5 'NOOB TRAP' Items You SHOULDN'T Be Building In SMITE

As a newer player, the item system of SMITE can be hard to fully wrap your head around, which can lead to players falling into 'noob traps'. Items that seem good, but really aren't. Here's 5 and the reasons why you shouldn't be building them!

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[jacobobos]

The item that's underbuilt especially in the non-conquest modes is talisman of energy

[BrotherBillOG]

A long time ago, gem of iso was a staple on Poseidon. He's forgetting to mention bancrofts passive gives you a large power spike. Very nice in 1v1 situations, I don't think most people build it for the healing, but for the damage. Anubis ult below 40% and they just die.

[CaptainNabber]

For the timeline, for me and my group of friends it’s just the funniest meme item. Especially when the enemy doesn’t realize you have it and then you somehow get out it’s just “oh my god the timeline!” Not that it’s super good but it just adds fun and variety to the gameplay loop

[pineappleryan]

I'd like an episode 2. Or the most underrated items

[kingtickeler]

Valuable information in this video Intersect. The bit about the AOE lifesteal coefficient is the type of thing that would definitely trip up new players since it's a hidden mechanic. Great Video mate keep em coming, Cheers!

[barbarianbijuu]

I feel like the 4rth one would be alot better if the revive worked like chronos ult and brought you back like 10 seconds

[BelleVanSchijndel]

To me, the problem with SMITE is that an item that can be amazing one week, can get nerfed into oblivion the next, and if you aren't reading all the patch notes (or watching the stream, or watching a YouTuber watch or review the stream), you won't know.

[josephhall]

The most "noob trap" items in my experience are those dang masks. Because and I swear it's every single time, they don't read the negative on them. The match that made me hate them with a passion was one where our jungler bought lono's mask. They got mad at being unable to kill Poseidon, they were Serqet, and yelled at us for not helping him and left at a 1-11. Only kill they got was a early ult because poseidon got beads instead of aegis.

[Mujtabaa_M]

Only half way through the video but I do want to say that I *highly* disagree with the Jotunn's glyphs. In fact, I may say that Cunning is actually the noob trap item. Not sure if it changed, but Cunning's effect works off of an ability's reduced cooldown rather than it's base cooldown. Basically, the more CDR you have the, worse this effect becomes.

I.e. - An ability with a base 12s cooldown (0% cdr) would theoretically get 4s off from the Cunning's passive proc

With 40% CDR, that ability is now 7.2s cooldown and Cunning gives only 1.8s off from its passive.

Essentially, at 40% CDR, Cunning is actually 15% of the next damaging cooldown instantly (Every 3rd damaging ability). Pair this with the fact that Jotunns has 20% CDR by itself means that you never ever ever ever get the 25% from Cunning; that's where the noob trap comes in because no one realizes it without a closer look.

On the other hand, as we all know, the 2 most broken stats in smite is movement speed and mitigations and 10% movement speed on Vigor is nothing to sneeze at considering it's more ms than the base stat on items with it. Not the best glyph in the game by any means but I would take some lifesteal and ms over a (pretty random) 15% cdr conditional for 600g.

I certainly wouldn't buy Cunning over a red pot.

[jonathanbanning]

One word for alternate timeline “joust” I only build it as a defense item in a game mode where 1 fight is a loss, and like 1.5s is sometimes enough to win the game

[jesusboy]

When I play Jorm i get sands of time for the fatty mana, and I always feel like a bad person when I get alternate timeline purely for the protections.

[alster]

For Alternate Timeline I think a better Passive to Add is that your Respawn Timer is reduced by 25% as well as the 6 minute revive passive

[dermarm]

ive been playing smite since 5 years, regularly hit the diamond hell in conq and ive never heard a word about the magical lifesteal aeo thing. You do seriously surprise me inters3x

[dinosaurkin]

I miss Gem of Iso Kukulkan trolling. Zephyr slow into tornado slow and enemy can't move away from my team. It was my arena specialty in season 3. Internal cool down is so stupid for that item.

[bryansalazar]

Can someone clarify something this for me? I know of the lifesteal nerf for AoE abilities, but does this also affect single target abilities? I tend to build Jotun vigor on daji, and have never been disappointed when landing her 1 or teleport. Was it just my imagination, or do single target abilities don't get the nerf?

[metalmichew]

i mean i can see gem of iso as an okay item for something like cabrakan or any other guardian that has a lot of damage potential and AOE and i did use it heavily in the past..

[marpo]

Griffonwing is an item i see a lot of noob hunters pick up to hit AA's

[MaskedHades]

Most of the items listed I wouldn’t really say are noob traps but either god “restricting” meaning that only a few gods can truly bring out the full potential of the item. Example with Gem of ISO being a very strong item on someone like Poseidon which If you got caught in his whirlpool basically was a death sentence on its old passive. And Bancrofts being solid on the gods he listed and the most important and powerful user of it being Hades due to his insane early pressure and ability to clear a wave with a single ability after just throwing 2 autos, as for jotunns vigor? Only ever saw Pele use and abuse it. The rest however like Bauble and such? Yeah hot garbage

[LotRLyfe]

I think alternate timeline is hilarious/somewhat useful on three gods. khepri, Khumba, and Chronos. Makes them extra hard to kill even if you only get one or two uses it could very easily give you some no death matches.

[KONSACZ]

Psychical ability lifesteal is not reduced like magical ones, it always works on 100% efficiency.