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Defense is the new offense (Breaking the defense cap)

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by umbozz updated April 23, 2024

Smite God: Ratatoskr

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Build Summary

Starter

Build Item Magic Acorn Magic Acorn
Build Item Bluestone Pendant Bluestone Pendant
Build Item Cudgel Cudgel
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
2
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion

Full Build

Notes You can replace prophetic cloak for something with more defense, like Gauntlet of Thebes or Mantle of Discord. The Prophetic cloak passive is very nice though.

Notes

You can replace prophetic cloak for something with more defense, like Gauntlet of Thebes or Mantle of Discord. The Prophetic cloak passive is very nice though.

Build Item Thickbark Acorn Thickbark Acorn
Build Item Corrupted Bluestone Corrupted Bluestone
Build Item Dawnbringer Dawnbringer
Build Item Prophetic Cloak Prophetic Cloak
Build Item Gladiator's Shield Gladiator's Shield
Build Item Glorious Pridwen Glorious Pridwen

Extended Build

optional

Build Item Flameforged Hammer Flameforged Hammer

Whats up with this build?

Under Lab conditions, this build can breach 500 physical defense.
(This is after hitting 4 odin bots)
The defense cap only applies to static defense directly gained from items. Temporary bonuses can push you over the cap.

We stack defenses and defense multipliers ( Thickbark Acorn, Corrupted Bluestone, Dawnbringer), and then use items which scale well with defense ( Pridwen, Gladiator's Shield). At the same time we benefit from stealing Protections via Thickbark Acorn.

The build also has a decent amount of power (though no pen) and attack speed from Corrupted Bluestone, so you can deal decent damage while relying on your def to keep you in the fight.

Does this work on other Gods?

A modified version of this build also works nicely with Achilles Radiant Glory, but his ultimate is usually used towards the end of a fight, meaning Dawnbringer and Pridwen arent as useful, so he isnt too well suited for this build, and it ends up being a default "stack def + glad shield" build.

Preferred Properties for other Gods to build this on:
    * Physical is preferred (to use Dawnbringer and Bluestone, and brawl with autos)
    * Defense increasing abilities (percentage > flat)
    * Ulti that a) is used to initiate, b) has low cooldown
    * Built for brawling (mobile, good basic attacks, flexible kit)
Let me know if you find someone this works with better than Rat!

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