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This guide is a work in progress and hopefully will be a living and breathing document (constantly updated to remain current) dedicated to the most BAE of Assassins in Smite.
Hi, my name is Executioner and I am new to Smite and probably not the most qualified person to be a guide author. I am just a average player like many of you. With that said, the vast majority of my experience with this game has been in Arena and playing as Nemesis. I see a lot of new players picking Nemesis (best looking assassin imo) and building recommended items or glass cannon and simply failing to ever be a factor (outside of feeding) in the game. This guide (hopefully) will assist new players attempting to learn Nemesis and her various Arena play styles. I created this guide because when I was new to Nemesis, I could not find a guide that contained the information I needed. Most of the guides were outdated and contained irrelevant or inaccurate information or focused on game modes not named Arena.
If you are new to Arena or new to Smite you really need to familiarize yourself with the information in these guides. The authors of these guides have gone to great lengths to explain in great detail almost everything one could ever hope to know about Smite.
Pffft, Minions is a Arena guide created by TormentedTurnip and you would do well to study it so that you have a good working knowledge of the game mode before attempting to succeed with Nemesis.
The Tome of Athena is a list of links to some of the greatest guides ever written for Smite, The Tome of Athena was created by KingScuba a forum moderator on the Smite forums. Anyone serious about improving in this game would do well to click that link and study those guides. The guides contained in The Tome of Athena are written by many different authors and KingScuba has went to great effort to give proper credit to the authors of the guides contained there in.
Nemesis is Bae is the short answer, continue reading for the long version.
If you are picking Nemesis for Arena game play because you (for some reason or another) think she is strong or overpowered you are in for a surprise. Nemesis greatest strength in Arena is how mobile and flexible she is.
Nemesis is not an Assassin and Nemesis is not a warrior, she is something in between these and can excel as either. Nemesis lacks hard crowd control and has a very weak early game. Team fighting is the main theme of Arena and Nemesis kit is lackluster for a game mode such as this. This does not mean Nemesis is bad in Arena, she actually performs quite well in Arena if you are able to adapt on the fly and be what your team needs as much as possible. Some games your team will need a squishy assassin but the vast majority of the games your team will need bruiser Nemesis and that is why this guide was created. Late game in Arena Nemesis is an absolute beast if she is built in the bruiser style I am recommending in this guide.
To carry as Nemesis (in Arena), you are forced to build tanky enough to auto attack people to death while usually taking damage from more than one source.
Hopefully you have found this guide helpful in your quest to master my bae Nemesis in Arena, if you have ideas or suggestions on how to improve this build guide then please feel free to leave a comment. My intent is for this guide to be a living breathing guide that constantly evolves to reflect the state of Nemesis and the game itself. I 100% would love your feed back on how to improve this guide. Thank you so much for the read and good luck in Arena, if the enemy team has a Nemesis you will need it !
Credits:
Zilby Thanks for the tips on picture adjustment and on how to center text and pictures !
TormentedTurnip and Jordenito for creating and maintaining Code Blue: BBCoding for Beginners it has been extremely helpful to me. Maybe at some point I will be able to use some of the more advanced tactics in the guide!
TormentedTurnip For his Arena Guide Pffft, Minions
KingScuba for his compilation of amazing guides, The Tome of Athena.
BranMuffin17, ty for suggesting the Muffin CDR build. It is a welcome addition to the guide and should be helpful for me and others learning to live the Bae Life in Arena. Thanks for all of your helpful suggestions.
I also wish to thank all of the Smite forums users who helped me learn how to be effective with Nemesis in Arena, you can find the names of those who helped me and see my progress through out this forum thread. Nemesis - How do you build and Carry with her ?
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Reinforced Greaves can be good if your going bruiser, but in conquest jungle you need more power early on for ganks. Otherwise in any other mode its good.
CDR isnt the only way to go, sometimes I go without it.
Hide of the Urchin works if you get it early.
Bruiser builds can still work on her.
A typical build that can work on her really well.
Warrior Tabi Jotunn's Wrath Breastplate of Valor The Executioner Bulwark of Hope Qin's Sais or Frostbound Hammer
Hey thx for the build m8 ;)
It works really well for me and the items are solid on her
With Jotunn's Wrath + Breastplate of Valor you achieve maximum CDR (40%) which means that the cool-down times are as follow :
: 8s
: 7s
: 9s
: 42s
Such low cool-down times allow you to :
1. Use Swift Vengeance to engage and disengage from the same fight
2. Throw Slice and Dice 2x in a fight
3. Harass the enemy team with Divine Judgement
If you consider that an Arena match last 20 min on average, it is possible to use the Ult 28 times => ( 20 * 60 ) / 42
My only concern is that the lack of health makes her a little squishy (2190 if is built)
Here is another build with 30% CDR, 30% CCR and 2740 hp that works quite well for me :
Reinforced Greaves > Jotunn's Wrath > The Executioner > Mail of Renewal > Frostbound Hammer > Rage
Tell my what you think about it
PS : forgot to tell how the synergy between the passive of Bulwark of Hope and Retribution is AMAZING it allow you to stay alive even 3 vs 1
Hide of the Urchin works if you get it early.
Bruiser builds can still work on her.
A typical build that can work on her really well.
Warrior Tabi Jotunn's Wrath Breastplate of Valor The Executioner Bulwark of Hope Qin's Sais or Frostbound Hammer
Since they reduced the cool-down on divine judgment to 70s
How can we still play bruiser without soul heater and with hide of the urchin nerfed?
Please update the guide we need help
http://img04.deviantart.net/942b/i/2016/005/1/2/nemesis_executioner_smite_by_spiritaj-d9muumu.png
If you want to include many builds for Nemesis you should probably put some glass-cannon builds.
They are coming !
Soon *tm
I just need to play them enough to be comfortable suggesting them, they are coming though. Been playing a double life steal crit build on my smurf and having a lot of fun. I am going to play some shred builds this weekend and get a good feel for them as well, the power for the price on them seems really good,
Well, I had my first bad Nemesis game last night...0/3/16, called a noob, laughed at for buying Ninja Tabi. The two people (Beard & x3khaleesi) swore that to be effective, Nem needed the following build: Warrior Tabi, Jotunn's Wrath, The Executioner, Rage, Deathbringer. Think the last item was Spirit Robe to max CDR, but can't remember for sure.
To be honest, our team wasn't a great comp. we had Xing Tian, Fenrir, Osiris, and Ah Puch. Other than AP, no crazy burst, as everyone but AP was built at least partial bruiser. I should have either gone full assassin/squishy, or played as Freya. I was also super random with the ult...don't know what was wrong with me. Wasn't really thinking, I guess. Ended up with lowest damage on my team. I finished Qin's Sais 4th after Ninja Tabi, Spirit Robe, and The Executioner to help my damage output, but even with QS, didn't seem to do that much damage. Merc destroyed me.
Still, making a huge deal between Ninja and Warrior seems middling...only a difference of 20 power, which isn't much on each basic attack hit or on her abilities. But I couldn't support it with results...think I want to build more lifesteal, and try some crit next time, just to see.
@Kid, attack speed buff may be a very good argument...as per above, others swore on Jotunn's. Have to try it...like I said, you sacrifice one thing for another, but perhaps it's not a huge issue subbing for Winged Blade as you said. Makes sense.
First let me say Nox you should strongly consider Reinforced Greaves whenever you see one of these nasty creatures. Those people that did not like Ninja Tabi would have liked Reinforced Greaves a lot less but that is irrelevant.
0/3 on Nemesis is not that bad. I did that a day or two ago, every game is different. I had a game a month or two ago where I was 1/3/19 and carried so hard it was unreal, I played amazing. I just did not get killing blows, we won that game because of how I built and how I played. I have had a ton of games where I was 11/1/8 or some other good score and I literally did nothing relevant, I made no plays that gained my team any real advantage. Usually when the later occurs is games I am built to squishy and can not impose my will upon my enemies.
Let me end by saying Nox, this god is built to destroy Nemesis and Gods like her. If you see a Gem of Isolation on Nox make sure you have a Winged Blade and Greater Purification. The two gods that roll my stomach when I see them on the loading screen are Nox ALWAYS and Poseidon if he is good.
Also try the bottom build on the suggested build page, I have around 10 games with it now on my smurf and on Executioner and It is really solid despite having no protections (im shocked tbh).
On the Freya side of the story, Freya is Wifey.lol Nemisis is my side chick.lol I'm a diamond Freya player, and Bellona for that matter.