Smite Nemesis Build Guide: Nemesis - Jungle Justice (S2)

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Smite God: Nemesis

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Nemesis Build

Starting Items

Rage of the Gods

Bumba's Mask

Healing Potion

Safe Build

Warrior Tabi

Jotunn's Wrath

Ichaival

Magi's Cloak

Rage

Deathbringer

The Executioner

Mid-Late Game Carry

Ninja Tabi

Jotunn's Wrath

The Executioner

Rage

Deathbringer

Witchblade

Boxing Build

Ninja Tabi

Hastened Fatalis

The Executioner

Brawler's Beat Stick

Rage

Deathbringer

Actives

Wrath of the Gods

Shield of the Underworld

Greater Purification

Greater Sprint

Aegis Pendant

Achilles' Spear

Weakening Curse

Nemesis's Skill Order

Swift Vengeance

1 X

2 15 16 18 19

Slice and Dice

2 A

1 3 6 7 10

Retribution

3 B

4 8 11 12 14

Divine Judgement

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

2 15 16 18 19

Swift Vengeance

1 X

Nemesis dashes in a line, dealing damage to enemies in her path and may dash again within 2s. She may use Basic Attacks and Abilities between the dashes.

Ability Type: Dash, Damage
Damage: 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 (+35% of your Physical Power)
Cost: 50
Cooldown: 13 / 12.5 / 12 / 11.5 / 11s

1 3 6 7 10

Slice and Dice

2 A

Nemesis swings her blade, dealing damage in an area in front of her. Enemies in the center of her swing are struck for 2x damage and Slowed for 2s.

Ability Type: Cone, Slow, Damage
Damage: 55 / 85 / 115 / 145 / 175 (+40% of your Physical Power)
Damage (Center): 110 / 170 / 230 / 290 / 350 (+80% of your Physical Power)
Slow: 30%
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 11s

4 8 11 12 14

Retribution

3 B

Nemesis activates a temporary Shield around herself that protects her from a set amount of damage, or until time expires. A percentage of incoming damage from gods is healed and reflected back to the source. Hard Crowd Control effects remove the Shield.

Ability Type: Buff, Damage
Damage Reflect: 50% of damage received
Healing: 70% of damage received
Shield Health: 150 / 225 / 300 / 375 / 450
Duration: 2.5s
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12s

5 9 13 17 20

Divine Judgement

4 Y

Nemesis chooses a single enemy god, reducing their Health and movement speed and stealing a portion of their Protections for a time period. Her movement speed is also increased during this time.

Ability Type: Buff
Damage: 15 / 17.5 / 20 / 22.5 / 25% of current HP (+20% of your Physical Power)
Protections: 25%
Movement Speed: 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20%
Target Debuff Duration: 5s
Nemesis Buff Duration: 5s
Cost: 90 / 95 / 100 / 105 / 110
Cooldown: 90s

Introduction

KamikazeKitty here with another guide, this time for the Nemesis. I am not as good with Nemesis as I am with Artemis, but on my pre-made team they want me to jungle since my jungle is apparently the best on the team and we have others that can ADC well (maybe not as good, but still really close >.<)

I haven't played too much Season 2 Conquest with Nemesis, but I've played a ton with her beforehand and not a whole lot has changed for her gameplay style IMO. Some of my builds are a bit odd, I'm a huge fan of not following the meta, so there's that :).

WARNING!
Text walls are imminent. I'm not sorry as this is how I best convey my knowledge/thoeries. If you don't want to read the guide, then obviously you aren't here to really learn anything.

As always feel free to add me in game KamikazeKitty.
Check me out on Twitch : KamikazeKittay
And on YouTube: KamikazeKitty (SmiteFire doesn't like me putting links sorry).

Pro and Cons

CONS

PROS

Abilities

Scales of Fate

Nemesis holds the scales of balance. Hitting enemies with basic attacks tips the scales in her favor, stealing a portion of her target's physical and magical power from items (stacking). Stolen magical power is converted to physical power for Nemesis at one half the value.

Ability: Passive
Affects: Self and Enemy Gods
Power Steal: 3% per hit
Max Stacks: 3
Duration: 5s

Basically this reduces the targets power and increases yours as you attack them. If you figure a full mage build at 700 power from items, you steal 21 power per hit and gain 10. It might not seem like much, but it's still a good passive.

Swift Vengeance

Nemesis dashes in a line, dealing damage to enemies in her path and may dash again within 2s. Using another ability during this time cancels the second dash.

Ability: Dash
Affects: Enemy
Damage: 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 (+25% of your physical power)
Damage (Maximum): 100 / 160 / 220 / 280 / 340 (+50% of your physical power)
Cost: 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90
Cooldown: 14s

This doesn't do a lot of damage, but it's your main form of mobility. It has a low cost at rank 1, making a good skill to use to dash around the jungle. Using this well as a movement skill, you should be able to outfarm the enemy jungler. (I have been able to stay ahead even being 3 kills behind). This is also your only escape and only chase, but you shouldn't need to with your 2 slows...
I level this last because I use it more for utility than damage and you don't need to raise the mana cost just to dash around the jungle.
In the middle of a fight, this is a great way to disorient your opponent and make the waste some abilities on nothing. You can dash quickly from side to side on them,

Slice and Dice

Nemesis swings her blade, dealing damage in an area in front of her. Enemies in the center of her swing are struck for 2x damage and slowed for 2s.

Ability: Cone
Affects: Enemy
Damage: Physical
Damage: 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 (+25% of your physical power)
Damage (Center): 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 (+50% of your physical power)
Slow: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50%
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 13s

This is your main ability for damage and utility and you should level this second. Hit jungle camps to clear them, hit enemies for damage and slow. Always try and get your target in the center, if you don't they aren't slowed and you might as well just walk away. Initiate with this if you don't have your ult.

Retribution

Nemesis activates a temporary shield around herself that protects her from a set amount of damage, or until time expires. A percentage of incoming damage from gods is healed and reflected back to the source. Hard crowd control effects remove the shield.

Ability: Buff
Affects: Self/Enemies
Damage Reflect: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% of damage received
Healing: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% of damage received
Shield Health: 100 / 200 / 300 / 400 / 500
Duration: 2s
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 18s

I level this third because it has far more utility than your dash. Using this appropriately is the biggest difference between a good Nemesis and a great Nemesis. If you can anticipate a stun or hard CC of any kind and pop this to negate the CC BEFORE it hits you, it's better than having .
Another use for this is say throws down for lane clear and backs off. Pop your shield, hop in it for a second to heal and damage him and get out before it runs out. It's super trolly but really funny, plus a good way to heal up as long as you don't take more damage than your shield health.

Divine Judgement

Nemesis chooses a single enemy god, reducing their health and movement speed and stealing a portion of their protections for a time period. Her movement speed is also increased during this time.

Ability: Buff
Affects: Self/Enemy
Damage: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50% of current HP
Protections: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50%
Move Speed: 25%
Target Debuff Duration: 5s
Nemesis Buff Duration: 8s
Cost: 90 / 95 / 100 / 105 / 110
Cooldown: 90s

This takes priority over all other skills, level this first always. This is how you kill tanks and charge into battle for glory and honor, although Nemesis holds no such values. If you are ganking a lane always initiate with this, unless other enemies are rotating over for a full on teamfight. Ganking midlane with this is the easiest if you know the jungler is in another lane because you should be able to kill them by the time anyone could rotate over. If the enemy has an escape, don't waste this unless they are pushed pretty far. There is nothing more frustrating than using your ult to have them escape to tower, although with you can dive tower if you can kill them one hit.

*NOTE*
In teamfights, always hit the tank, ALWAYS! This will give you enough tankiness to get in the fight, reducing the enemy teams tank to nearly worthless and giving your team almost 2 tanks. Before you ult the enemy tank, make 100% certain your team is ready to dive in and burn everything because the debuff only lasts 5 seconds, not a long time for a team fight.

Builds

I'm not going over specific items on this build because it's more about the synergy of items rather than the items themselves. I will go over each build and why it's a viable build IMO.

Build 1

This is what I call the "safe" build, it's a generally good AA Assassin build that pretty much follows the meta, and it works. It gives you some attack speed which is good for your passive, as well as some crits, making up for the lack of ability damage on Nemesis. Quick points on each item.

Warrior Tabi is pretty much the staple assassin boot now because of the early power you get from them. Combine these with second item and you should be able to have efficient and successful ganks.

This item has remained unchanged for assassins, early CDR, pen and mana are all helpful attributes when roaming the jungle looking for ganks. With the elimination of pen boots, this item is even more important for a second item because of the pen.

Ichaival might seem like a weird item, especially considering has a better amount of pen on it, but for 1700 gold, picking this up third will be huge. It has more attack speed than The Executioner and the passive works well with . If the enemy jungler does happen to be building Executioner 3rd item, you will finish this one back before they finish, giving you an advantage over them, assuming similar farm.
I would sell this late game for however as that is a better late game item.

magi's blessing

Magi's is an excellent item. The CC protection will more than likely save your life a few times. I don't consider this item necessary on Nemesis if you are really good at timing her and/or have . You either have this for utility or buy something else for more damage.

Since Nemesis is an auto-attack focused assassin, you want to build crit on her. is the best item to start since she doesn’t have any passive crit like or .

Deathbringer adds so much to your DPS when you build crit, you always build it. ALWAYS build Deathbringer!

In summary, build 1 focuses your survivability in terms of CC immunity as well as your auto attack damage. There is a good amount of attack speed and pen, combined with the crits you should be smacking 700+ easily on your crits.

Build 2

Build 3

Actives

This is nice to have a second one on your team, in case your support gets killed and they try to take Fire Giant or Gold Fury, you can dash in and steal it. After you steal it, immediately use your and hit them with the protecting yourself and slowing them so you can hopefully get out.

This item is excellent for boxing ADC's or any other assassin that has lifesteal. Even using this against would be excellent, granted he can still melt you. If you use this in conjunction with your they will be taking all sorts of reflected damage, as well as being unable to lifesteal from you for 5 seconds!

This one is self-explanatory, definitely a good buy if you don't have Magi's Blessing

A good buy for those pesky gods with mega-ults like or .

This item is good for escaping and chasing alike. It also gives you no debuff for attacking, it's like having for a few seconds. This also removes slows, very useful for countering certain gods.

This is the biggest of balls actives. Activate this to shred through opponents, but be mindful of the extra 30% damage you are going to take. This would be very useful against ability based gods after their abilities have been used. You can combine this with to help mitigate that extra damage you take.

One of my favorite activates of all time. Very useful against not only healers, but anyone with lifesteal. This renders most ADC's useless against you as they cannot heal while you just pummel them into submission.

Warding!

Every time you go back to fountain you need to buy at least one ward! This goes for all roles. Wards win games. Always make sure to have Sentry Wards on Gold Fury and Fire Giant once they can be taken down.

Starting/Early Game

The first 3 minutes of the game have changed drastically from season 1.

For starters the midcamps don't spawn until 3 minutes, meaning your beginning farming is very important, as well as your timing. As you can see by the results of math below (minion wave gold might be off) it is far better for you, and your solo laner, if you leave lane around 1:45. This will give you time to get to the first back harpy camp and HoG it (if you have Rage of the Gods with 60sec cooldown) and take the other back harpy camp, making it to midcamps at 3:00 with HoG ready again. Since you won't be sharing the Exp with your solo laner for wave, they will get the full 330 Exp and hopefully the majority of the last hits.

Back Harpy camps give 368 Exp and 52 gold.
One minion wave will net you 165 Exp (sharing with solo laner) and between 43-129 gold (no last hits to all last hits).

If your midlaner is awesome and bought wards at the start, you should be able to see where the enemies are going after taking the midcamp you don't get. This would be a perfect opportunity for a gank if the enemy mid is around half health or less and doesn't have an escape.

If a gank opportunity isn't available, buff camps should be spawning around 4:12-4:20 depending on how fast you cleared them. I recommend grabbing your movement speed first, then dropping the other ones depending on who is in lane still or just heading back to lane.

Don't forget about your back camps! They carry a total of 368 Exp, which is more than you'll get leeching a wave from one of the lanes. Try and keep an eye on midcamp timers, maybe even getting some harass on the enemy midlaner so they either have to back or become an easy target just before midcamps spawn back up.

Other than those pointers, stay farming your jungle, you can invade if you want to. Be mindful of teammates and how hard they are pushing/getting pushed. If you have teammates pushing one side, stay close, but don't leech by being in lane unless they are getting ganked. Staying close will allow your team to turn a gank into a kill by focusing the enemy jungler after they commit. If a teammate is getting pushed back to tower try and let them know you have ult and you are ready to gank (as long as they are half health or higher). Try and save your ult for a gank or teamfight, but don't hold onto it for minutes on end, if you have to use it to chase off an enemy pushing tower hard, it's better than holding onto it for 2 minutes while you roam the jungle.

Mid Game

Mid Game is generally defined as when teams start roaming for fights and grouping for GF and other objectives. At this point there should be at least one tower down, allowing a teammate(s) to roam fairly freely.

Squishies are always your priority target, but if you have ult and the enemy support is by themselves, try and kill them as they are likely the only person with tier 3 HoG. At that point you can rotate over to GF.

Teamfights are going to be common here, as you fight over objectives and towers. Generally in a teamfight, I wait until their support commits, then I ult them, making them much more squishy and giving myself some extra protections. This will allow you to be able to focus the support and kill them quickly, resulting in the enemy team backing off and retreating, or you being able to chase them down and slaughter them all (as a team of course).

Late Game

At this point Fire Giant and Phoenix's are going to be the main objectives. You should be 5 items or full build, depending on how well you're doing. You will be able to burn someone fast enough to be thoroughly feared in any 1v1, unless you fell behind.

Ulting the support is going to be your main priority in team fights as this will do two huge things for your team.
1. Take away 50% of their health immediately and reduce their protections by 50%, giving them at best bruiser-like mitigation.
2. Giving you half of the stolen protections, making you a bruiser with full damage build.

If anyone dares to try and venture off on their own, you should be able to dish out some swift justice on their sorry butt.

Summary

The best way to build Nemesis is for Auto-Attacks, using her abilities more for utility than for damage.

Stay farming and stay moving in the jungle, falling behind will put your whole team behind.

Ult the tank in order to render them mostly useless in teamfights.

Use your slow when initiating ganks, helping to ensure you get the kill.

Practice using Retribution to preemptively prevent hard CC.

Everyone needs to buy wards!

Taking back harpies is better than leeching a minion wave from a teammate.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Pro and Cons

Abilities

Builds

Actives

Warding!

Starting/Early Game

Mid Game

Late Game

Summary

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Nemesis - Jungle Justice (S2)

Smite God: Nemesis