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Magic Shoes
Hand Of The Gods (Old)
Mana Potion
Shoes of Focus
Shielded Teleport
Polynomicon
Rod of Tahuti
Demonic Grip
Fist of the Gods
Chronos' Pendant
Gem of Binding
Soul Reaver
Obsidian Shard
Fatalis
Ward
Telkhines Ring
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First guide. Working on "prettying" it up, as well as expanding on content and putting more depth into Gameplay. Also plan on adding a "difficulty against certain laners" section. As it is my first, criticism is more then welcome.
Color Meaning:
Purple = Something Important
Red = Something REALLY Important (Excluding Cons)
Orange = Passive Quadrant
Chronos. The God of Time. We all love owning with him and love to hate him. Chronos is one of the few hyper carry's in the world of Smite.
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Shoes of Focus Magic Shoes and on my first Back finish into Focus Shielded Teleport & Fist of the Gods
Hand of the Gods and 2x Mana Potions along with my shoes. This will make it so I can get Blue Buff on my own much quicker and help with emergency clear if needed. I usually like to finish into fist for that extra WTF! moment stun but not before starting my Core Item build as having a second stun is not as important. Hand of the Gods Has been nerfed. As of 2/6, HoG1 now has a 90 second cooldown. From the couple games I have tested, Chronos does not need HoG for clearing unless absolutely outpushed. I have continued with my usual gameplay, keeping HoG1 and finishing my core before moving on to Fist. 90 seconds is still much shorter then buff camp respawn and it should hardly be noticeable if you are clearing correctly. Shielded Teleport, if possible, I like to save enough gold that the first time I Back, I can finish my shoes and get level 2 Teleport to Tower. If I only have enough for level 1, so be it. It is better to go back and not die with a level 1 then stay to my death,though staying longer with Chronos is easier then most thanks to his very good sustain and survivability.|
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Polynomicon Accelerate and hit that tower with a solid 150+ damage! Early game, that is unreal, and it will only grow. Rod of Tahuti
Deathbringer of mages and will give you more raw magic power then any other item in the game. Once I finish this, everything I have will hurt like crazy. My abilities. My Polynomicon. Even my auto attacks will hit MUCH MUCH harder thanks to my 2, but Ill go more into that later. Demonic Grip Accelerate and hit the enemy god with that last prov of Poly to finish him just before he got away.
Obsidian Shard Chronos' Pendant Accelerate for about 3 seconds. It is very useful, but not needed. Gem of Binding Fatalis Soul Reaver Telkhines Ring Ward
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Accelerate, depends on what buff you get. It is a very good all-around passive that will be useful the entire match. Master keeping an eye on it and not activating your Accelerate until you get the buff you need.|
Quad 1.
Heal 1.5% Max HP per Second
Quad 2.
75% Mana Refund on Abilities
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+20% Magic Power
Quad 4.
+35% Magic Power to Auto Attacks
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Time Rift, has a slow and a stun. On the other hand, the damage is split in 2 over 1 second as is the slow then stun. Time Rift as it is a much more consistent form of clear that does just about the same damage. Level 3 will give you enough to kill the archers and a Time Rift to the melee's should do the trick.|
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Time Rift first. Why do they do this? Well because it does more damage Duh! BUT I SAY NAY! So the thing to remember is Chronos has very mediocre early-game clear and damage. "Well how do we fix this?" you might ask. Well level a different ability, silly! Now while looking at the ability description, Stop Time may SEEM to do a lot less damage, it actually hits twice. So 30 turns into 60. 40% into 80% and so on and so forth. Well hell! now it only does 20 less base damage and 5% less scaling then Time Rift! Boys our problem is solved! Stop Time to 3 before moving on to my higher damage and lower cooldown ability. NOW I max Time Rift since I now longer have to worry about the struggles of lane clearing. Now wasnt that easy? Rewind, but as with most non-damage ultimates, I shall not put anymore into it until I am finished with everything else. "Well why?" Ok if you would stop interrupting me, I would just tell you. Yes, it is your ultimate ability, but does it help you kill people? Maybe indirectly by resetting your cooldowns, but the ability itself does nothing to actually help you kill your enemy. Time Rift, then finish Stop Time, then work on Accelerate before finally finishing Rewind. Accelerate till after my other two abilities, because until you actually build some legit attack speed and magic power, your auto attacks arent going to be doing ****. It is simply a means to activate your passive and get rid of auto attack slowdown. So now you know... Time Rift is on the lowest cooldown while also doing the most damage. Level it first! Accelerate and Rewind. So level Stop Time next then move on as normal.
Stop Time. Followed by Time Rift to help you clear the whole wave, then Accelerate to start using your passive. Stop Time a bit to up your clearing potential. Until it is leveled to about 3 your probably going to have to use your Time Rift quite a bit to clear. HoG if absolutely needed, but try and save it for Blue Buff. Once Stop Time is level 3, start maxing Time Rift ASAP to maximize your damage. Try and time your Backing with your Shielded Teleport cooldown and always keep aware for potential ganks. Rewind, I usually dont buy wards till later in the game, but if they have a good burst jungler, the moment you see him jump in, just ulti out. Better safe then sorry. Stop Time followed by a Time Rift to the melee minions and maybe a couple auto's to the siege minions and the wave will be cleared right up. Rewind to full HP and finish them off with your refreshed CD's. This is useful in all forms of 1v1 combat until you have the burst to finish them quick, and is the best way to turn your ulti into offense. Stop Time isnt on cooldown. The moment he initates, be ready to throwout that stun, Time Rift, and auto attack away. Practice those skill shots because Time Rift is great for finishing off running enemy's if you can get the timing down. Accelerate on Quad 4, try and get as close as possible, hit them with your Stop Time. As they slow, make any adjustments needed then instantly drop your Time Rift under them. Now Auto Attack them to ruin. With a Poly and Rod, the first auto attack WILL hurt a LOT. This is a very good make-up for missing out on a damage ultimate, and if they have any breath left in them, keep wacking tennis balls at them till they are no more. Stop Time in the most chaotic part to do the most damage and keep letting Time Bombs... I mean Time Rift, blow. Accelerate on Quad 4. Stop Time gets off of cooldown, be sure to keep a lookout for any friendly's that could be in particularly big trouble. If so, dont hesitate to toss out a stun their way. This is a TEAM game after all. And with the overall massive size of your AoE stun, you have a powerful peel in hand to save a friend in need.
Chronos, lets get into the specifics and fine-tuning of many of the gameplay situations you will have to deal with.
Magic Shoes, Hand of the Gods, and 2 Mana Potions. This will give you the sustain and clear you need to get through a large portion of the early game before having to return to base and buy.|
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Orange = Speed Buff Blue = Mana/Cooldown Buff Red = Damage Buff Small Gold = Harpy Camps |
Hand of the Gods) Blue Buff right away to speed the clearing process.
65% win rate with about 100 games. That is of course including Arena and such. In just conquest I have a 70% win rate. Rank 6 with him. This is mainly for the guy that is super mad in my comments below. Enjoy!
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Nice guide btw.
Obsidian Shard is a great end-game situational simply for the fact that demonic grip's pen is applied through auto attacks. That means, unless you start with autos, that that pen is useless. Having Shard will make sure that when you initiate with 3 into 1 that they will truly hurt, as most gods get up to at least 60 magical protections base by the end of the game. It helps very much for those 3-hit 100-0 kills. But I would never suggest it before end-game.
I put that I personally disapprove of playing Chronos with defensive items. I feel hit built in speed, ulti, and sustain is more then enough to allow a glass cannon build with proper skill. However, as I said, I will probably add that simply for the hope of a broader guide.
As for TK? It is really just too much of a waste of money to me. It is helpful early game, but not for the price and the odds that you are probably going to sell it later anyways, losing even more money.
And finally on Beads, I will probably put that situationally as well, but if I am having that much trouble, I would probably just begin warding jungle and activate ulti before they have a chance to CC chain me. I honestly havent had a lot of trouble with CC as those that can usually land them on Chronos easier are melee gods with CC and keeping proper distance will usually keep you safe.
As for the tip on clearing minions, the only problem with relying on time rift to clear is that to stack the minions properly, you either need to hit the minions very early, meaning you may be far too far up, or you have to let the enemy clear first,k meaning you may be getting outpushed. I feel by leveling stop time just a bit, it allows me to clear safer and harass safer without having to be super aggressive and possibly ganked or be outpushed. Stop time is simply a much safer and quicker form of clear. But time rift's damage is surely very useful, which is why I explain my reason for not initially fully leveling it but adding 3 points to stop time first before finally rushing time rift. And because I do add 3 points to stop time first, you can indeed level time rift how I posted, not losing any time in maxing it, because if you focused leveling it before stop time, it wouldnt let you level it to 5 anyways until level 10. I will agree, it is far from the norm, but I have found it more successful for me.
I will, as I said, add your suggestions with your playstyle explained for those that may not fit mine. No god should be forced to play only 1 way and everyone can succeed in different ways.
I like the skill explanation and the BB coding, while somewhat unusual and sometimes overwhelming, is far from being too obstructive and 'blinding'.
The only problem I have with the skills is that you level up
As for the build; it's good. That's usually how I play
Just a final tip, the ideal way to clear waves with
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2) Cast
3) Cast
-That way you don't waste much mana as you get a refund for 75% mana refund for
I'll be glad to upvote this guide and I hope you'll improve it.
Sincerely,
Sanguis
https://www.smitefire.com/smite/guide/best-geb-arena-tank-high-damage-4037
On the other hand, this is my first trial with BBCode and I will take you up on that offer with a PM later on. This was thrown together with zero previous experiance but will continued to be updated and "pretty'd" up. Thats why I put that at the very top ;)
Ive also received a PM with a much different.... supporty bruisery Chronos solo build which I am probably going to add even though I cringe at a Chronos without real damage... But everyonehas their own playstyle so meh.
Either way, Thanks again!
Dark
PS. Ymir guide looks great even if I pretty much fully disagree with the build and such xD
There are only 2 problems I have with this guide:
1. I feel like I'm reading a wall of text. Try to liven the guide up. Pictures, videos, more aesthetics please! I wouldn't expect aestetic brilliance in your first post, but you should definately look into making it "prettier".
2. You picked a cookie-cutter God. There's nothing wrong with making a guide about Chronos, but the problem with him and several other Gods is that everyone uses the same build 99.99% of the time. What makes you different from all the rest. I think your on track to making a guide that gives us a taste of you, darks352, but for now I can't distinguish you from another Chronos guide.
This has great potential. Can't wait to check back on this guide later and see where you take it. If you have any questions regarding builds, BBCode, or anything in general, then hit me up with a PM!
Sincerely,
Sanguis