So, I got in this arena match yesterday, https://smite.guru/match/941913075 , and our nemesis dc'ed very early into the match. Even as early as a month ago I probably wouldn't have countered nearly as effectively as I did this match to compensate from my second item. I am sure a lot of you, if you take the time to look, would have gone different routes. It was also a -sr match, we were -12sr. I know a lot of you don't put a lot of stock in that, but usually when I am in those matches and look back at them, those are most of my more difficult matches.
I made the decision very early to go aura protections to help my team because I figured being a member down we needed the extra group protections more than anything else. We ended up making a big push at the end and only ended up losing by 51 points and had gotten within about 30 at one point. My totals were not sexy 5/5/12 but we had to do a lot of running, pushed a mino or two through, and just kept hanging in there. I did mitigat…
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