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Little Feat: Vamana Guide (S7)

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Smite God: Vamana

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Vamana Build

Suggested Build

Notes

Swap Gladiator's Shield for Mantle of Discord.
Swap Warrior Tabi for Heartseeker after buying Elixir of Speed.

Gladiator's Shield

Warrior Tabi

Hastened Katana

Breastplate of Valor

Runic Shield

Hide of the Urchin

Starter

Warrior's Blessing

Chalice of Healing

Multi Potion

Core

Breastplate of Valor

Warrior Tabi

Hastened Katana

Additional

Runic Shield

Talisman of Energy

Mantle of Discord

Hide of the Urchin

Heartseeker

Shifter's Shield

Situational

Pestilence

Ancile

Pridwen

Contagion

Void Shield

Hide of the Nemean Lion

Relics

Teleport Fragment

Shield of Thorns

Blink Rune

Heavenly Wings

Vamana's Skill Order

Clear The Path

1 X

4 13 14 15 16

Armored Umbrella

2 A

2 8 10 11 12

Umbrellarang

3 B

1 3 6 7 9

Colossal Fury

4 Y

5 17 18 19 20

4 13 14 15 16

Clear The Path

1 X

Vamana opens his umbrella in front of him and sprints forward, doing damage to all enemies and knocking them into the air.

Ability Type: Dash, Knockup, Damage
Damage: 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+60% of your Physical Power)
Cost: 70
Cooldown: 14s

2 8 10 11 12

Armored Umbrella

2 A

Vamana infuses his umbrella with his armor, reinforcing it while he strikes forth, doing damage to all enemies in a cone.

Ability Type: Cone, Damage
Damage: 85 / 135 / 185 / 235 / 285 (+70% of your Physical Power)
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 13 / 12.5 / 12 / 11.5 / 11s

1 3 6 7 9

Umbrellarang

3 B

Vamana spins an umbrella out in front of him, hitting everyone in its path for damage and slowing your enemies' attack and movement speeds. After reaching its destination, the umbrella returns back to Vamana, hitting everyone in its path again.

Ability Type: Line, Slow, Damage
Damage: 55 / 90 / 125 / 160 / 195 (+50% of your Physical Power)
Attack / Movement Speed Slow: 25%
Speed Slow Duration: 3s
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 13s

5 17 18 19 20

Colossal Fury

4 Y

Vamana grows to an enormous giant for 5s gaining immunity to Crowd Control, Protections, Physical Power, Physical Lifesteal, a stacking shield that cannot exceed 1000 Health, and his Basic Attacks now damage all nearby enemies. His Movement Penalty for Attacking, Backpedaling, and Strafing are reduced by 20% while in this state. Successful attacks on enemies also provide stacking Movement Speed for 3s. When Vamana is in Colossal form, taking damage from gods increases the duration to a max of 9s and Vamana can pass through player made walls. You may cancel his giant form early.

Ability Type: Area Basic, Buff
Protections: 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45
Physical Power: 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45
Physical Lifesteal: 30%
Shield: 0.9% of Maximum Health per .2 second
Movement Speed: 3% stacking 5 times
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

My Introduction

Greetings fellow users of Smitefire, Stuke here with a new guide. In this new installment of my warrior series, I'll be looking at the most humble, underestimated, and smallest Avatar of Vishnu, Vamana.
Note: you don't have to follow this guide to the smallest detail, these are suggestions on how to play Vamana. I encourage you to look at the comment section below and see other suggestions.

Who is Vamana?

Vamana is a physical melee warrior that is great at being a counter to other physical gods thanks to his passive Sleeping Giant as a chunk of his power comes from his physical protection. Extremely well in the solo lane, Vamana is the most underrated warrior in Smite. As usual underrated doesn't mean bad, and Vamana can do some serious damage.

Pros and Cons

Pros

High Defense
Good Sustain
Decent Damage
The King of Stalemates

Cons

Slow in Colossal Form.
Problem against anti-heals, protection reduction, and penetration.
Only form of sustain comes from his ultimate.

Skills

This passive is unique as the more hits you take during your ultimate, the longer it lasts. Also, the more physical protection you get, the more powerful you become. When playing Vamana takes full advantage of this passive and uses it properly.

It's your standard dash and knock-up ability. Not much to this ability, but it can be used to catch up to your target, run away, or create confusion in a team fight.

Your standard cone-shaped attack; it might seem like his abilities are straight-forward, but when they are used in conjunction with his other abilities they can surely do some damage.

This is what puts Vamana in the solo, this ability is a great lane clear and since it has a double-tap effect it can make clearing the lane when at higher levels a lot easier. this ability also has a slow effect when you hit an enemy with it.

This is where Vamana shines, his ultimate makes him a giant, and his protection and power increase for the duration. His basic attack also turns into AoE damage.

Items to Consider

Vamana's itemization is heavily reliant on his kit, specifically his passive and his abilities to support his basic based playstyle. Protections (specifically physical), power, and movement speed to help keep up with an enemy that tries to run away. Here is a selection of items that can synergize with Vamana that could be a nice addition to your build.

While for most basic-attack warriors they would want to take but for Vamana getting Hastened Katana works better since you want to go faster instead of making the enemy slower.

Tips, Tricks, & Combos

Build Dependency
His passive, Sleeping Giant, gives him more power the more physical protections you have so you need to build him accordingly to not only get the passive to go off but to be able to take on any opponent whether they be physical or magical.
Get Big
While Vamana has good ability damage, the best way to take care of an enemy god and or tower, use your ultimate Colossal Fury for your main form of aggression as you gain a significant boost in protection, power, and even get a Health per Second that is perfect for when you want to make a big push in your lane or team fight.
Slow Down or Speed Up
While in his Giant Form, Vamana cannot use his abilities or relics. So, before you pop your ult, you need to find a way to either keep you fast or slow your target down to keep applying more and more damage. The best options are to either: hit them with your abilities to get close the gap or use your Heavenly Wings or Horrific Emblem relics.
Simplicity is the most Complex
While Vamana’s abilities seem simple in design, his kit is very complex as you got to know which ability to use at the right time and combo them properly to get the most out of it.

Want to do quick damage or long term control, it's up to you for the situation. I'd recommend you get before using Combo 2 more often so you can keep up with your target.

Slowing down and smacking around any enemy gods or minions during the laning phase will be your standard combo while clearing or damaging combo during a fight.

Ultimate Combo

Combinging Combo 1 and 2 with the addition of your ultimate to keep up the pressure as well as becoming a absolute tank your yourself and you teammates.

Stages of the Game

Early Game

During this stage of the game, you need to wait it out as Vamana is a Late Game god and his abilities, protections, and basic damage are low at this point but is great at being a problem as his Stalemate Game is very strong throughout the game.

Middle Game

This isn't the part where Vamana is his best yet but now you can deal enough to take out an opponent or tower.

Late Game

Vamana shines the brightest in this stage as he is now a serious threat when he becomes a giant and can tank about everything the enemy team tries to throw at him.

Conclusion

To sum up it up, Vamana is a great god that not many even consider running mostly because not many know how to play him. Proven to be a great threat in the lane and team fights, Vamana can be a deciding factor of winning or losing the game if he can pull off his kit and build correctly. Always remember to build up with your excellent stalemate potential, catch the opponent out when they get fed up with you, and finish them off with your ult. Playing Vamana takes patience, but it will all work out in the end with massive punishment to the enemy.

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My build: warriors blessing,ninja tabi, bresplate or talisman of energy(or pestilence), hastened katana,kusari,toxic blade(if they have healing),oddisey bow and gladshield or the attack-speed shell(your election, I pref the attackspeed shield but the other one is also good)

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I would get Hastened after Breastplate and Runic

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You may have missed the double stacking heal pots from Season 6 are still in your build, also for your information Cadaceus shield doesn't work on % health regeneration (Vamana/Sun Wukong ult, the second part of Hercules heal and Ne Zha 2).

Hello,

Do you seriously recommend building Banana without 1 single penetration item?

I am confused. Is this by intention? How can you compete in solo or jungle without that?

Can someone please answer. I guess I am not seeing something here.
The rest of this guide is really nice, I enjoyed reading it.

Kind regards

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Hi metallicious,

One reference you might use is Smite Pro Builds. You can see what the pros have been building, and you can target individual gods, roles, etc.

In Solo, it's actually quite common to build full tank. Of course, you have the option of building pen items, from to , to more tanky options like . That said, you can still remain quite effective with 0 pen items...in the case of a god like , your main function is to tank damage and be a disruption.

Of course, you can always go more offensive to some degree, if you're steamrolling. (sticking power) and (there's your pen) are definitely options, though again...not core ones.

But yeah... isn't a high tier pick right now...barely picked in pro play...but take a look at some of these pro builds, and you'll see that pen of ANY type isn't always picked up.

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Is this the way Vamana should be built-full defence?

(143) |

Most of the time unless he is jungle and not solo. Could get lategame if you need a little extra damage.

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No jungle build? He seems to currently have the most success there, especially as a good counter pick to certain ADCs I believe.

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Herc

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Stuke do here next

I'm new to the Solo lane/ warriors...does Vamana's ultimate proc Frostbound or Fatalis?

I wouldn't recommend building frostbound, its not as effective as hastened katana.

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Yes it prods both

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Allways enjoy reading your guides very nice to look at and informative. One thing id think about though is building frostalis. Definetly know about each individual items upside, however building them together is in my personal opinion not recommended in most cases. Both items share the goal of sticking to your enemy and one of them should suffice in achieving that objective, especially with vamanas kit. Another defensive item could be built in to maximize his passive or when ahead something offensive. ImAlso not saying, that building the two together is inherently bad but definetly not recommendable for higher levels of play.

Nice guide. Very comprehensive and it's also very appealing to the eyes. Thumbs up!

I am going to learn Vamana for real now because he got that great remodel, now he is the warrior avatar of Vishnu.

But one notice. You seem to have a tad bit less protections than Vamana requires. He is in the heat of battle. Sure, it's a Conquest guide, but how would it go in Arena? Would you give a good arena build or is this build just as good?

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Table of Contents

My Introduction

Who is Vamana?

Pros and Cons

Skills

Items to Consider

Tips, Tricks, & Combos

Stages of the Game

Conclusion

Little Feat: Vamana Guide (S7)

Smite God: Vamana

Vamana Build

Suggested Build

Starter

Core

Additional

Situational

Relics

Vamana's Skill Order

Clear The Path

Armored Umbrella

Umbrellarang

Colossal Fury

My Introduction

Who is Vamana?

Pros and Cons

Skills

Items to Consider

Tips, Tricks, & Combos

Stages of the Game

Conclusion

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