Editorial Policy

Sourcing and verification

Content here is built from three sources, in descending order of authority: the game itself and its official patch notes, direct play experience, and established community knowledge. Where those disagree, official documentation wins and we say so.

• Mechanical claims — what an ability does, how a stat interacts with another — are checked against the game or official patch notes before publication.
• Strategic claims — when a god is strong, which build suits a situation — are judgements, and are written as judgements rather than as facts.
• Where a claim is widely repeated in the community but not officially documented, we say that explicitly rather than laundering it into a statement of fact.
• We do not copy content from other sites. Where another site's work informed something here, it is cited.

How we handle things we cannot verify

A lot of what players want to know about SMITE 2 is not publicly documented. The exact formula behind Skill Rating is the clearest example: Hi-Rez has not published it, and every confident claim about which rating model the game uses is inference rather than knowledge.

Our approach is to describe observed behaviour and general principles, and to mark the boundary clearly. On the SR page, for instance, we explain what rating systems generally do and why ratings move by variable amounts — and we state plainly that the specific formula is undocumented. Writing around that gap with confident-sounding language would be more readable and less honest.

Specific commitments

• We never present an estimate as a measurement.
• Where a number would normally appear and we do not have one, we say why rather than filling the space.
• Claims about undocumented systems are labelled as inference.
• Dates are published on pages where currency matters, so you can judge whether something has gone stale.

What we refuse to publish

Some of these are unusual to state explicitly, and we state them because this site previously did the opposite and we want the change to be legible.

• Invented statistics. No fabricated win rates, pick rates, ban rates or player ratings, whether or not they are hedged.
• Fabricated leaderboards. We have no ranked data access, so any leaderboard here would be fiction presented as fact.
• Profile pages for real players containing numbers we made up. Publishing invented statistics about identifiable people is not something we will do under any framing.
• Fake live-data indicators. No 'live' badges, sync timers or update counters on content that is static.
• Keyword-stuffed text written for search engines rather than readers.
• Paid placement presented as editorial judgement.

Review and corrections

Pages are reviewed when a patch changes something they describe, rather than on a fixed rotation. Pages where currency matters — tier assessments, anything describing current systems — carry a last-reviewed date so you can see how recent the assessment is.

If we get something wrong

1. Email hello@smitetracker.com with the page URL and what you believe is incorrect. A source is helpful but not required.
2. We check the claim against the game or official documentation.
3. If it is wrong, we fix it and update the page's review date.
4. For a correction that materially changes the advice on a page, we note what changed rather than editing silently.
5. If we disagree with a correction, we will say so and explain why rather than ignoring it.

Frequently asked questions