This guide has not yet been updated for the current season. Please keep this in mind while reading. You can see the most recently updated guides on the browse guides page
Vote received! Would you like to let the author know their guide helped you and leave them a message?
Tainted Steel, buy 
Multi Potions instead of 
Healing Potions.
Buy whichever starter you want then the consumables. You can only buy one starter. If you get Tainted Steel, buy Multi Potions instead of Healing Potions.
Bluestone Pendant
Warrior's Axe
Tainted Steel
Chalice of Healing
Healing Potion
Bluestone Pendant for 
Void Shield when you get to your last slot.
Breastplate of Valor for 
Pridwen once your build is
Mantle of Discord.
Sell Bluestone Pendant for Void Shield when you get to your last slot.
Sell Breastplate of Valor for Pridwen once your build is
complete.
Sell your boots for Mantle of Discord.
Bluestone Pendant
Warrior Tabi
Breastplate of Valor
Genji's Guard
Caduceus Club
Shifter's Shield
Void Shield
Breastplate of Valor for Mantle of Discord once your build is complete. Shifter's Shield.
Sell Breastplate of Valor for Mantle of Discord once your build is complete.
Sell your boots for Shifter's Shield.
Warrior's Axe
Warrior Tabi
Breastplate of Valor
Genji's Guard
Caduceus Club
Sundering Axe
Void Shield
Breastplate of Valor for Mantle of Discord once your build is complete. Shifter's Shield.
Sell Breastplate of Valor for Mantle of Discord once your build is complete.
Sell your boots for Shifter's Shield.
Tainted Steel
Warrior Tabi
Breastplate of Valor
Genji's Guard
Caduceus Club
Tainted Breastplate
Void Shield
See the "Relics" chapter for situational pick-ups.
Blink Rune
Sundering Spear
Max the 3,1,2,4. Get your 2 at level 2 into Cu Chulainn if you have pressure.
Y
B
A
X
Tap each threat level to view Guan Yu’s threats
This guide is made by the mentor team from the SMITE Official Discord. Anyone can join and receive help from the mentors, participate in inhouses, look for people to play with, or just talk about the game with other people who enjoy SMITE.
Guan Yu is an excellent solo laner who has pressure in most matchups, great sustain, is extremely safe, dives well, abuses Caduceus Shield, and fits into most team comps well because he can play around his backline or dive the enemy's backline.
Strengths→ Great sustain → Low cooldowns → Very safe → Doesn't fall off late game |
Weaknesses→ Needs his team to play around him to be effective |
Bluestone Pendant variation has a more aggressive starter item which makes your laning phase better and will give you pressure over other gods who don't also start with Bluestone Pendant because you'll out clear them. The sustain on Bluestone makes the laning phase more forgiving and is very helpful if you plan to fight in lane early on. You have an extra slot in the build because you'll sell Bluestone Pendant late game. You'll use this build most games because this is the build you'll go if you plan to win your lane or match early pressure.
Warrior's Axe variation has a more passive starter which gives you a weaker early game so you'll have less pressure in lane. The upside of this build is that you'll have Sundering Axe, a ridiculously powerful tank item, later on in the game. Giving up lane pressure and your early game for a strong late-game upgrade isn't generally worth it unless you're in a matchup where you'd have no pressure and most likely lose the early game anyway. Getting a full item for only 1500 gold in the late game can help you get back in the game if you're behind, or keep up the pressure if you're ahead. This build is for when you're playing into a losing lane matchup like into 
Cthulhu or 
Cu Chulainn, or if you're not very comfortable in the solo lane.
Tainted Steel is a starter that doesn't feel as good as Bluestone Pendant because it lacks sustain but the power and protections make it a very strong starter item in lane for both clearing and trading with the enemy. Tainted Breastplate has very strong stats and the 50% anti-heal makes it the best anti-heal item in the game. This path is for when you want to have anti-heal in your build.
Guan Yu, you will almost always get two of these three relics: Blink Rune, Sundering Spear, and 
Purification Beads. Your first relic will be Blink Rune every game unless the enemy team has a jungler like 
Ao Kuang or 
Thor who abuses gods without cc immunity. In this case, get Purification Beads. While Guan Yu has a cc immune ult, having to always hold your ultimate for a possible gank is super crippling. Your second relic will be Blink Rune if you went Purfication Beads first, and Sundering Spear if you went Blink Rune first. 
Cursed Ankh is a good option that replaces Sundering Spear into gods like 
Aphrodite or 
Hel. 
Magic Shell is a good pickup if you're mostly playing around your backline and protecting them from gods like auto-attack-based gods like 
Mercury or 
Kali.
Start off by buying Bluestone Pendant, Warrior's Axe, or Tainted Steel and a Chalice of Healing. Get two Healing Potions and Blink Rune. Multi Potions can be useful if you plan to fight the enemy solo laner early on because the heal stacks on top of your Chalice. The extra mana sustain from them is really nice with Warrior's Axe and Tainted Steel.
Go to speed buff at the start of the game. Clear it as fast as possible and then head to mini harpy camp. Your jungler will be on the bigger harpy camp and will pull them towards you. Don't use Taolu Assault on the minis, hold it for clearing blue buff. After both camps are down, head to blue. Clear blue then go to lane.
Once you get to lane you should use your abilities primarily on the wave. You will get out cleared by most gods before you get boots if you go Warrior's Axe so play defensively and more conservative with your mana because you need to stay strong enough to defend your blue buff from a possible invade. If you went Bluestone Pendant your early levels will be much easier. You'll clear as well as most other gods and be able to play more aggressively because you have sustain on your starter item. The goal is to get full boots on your first back. If you don't get a kill in lane, you'll have enough gold once you clear the wave that comes after you get your second blue buff.
Warrior Tabi is the best boots option on Guan Yu since he has insanely high scaling and the power boosts the damage from his auto-attacks which already hit harder than most gods. You'll have good clear and be able to quickly kill people in lane once you have these boots. If your lane opponent doesn't have a leap or something to get them away from Cavalry Charge at this point in the game, you can use it on them as soon as you get back to lane with boots. Solos have around 1000 health at this point into the game and your ultimate will do about 650 damage.
As the solo laner and frontline during team fights, you want to be initiating for your jungler and pressuring their backline so they're not free casting onto your team. As Guan Yu you want to kill or zone a backliner with your jungler, or run back to your team to heal them. Either way, it's important to have a teammate near you because when you heal them your cooldowns are reduced. Guan Yu's first ability, Conviction and his second ability, Warrior's Will both have a 3.2s cooldown at max cooldown reduction after healing an allied god and dashing through an enemy god. Taolu Assault's and Cavalry Charge's cooldowns are also reduced when healing allies and dashing through enemies. You can get Guan's ultimate ability cooldown to 30s reliably. 25s is possible. Taolu Assault goes down to a 5s cooldown. Guan's cooldowns are insanely short in team fights. Guan can blink then dash on a squishy and once they dash away or if they don't have mobility he can ult and get the kill or get their Purification Beads and 
Aegis Amulet.
Using Taolu Assault before Conviction or Warrior's Will so that it will get the cooldown reduction from either healing allies or dashing through enemies. This lets you use it more often resulting in more damage done.
Using Taolu Assault is an easy way to build up Guan Yu's passive 
Painless. Use this before you use Conviction for a boosted heal.
Use Warrior's Will to dash through the enemy solo and the melee creeps, then run to the archers. This groups the wave so you can hit all 6 minions with Taolu Assault.
Don't be afraid to cancel your ult Cavalry Charge early after just 2 or 3 swings. It's mainly used for the CC. A 40% slow into a 2s stun is great setup.
At level 3 when you get Conviction you can heal your wave as well as yourself. This helps get pressure vs gods with bad early clear and punishes enemies for using abilities on you, not the wave.
Guan Yu is a mix of high damage, good cc, low cooldowns, and good sustain. He has everything a solo laner needs and with the rise of the healing meta, he's become unstoppable.
"With conviction charge forth on your warhorse and shred through armor and foe."
SMITEFire is the place to find the perfect build guide to take your game to the next level. Learn how to play a new god, or fine tune your favorite SMITE gods’s build and strategy.
Copyright © 2019 SMITEFire | All Rights Reserved
Berserker's Shield
Frostbound Hammer
Fearless
Rushing Terror
Comment has been deleted