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In theory can play all roles? I've played her mid and solo lane mainly, because of that great heal i've played her in the support duo lane occasionally, but i have yet to try her in jungle.

In theory can she jungle? Has anyone tried? She has heal and later levels her 3 does loads of damage depending on the build. I know she is so weak early game, but once she gets a few items shes a monster. My concern is shes slow and only 3 damaging abilities and one slow, so her gank potential may be lacking early game before she bursts.

Also side question whats more preferred a support healer like or support tank

I usually pick mage support if solo lane is physical and tank support if solo lane is a mage.

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I have, worked pretty well, but your early game is a huge pain and ganking someone like Agni or Sun Wukong is pretty much impossible.

I build her as a support bursty bruiser. Yes, Hel can be all three, because she's Hel.

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she can't play adc so you auto lose because that is a role hel can't play. :D

jokes a side. everygod can play support, solo and close to all can play jungle so you are not wrong, hel is just not special.

its more about what god can do which role BETTER.

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She can jungle...but why? That's the short answer. With the jungling items and routes in smite, literally anyone can jungle, but there's reasons why people don't, and shouldn't.

Hel can jungle moderately well, but her ganks are iffy, with only a slow to provide CC and damage that requires very close proximity (unless you consider her linear, moderate speed shot enough to kill someone). Her ganks are subpar, so she doesn't really shine until teamfights.

The problem with that, is junglers are REQUIRED to be early game threats to provide gank pressure to let their lanes win. Junglers that are ONLY good in teamfights are useless - they aren't good until teamfights, and by then their team has lost heavily enough to not be useful in teamfights.

But as far as a jungler, and not a ganker, goes...she's "ok"

Support tanks are more required. They are needed to tank shots and provide initiation. Supports go mid because they undoubtedly have sustain (Aphro, Chang'e, Ra, and Hel all have heals), whlie putting out a decent amount of damage. Aphro suffers from losing her passive and secondary abilities, but she can live ok. Supports almost always need to actually be tanks though, especially to tank Gold Fury once the long lane tower is taken.

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Ok i suppose all gods can play in all positions. to me feels strong in all, may not be the best in all but her effectiveness doesn't seem to drop too much wherever shes played. I'm trying to find a good all rounder XD Just wanted to see if shes viable in the Jungle, but im comfortable with support and jungle, but i'm yet to learn the jungle role XD

Thanks for the feedback!

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No problem. My suggestion is instead of trying to play one god in all roles, master a select few gods. So you've got Hel. Pick up a nice tank, a carry, and an assassin, and you should be set.

Neith and Athena are solid choices for the first two that don't seem to ever lose their viability due to their kit. Assassins (or junglers in general) include Ne Zha, Thor, Mercury, Loki, and Hun Batz, if you desire.

That way if you decide to go into ranked and a god gets banned out, you have a fall back.

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The main things that matter when picking a jungle is having an initiate and an escape. Neither of which has (bar her speed buff). She can be destroyed in 1v1 by most "usual" jungle gods, which is also a weakness that will definitely be exploited by the enemy jungle. She simply can't outheal an assassin's damage without having a tower or somewhere safe to get to first either (most assassins are built to "stick" to people, combined with typically incredibly high basic attack damage = casters are easy targets).

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She can jungle...but why?

This might not be helpful, but she's the only jungler who can conceivably heal any lanes she's passing through, and any 2 v 2 teamfights she's in (mid furies) are likely to end in her favor.

I mean, imagine requesting a heal, and 10-20 seconds later you recover 15-25% of your health, virtually free of charge. That's pretty darn powerful.

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Like Subzero008 said, I wouldn't be too quick to devalue a good heal. Technically a Gank isn't a kill or even damage to the enemy, it's about shaking things up and shifting the odds. A really good hill could be just what was needed.

Not to mention any other Magic characters could easily benefit just from her 2.

Hi guys. Just liked this topic, as I'm a fan of Hel. :D

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I've only played a few games with her as Jungler, and I'm not an experience jungler, myself. The main problem with her is that her intiation is poor, and her early game clear and mana consumption is horrid. However, if her allies in the lane she's ganking can initiate well, or are good tower divers, then she can really put the hurting on the enemy team. In addition, her ability to keep lanes sustaining with her heals in unique and very powerful, and she transitions into late-game far better than many assassins.

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