Is Tyr Going to Get Nerfed?

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Hello everyone, new member of the forum and relatively new-ish member of Smite, and I've got a question thats been eating me for the longest time. Well, at least for as long as Tyr has been in the game at any rate.

I have currently discovered 3 gods which I play the best with. In respective order from best to worst: Tyr, Thor, Ne Zha. Since I had also purchased the ultimate god pack, I am able to explore further to find more gods I'm good at, but the first three are what I have so far. Of course this topic is concerning Tyr so I want to keep the focus on him.

I really love this god, and I've really become attached to his abilities and my item build I made for him. Surprisingly, if you build a bruiser with a carry in mind, they go a very long way if done correctly. If it worked as Thor (for me, I'm not sure how you guys do it), then its gotta work for Tyr, right?

Anyway, in some of the games I have played, some of my teammates make slight mentions of him being a bit 'overly OP'. And thats started to breed an unhealthy amount of worry in me. Since then, out of fear of developing too much reliance on him only to see him suffer a massive nerf, I stopped playing him. There's been a couple changes to Tyr already, but they aren't severe enough to destroy my build.

Why am I here? Well, beyond the fact Hi-Rez doesn't appear to have its own official forum for Smite (I suck at finding things, feel free to correct me on this >.<), and these [game]fire sites tend to have experienced players lurking in the forums, I figured the best chance I'll get a reliable answer is greater than bugging people in the Smite sections of social networks like reddit and whatnot.

Sorry for the unnecessarily long post overall, it simply boils down to this one simple question: Is Tyr looking at a possible nerf?

From my experience with him, I can say there's two possible ways this can go down, one of which will be the least severe for my build. The first one, the lesser of two evils in my opinion, is the nerfing of his passive. The second, and worst of the two, is they nerf his cooldown refresh with his Change Stance ability.

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Tyr will get his nerfs to make way for the next new, overpowered god.

You're also right about the official forums being gone, but there are a few separate community forums that have sprung up. Two of these include Smite.Boards.Net and Smitecommunity.com.

But there are a good few people here that are always willing to help, so this is a fine place to ask questions.

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Probably. I mean I've played him once or twice and seems to do massive damage for a bruiser (like Fenrir) yet has dear lord almighty sustain with meditation and his guard stance. All and all one of the most sustainable gods ATM, much like Hel in her prime, and I'd really hate to see him go through one of SMITE's *ahem* "experimental changes" and end up as useless as Vamana or Hel.

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So an overlooked nerf possibility can also be his sustainability? A reduction in his healing from a defense-stance power cleave?

Actually, I don't see that being too bad either. I don't use his defensive cleave very much anyway since I want to keep him on aggressive to line up a heavy damage ability combo.

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Some things gotta go. I mean its either take away his massive damage and give him a tanky sustain role or take away his massive sustain and give him a Fenrir-like role (which I don't see happening, otherwise guard stance would have no use.)

I normally use guard stance when I'm alone, seeing as if I get ganked I have extra defense and a surprise heal, and of course the dash to get away.

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I kinda play Tyr as a heavy hitting peeler, his aggressive fearless makes it very easy for him to shift aggro onto him after he pushes enemies away from their original target.

I hope they don't take away his high damage, I was never good at being a tank or otherwise tanky gods.

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He may stay, I me an he's not old Loki bad, or fed Xbalanque bad, but for a bruiser he hits pretty damn hard.

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He may stay, I me an he's not old Loki bad, or fed Xbalanque bad, but for a bruiser he hits pretty damn hard.

i don't compare him to them but more to a pysical version of a mage i mean he does so much damage with his abiliies that he is basicly a mage. and not like neith pys mage but as in full out right mage but just with pysical scaling.

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It'd be great if I can get more answers to this question, ease my mind a little and let me prepare on what might happen.

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Just wanted to give an update.

Apparently a new patch recently rolled in and there were a couple small changes made to Tyr. He cannot knockback enemies immune to CCs, and his knockback effects in both defensive Fearless and aggressive Power Cleave has been halved.

Not sure whether or not to think the knockback changes in the latter abilities is good, but it seems Hi-Rez must be trying to do their best to balance Tyr without inhibiting his power, defense, and ability refresh.

So, yeah. I'm quite happy to see stuff like this.

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