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8.12 // Baba Yaga Build + Guide

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Smite God: Baba Yaga

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Baba Yaga Build

Starting Items

Sands of Time

Lost Artifact

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Base Build

Pendulum of Ages

Chronos' Pendant

Divine Ruin

Soul Reaver

Obsidian Shard

Rod of Tahuti

Tankier Build

Notes Can also replace with if there is absolutely no enemy healing, or with and get it later (probably after and before .)

Sacrificing damage for survivability with this build. You will also not have as much early pressure and it will be a while before your cooldowns are online.

With this build you will want to focus on clearing, getting online, and stacking it as fast as possible. You will want to play safer and just farm until mid-game.

Pendulum of Ages

Warlock's Staff

Divine Ruin

Soul Gem

Soul Reaver

Obsidian Shard

Baba Yaga's Skill Order

Wild Witchcraft

1 X

1 4 6 7 10

Baba's Brew

2 A

3 8 11 12 14

Blast Off!

3 B

2 15 16 18 19

Home Sweet Home

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

1 4 6 7 10

Wild Witchcraft

1 X

Baba Yaga throws forward magic imbued with chaotic qualities. The magic will travel in the path of a random shape (Left Corner, Right Corner, Split, or Oval) and leave behind a random magical field on the ground it flew over for 4s. The fields can boost friendly Protections, boost friendly Movement Speed, lower enemy Movement Speed, or Silence enemies.

Ability Type: Area, Crowd Control, Damage
Damage: 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300 (+70% of your Magical Power)
Protections: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 for 2s
Movement Speed: 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30% for 2s
Slow: 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30% for 2s
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 12s

3 8 11 12 14

Baba's Brew

2 A

Baba Yaga throws together random ingredients to brew a Potion. Each Eye of Newt increases the Potion’s Damage by 7.5%. Each Dragon Scale adds a 12.5% slow to enemies hit for 2.5s. Each Wolf Tooth adds a 7.5% Attack Speed slow and Power reduction to enemies hit for 5s. Baba Yaga can store a single Potion in her consumable slot refiring/canceling this ability. She can pull it out at any time to throw it.

Ability Type: Circle, Crowd Control, Damage
Damage: 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 / 225 (+70% of your Magical Power)
Ingredient Count: 3 / 3 / 4 / 4 / 5
Cost: 60
Cooldown: 10s

2 15 16 18 19

Blast Off!

3 B

Baba Yaga crawls inside her Mortar for protection. While inside the mortar she gains Damage Reduction, Knockup Protection, and begins to build up explosive magic. After 1s the magic explodes, launching Baba Yaga and her Mortar in the direction she is facing. Enemies near the Mortar when it explodes take damage.

Ability Type: Circle, Leap, Damage
Damage: 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 (+85% of your Magical Power)
Damage Reduction: 35%
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 14s

5 9 13 17 20

Home Sweet Home

4 Y

Baba Yaga calls down her Cabin, causing it to crash onto her and launch nearby enemies away. Baba Yaga commands the cabin for up to 8s, using it as a protective shield to create and throw 4 Witchfire Bolts from the inside. When the thrown Witchfire lands, it explodes dealing damage to enemies in the area while leaving behind a creeping patch of fire that chases nearby enemies. Enemies caught in the creeping fire take burn damage every 0.4s.

Ability Type: Circle, Buff, Damage
Landing Damage: 100 / 145 / 190 / 235 / 280 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Burst Damage: 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 (+30% of your Magical Power)
Burn Damage: 12 / 17 / 22 / 27 / 32 (+10% of your Magical Power)
Shield Health: 160 / 215 / 270 / 325 / 380 (+30% of your Magical Power)
Cost: 60 / i65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 90s

Pros + Cons

PROS
Built-in stacking + healing via
Her is decently hard to predict and accurately dodge.
She has a lot of soft CC, and the silence in her goes crazy.
Good AOE damage and self peel with her ultimate, , which knocks back enemies that are too close.

CONS
Her escape, has a long casting time and can easily be interrupted + canceled.
Her early clear and pressure is a little bad...
She has no hard CC like stuns, roots, etc. The most she can do alone is silence with her or knock enemies back with her .
Her abilities are still a LITTLE clunky and potion management gets irritating.

Abilities

You should read Baba Yaga's abilities in detail either through Smite or here: https://smite.fandom.com/wiki/Baba_Yaga

Baba Yaga's Cabin accumulates up to 100 essence over time, when it moves, and if enemy gods get too close. Baba Yaga can approach the Cabin and use this essence to gain evolving item stacks. Items with a low stack count take more energy. If Baba Yaga has no stacking item this essence heals Baba Yaga for 0.8% max health per tick.

Item Stack Cost: [400 / Item Max Stacks] essence

Heal Cost: 4 essence

Simplified Explanation

Baba Yaga throws together random ingredients to brew a Potion. Each Eye of Newt increases the Potion's Damage by 7.5%. Each Dragon Scale adds a 12.5% slow to enemies hit for 2.5s. Each Wolf Tooth adds a 7.5% Attack Speed slow and Power reduction to enemies hit for 5s. Baba Yaga can store a single Potion in her consumable slot refiring/canceling this ability. She can pull it out at any time to throw it.

Damage: 85/120/155/190/225 (+70% of your Magical Power)

Ingredient Count: 3/3/4/4/5

Cooldown: 14 seconds

Simplified Explanation

Baba Yaga crawls inside her Mortar for protection. While inside the mortar she gains Damage Mitigation, Knockup Protection, and begins to build up explosive magic. After 1s the magic explodes, launching Baba Yaga and her Mortar in the direction she is facing. Enemies near the Mortar when it explodes take damage.

Damage: 80/125/170/215/260 (+85% of your Magical Power)

Damage Mitigation: 25/27.5/30/32.5/35%

Cooldown: 14 seconds

Simplified Explanation

Baba Yaga calls down her Cabin, causing it to crash onto her and launch nearby enemies away. Baba Yaga commands the cabin for up to 8s, using it as a protective shield to create and throw 4 Witchfire Bolts from the inside. When the thrown Witchfire lands, it explodes dealing damage to enemies in the area while leaving behind a creeping patch of fire that chases nearby enemies. Enemies caught in the creeping fire take burn damage every 0.4s.

Landing Damage: 100/145/190/235/280 (+50% of your Magical Power)

Burst Damage: 75/105/135/165/195 (+35% of your Magical Power)

Burn Damage: 12/17/22/27/32 (+10% of your Magical Power)

Shield Health: 160/230/300/370/440 (+25% of your Magical Power)

Cooldown: 90 seconds

Simplified Explanation

Updated for 8.12

SORRY FOR THE LATE UPDATE I'VE BEEN BUSY WITH COLLEGE :S

UPDATED FOR 8.12: CHANGES YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BABA YAGA :]
Read the entire patch here: https://www.smitegame.com/news/titan-of-the-cosmos-8-12-update-notes/

Direct Baba Yaga changes:
None!

Indirect Baba Yaga changes:
has more power, as well as its t2 .
has more power, as well as its t2 .
got nerfed.

What this means for Baba; just an overall buff to items that she is using anyways. Also, the book build is dead.

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Why do we max her 1 first and not 2? With the 2 you ultimately have 2 charges of it if used correctly or is there something I'm missing

is book of thoth any good considering her passive im new sorry if its a dumb question

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It's absolutely not a dumb question, and it's something that people continue to consider, due to her added ease of stacking.

That said, I think most people opt NOT to pick up for . I think the only god that continues to use Thoth as a core item is . Keep in mind, it's an item you get for 2 things: magical power and mana. As you move toward late-game, you typically get a variety of items that provide either mana or MP5, and depending on your starter of choice (if you pick one up), you might not have many mana issues even early game. You're then left with just high power.

While the power is nice, this item costs a decent amount, and other items provide other utility features or penetration. I think at this point, you're better off considering other items. For stacking, both and are options. Otherwise, you can just go for a more standard mage build, like the one proposed here. You could consider an adjustment to the build order though, e.g. getting first, changing starter (consider into ), etc.

Hope this helps.

thanks for the reply! you helped alot

Thanks for the build! What would you build in arena, more CDR?

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I would swap for and swap for or !

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is also a good early pickup even in arena due to its base stats; the anti-heal is just a bonus.

Thanks for this, I just got Baba Yaga so hopefully I don't suk after doing my research.

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Have fun !!

Pretty good build, built this before on her, it do slap.

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Simple, excellent guide. Would like to see more exploration in items and relics, but overall solid.

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Smite God: Baba Yaga