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Benevolence
Shoes
Chalice of Healing
Hand of the Gods
Compassion
Shoes of Focus
Lotus Sickle
Genji's Guard
Pridwen
Spectral Armor
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Relic Dagger
Oni Hunter's Garb
Sovereignty
Mantle of Discord
Spectral Armor
Pestilence
Contagion
Soul Reaver
Ethereal Staff
Gem of Isolation
Void Stone
Winged Blade
Magic Shell
Heavenly Wings
Belt of Frenzy
Blink Rune
Horrific Emblem
Cloak of Meditation
Purification Beads
Yemoja has been one of Smite's strongest supports since her release, seeing lots of bans in SPL and high level ranked, and is (arguably) one of the highest skill-cap supports in the game. While she may seem simple at first glance, and she is if you just spam either 
Moonstrike or Mending Waters all game, she can have a lot of complexity beyond that if you try to utilise her kit fully. Riptide to its fullest potential, and learning proper placement of River's Rebuke, I'll try to cover as many of Yemoja's advanced tips and tricks as possible. Yemoja over around 100 games of masters ranked conquest, plus scrims and tournament games.
Overall Yemoja is a very strong support, but she does have clear upsides and downsides.
Yemoja's strengths include:
+ Great lane pressure
+ Good sustain lategame with her auto-attack passive and Mending Waters.
+ Long lockdown with 
Bouncing Bubble and Moonstrike.
+ River's Rebuke is a great area denial, escape blocking, walling off, or zoning tool.
+ Essential immunity to cripples, as Riptide ignores any cripples completely. Sorry 
Cupid.
However, she does have downsides, such as:
- Lack of any cc immunity in her kit, meaning she needs Purification Beads against gods like 
Nox or 
Ares.
- No "instant" escape (like a dash or jump), she needs to place Riptide and walk into it afterwards.
- These two factors make Yemoja easy to lock down by gods like Nox, 
Da Ji, or ***bakharna.
- River's Rebuke is easy to escape using jumps or 
Phantom Veil.
- If you manage your omi poorly you are pretty useless until it regenerates
Here's a quick rundown of all of Yemoja's abilities and their uses:
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Omi |
Omi is Yemoja's version of mana. Instead of losing mana every time she uses an ability, she loses stacks of omi (2 stacks to use Bouncing Bubble/ Moonstrike, or 3 to use Mending Waters or Riptide. River's Rebuke does not cost omi.) Yemoja starts with a max of 7 stacks of omi, and can gain 2 more by leveling up, as well as one additional stack for building 300 combined mana or mp5 from items. CDR increases the regeneration rate of Omi, making CDR a very important stat on her. Yemoja's auto attacks are ranged, and when they pass through allies they provide a small ticking heal, and a 10% healing recieved buff. This is great to use on your carry in lane, and before you use healing waters in a teamfight for some extra sustain. Always use an auto attack on your allies before you use healing waters on them.|
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Bouncing Bubble / Moonstrike |
Bouncing Bubble - you throw a bubble that, well, bounces. It bounces twice, then splits into many smaller bubbles that explode outwards. This ability does a little damage and slows. Moonstrike - it's hard to explain this one in a short paragraph. basically, some small outside circles build into one big centre circle that does bonus damage and stuns. This can also stun towers and phoenixes (no, I don't know why either.)|
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Mending Waters |
Mending Waters is a team- and self- heal that also applies a shield. It will automatically bounce to any teammates in its range after you hit it. The initial projectile can also go through and damage enemies for a small amount, doing bonus damage to shields. This ability costs 3 omi.|
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Riptide |
Riptide is Yemoja's most fun ability in my opinion, and has the most uses. You summon a water portal, that will push through anything that walks into it. Teammates gain protections and a movement speed buff, and enemies get slowed. At max range, the portal pushes in the opposite direction. This ability costs 3 omi.|
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River's Rebuke |
River's Rebuke is, in essence, two big **** off walls of water. These walls stop any enemies walking through them, while allowing all teammates to walk through. After a few seconds, the walls collapse, doing damage to all enemies inside it, slowing them, and trembling them. Yemoja also gains bonus omi regeneration while in the area, and for some time after she leaves it.
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Bouncing Bubble is your best (only) level 1 clear, so you start with it. At level 2, your best kill potential is with a combination of Riptide and Bouncing Bubble, so get your 3 next. At level 3 you want another point in Bouncing Bubble, as the heal from Mending Waters is very low early. From there you grab a point in Mending Waters, level River's Rebuke at level 5, level [[bouncing bubble one more time at level 6, then max in the order shown above.
Yemoja as fast as possible, with some stat and item suggestions: Benevolence into Compassion, or 
Sentinel's Gift into 
Sentinel's Embrace. Currently I prefer the former, as it gives more gold overall currently for less effort, but I don't want to touch this section until season 9 so I will leave both as options. Shoes of Focus - I default to these, as mentioned earlier Yemoja needs a lot of cdr, better to get it early. Other option is 
Reinforced Shoes for extra defense and health if you feel you are going to get focused early a lot. Pridwen, Shoes of Focus, or Genji's Guard), tankiness (around 200 of each and 2.7k hp or more is ideal if possible), and some auras if possible (lotus crown, 
Gauntlet of Thebes, or Sovereignty are your most common candidates here). Magic Shell, Heavenly Wings, or meditation cloak {MED ISNT BAD ON HER AS THE UPGRADE GIVES YOU OMI}), and for the other relic either Purification Beads or a more aggressive relic like Belt of Frenzy or Horrific Emblem. No right answer here, see what you prefer. I normally go med and either beads, horrific, or shell currently.
The five levels of teamfighting as Yemoja, from easiest to hardest:
1: Spam healing waters on any ally not at full hp, repeat until your or their team is dead (sadly this does work and will be enough to be a "good" Yemoja player up until about diamond.
2: Spam bouncing bubbles or Moonstrike on any enemy that either is or isn't at full hp, repeat until you or their team is dead. (This ones slightly less effective than 1 at the moment.)
3: Add in River's Rebuke, either for walling in an opponent, walling out an opponent, or simply for more Omi to do step 1 or 2 more effectively.
4: Utilise Riptide. Either to push your team out of something dangerous, push their team into something dangerous, or a mix of the two. This is far harder than the first three, and what you will spend the most time learning.
5: All of the above! Gotta learn what to do in what situation. Cant teach this in a guide, gotta go out and practice.
The many uses of Riptide:
- Minion manipulation (holding waves at tower for your team, grouping duo waves to fight at fire giant while the waves push towers, etc.)
- Pulling back escaping enemies
- Pushing your teammates out of danger
- Blocking the exit of River's Rebuke to stop enemies running out of it
- Blocking off chokepoints
- Pushing the enemy ADC out of range to hit your towers/phoenix in sieges
And let's be honest, it's great for ****ing with your team too.
Honestly this one is pretty simple too, but it should get a mention.
Yemoja is, in my opinion, the single best support for sieging in the game (and yes I'm including fafnir). She has a million tools for sieging - you can 3 to group minions then shove them into the phoenix super quickly before the enemy expects it, ult to stop the enemy team from even getting in their own phoenix to defend, spam Mending Waters to keep your carries healthy while they attack it, hell Moonstrike can even stun the damn phoenix.
Use Riptide to group a couple of waves if they don't have a good instant clear ability, then shove them all in the phoenix quickly while you use River's Rebuke to cut as many of the enemy team off of the phoenix as possible, then spam Mending Waters on your backline using your bonus omi from your ult. Add to this process a 
Shogun's Kusari, 
Tyrannical Plate Helm, 
Talisman of Energy, or a Belt of Frenzy, and its a pretty free phoenix for you.
On sieging defences you have Riptide to keep the enemy ADC off of the phoenix, and River's Rebuke to either keep the whole team out or split them up and pick off the frontline.
I hope you've learned something about Yemoja that you can take forward into your games with her. If you have any questions or suggestions about my guides or videos, feel free to ask in the comments here or on any of the videos, or even dm me on discord (DiscoFerry#6038), and I'll do my best to help you out wherever I can. Thanks for reading/watching!
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