God Guides

SMITE 2 God Guides

Guides for 20 gods across 6 pantheons, organised by role. Each one covers what the kit is actually for, where it genuinely falls short, how to build it and why, and what beats it — written as reasoning you can argue with rather than a table of numbers you have to trust.

Tier list and methodology Role fundamentals Item reference

Guardians — Support lane

Frontline crowd control and team-wide aura items. Guardians win games by making other people's mistakes survivable, which is why their items buy protection for four other players rather than damage for themselves.

Athena Greek · Magical · Moderate difficulty A map-wide support whose global ultimate turns any skirmish on the board into a numbers advantage.

Khepri Egyptian · Magical · Moderate difficulty The most protective guardian in the game — his ultimate can undo a teammate's death outright.

Geb Egyptian · Magical · Moderate difficulty A peel guardian whose shield cleanses crowd control, paired with an ultimate that stuns an entire team.

Ares Greek · Magical · Low difficulty The most aggressive guardian in the game — an ultimate that pulls an entire team and forces every escape on the board.

Mages — Mid lane

Magical burst and wave control from the centre lane. The mid laner has the shortest rotations on the map, so a mage's real job is deciding which side of the jungle their wave clear buys them time to influence.

Anubis Egyptian · Magical · Low difficulty A stationary burst mage who trades every scrap of mobility for the highest sustained area damage in the mid lane.

Scylla Greek · Magical · High difficulty The purest burst mage in the game — one combo deletes any non-tank, and her ultimate refreshes on a kill.

Poseidon Greek · Magical · Low difficulty A wave-clear mage with natural rotational speed and one of the most punishing teamfight ultimates in the game.

Nu Wa Chinese · Magical · Low difficulty A utility mage whose global ultimate reveals the entire enemy team.

Sol Norse · Magical · Moderate difficulty A magical carry who bridges mage burst and sustained basic-attack damage through a heat resource.

Assassins — Jungle lane

Farm the neutral camps, convert map knowledge into ganks, and delete isolated targets before they can respond. The jungler is the only player who chooses which lane gets help, which makes it the highest-agency role in the game.

Thor Norse · Physical · Moderate difficulty A jungler with a global ultimate and a deployable wall, threatening every lane from the moment he hits level 5.

Loki Norse · Physical · Low difficulty A stealth assassin built entirely around single-target burst, with little teamfight contribution and no comeback mechanism.

Fenrir Norse · Physical · Moderate difficulty An early-game jungler with a rune resource and an ultimate that carries an enemy god away from their team.

Set Egyptian · Physical · High difficulty A clone-based assassin whose spawns create teleport angles no other jungler can access.

Mercury Roman · Physical · High difficulty A speed-scaling assassin whose damage grows with his movement speed and whose ultimate crosses the map.

Thanatos Greek · Physical · Moderate difficulty An early-game executioner whose ultimate is a guaranteed kill on any sufficiently wounded target.

Warriors — Solo lane

Durable one-versus-one specialists who hold a lane alone and convert that into a teamfight frontline. The solo lane is the most isolated position on the map, so warriors are built to survive without help.

Bellona Roman · Physical · Low difficulty A weapon-swapping solo laner who wins extended fights by shutting down basic-attack damage.

Hercules Roman · Physical · Moderate difficulty A bruiser with the largest single self-heal in the game and a displacement combo that relocates a target into his team.

Cu Chulainn Celtic · Physical · High difficulty A rage-driven solo laner who transforms into a second, more dangerous god in the middle of a fight.

Hunters — Carry lane

Basic-attack damage that scales harder than anything else in the game, in exchange for the most fragile early game. A hunter's entire contribution is deferred — the job is surviving long enough to collect it.

Artemis Greek · Physical · Low difficulty A late-game hypercarry with the best self-peel ultimate of any hunter and almost no early game to speak of.

Jing Wei Chinese · Physical · Moderate difficulty A mobile hunter whose flight passive gives her the best farm efficiency in the role.

How to use these guides

A god guide is most useful before you pick and after you lose, and least useful in the middle of a game. Read the strengths and weaknesses before adding a god to your pool — the weaknesses matter more, because they tell you which games this pick will not save. Read the counters section after a loss, because the answer to "why did that feel unwinnable" is usually in it.

The build sections deliberately describe item roles rather than naming a fixed shopping list. Specific items change every patch; the reasoning behind a build does not. A guide that tells you to buy penetration second because your damage arrives in many small ticks stays correct through a rebalance in a way that a named item order does not.

What the tier badges mean

Each guide carries a tier from S to C. That placement is an editorial judgement made against four published criteria — kit reliability, the counterplay cost imposed on opponents, what happens when the god's primary plan is denied, and how much the god depends on specific teammates. The full methodology, including what a tier does not tell you, is published on the tier list page.

Tier is not a recommendation. A B-tier god you have two hundred games on will out-perform an S-tier god you have never played, and comfort matters more than placement in nearly every ranked game.

Frequently asked questions

How many gods are covered in these guides?

We currently publish full guides for 20 gods across 6 pantheons. Each guide covers the kit's identity, honest strengths and weaknesses, build reasoning, counters, synergies and practical tips — written as explained judgement rather than as a stat table.

Why don't these guides show win rates?

Because we do not have access to match data and would have to invent the numbers. A fabricated percentage looks authoritative and is fiction, which is worse than no figure at all. Instead each guide explains the reasoning, which you can evaluate and disagree with.

Which god should I learn first in SMITE 2?

Pick a low-difficulty god in the role you want to learn, and stay on them for at least twenty games. Athena and Ares are forgiving supports, Bellona is a straightforward warrior, Anubis and Poseidon are accessible mages, and Thor is the most forgiving jungler. Consistency on one god teaches more than breadth across several.

How are gods grouped by role?

By the role their kit is built for and the lane they conventionally play: Guardians support, Mages take mid, Assassins jungle, Warriors solo, and Hunters carry. Gods can and do flex outside these, but the default pairing is what their kit and item scaling assume.