SMITE Know Your Enemy #8 - Ares

If you're new to SMITE, odds are you don't know what each god can do. In this series TrendKiLL walks you through the ins and the outs of each god you'll be facing!

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What is a MOBA?

Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas, or MOBAs for short, originated as a sub-genre of the RTS (Real-Time Strategy) genre. Because of this, in most MOBA games, the player takes control of a single character from the isometric (top-down) view akin to most RTS games. Typically, in MOBA games, a player takes control of a single character on one of two teams. Those players choose characters that all have their own abilities, or “kits”. To win, the players must use a combination of abilities, teamwork, and strategy to not only best their opponent, but destroy the opponents main structures. A bonus to the genre is that most MOBAs are free games, which is definitely a contributing factor of the their massive success. The genre has many titles, the largest of which being Defense of the Ancients (DoTA) and DoTA 2, League of Legends (LoL), and most recently SMITE!

What is SMITE?

SMITE is one of the more recent free MOBA games to enter the fray. In SMITE you don’t just choose a character, you choose a god. You’ll instantly feel an attachment to characters like Thor and Zeus because even if you don’t know the lore behind them, you’ve at least heard their names before! What makes SMITE so immersive is Hi-Rez Studios’ inclusion of historical lore into the gods’ abilities, kits, and play styles. Thor and Loki aren’t just characters from Marvel comics and movies. They’re also a part of Norse mythology and you can take control of them in SMITE!

What makes SMITE different?

SMITE takes all of the strategy of the top MOBA games and adds another layer of difficulty by putting you into the action! Unlike most MOBA games, SMITE offers players the chance to experience the MOBA genre they know and love from a third-person perspective. This unique perspective allows for an extremely immersive experience unlike any other game in the genre. While this doesn’t sound like such a big change, once you play it you’ll understand! All of these things added together is what has gaming websites everywhere continually rating SMITE as one of the best MOBA games available!

[Heibel]

07:53 ...Go home Anubis... You're drunk

[AnonymityIx]

Glitchy as fuck. Anubis using his 1 while walking around

[miguelriera]

TrendKiLL maybe forgot to mention that you can escape for Ares Ultimate (No Scape), if 5 players are caught by this skill, the 5 players have a small fraction of time to attack Ares together and kill him before he its ultimate take effect. Honestly I get very angry that to happen if I am Ares, commonly happens when you have half or less of your maximum health, and if one of the affected gods is an assasin equipped with penetration and critical hits.

[DernSure]

7:55 yo wtf is that anubis doing? is he glitched in his ultimate stance? xD

[drtomo]

Did you just forgot to tell us why NOT to buy all aura items for Ares? (you promised to tell us :( 1:48

[YoungBloodTW]

Got you shackled in my embrace I won't let go of you.

[SirSquiddlydoodle]

The Anubis floating in his ult animation was hilarious.

[ΘοδωρήςΤσενεκίδης]

''Ares hasn't got alot of damage''
Pffft, i laugh in your face!

[Grman]

Also a thing you forgot to mention if you are in a No Escape if you get behind a wall before Ares pulls you in you will not be pulled in or stunned.

[LionLostInTime]

i play alot of Ares and i see this happen alot so i think Trendkill shud have mentioned this: ''if your really low on health and ares grabs you with no escape: DONT USE YOUR BEADS, it can do a pretty big amount of damage and all it will do is: kill you and make you waste your beads''

[TemplarAnimated]

Glad I found this series yesterday, every one of these videos are really helpful. Only wish there was a video everyday. 
Of course that's impossible, but people can dream, right?

[ladaas]

Unless the skill description is wrong (which it may be), I think that the stun duration is 1s + 0.2 per enemy hit (including the first). This would mean a duration of 1.2 -2.0s instead of the 1.0-1.8 described in the video. That said, it is a minor error. The videos are great and very useful.

[devvilboyy]

7:45 I like that crucified anubis pose
 

[nickstur]

love that TK gets to put a little of his own style into some of these. wish he did a little more.

[MorganChase]

Anyone else notice the Anubis bug where he was stuck in his 1 animation at 8:08 c':

[alexgheorghita]

wow...haven't seen TrendKiLL since the time he was doing Skyrim/Oblivion let's plays o.O . Glad to see he's still going strong :D

[missingno.]

I'll save you time.

1. Buy beads. 
2. Juke 1
3. 3 tickles unless he has 1 on you.
4. Beads on ultimate.

No need for an almost 10 minute explanation.

The End.

[shadowmoses]

That stuck Anubis animation fears no Ares!

[SalvadorDolbyvsZAWARUDO]

Honestly, can you ever be so absorbed in a team fight that you don't notice the loud sound effect and "I HAVE YOU NOW!" blaring in your ears?

[GeminiOrion]

Ey Trendkill, nice video as always, Ares is my second favorite guardian right behind Sobek. But, I may have skipped over it in the video, but you never covered why you don't always get aura items on Ares. I'd agree; because of his DoTs, Spear and Gem of Iso are good picks if you want to get a bit aggressive, while providing some utility for your team.