Smite picked and banned gods season 6
Decided to queue more ranked with friends over go solo. Climbing back towards platinum, after couple rough games. I been enjoying the grind even with the bad games. Top bans at the moment, King Arthur solo, Merlin Mid, Bakasura jungle, Pele jungle. First two are certain to be banned away. Sometimes Bakasura or Pele goes past the first ban stage. Certain gods I feel are currently underrated examples include Fenrir in the jungle.
King Arthur requires the jungle to camp solo. Forced to buy anti heal forced to invade the blue. Forced to apply pressure making the lane period difficult. One death is not good enough, couple are required to set him behind. Rise of AA junglers maybe this why people don’t like him. Quite frustrating to play against given his sustain and damage output. Team fights can be annoying dealing with him on the back.
Merlin is one strange ban given how the top pick junglers are the moment counter him. Guessing people don’t want to deal with his constant control and damage. Once any jungler sticks to Merlin he can find it difficult to escape. Quite unsafe compared to certain mages at the moment. Some respects bit like Zeus and Ah puch together.
Bakasura and pele have great matchups against most mid mages at the moment. Result most people end up banning these two gods. Pele can be countered by anti heal, bakasura hates any crowd control. Can be difficult to stop the snowball given eat minions. Weird world which Ao kuang not picked often at all.
Top picked jungle
- Ratatoskr
- Arachine
- Pele
Name of the game early pressure, arachine weak team fight forces her to pick people off. Build hybrid on Ratatoskr, pele can go hybird making them excellent team fight gods.
Top picked middle lane
- Agni
- Poseidon
- Raijin
Some early pressure with decent middle and excellent control late game in team fights.
Top picks solo lane
- Achilles
- Bellona
- Vamana
Early pressure and enough control for team fights. Main goal is jumping towards the back line.
Top picked supports
- Bacchus
- Kumbhakarna
- Slyvauns
Once again early pressure enough control later on.
Top picked carries
- Xbalanque – Often banned from my experience
- Cernunnos
- Hachiman
Not highest pressure in lane but most are safe enough.
Loads of pocket good picks which exist but the above are common ones.