Noobish, or advanced tactics?

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So I just played an assault match. I was ares, we had a vulcan, a guan yu, an odin, and a hun batz. The latter 3, who were apparently in a party, would always dive in whether or not it was a good idea (usually not). They dove at level 5 and, predictably, gave first blood. Then they just started diving later and attacking the turret (only now i notice that they always did it when ymirs cold blows was on CD, hm...) and just started hacking at it.

Funny thing is, the enemy actually lost their tower first. once the turret was aggro'd i went in and started melting faces, and eventually it was like they were simply giant minions. They dived, did a lot of damage, died, respawned, and we killed 3-4 of them. Me and vulcan simply held down the fort while they were respawning. They never took our second tower.

In the end, i was positive (12/9/16) and vulcan had destroyed (17/2/12) but the other 3 had 1/6-1/3 ratios, with 16-18 assists. The enemy had 10 more kills than us but we still won. And i can't tell you what guan yus healing was but it wasnt good, because he was dead so often.

It was the weirdest ~~Assault~~ SMITE game id ever played, bar none.

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I've experienced something similar before, although not quite the same. I was playing a Conquest match as Apollo and was quite frankly getting destroyed. My entire team was feeding hard, the enemy had 3 hard carries that were fed to hell and we had lost all our towers when eventually 4 of my teammates dove the entire enemy team under the left enemy tower. I was in right jungle at that point and knew I couldn't do anything to help them since my ult was down, so I jumped into midlane in an attempt to at least get a tower. My team died and I got the tower.

However, the enemy team didn't show up in mid, so I just continued pushing, and got both towers and the phoenix before their super fed Anhur finally showed up. I ulted home, and what do you know? My team dived again, so I made another split push attempt. This time I got their entire left lane. Rinse and repeat, for the third time in a row I was allowed to clear a lane and took right. After almost an hour we kind of just walked into their base through mid and killed the mino pretty much unopposed.

I have no idea what the enemy were even doing after wiping my team so often, but I was allowed to do as I pleased. We were 50 kills behind and all of us had at least died 4 times for every kill we had, but for some reason the enemy team just didn't push after getting our towers and kind of just handed us the win. It was one of the weirdest experiences I've had playing any game.

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Sounds like they might have been more interested in chasing kills than finishing the game. And if they were 3 hard carries I dont really blame them for thinking they can get away with it. (aside from the fact a single 4v5 while someone is halfway across the map can lead to a loss super late into the game)

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Sounds to me like the cards were dealt pretty well to yourself and Vulcan, and that the other team kept taking bait, rather than going after the bigger fish. Definitely don't think something like that happens too much, lol.

But then, I don't know. Maybe the three planned it out like that and are just very helpful. Doubt it, but don't know.

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Smart over-aggression is a good tactic in random games if you have the team for it, more so in modes like arena and assault. The average enemy is going to be waiting for the most common move and the most common move only. If you want something that's really OP, it's counter-meta stuff you can do with a good team in casual. An ares ult in arena is a good initiation, but add a Guan ult and Xbal jumping into the middle of them and you're going to win.

Doing something like team tower diving in assault where it will obviously end with multiple deaths in a best case scenario isn't something many teams are going to do. If they were lucky enough to get teammates smart enough to cover their suicidal charges and win the game, great. They're probably a lot more likely to be paired with people who play cautious and just spam VRR as the enemy team wipes them though.

That said, being afraid to die is a huge weakness of a lot of people. Pure KDR isn't everything, sometimes you need to die for the team to get a good trade. That's obviously an extreme example though.

I'm an aggressive player in general, and it's frustrating to rush past an enemy Ares after he ults and start chopping the Zeus apart... then get 5 on 1'd to death as my entire team walks back to base to heal off the couple hundred damage from the ult. I wish I played with more people like the OP, really. Clean up as the secondary wave is my favorite role.

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