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Persephone Mid Patch 6.9, Would You Like Some Pomegranate?

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Smite God: Persephone

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Persephone Build

Start

Mage's Blessing

Lost Artifact

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Principal Items

Shoes of the Magi

Chronos' Pendant

Soul Gem

Pen Options

Spear of the Magus

Obsidian Shard

Divine Ruin

Damage Options

Rod of Tahuti

Ethereal Staff

Soul Reaver

Polynomicon

Shaman's Ring

Hybrid Options

Lotus Sickle

Void Stone

Example Build

Mage's Blessing

Shoes of the Magi

Chronos' Pendant

Soul Gem

Spear of the Magus

Ethereal Staff

Shaman's Ring

Rod of Tahuti

Example With Defense

Mage's Blessing

Shoes of the Magi

Chronos' Pendant

Void Stone

Lotus Sickle

Spear of the Magus

Ethereal Staff

Shaman's Ring

Persephone's Skill Order

Bone Rush

1 X

2 8 10 11 12

Harvest

2 A

1 4 6 7 9

Flourish

3 B

3 15 16 18 19

Grasp of Death

4 Y

5 13 14 17 20

2 8 10 11 12

Bone Rush

1 X

Persephone calls forth a Skeletal Warrior from the underworld. This warrior charges forward, damaging minions and stopping on gods. Enemy gods hit are slowed for 2.5s. Whenever it stops its skull falls, becoming a Harvest Skull.

Ability Type: Line, Slow, Damage
Damage: 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300 (+90% of your Magical Power)
Slow: 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30%
Range: 65
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10s

1 4 6 7 9

Harvest

2 A

Persephone summons an explosion at a target location that places 3 Harvest Skulls. She can activate these Harvest plants with her Basic Attacks. When the Skulls are activated she restores health to herself. After 4s the Skulls turn into Harvest Flowers. When activated these Flowers charge forward in the direction hit, biting any target that gets close. Enemies recently bitten take reduced damage from other bites, stacking 3 times. She can have up to 5 / 5 / 6 / 6 / 7 Harvest Plants out at any time.

Ability Type: Circle, Leap, Damage
Explosion: 90 / 140 / 190 / 240 / 290 (+70% of your Magical Power)
Heal: 18 / 30 / 42 / 54 / 66
Bite: 40 / 75 / 110 / 145 / 180 (+30% of your Magical Power)
Reduced Damage: 50 / 75 / 87.5%
Range: 50
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 13s

3 15 16 18 19

Flourish

3 B

Persephone floods the ground with necrotic energy that propels her from the ground directly forwards or backwards; based on the direction she is moving. Harvest plants inside the area immediately become Harvest Flowers and activate, charging in the direction Persephone is facing. Enemies caught in this area take damage.

Ability Type: Circle, Damage
Explosion: 65 / 105 / 145 / 185 / 225 (+55% of your Magical Power)
Range: 45
Radius: 20
Cost: 70
Cooldown: 15 / 14.5 / 14 / 13.5 / 13s

5 13 14 17 20

Grasp of Death

4 Y

Persephone conjures Entrapping Vines that she throws forwards, entrapping the first enemy god or wall it touches. Entrapped gods are crippled and rooted. Vines then spawn from the Entrapped target, seeking nearby enemy gods. Gods bound are crippled, can no longer move further than 55 units away and are slowed while running away from the center. Entrapping vines are destroyed if hit by 5 Basic Attacks (3 if it trapped a Wall), ending all effects.

Ability Type: Line, Crowd Control, Damage
Damage: 175 / 245 / 315 / 385 / 455 (+85% of your Magical Power)
Vine Damage: 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 / 165 (+30% of your Magical Power)
Slow: 15 / 17.5 / 20 / 22.5 / 25%
Duration: 5s
Range: Global
Radius: 55
Cost: 100 / 110 / 120 / 130 / 140
Cooldown: 90s

Introduction

Hi! I'm WolfWitch and this is my guide for Persephone, the newest goddess in SMITE! Persephone is a Control Mage that specializes in dealing massive amounts of damage and zoning the enemy team in the best of situations. Harvest and Grasp of Death are both unique and powerful abilities that ensure the viability of Persephone and allows her to be a menace in-game.

Laning

Right off the bet, you'll want to walk all the way towards speed camp, plant 2-3 Harvest plants there, go to mid lane, set up 3-4 stacks there, go back and go to the speed camp. This way you're maximizing your mana and your time, and preparing yourself to clear the camps.

I recommend getting Flourish at level 3 because you can't deal a lot of burst damage at level 3 like a Hera or a Merlin could, so you're better safe than sorry. By the time you reach level 5, you'll be able to take control of your teamfights with your excessive amount of zoning and Crowd Control.

Always keep some plants near your tower line. You'll have some plants near their tower line thanks to Bone Rush, but if you get pushed under tower, you won't have a line of defense ready against a possible dive.

Pros / Cons

Pros:

Amazing burst damage
Safe character (Can deal a lot of damage from far away)
Excelent poking
Decent waveclear
Unique escape
Controls teamfights with Grasp of Death
Excellent healing in lane
Diverse and with a lot of options to work with
Extra gold, extra happiness!
Can keep fighting for 8 seconds

Cons:

Squishy
Depends a lot from basic attacks
Can get outpushed easily
Quite confusing for the first times
Weak from behind/caught with her pants down

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Tips

To get yourself used to the Bone Rush animation delay, imagine if you used Unstable Vortex, but it only went off at the time that, today, the balls first meet each other.

Persephone has an easy kit, easy enough that you're able to put her entire kit in Instant Cast, which is something I'd recommend sugar!

If you have a feeling a teamfight is going to happen in a bit, Harvest the choke points and main areas of said place (Mid Lane, Fire Giant Pit, etc).

Harvest ahead of you and use Flourish to activate the Sprouts (T2 Harvest), which will instantly turn them into the plants and deal the most damage.

If you have a good aim, try to aim Grasp of Death on someone in between the frontline and the backline. If not, always try to aim in CC'd targets (Rooted, self rooted, stunned, etc.) or in a wall that'll affect most of them.

Grasp of Death will not latch itself onto enemies that are not in the cage's view. So if they're behind a wall (Fire Giant Pit structure wall) they won't get affected.

Conclusion

This was my quick guide to Persephone! I've played at least 8 games with her on PTS so far, and she's quite fun! Of course, I'm not a master in this character (yet) so if you have any feedback, please be sure to comment on this guide, or DM me if you're shy!
Also, I do have a Chang'e guide, and I welcome you to visit it if you ever desire to use the Faerie of the Moon in solo lane!

Love you all shortcakes, Wolf out! xoxo <3

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I'd put Talon as one of the key items. She NEEDS the extra mana (150 is a 25% boost on that aspect in the early game), specially in early to mid game. She needs to keep her plants up or else her damage and escape potentials are very much reduced.

IT's either that or the very unwise Book of Toth. Also her 1 can heal her for about 60% of her health by hitting a wave if she has talon and Soul Gem, so there's that too, she doesn't need to use all her seed charges to heal just like 30% with them.

EDIT: also, Talon is one of the few item who gives 3 digits of power, plus a bonus when she's low on health. And in the unavoidable scenario where your passive triggers, it helps a lot since you're stuck at 1hp, aka maximum stacks.

Hey so I have a question: Persephone seems to be pretty well-suited to solo and support as well , although I'm on Xbox so I've only played her once in both of those roles. But anyway , if you're playing Persephone in either solo or support , should you just start with warrior's blessing and guardian's blessing respectively or still use mage's blessing?
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wrote:

Hey so I have a question: Persephone seems to be pretty well-suited to solo and support as well

No she doesn't.

(81) |

Solo maybe, Support no.

(143) |

Persephone is not suitable at all for support. Her only CC outside her ult is a slow. As for Solo, she’s not really much of a frontliner, a splitpusher, a god that can dive the back line (outside of her passive - but she has a damage debuff during that) etc... play her Mid, or ADC (if your Mid is a hunter).

I suppose you have a point , but wouldn't her passive also help her in support? It can give her team an extra 8 seconds of aura items which might be able to help win the teamfight , especially if one of those items is something like pestilence and the enemy team relies on healing. Also , won't the extra gold gain work well with guardian's blessing to snowball in terms of gold?

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Problem is that you're considering she'd be dying a lot during teamfights if you're considering her passive as a reason to be a support.
If you play Persephone you only have to consider the passive as a reason to try and deal as much damage as possible when you're in an inescapable situation, so you can finish them off during the passive.

(143) |

1. Not really. 2. Well I mean it will help her gold gain but it won’t let her “snowball”, but she’s still a bad support character, not to mention if she had to go support she wouldn’t be able to build damage which leaves her with basically nothing except her ult and her slows for utility.

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Hello to all my crème brûlées! I've updated this guide, changed the skill order to level before , since it's the most efficient way to maximize your damage output. Love you all! xo

(4) |

Hiiii! nice guide, overall. Your build seems solid to me, i haven't been able to play persephone to test it, but i guess its okay. It was short, but it does contain all you need to know. And you're really sweet with the people that discuss on your guide! I really appreciate that. x

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Hey shortcake! I hope you can grab and try her out as soon as possible, and thank you, I do try to be as well-wishing and sweet as I can be, the world needs a bit of sugar! xoxo

(56) |

ngl tried your build out in an arena and holy smokes she hits hard! I did have to get before cuz the enermy team had a but jeebus this actually just shreds without mercy. Upvoted!

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Hi raspberry! I'm so happy you had a good game with the build! In cases it's needed, do build your pen before , since the Pen is mightier then the sword, or so mama would say! Thank you so so so so so much for the upvote! xoxo

No rod of tahuti?

(143) |

It's already listed under damage options.

But, I mean is there a reason to? It's not a terrible choice, but other than for perhaps her self-heal I don't see a massive reason to get it? Maybe to get more out of her passive (when she resurrects) due to the reduced damage debuff?

I would get items that have proc effects like , , , etc...

We shall see though when she hits live, I haven't had a chance to test her kit properly.

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So, I'm thinking Staff of Myridin is core on her.
Since you want to use your escape to speed your 2 in teamfights , but need to keep your 2, so...

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That means it's not core, since it's situational on you pre-placing the 2.

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Why do you say situational? In teamfights you want to only have 2 damaging abilities? (1 and 4)
Her 3 is to speed up the harvest and escape ofc.

From what I understood she can place 6 skulls at one time, 4 later.
So, jump once to evolve to 4s , then x2 to get to 24s and have the skulls chase.
Plus after using jump next ones are at 4s stage, so 2nd jump gets them to 24s instantly.

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You have to use the 3 directly after the ult to double use it with Myrddin passive, which means you have to have pre-placed the 2's skulls.

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I mean in teamfights you have to use "2" before your "3" or wait 4s or 24s regardless. During sieges or defending sieges, great.

Spontaneous teamfights? ehhh... If you ever want to do damage w/ her 2 you have to pre place or speed up the evolution.

Also you have 10s after ult to proc Myrddin passive.

So, What am I missing that you are trying to say?

(143) |

Im confused now.

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you're confusing me too, haha.

Thought:
Her 2 needs to "evolve" to do damage. 4s is explosion and 24s is "chasing" damage
Her 3 speeds up the evolution off the "skuls" to next stage and next placed skulls are at 4s stage.

Assuming you can place 6 right after each other...
Place 6 -> Ult -> jump (skulls evolve to 4s stage) -> jump via Myrddin (skulls evolve to 24s)

So, what are you talking about?

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I thought you were referring to placing the 2 after the ult, but nevermind.

See the way of using it you mentioned can work, but it's entirely dependent on pre-placement before the ult. Though I guess after the combo you mentioned you can also just 2 > 1, but that doesen't really change how effective (or ineffective) the previous combo that you mentioned is. I can see it good for objectives/pheonix sieging or defense but in spontaneous teamfights I just don't know.

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I don't see why you'd place your 2 after ultimate. I can see ult, then 3 cause then all the souls you place would be at 4s stage. Then you 3 (jump) again to evolve it to 24s stage. That takes too much time though lol.

Either way her teamfight is poor =\ takes too much time to setup her damage. She's a sieger or anti sieger

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I see ya both had a pretty good discussion, I might add that Myrdin isn't that great, mostly because of her 2. You can't place your damage unless you've placed it before or if you're not using it for some abnormal reason. Her 1's the most logical follow up, and getting it only for the escape, it's way too situational to even mention it! Also, her kit's already difficult, adding this additional layer would make her waaaay too situational! xoxo

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completely agree. She's doesn't seem teamfight friendly. So figuring out how to maker her viable in it.

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Why get Lotus Crown when she only has a self-heal?

Also Magus is pretty situational on her, dependent on how many Skulls she has pre-placed when detonating them. Of course you could 2 > 1 > 2 > 3 > Auto but that means your escape is down, and you have to get back in auto range to detonate the second skull, which isn't very safe.

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Hi sugarpie! Lotus Crown is for when you're in need of defense. While the self-heal is really situational, getting defenses for healing will help you if you ever do use it to try to keep yourself safe. Got it once and it wasn't that bad! Did miss the damage but still, it's an option!

As for darling, while it isn't optional for most of the time, but it does an insane amount of damage when used in a good situation, which is when truly does shine! But alas, is a better overall penetration item. xoxo!