Smite mages in season 6
At the start of season 6 mage, itemization was changed. Certain core items from the past had big changes. Builds started to see more variety, choices made early had big impacts later. Book of thoth rush now became the mana build. Massive magical power builds disappeared with mages forced to make choices. Separate archetypes now exist very clearly burst builds, cooldown, hybrid and attack speed. Specializing in whatever strength each mage has to offer. Class now has a home within solo or middle lane. At the moment only two bad choices warlock staff, stone of fal. Warlock staff suffers from lacking value taking long time to stack. Stone of fal just outclassed by other options.
Very brief time playing ranked people like to play.
- Agni
- Anubis
- Hera
- Ra
- Kukukan
- Poseidon
- Scylla
- Vulcan
- Zhong Zui
Traditional burst mages which have some self peel. Odd one out is Zhong zui who likes more hybrid style build. I prefer playing Agni, Kukukan, poseidon and Scylla. Merlin is banned most games with Ao kuang. Jungle offers Ao kuang a home, sometimes solo like morrigan. Style of play centered around burst and pressure. Not played against hunters yet who are difficult to lane against. Only downside is lacking burst from a traditional mage. Zeus lack of mobility means many don’t touch him. Couple hidden gems like Raijinn, who is not bad at the moment. Most top picks don’t have any form of crowd control immunity. Healing focused mages sort of suck, battle mages do okay. Aphrodite gets bullied in solo, need a team around her. Jungle likes to pressure solo hard at the moment sometimes. Warriors provide so much pressure. Solo mainly about pressure with certain mages not coping to good against it. The morrigan has a surprising good solo match up. Utility offered by the ultimate outclasses most warriors in terms of team fight. Traditional battle mage Zhong zui offers pressure having sustain to cope. Don’t forget carry mages in duo having quite a bad time. Most being unable to provide pressure or be safe enough. Can still get away with it sometimes. Pressure is the name of the game across most lanes at the moment.