Definitive Chronos Conquest Mid and Duo Lane Guide

Hi, this guide is brought to you by Kriega1, I started playing Smite on PS4 in 2016 around Erlang Shen's release in Season 3, and eventually long term migrated to PC Smite around mid Season 7. I have peaked GM/Masters on PS4 and Masters in Ranked Conquest on PC. I also am a Mentor on the Official Smite Discord where I focus on general building for each role. I hope you find this guide as a useful learning resource for playing Chronos in the Mid and ADC roles.

• Start at the Fire Giant side Speed/Red buff. When it spawns, hit it with an auto attack to leash/aggro the camp and pull it towards the intersection (towards mid lane) between the Speed and Red buff camps, at the same time your Jungler will have leashed the Red/Speed buff towards the intersection.
  
  
• As the 2 camps position together use Time Rift to clear the camps. Make sure to pickup the Red buff once it has dropped. After these camps are cleared you will be level 2.
  
  
• Now quickly make your way to the Gold Fury side Speed buff, if your jungler has not reached it yet (they should be) then leash the camp yourself towards the mid lane while you use Time Rift to clear the camp. Avoid pulling the camp into tower range if possible. After this you will immediately head to lane while your jungler will typically clear the xp camp to the side of the green buff.
  
  
• From here you will usually meet the enemy mid in lane on the first wave. Depending on yours and their early pressure/clear and positioning you will decide whether you'll be able to fight or not and whether you'll be able to use Time Rift on just the wave, or be able to use Time Rift and Stop Time aggressively.
  
  
• How it goes from here will determine: if it's just a stalemate, you or your jungler has kill potential, if you will have mid camp pressure or if you'll have to back towards your tower line and safe clear.
  
  
• From here you'll mainly be looking to clear waves, contest mid camps, clear the damage buff, assist support with health buff clear (once they rotate over from duo), and being aware of rotation opportunities.
  
  
• In some cases you may be able to steal enemy side jungle farm but it is risky and not that generally beneficial for direct farm compared to your own side's farm and controlling neutral farm, but can be useful to put the enemy further behind.

• Start at the Gold Fury side Health (Green) Buff. When it spawns, hit it with an auto attack to leash/aggro the camp and pull it towards the intersection between the Purple Camp and Health camp that leads towards the duo lane entrance, at the same time your Support will have leashed the Purple camp towards this same point.
  
  
• As the 2 camps position together use Time Rift to clear the camps making sure it hits as many jungle creeps as possible and make sure to prioritise killing the Health buff holder first because it can heal the nearby Jungle creeps. Then pick up the Purple buff and make your way to Duo lane.
  
  
• From here you will meet the enemy ADC and Support in lane with your Support on the first wave. Depending on yours and their early pressure/clear and positioning you will decide whether you'll be able to fight or not and whether you'll be able to use Time Rift on just the wave, or be able to use Time Rift and Stop Time aggressively.
  
  
• How it goes from here will determine: if it's just a stalemate, you or your support has kill potential, if you will have Shield buff pressure or if you'll have to back towards your tower line and safe clear. You will also need to be aware of the enemy Jungler / Mid possibly rotating to Duo lane to gank when you are around Levels 3 / 4 onwards.
  
  
• From here you'll mainly be looking to clear waves, contest Shield buff, clear the Attack Speed buff, and being aware of rotation opportunities (Totem, Gold Fury). If you have pressure in lane you may also consider freezing the wave to starve the enemy ADC from farm, on the other hand if the enemy ADC is trying to do the same to you (maybe also with their Support rotating more to your lane) you can try freeze / last hit minions by your tower so you can farm more safely.
  
  
• In some cases you may be able to steal the enemy Attack Speed buff to put the enemy further behind, but can be risky and make you likely to be ganked easily.

• As the match goes towards the mid game, other than the usual farm opportunities you'll be looking to control the Stygian Beacon for your team and try attempt, contest and steal (if the enemy is attempting to kill them) the Gold Fury and Pyromancer objectives.
  
  
• When the Beacon spawns often both teams will try rotate over to control it, especially the mid, support and jungle. In 1vs1 cases you'll have to decide whether you or the other enemy has more kill potential and who is more likely to have their teammates to rotate over first to impact your decision if contesting the beacon will be worth it.
  
  
• As for Gold Fury and Pyromancer opportunities they will vary on factors such as: your team's overall objective shred, your ADC's current objective shred / build, your team's map pressure, how strong each team's teamfight is, where on the map everyone is (i.e. if one team is doing Gold, the other may decide to do Pyro as a smaller trade), if any members of the enemy team are on a respawn timer, etc...

• At this stage you'll mainly be looking at wave pushing, contesting Fire Giant, and Phoenix sieging / Phoenix defense, though Pyromancer and Gold Fury (especially Oni variant) will still be somewhat relevant but less important.
  
  
• As for late game teamfights, most often you will be positioned in the "backline" (behind your team's solo and support - who generally are the "frontline") and will play around your Mid/ADC to deal with the enemy frontline and jungler, while making sure to put out as much damage as possible to the highest threats on the enemy team.
  
  
• When it comes to Fire Giant opportunities, often there can be stalemates where both teams will try to force a teamfight or look for lone picks in order to gain an advantage, sometimes involving one team going for a non fully committing attempt at doing the objective to bait the other team to step up.

• Green: Placing wards at these locations on both sides of the lane give you good general vision of the nearby jungle, giving vision of the entrances to your lane so you can see incoming ganks.
  
  
• Purple: You can place a ward directly in front of the enemy tower (but not within its range), which can give you a lot of information if you keep an eye on the mini-map. If they are sitting on the ward in mid, you know where they are. If their icons push further into the lane, you can assume they are pushing. If they go towards the right or left jungles you can make early calls on "Be Carefuls" or "Enemy Incoming" or you can assume they are doing their buff camps. If their icons move backwards towards their tower you can generally assume that they are going to one of the back pathways into the jungle, likely to clear camps.

• Green: Standard locations to place wards, especially for the ADC. These give you a good view of the main entrances to your lane to warn you of incoming ganks from both the enemy and your sides of the map. These are solid locations if you're in the middle of the lane or playing defensively.
  
  
• Yellow: These ADC ward placements are more effective when you're pushing your lane and you want early notice of enemies coming to gank. Precise placement of the ward near the enemy buff can give you vision on the buff timer.
  
  
• Orange: These wards are typically where the Support should place their wards, especially when the ADC is being responsible and doing their own wards. These allow you to get significantly more vision on the enemy jungle, especially near some of their camps, and can also help the Mid-laner. If the ADC hasn't placed wards and you're looking to cover them, you can choose any of the other locations.

• White Circles: These are all offensive locations that allow you to spot enemies near to or approaching objectives, and are helpful in covering multiple approaches. The closer you get to the Fire Giant, the more contested those spots will be and the more likely enemies will try to counter-ward.
  
  The ones closest to the enemy base can give you very early notice.
  
  
• Red Circles: Fairly obvious, but it's always good to have vision on the main jungle objectives, especially the Fire Giant. Sentry Wards are key here, as they allow you to spot and remove enemy wards. You can place wards directly on top of the objectives, or put them slightly to one side to try to spot enemy wards or protect yours from being detected.

Sentry Ward