players jumping to play support/jungler without understanding map awareness, rotation/ganking and warding.

[@nezukochan9335]

I’ll literally be lay ranked in silver and people still don’t get anti heal

[@sixsam6766]

@@nezukochan9335 i know right i love to see that when the an anbuis or Chacc or any one else with a good sustain healing

[@sapphirethealpha5005]

Yeah, because experienced players are being so nice to newbies!!

[@cryomagus]

@@sapphirethealpha5005 it's something that happens both ways. Although I agree most experienced players aren't nice to new ones, also must new players feel angry when you give them advice or guidance.

[@sapphirethealpha5005]

@@cryomagus not gonna deny some newbies are annoying, I myself listen to guides, but not to "Your build is trash" (Instead of saying what else I should buy)

[@DuskEalain]

I noticed my friend was struggling with building so I've taken up to writing him a guide covering the rough idea of the build philosophy for each class, and then the same plus some example builds for each god. It's not perfect by any means I'm no SPL Pro Player or anything and I'm sure some of the builds he'll have to adjust and tweak as he develops his skills and playstyles, but I think it'll help him understand building better (so he doesn't go something like Mystical Mail Mercury) as well as just give him a quick reference.

[@STNGR4Y]

Ahh yes the incredible spl strat, *mystical mail mercury*

[@DuskEalain]

@@STNGR4Y He did that once, his logic was sound I'll admit. He was having trouble with the enemy ADC and Jungler so he decided "yo as Mercury I'm gonna be in their face anyway so I'm gonna get the thing that does damage when I'm close and gives me physical protection" But... yeah, it happened.

[@STNGR4Y]

@@DuskEalain absolute *madlad* Great, now I wanna try tank merc

[@DuskEalain]

@@STNGR4Y Confession - Full-on Tank Merc is fun.

[@corey2232]

I'm level 156 in the game, and I still use Auto-Skill lol. 99.9% of the time, I level each ability the exact same way for each character. On a rare exception, I'll turn it off for a certain game, but then right back on. Auto-Buy for items? Hell no.

[@thevelma2686]

Auto skill can be really useful if you manage to set it up Sometimes I forget to level up skills and have like lv1 ults at lvl 18

[@welfareacquirer2046]

So that why i see people sometimes build only tier 1 items. I never thought they would be coming from league.

[@SkepticRyo]

Even in league they don't do that. In league you usually build components of one item and only when you complete it you start building another item. Tbh it's probable that smite is their first moba, when i started smite i thought you could only build t3 items so i bought nothing till i had the exact gold for it. It took 1 good guy to kindly tell me that when you buy a t1 item you can upgrade it to t2/3 etc.

[@adrianperez392]

I came from LoL. Got wrecked in Smite tbh and now I love Smite way more than LoL. Its more about teamwork and not overpowered characters

[@christophersmith8848]

Dunno about League but that is definitely how it works in DOTA

[@ohOctaves]

I have noticed in your game play when you get flustered in a team fight your hand shakes hard and kept catching my eyes 😂 But these are great points. As always I love your insight on the game. 👍

[@kestonsmith1354]

Happens to me too

[@alexxxo206]

Your last one was really good. I felt very called out of clicking every AA but we all learn eventually haha

[@gulfwulf3597]

Arena is the only mode I would suggest not getting a blessing in due to how high the gold spooling is. Speaking of Arena, that's also where I've seen a lot of players chase a kill and get punished for it. And I agree with med cloak: there are better relics to buy instead; cloak is only really good in Assault since you can only purchase items after you've died.

[@SimonCleric]

I will never turn off auto-leveling. There's rarely if ever a reason to level something out of typical order. Auto-buy though is something I'll never turn on, it's terrible!

[@c_f0rce]

Yeah that's completely untrue. The auto leveling is not correct on most gods

[@fadeddragon123]

It depends on who you’re playing mostly. Rat for example can max his 2 or 3 first.

[@terrakage4462]

Do you mean edited levels or just auto?

[@SimonCleric]

@@terrakage4462 Oh, edited of course. It actually completely escaped my mind when I was typing, that there is also a default one xD So yeah, edit first, then turn auto leveling on and never look back xD

[@henryalbuque]

Not warding and undervaluing antiheal are mistakes made by old player. The new player will listen to you more often than an old player. So if you tell them to ward or build politely they probably will follow your tips, but old player when see you advising them, they will complain, insult you and even report you.

[@absentgraph9864]

yeah

[@bigkahuna9735]

Do you have any information on the state of the clan system at the moment? I want to add my friends to the clan I am but the system is currently offline.

[@justincross2785]

I've watched a few of your videos and you've mentioned that Meditation Cloak is not good for most situations. Could I get some situations/gods that it is a good choice? It has helped me out so much as a Mid lane Hel

[@spunoffsee]

You know the saddest part of this for me? I have friends that I've played Smite with for years who STILL fall into these tropes... Hell, I even get tunnel vision at times...

[@Krissefrom99]

If you made no mistakes you'd be in the spl now wouldn't you lol

[@Svorls]

Hey, can I have a question? Me and my 2 friends just started playing and we are like level 8, but whenever we play 3v3 mode or even 5v5 we play against so much better players. They are like always around level 25-30 and sometimes even higher. Is it because we are 3 in the party or? It really ruins the experience from the game for us

[@christophersmith8848]

That's just an unfortunate side effect of being very low level, getting consistent matches that low is just not likely

[@__maeeeeee]

I just have one thing to say.... you are an amazing cabrakan :)

[@LadyAbstract]

Well sad thing is that alot of new players that make these mistakes arent apart of the online smite community as much so some wont even think to look up videos like this especially if they don't see what theyre doing as wrong

[@lucasetche]

Ahoy !

[@jacoboochoa1322]

honestly you deserve 1million subscriberes

[@henrikhetland7005]

Communication are so stupidly important, but less and less players use it. Almost no people in conquest use vgs anymore

[@Roxasherz]

You forgot to mention the most important VGS commands: VER VVW VVX VEG

[@damiansanchez7968]

Chasing and not warding. The warding problem is probably because I dont play too much conquest but the chasing is just a REALLY BAD HABIT.

[@LadyAbstract]

I encourage warding in arena just for ppl to get into the habit

[@dragonheart1236]

Warding the camps can actually be very effective

[@Krissefrom99]

@@dragonheart1236 or behind the camps from sneaky assassin's or heimdallrs lol

[@absentgraph9864]

What if I buy the potion that increases my movement speed?

[@thevelma2686]

Not worth it early game. More power and mana is needed early game

[@darkpaladin18]

Too many bad players in ranked...you can’t rank up. And I don’t mean that they suck with a char or have a bad game, it is normal that you fuck up from time to time....but they have no clue about the basics, like if the opponents have fg, you can’t defend towers, and you should not chase, just stay under the Phoenix and defend, or that you run faster when going straight forward and not using basics. And they always blame the jungler.... all lanes are losing , you help one lane, where the opponent is not 5 lvls above you, other 2 lanes flame and report you for not helping... wtf shall I duplicate myself, and you can’t do much if they are so far ahead, only if you catch them off guard and having used all abilities

[@jacobcordell2198]

Only blessing ever worth skipping in any situation is Attacker's Blessing. Nothing more than a crutch.

[@ericpontarelli1690]

Ahoy duke

[@fadeddragon123]

I feel that 60-80% antiheal is enough. People definitely overvalue antiheal a lot of the time too.

[@Junieisgay]

Its good to have it spread across a lot of characters if it is a comp that relies on healing. Not necessarily to apply it all at once. But to simply have more opportunities to apply it

[@fadeddragon123]

Lyric Daroshefski as long as they spread reliably with AOE there’s no need to build more. I Feel bad stacking antiheal because I was a hel main at one point

[@abelnyhteshade181]

Antiheal should cap at 40 or even 30

[@Luca-bel]

Vgs on console is the X button. As for complexity, im pretty sure it's the same as the pc version. Good vid duke. Funny thinking back to how much of these faults applied to me back in the day. Especially anti heal. Edit: lmao yo im trippin ! Comments below got it right. Its right on the dpad. Just played smite yesterday and i stay using the vgs to help the team with map awareness, idk wth i was thinking.

[@TheTabaK23]

I’m on Xbox and my key binding is right on the d pad

[@nathanhazley9348]

Auto build built Artemis with a guardian build on my mates first game at that point I lost faith in it

[@mrjenchilada]

#1 beginner mistake: picking au puch

[@fadeddragon123]

Picking him in conquest is a mistake. He’s good in arena and joust as long as you have peel

[@tommybrad6393]

He's good in late game

[@mrjenchilada]

Tommy Brad not in conquest

[@mrjenchilada]

Fadeddragon123 sorry sometimes I forget their is other modes

[@fadeddragon123]

A Twerking Gif the main issue with him in conquest is just that there are too many walls his 1 can hit. That’s why baron is just a better Ah Puch, plus he has a speed boost and better sustain. Maybe if they made the hitbox for the 1 smaller but made it hit harder it would be better. Maybe if he picks up a corpse he could get a small speed boost too.

[@groumoun328]

Thanks Papa

[@theresistance6622]

Beginner mistake: rushing crit *Golden bow flashbacks intensify*

[@mfgeedorah479]

Don't know why I'm even on this video now, but oh man this comment sure doesn't apply anymore

[@DmytroBogdan]

You forgot the most important command - VER, VVX :)

[@nicanorrodrigues5469]

Cabroken : Destroyer of worlds

[@asdgfjjknfdijvds]

My next podcast start I'm going to say ahoy #ahoydukesloth

[@UmiCore_]

Wouldn’t complaining about others not doing anything be bad if you yourself does nothing. Had a Ullr get 3.5k damage out of a 30min game as the adc... I was a solo Suki and had top everything. Even the support had more damage than Ullr...

[@c_f0rce]

Having top everything doesn't mean your doing good. It has nothing to do with how you play with your team

[@fadeddragon123]

Not everyone is of the same skill level and/or are still learning and bad games happen as well.

[@alexjv1370]

#1 going super negative and then wondering why you got suspended

[@DocZhong]

I’m surprised playing Loki wasn’t #1

[@twistedbrothertwin]

I’ve been playing for about 2 1/2 years, and I’ll rush rage on some hunters sometimes to get the stacks early. Now I feel like a noob :(

[@iwannasnperotmg6601]

Getting rage 3rd item is definitely worth it if you know you'll be getting kills to stack it up early. It's the exception to 'rushing crit' I would say.

[@3lietechhack646]

My friend who has been playing for 5 years does this. And I've told him multiple time that it's really bad. The problem is that he is skilled, so he does get kills doing it and thinks it's good, even though there are far better option but he never listens lol. You can stack rage in 2 or 3 teamfights lategame, and buying it early just give you 20 power which is bad and it takes you like 10 or 15 min to stack it early because no fights are happening. And having crit chance early isn't your best option either. 40 power is 40 AA damage, because for physical it scales for 100%. So getting 40 power early (let's say power boots) is objectively better than getting double AA damage for 40% of the time, and your AA damage is like 30 + 20 (20 power of rage) early or something like that (so you get 50 bonus AA damage 40% of the time conpared to 40 bonus AA 100% of the time). Not to forget your AA speed is really slow so you should focus on incresing it and stacking some power item.

[@Gialdros]

And now boots are gone forever. R.I.P

[@Kaseyhowtovideos]

Mana op med gives u mana their for med op

[@snbuleaf]

I agree u need to buy boots

[@memberoftheshadow]

Loki ;)

[@asdgfjjknfdijvds]

Ahoy

[@asdgfjjknfdijvds]

I'm here early for once

[@ricatdomeow5624]

Im hoping i wont be see'ing any more meds in my fucking ranked conq game

[@thesorrow96]

Beginner Mistakes = buying blessing

[@soulstealer5625]

Getting the wr big kind of blessing?

[@sirrolf2538]

Im a new player but i think the game is dying. No matter what server I choose, there are very few players playing the game and the matchmaking just keeps on getting longer.

[@adanmatheusmess8796]

Wait... That cupid... I know her

[@jjluvsvr5502]

I just downloaded it an hour ago thx for helping

[@lukaalborne40]

Who thought this deserved a thumbs down? Tf? Lol

[@KurtMidas1510]

Du hörst dich verdächtig deutsch an 🤔

[@Ermacc187]

Blame the terrible tutorials for new players getting med every game

[@blainefiasco8225]

Oh so you're sticking to the ahoy thing? Time to unsub XD

[@0mega506]

Ahoy !

[@Xtreme-cg8ss]

Ahoy

[@EUM_NEMESIS]

Ahoy!

[@f0xof907]

Ahoy

[@snersax7216]

Ahoy!

[@adielabrahams0312]

Ahoy

[@JamalYahir]

Ahoy!