Bake Kujira Support Conquest Guide

Hey there, I go by Dashboarrd and I'm a Grandmaster Support Conquest player. I've competed in the SCC (Smite Challenger Circuit) and I have won SOC (Smite Open Circuit). I have also won plenty of gem tourneys during the weekends, such as Iced and Vulpis. I have put in many hours into Smite and in particular Bake Kujira. I hope this guide can give you some new direction with Bake Kujira if you're struggling with him, or just improve your overall Bake Kujira gameplay.


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Note: Bake Kujira passive might seem a bit complex but all it is, is converting a percentage of his protections into autoattack power. Also for every 1% of attack speed he gets 1% haste. Haste is pretty much the ability to move while auto attacking. When you auto attack in Smite, your movement speed is automatically reduced to 50% of it's value. Haste reduces this reduction allowing you to move more freely while auto attacking.

Passive - Curse of the Ghost Whale To maximize this passive to it's fullest extent, it's all about getting a ton of protections and attack speed when you can. This is why I really like Shogun's Kusari on him because it's a mixture of protections and attack speed as well as cooldown. You also want to get CC'd so you can apply damage reduction to the target that CC'd you. This also compliments his 2nd ability Sonic Wave because it's stacks and amplifies this damage reduction.

Ability 1 - Rough Waters This ability is pretty much a self-buff to Bake Kujira. It widens the range of your autoattacks and gives you protections based on who your autoattacking. The big thing for this ability though is every time you autoattack a target you get protections which increases your autoattacks damage because of your passive.

Ability 2 - Sonic Wave Sonic Wave is a really nice ability that has a deceptively large amount of utility to it. It can slow targets as well as reduce the damage they do. And if you use it in conjunction with your passive, you get amplified slow and reduction making the effects more potent. I would use this as a small form of peel. The damage reduction and slow effects can help your ally hit their target and take less damage, thus staying in the fight for a longer period of time.

Ability 3 - Twisting Dive This ability is going to be the more traditional form of CC found in his kit. It has a knockback to a stun, kind of like Hercules' driving strike. What's interesting is the stun is actually applied first, so you can knockback targets who are knockback immune. I would actually max this ability first, because you 3x the stun duration (0.5 to 1.5 seconds) as you max it. However, you can also put say 3 points into it, then max his 2nd ability, the choice is yours.

Ultimate - Yokai's Lament Super cool ability with a time dilation effect. The only other one in Smite is Olorun's ultimate. I would use this as a form of peel when your backline gets dove as it makes it really hard for the enemy to followup on damage or move around. Also if the enemy is close enough to you while this ability is active, instead of having slowing procs of time dilation, they instead take increased damage. The last thing to note about this ability is because they are stacks overtime, it'll be more potent the later the ability lasts on a target. But also when they leave the radius of this ability, they lose the stacks overtime. So essentially they are still effected by your ultimate even after they leave the radius of your ultimate.

A combo your abilities is to make sure you spam Sonic Wave as much as possible with your 1st ability active since it reduces Sonic Wave's cooldown for each autoattack you hit an enemy with. So you'll get Sonic Wave up pretty quickly in fights.

• Support should start purple and pull it outwards. In this time your ADC should be pulling Green and dragging it towards you (or vice versa). When both buffs are grouped, as you clear them pull them towards the lane. Watch out for invades!
  
  
• From here you should be sitting in duo lane for a majority of the early game. You want to stay there to contest protection (or shield) buff and pressure with your ADC. If you have enough pressure you can also invade their camps, such as Purple buff and their backcamps, even Green buff.

• Around the mid game you want to now start to play around the middle of the map as more objectives are spawning now.
  
  
• These objectives consist of Beacon, Oracles, and Pyromancer. Try to pressure mid t1 tower too if your team has the pressure for it. Once that's down it creates map pressure from mid lane.

• Here you want to make sure to use your kit effectively. Bake Kujira can be played as a protector or as an aggressor, although his engage or ability to start the fight isn't the best. You want to take all the damage reduction you have and use it to reduce aggro pressure on your carries. If they get jumped on then it's a perfect time to ult. It's also a perfect time to use Twisting Dive as a pushback and stun tool. Make sure to spam Sonic Wave on enemies looking to harm your allies since their damage output will be reduced once hit by this ability.

That ward you're buying in the early game, you want to place it at the area between their purple and shield camp about 23 seconds or sooner before the game actually starts, if you think you'll have pressure.

If you don't think you'll have pressure, place that same ward on your side in the same area about 10 seconds prior to the game starting. This will give you early gank info.

If you're able to get 2 wards at the start, place one defensively and one offensively in the same spots.

As you're playing through duo lane you really want to ward their backcamps for info for your team. Get 2 wards, typically after you buy Thebes, and place them at their purple buff or their back camps and their green buff.

Try to refresh these wards as often as you can. They give very good info on where the enemy jungler is at and if the enemy team is mobilizing towards duo side to setup for a Gold Fury.

In the map below, the red circles indicate the spots that you should ward aggressively and the blue circles indicate the spots you should ward passively.



Of course this depends where you're at in the game. But around fire giant, same concept. Try to get high wards around their backcamps, red, and even blue buff to give your team info.

On offensive sieges, try to place a sentry ward between their phoenixes that you're about to siege to gain info on people playing that gap. These wards are indicated by the Red circles on the map.

On defensive sieges, place a sentry between phoenixes they're about to siege so you and your team can play that gap area without worry. These wards are indicated by the Blue circles on the map.