SMITE's Irritating God Guides... Why Are These A Thing?!

Just a bit of a rant about the SMITE tutorials published on the offical Smite YouTube that are supposed to help new players learn them game. These "guides" provide basic overviews of their abilities for characters like Neith, Thor and Ra and... really not much beyond that.

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[AdventVale]

I feel like Lady of the Lake's god reveal's give more information than this

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Their "god guides" won't even help noobs. I hope they're late April Fools jokes?

[scalpingsnake]

It's not a guide it's basically just a god reveal...

[SuperTeeds]

"But be careful as hunters can be easy to kill"
**dies to tower**

[Rioureverso]

I’ve been playing for 4 years now and the two things I miss the most are:
1) the know your gods series, where they went into great detail about fighting with and against a god. Everything from leveling up, builds, and countering.

2) the original format for the god reveals. I love seeing the beautiful art, hearing the stories, and then getting examples on how to fight and building guides

[clownsanity]

DukeSloth:
YOU CAN'T PLAY AND BUILD NEITH LIKE THAT!"

HighRez:
"Haha Neith goes brrrr"

[jasonsavage]

They're honestly useless. You could show this to any completely new player, they'd likely react with 'OK I understand most of that information' then go into a match and still have zero idea at all what to do because they've been taught nothing of any value.

Just basic explanations of how to use the kit would be soooo easy. 'Neith' s third ability, Backflip, can be used to set up a weave that can be used to strengthen her other abilities. However, be aware that this is her only ability that gets her away from enemies so it is often much better to keep this ability to use as a getaway skill when being attacked'. This will make you harder to kill in team fights and more likely to stay alive'.
Or
'Neith's fourth ability, World Weaver, is useful for killing low health enemies that could otherwise escape, or to give teammates an advantage by providing damage and crowd control even if Neith is a long distance away'.
And so on.

Telling new players what abilities do is absolutely useless. Giving basic tips on HOW to use them is what will actually get them some way towards grasping the basics.

But hey, what can we really expect from the company that brought us the OG 'build meditation on Neith' tutorial? 🤦‍♂️

[lucashaughton]

Idk man if you don’t know what map awareness means maybe you should go play something else it’s in the name.

[TheCubePortal]

I disagree that the information they provide is redundant since you can just read the abilities in game, because most new players, including me the first few years i played smite, didn't bother reading abilities and preferred a video. Even now I need to watch a video of someone playing a god after reading the abilities to fully understand how they work because I'm more of a visual learner. I agree that they could've mentioned the general stats to look for with each god, like mentioning to build items that support AA's but i think they wanted to make it as short and sweet as possible.

[ilumi]

Because is a hard game with an iincredibly toxic comunity, nobody helps you but everyone insults you

[MeowndXD]

They can't go into any specific detail about the gods because they're constantly being changed and reworked. They have to keep it vague and say "Diminishing results" for neiths ult because maybe in the future the decrease in stun/damage might be altered

[franciscolaurean]

Double J had more info in his old how to play vids

[ralphcabiling]

Dude, I completely agree with you. I only saw one guide and got completely confused and angry at how useless it was. It was so useless and hollow

[markieniemanie]

Many players I know, and even content creators on youtube, don't like reading. In depth guides are great but they get outdated real fast and are already being made by the community. Why would HiRez want to pay for something people are already putting out for free if, like you said, the people who do it for free do it better anyway? For newer players who are not into reading these guides are a great way to get an understanding of how the kit works and interacts and you can literally watch them in the time it takes you to queue an average game.

[danielburgos]

Honestly I get where your coming from but I think having them there doesn't hurt anyone if players use the resource that's great if they don't that's fine I think if anything it's a great way to show case an ability before you get into a game so you understand how to use it and how it synergizes with other abilities instead of wasting time in game figuring it out

[TheUndeadShark]

As a new player when i saw those"guides" at first, i was happy, i was like "hey, an actual guide on how to play"

After i Saw the vid: "thanks, but i can read you know ?"

[Jonatron]

They’re just reading the ability page. Great. With less information. GreatGreat.

[jm-tywz]

They couldn’t even take 1 minute to explain what a global ultimate is...

[jmelendeasy]

I know too many ppl who just straight up choose not to read the ability info but still naggingly ask questions. These videos are probably sufficient for genuinely new players.

[hasan]

Last time I was this early Ra was a chicken