Why is ranked so Toxic?

Four months ago decided to stop playing ranked smite.  Playstation community was rather toxic. Seen more toxic messages from smite compared almost decade of playstation.  Personally suffered from insults.  Tonight was given four over couple hours.  Dozens messaging other players to report each other. Messages including ‘report for feeding’.   Inconvenience truth players have bad games. Reporting players for bad games, terrible attitude to hold. Behaviour like this means should not be playing ranked.  That attitude is setting you up to fail.

Decided to change my attitude, avoid any negative remarks.  Going to try be less toxic.  Avoiding anything which could be taken in negative way.

Experience with the community, toxic waste dump.  Threats of reporting players, over poor performance.   Telling people to uninstall, within low level ranked matches.  Players unwilling to give advice or take it.  Blaming others for any mistakes. We all have bad games, oh the horror.  Poor performance does happen, deal with it.  Learn how to play from behind.   Many players don’t learn how to do this.  Sometimes not your fault if your team not carrying any weight.  Team game after all can’t win without your team.

Negative reaction does not help.  How many times at school did teacher shout at you.  Did being shouted at improved your grades.  Shouting at your team does not help them improve.  No saint when comes to online gaming. Negative thoughts is going to have major impact.  Behaviour changes, decision making changes.  Have degree of respect treat others how you would like to be. Reporting them does not improve the matchmaking.  Deal with the cards in front of you. Learning how to deal with difference problems.

Wards

Any player can only carry three wards, placing just two. Four main routes into the fire giant one player can’t cover every inch. Need wards message should auto buy wards.  Every role should be picking up wards. No excuses as potions fall off hard late game.

Hunters follow 6 core build designs.  Certain early game items help smooth the power curve.  Builds listed are final don’t include the early game items.  Disclaimer don’t normally play hunters, build order is useful to understand.

Smite’s god pool has various gods which share similar traits.  Gods can have different playstyles want various different statistics.  Broken down each class into various archetypes. Far easier to remember compared to remembering builds which change all the time compared to archetypes.  More useful compared situational items builds.

Not going to cover Guardians or hunters due being easier to understand.

Assassins

Bruiser/basic attack

• Arachne
• Nemesis

Statistics needed attack speed, protections, health, cooldown and penetration.

All in basic attack

• Kali
• Bakasura

Statistics needed attack speed, penetration and super glue.

Ability – Warrior assassins love to use abilities to kill you. 

• Fenrir
• Hun Batz – Normally build one critical strike item due his passive.
• Ratatoskr
• Susano
• Thanatos – Given free penetration on scent of death 35 flat penetration.  Total flat penetration is 50.
• Thor

Statistics needed protections, health, cooldown and penetration.  Cooldown one key core statistic demanded from ability based assassins.  Main statistics priority cooldown plus penetration.  Statistics normally build cooldown, protections/health, penetration.

Hybrid

Awilix wants to be built like ability based assassin and little bit of attack speed.

Single target ability  

Kill one target and leave that pretty much what these gods do.

• Loki
• Bastet

Statistics needed power plus penetration love cooldown.

• Serqet
• Ne Zha

Statistics needed power plus penetration love cooldown.   Defense items plus one critical strike is good.

• Mercury

Statistics needed power plus critical strike.

Mages

Traditional – Magical based gods ranged based with powerful abilities.

• Agni
• ISIS
• Janus
• Kukulkan
• Nox
• Poseidon
• Ra
• Scylla
• Vulcan
• Zeus

Statistics required magical power, penetration main priorities.  Cooldown is useful but gain less magical damage compared to other items.  Health/mana helpful for survivability.

Burst mage  – Want you dead quickly and fast using abilities.

• Ah Punch
• Anubis
• Ao Kuang
• He Bo
• Nu Wa
• Raijin

Statistics required magical power, penetration main priorities.  Cooldown is useful but gain less magical damage compared to other items.  Health/mana helpful for survivability.

Basic attack – Powerful abilities with powerful basic attacks.

• Chronos
• Freya
• Sol

Statistics required magical power, penetration main priorities plus attack speed.  Cooldown is useful but gain less magical damage compared to other items.  Health/mana helpful for survivability.

Warrior/healer – Often have short range magical abilities like to be towards the front of any action. Often suffering from poor scaling.  Abilities often have high base damage.

• Aphrodite
• Chang’e
• Hades
• Hel
• Zhong Kui

Statistics needed protections, health, cooldown and penetration. Focus should be on cooldown/defense items plus penetration.  Depending on the god certain ones want cooldown sooner over later.  Health/mana with protections can out trade many burst mages helps with survivability.

Warriors

Basic attack – These warriors love to fight with basic attacks.  Following warriors fall into this group.

• Erlang shen
• Bellona
• Hercules
• Osiris
• Ravana
• Vamana

Statistics needed attack speed,  protections, health and power.  Cooldown is always nice to have on any god can be built last.  Main statistics priority protections/health followed by attack speed when playing these gods.

Ability based 

Warriors in this group love to hit you with abilities following fall into this group.

• Amatresau
• Chaac
• Guan Yu
• Sun wukong
• Tyr

Statistics needed protections, health, cooldown and penetration.  Cooldown one key core statistic demanded from ability based warriors.  Main statistics priority cooldown plus penetration.  Statistics normally build cooldown, protections/health, penetration.

Hybrid based

Within this group can be built hybrid building ability based or basic attack based.

• Amatresau
• Bellona
• Hercules
• Ravana
• Sun wukong
• Vamana

Statistics want mix of the above picking whatever you feel is required.

Recently been playing more when comes to competitive video games.  Platform of choice being smite playstation 4.   Never been into any competitive sports but always had a competitive edge.  Love getting into the mind of my opponent understanding what they are doing and why. Like many gamers enjoy the competition which games can provide.   End of the day games are meant to be fun and can be competitive.

Smite competitive matchmaking has been pretty iffy from easy games to super unbalanced nonsense.   Rather frustrating because pretty much forced carry games due how random it can be.  Worse still negative poor matchups can force you to make bad choices.  Experience so far has been rather frustrating just how bad some of my teammates can.  Makes ladder climbing one hell of a climb.

Not sure what else to add 🙁