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Poseidon: A solo laner perspective.

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7.2
by DiscoFerry updated December 7, 2019

Smite God: Poseidon

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Poseidon Build

Mid/ADC Start

Notes Start this if youre building into doom orb after boots (Mid & ADC)

Notes

Start this if youre building into doom orb after boots (Mid & ADC)

Build Item Mage's Blessing Mage's Blessing
Build Item Lost Artifact Lost Artifact
Build Item Healing Potion Healing Potion
3
Build Item Mana Potion Mana Potion
2
Build Item Purification Beads Purification Beads
Build Item Aegis Amulet Aegis Amulet

Solo Start

Build Item Mage's Blessing Mage's Blessing
Build Item Shoes Shoes
Build Item Chalice of Healing Chalice of Healing
Build Item Purification Beads Purification Beads
Build Item Aegis Amulet Aegis Amulet

Mid & ADC Example Final Build

Notes Pretty cookie cutter build, works in 9/10 games

Notes

Pretty cookie cutter build, works in 9/10 games

Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Doom Orb Doom Orb
Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus
Build Item Gem of Isolation Gem of Isolation
Build Item Demonic Grip Demonic Grip
Build Item Rod of Tahuti Rod of Tahuti

Solo Example Final Build

Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Pythagorem's Piece Pythagorem's Piece
Build Item Doom Orb Doom Orb
Build Item Demonic Grip Demonic Grip
Build Item Gem of Isolation Gem of Isolation
Build Item Rod of Tahuti Rod of Tahuti

Situational / Alternate Items

Build Item Divine Ruin Divine Ruin
Build Item Toxic Blade Toxic Blade
Build Item Hastened Ring Hastened Ring
Build Item Obsidian Shard Obsidian Shard
Build Item Shaman's Ring Shaman's Ring
Build Item Mantle of Discord Mantle of Discord
Build Item Magi's Cloak Magi's Cloak

Poseidon's Skill Order

Tidal Surge

1 X Y
Tidal Surge
1 15 16 18 19

Trident

2 A B
Trident
4 10 11 12 14

Whirlpool

3 B A
Whirlpool
2 3 6 7 8

Release The Kraken!

4 Y X
Release The Kraken!
5 9 13 17 20
Tidal Surge
1 15 16 18 19

Tidal Surge

1 X
Poseidon summons forth a wave that travels in a line, dealing damage and pushing back all enemies in its path.

Ability Type: Line
Damage: 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 / 260 (+70% of your Magical Power)
Tidal Meter: -15% Tide
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 10s
Trident
4 10 11 12 14

Trident

2 A
Poseidon activates his Trident, granting attack speed and movement speed and making his Basic Attacks fire 2 additional shots in a spread for 6s. The shots deal Magical damage plus 25% of Poseidon's Magical Power. All shots increase Poseidon's Tide on successful hit.

Ability Type: Buff
Base Damage Per Hit: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60
Attack Speed: 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20%
Movement Speed: 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20%
Lifetime: 6s
Cost: 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75
Cooldown: 15s
Whirlpool
2 3 6 7 8

Whirlpool

3 B
Poseidon summons a whirlpool at his ground target location that Cripples targets, preventing movement abilities, and creating a Vortex which drags targets toward the center dealing damage every .5s for 3s.

Ability Type: Ground Target
Damage: 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 (+20% of your Magical Power)
Tidal Meter: -15% Tide
Radius: 20
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11s
Release The Kraken!
5 9 13 17 20

Release The Kraken!

4 Y
Poseidon releases the Kraken, damaging and Slowing targets in its radius. Enemies in the center of the effect when it spawns take additional damage, are bounced into the air and Stunned.

Ability: Ground Target
Damage: 175 / 210 / 245 / 280 / 315 (+45% of your Magical Power)
Damage (Center): 175 / 210 / 245 / 280 / 315 (+55% of your Magical Power)
Slow: 30%
Stun (Center): 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2s
Tidal Meter: -20% Tide
Radius: 30
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

Poseidon Threats

Tap each threat level to view Poseidon’s threats

Max
3
Major
3
Even
0
Minor
0
Tiny
0

Situational / Alternate Items (When and Why)

Divine Ruin / Toxic Blade: Fairly self-explanatory. Need antiheal? Buy antiheal! Divine if youre playing more caster style, toxic if youre sticking to their healer decently. Probably gets built before gem of iso, and pushes rod of tahuti back to your 7th item (sell boots for it)

Hastened: For fun really. Build it 5-6th item if youre winning and wanna just W key. Pushes rod back again.

Shard: You shouldnt really ever need this, but a mage build without shard mentioned anywhere just.. looks wrong? Maybe buy it before rod if they have like 3+ people capping magical protections.

Shamans Ring: Im undecided on this one. Its a good item, for sure, but I just cant quite fit it in the build anywhere that makes sense. Its a good item to sell boots for if you dont need any of the other situation items, though.

Mantle / Magis: Defense! Mad underrated on poseidon honestly. Magis really helps with your "daji/thor/whatever" problems, provided they dont have easy bubble popping gods on their team. Mantle is just a great all around defense item that will get you out of many situations that youd otherwise be very dead from.

Poseidon Pros & Cons

Pros:

-Burst. Kraken can and will one hit anyone in it that doesnt have aegis or a LOT of defense come lategame. Heck, once you have 5-6 items a simple 3-2-auto-1 combo can one hit squishies.

-Mobility. Almost no other god can get across the map as fast as poseidon can once you have doom orb and your 2 maxed. Also great for chasing and escaping when combined with gem of iso on pools you can leave at your feet.


-Control. Loooong consistent slows with gem of iso allow you to set the pace of a teamfight, or at least the literal pace of their tank. If you can get the enemy support in the middle of a pool with your team around you, they should be dead before they can walk out of it. Combine that with your large stun / knockup and short cooldown knockups, and you can control a teamfight by yourself with proper ability management.

Cons:

No CC Immunity: See the "Threats" section. Getting daji ulted? Youre probably dead. Blink geb ulted? Good luck buddy!

No Immediate Mobility: Sure, youre fast to make long rotations, but will that help you with the vulcan ult youre sat dead in the middle of? Probably not.

Solo Lane!

My forte - and in my opinion Poseidons as well! I play an *** ton of poseidon solo so i can go into a lot more detail here than with mid or adc, but a lot of this can be applied to those roles too (for the record i dont rate poseidon jungle at all).

Poseidon wins lane. If you play poseidon right, no god should outpressure you unless youre getting super focused by their jungle or the enemy knows how to play the matchup super well (which not many people do). The most important part of the game for poseidon solo is levels 4-6, as at this point you should have backed for boots as soon as you can afford them, and you should be able to get a kill here unless the enemy laner plays super safe.

To try ensure this, you should spend levels 1-3 poking the enemy to force them to use their potions as fast as possible. the best way to do this is to not let them stack their blessing using your range advantage, while clearing by just dropping your 3-1 on the wave and getting out straight away. Now poke with AAS until you can 1 the wave again to full clear it, and box them while they try to clear your wave. Now back for boots, they should be almost out of pots, poke, hit 5, if possible instant ult and kill. Now you should have a comfortable lead, totem control, and your opponent is scared of you (Important in solo, if your opponent is scared of you they are less likely to capitalise on your small mistakes).

From here keep poking and ulting if you have kill potential. Your damage may well surprise you since you can get 2-3 free aas and your 1 off after your ult hits, youll learn your damage after a few games.

The reason Pythags is in the solo build and not the mid/adc one is poke and hp management is way more important in solo than mid. Health chalice + pythags + poseidon poke wins you the health economy game. Pythags > Bancrofts simply for CDR, as if you can ult more often than they can, you can kill easier while their ult is on cooldown.

POINT SKIPPING: This applies to all roles. Dont level anything at level 8, and at level 9 put a point into both whirlpool and kraken, this gives the best kill potential at this stage.

Especially Good Solo Matchups

JORM! Poseidon EATS jormungandr like a jorm sized mongoose. Your 1, 3 and 4 all proc his passive, your ult goes off faster than his, and if you ever catch him without ult he is 100% dead. you just have to play around his better levels 1-3 while still poking and avoiding his poke. come level 5, the tables turn very very fast.

Arthur: Cripples destroy arthur, and without his big ult, he cant get out of your ult. once you get that level 5 kill, you farm him.

Most squishy solo laners: self explanatory really. ult them.

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1
S7evin424 (2) | September 9, 2020 8:30pm
As seen on YouTube lol I had to check out this build when I saw that. Solo did pretty well with it for pub stomping.
1
Kriega1 (143) | November 25, 2019 8:51am
So uh where's the explanation of who's gonna be the second frontliner if you pick Poseidon Solo.
1
DiscoFerry (3) | November 25, 2019 9:18am
Thats a very one dimensional way of thinking. While sure, you can just roll with a bruiser jungle as the second frontline (erlang, fenrir, tanky thor, athena, whatever), you dont have to stick to the same comp style all the time. You see plenty of comps with a serqet support and a dive solo laner, you lack frontline there too. You can run pos solo with a backline support to peel for your carries since pools can very quickly solo out enemy fronliners and you can burst them super quick with the prot shred, but you can also commit to a dive comp that doesn't necessarily need two frontliners. Be flexible.
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Kriega1 (143) | November 25, 2019 9:21am
So how would it relate to this?
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