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Release the Kraken! - Poseidon guide for mid laners (Y10, 11.1, WIP)

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Smite God: Poseidon

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Build Summary

Start (Pendulum build)

Sands of Time

Magic Focus

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Pendulum Build

Notes Build to become a kraken spammer since early on and apply tons of pressure. Late game it has some one-shot potential on squishes and great damage to tanks.

Get if you need anti-healing to stop healing and lifesteal.

Pendulum of Ages

Spear of Desolation

Book of Thoth

Charon's Coin

Staff of Myrddin

Soul Reaver

Poseidon's Skill Order Notes When you reach level 8, wait until level 9 to upgrade both Release The Kraken! and Whirlpool.

Notes

When you reach level 8, wait until level 9 to upgrade both Release The Kraken! and Whirlpool.

Tidal Surge

1 X

1 15 16 18 19

Trident

2 A

3 10 11 12 14

Whirlpool

3 B

2 4 6 7 8

Release The Kraken!

4 Y

5 9 13 17 20

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

3 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

2 4 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

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

Extended Build

start (gem build)

Conduit Gem

Lost Artifact

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Alternative (Gem) Build

Notes The idea here is one shot people and gotta go fast!

Get if you need anti-healing to stop healing and lifesteal.

Pick the blue totem on your buff. The entire game.

Gem of Focus

Spear of Desolation

Doom Orb

Charon's Coin

Staff of Myrddin

Calamitous Rod of Tahuti

Situational Items

Notes Go to builds and itemization section for more info.

Spear of the Magus

Divine Ruin

Obsidian Shard

Ethereal Staff

Breastplate of Determination

Relics

Notes variants - Pick these relics whenever you want to block massive burst damage like 's ult. Judgment for offensive stats and Acceleration for defensive.

variants - Pick these relics if the enemy team has a lot of Hard CC's like stuns, taunts... Chaotic for offensive and temporal for defensive.

Shards - for early sustain and a tiny help to burst targets very early on, and for help with CDR.

Aegis of Acceleration

Temporal Beads

Horn Shard

Introduction

Art by Hadassa

My name is x MysTeRioN z, a majority Xbox Player, but sometimes I play on PC too. I'm a Brazilian nice guy who likes to play FPS, Racing, Platform and RPG games. I like to study and read when I'm not playing, and I'm also studying to be a lawyer. My Xbox gamertag is the same as here: x MysterioN z.

Today, I'm here to help you play with the god of seas (or seamen (hehehe)).

Art by Zennore via DeviantArt

"The Ocean calls my name!" - Poseidon

I'm open to suggestions to make this guide even better, so don't forget to like this guide (if you liked) and tell me what I should improve, what I should change, and if this guide was helpful for you.

So, let's go!!!

You are reading a CERTIFIED GUIDE!!!

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Pros / Cons

"You're shark bait" - Poseidon

Pros:

High damage
Good CCs
Very useful in teamfights
Strong late game
Good Basic attacks + Good Skills
Easy to carry
Sexy voice on Riptide skin
Most memorable phrase in the game

Cons:

Very predictable
Extremely mana hungry
Doesn't have a true escape
You need to hit exactly the center of Kraken
Very annoying to fight against
Too much Mid-Late Game

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details about pros/cons

Pros

High Damage
All Poseidon's kit has a good amount of damage, meaning you can easily kill anyone. Your basics with Trident are very strong, his pool and wave does also considerable damage and when you hit the center of Kraken happens big burst damage!
Good CC
Poseidon has a slow, cripple, knock up, stun and can easily apply Gem of Isolation (even with basic attacks using Trident), capable to burn Purification Beads or get some kills if the enemy refuses to use it.
Very useful in teamfights
Yeah, due to all the damage and CC, has a Poseidon on your team is almost always welcome.
Strong late game
Just like most late-game mages, Poseidon has a strong late game (when all his build is full) and he can really carry at late-game due to the high damage and CCs.
Good Basic attacks + Good Skills
Poseidon is one of the unique gods capable of having both basic attacks and abilities strong. At late-game, your basic really hurts and your skills even more.
Easy to carry
He has one of the easiest mechanics in the game, and you can quickly learn how to use him very well, plus his high damage and CC's makes him the easiest to carry mid laner (someone capable to carry bad teammates).
Sexy voice on Riptide skin
Come on, listen to it here, you may like it (mainly the "You're shark bait!"). When someone plays with this skin, every call is a pleasure to listen to. "Hero, of the ocean"
Most memorable phrase in the game
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

Cons

Very predictable
Poseidon moves can be identified by experienced players and a lot of times they can be predictable and countered.
Extremely mana hungry
Extreme mana hungry early game. If you don't build BoT you will need to manage carefully your mana. So it's easy to get yourself without mana (and without damage since you can't cast skills).
Doesn't have a true escape
Your "escape" is to use Trident to gain some movespeed and try to go away, so if you are in a bad position and be caught, bye-bye. Also, since you are mana hungry, it's very easy to see yourself being not able to use Trident.
You need to hit exactly the center of Kraken
If for some reason you miss the center of Kraken, you will see that you wasted the ultimate 'cause you probably do more damage with your normal skills and basic attacks
Very annoying to fight against
More for Joust and Duel. Fight against him may be very annoying since he can run away from you and easily apply Gem of Isolation to stick on you/keep you away from him.
Kind of Mid-Late Game
Only when you have both pen and cooldown allied with some upgraded skills (around level 10-13) that you really start doing a good amount of damage, and before it happens, you are heavily dependent on Kraken (your ulti) to damage the enemy massively.

Skills

"Hope you can swim!" - Poseidon

Changing Tides
Type: Passive

Extra damage: Up to +20% extra damage at max tide level
Extra movespeed: Up to +15% extra movespeed at max tide level

basic attacks increase the tide marker, with higher tides, come higher damages and movespeed. Using his skills decrease the marker (except the ).

details

Tidal Surge
Type: Line
Cooldown: 10 secs

Damage: 100/140/180/220/260 (+ 70% of your magical power)
Tidal Meter: -20%

brings a wave to the battlefield, and it travels in a line, damaging all enemies it hits a knocking back them.

details

Trident
Type: Buff
Cooldown: 20-12 secs

Extra shots damage: 30/40/50/60/70 (+ 20% of your magical power)
Extra Movespeed: 10/15/20/25/30%

turns his trident, allowing him to fire extra 2 shots on each basic attack. Additionally, Poseidon gains movespeed to race around the map. All these buffs have a lifetime of 6 secs.

details

Whirlpool
Type: Ground Target
Cooldown: 15-11 secs

Total damage: 90/150/210/270/330 (+ 90% of your magical power)
Tide Meter: -20%

creates a Whirlpool that cripples and brings enemies to the center of it.

details

Release the Kraken!
Type: Ground Target (Ultimate)
Cooldown: 90 secs

Damage: 175/210/245/280/315 (+ 45% of your magical power) (Damage 2x in the center)
Tide Meter: -30%

releases the Kraken, that damages and slow all enemies in the area after a short preparation time. People in the center of Kraken take the damage twice and are also stunned and knocked up into the air.

details

Skill Order

Standard Leveling Up Order (For Conquest)

Start with Tidal Surge due the lower cooldown and same damage of Whirlpool.

After that, follow this priority

(For wave clear and high damage while cripples the enemy)
(For movespeed and increase your passive)
(For damage proposing only)

As soon as available to enhance the damage

Burst Damage Leveling Up Order

(For wave clear and high damage while cripples the enemy)
(For extra damage on your combo)
(For movespeed and increase your passive)

As soon as available to enhance the damage

Skills Combos

Wave clear

More than enough to clear the wave. Put in the center of the wave to clear it and finish with if you really feel you need it, 'cause you will waste so much mana clearing the wave, so I recommend finishing with basic attacks whenever possible. With full stacked you will have a lot of mana, so then you can start casting this without thinking about your mana.

Poking your enemy

will force your enemy to stop hitting you (mainly with basic attacks) and start to move out of it, then you upgrade your and try to hit him with all three basics.

Killing your enemy

will cripple your enemy while does damage, then you RELEASE THE KRAKEN! And since your enemy is crippled you can put the center exactly on your enemy, then after the knockup you fire and activates to gain some movespeed to chase the enemy and some extra basic attacks.

How to play

Early Game

You are WEAK and an easy target until level 3/4 and 5, SO AVOID FIGHT, unless it's inevitable.
Try to clear the wave as soon as possible, and try to don't take damage from the wave. If the enemy cleared his wave first, retreat to your tower.
High recommend you take the damage buff. If you see that there is a chance of the enemy take your buff, then do it even before your jungler comes. If this chance is not possible, wait for him (if he takes too long to do it, do it by yourself).
In teamfights try to participate from some distance and run for your life using Trident if someone focuses on you.
PUT WARDS ON THE MAP to avoid be Ganked!!.
Poke your enemy as soon as possible (See the "poking combo" on Combos Section) and be careful doing it, he might call for help and put you in serious trouble.
FOCUS ON FARMING, you need to get big as soon as possible so every farm you see, do it if possible (camps or minions waves), especially the camps on the right and left side of mid-lane.
Be careful to don't die. IF THE ENEMY GETS BIGGER THAN YOU, YOU WILL SUFFER SO MUCH.
Ask for help every time you need it, and don't do anything that can compromise yourself.
Remember that you have a low health pool and 0 defenses early game, so "be smart".

Mid-Game

Now you do decent damage, probably you are killing a minions wave without problems using Whirlpool.
Now it's time to become a little aggressive. Your damage scales very well now (mainly with the build I did). You will see your basic attacks (with Trident) doing very good basic attacks, and it surprises the most of the enemy. The squishy target should be dying extremely easy for you if you hit your entire combo (including the center of Kraken). Time to shine.
Don't hold krakens, if Kraken is ready then use it. Go for ganks to use it or if you see an enemy in a bad spot, go for it.
REMEMBER THAT OBJECTIVES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN KILLS, so it's time to start to rotate, taking down towers, and kill with your team jungle bosses such as gold fury and fire giant.
ALWAYS try to participate in teamfights now, 'cause your skills ARE VERY USEFUL to the team and do VERY GOOD damage.
Now it's a nice moment to start rotating to surprise enemies and release some Kraken!!!

Late Game

Time to group up.
Now you are stronger than ever, so, time to keep shining.
Use wisely your skills now, 'cause they are powerful and can change the games' destiny.
Stay with your team helping them and now, more than ever, participate in the team fights combining your skills with theirs.
Unfortunately, you are very squishy, so YOU DIE VERY FAST at late game, BUT, you can counter it by playing safe behind your teammates. So, as long as you don't try to be a front line and stay together with your team, you will still be a killing machine.
As you should notice, a single Whirlpool combined with the center of the Kraken can also kill a full health squishy target, so use it wisely.
Try to keep you passive always full or almost full 'cause if someone turns to you, you can activate Ayrton Senna mode, I mean... Trident and just run away.

Builds and Itemization

How to Build

Now I will talk about how you should build Poseidon properly, what your build must have to be decent and viable.

how to build

Builds

Builds

Situational Items

details

Final Considerations

"Forward tide water!!" - Poseidon

My conclusion is that Poseidon is a good and easy god to play and is very welcome on mid-lane and can be fun to play with him as ADC. Building him right and playing with him right, I'm almost sure you will always have a positive KD and will have a good match. He is probably the easiest mid to carry a game, once fed, there's no coming back to the enemy due to your insane pressure with ulti + whirlpool.

Follow the guide I posted here, you will do a nice job with him.

So let's go now, let's release a lot of krakens!

Special Thanks:

Zennore - The guy who did this amazing art of Cute Poseidon on the headers.

Check my other guides:

Art by Zennore via DeviantArt
and Bomine via Artstation

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(143) |

I'd recommend Nimble over Calamitous on Pos, or at least as an alternative.

(72) |

Thank you, I will change it

Love the guide man got any others on here? I'm sure you do this is just the first one I e came across. Anyway love it man keep up the good work

(72) |

Yeah, on the "final considerations" section you can access all my works, or just clicking on my name to access my profile too.
Thank you :3

Comments below this are from Season 8 and the ones above from Season 9!

Leveling the 1 is 10x better than the 3

(37) |

Doom orb should definitely be listed.

(72) |

It's been a long time since the last time I saw this item in a build. Does it even worth?

(143) |

Uhm, yes? 2850 gold for 145 power? (165 stacked). 6% movement speed (11% stacked) great for rotations/farming, MP5 makes it hard to go OOM, mage flat pen got nerfed, why wouldn't you build it? Especially on Pos?

Like, how can you recommend Book which hasn't been meta on Pos for a while now, but wouldn't suggest Doom Orb, especially after recent buff?

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(37) |

It is also useful for Pos as he has no real escape except movement speed, which stacks with his 2.

(2) |

That guide looks awesome visualy also its easy to track and learn.

And ı dont have any major opposition too. Well done.

(72) |

Thank you :3

(35) |

Do you feel that the ADC build could use some adjustments or do you still like how it is?

(72) |

Tbh I didn't even remember that this build exist LOL!!!

I think the new lifesteal ring can be a decent option but I wouldn't trade Brancroft for it, Pos, after lvl 5, with bancroft, has a giant kill potential with his ulti. Do you have something in mind that wants to share DV?

(35) |

I was just looking for build ideas for Mage ADCs. Just seeing what builds you like.

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(72) |

Ok. Just wanna tell you, as Kreiga said, Pos is not a mage ADC. Although he can work and you can play with him like that, it's not the best way. That's why I said on the build "for fun only"

(143) |

Poseidon isn't a mage adc, even though you can build him that way (maybe not fully), and he can flex mid/adc/jungle.

(35) |

...That seems contradictory. Could you elaborate?

(143) |

I meant as in the typical "mage adc" (not mage in adc role, I basically mean "Mage Hunter"), with a strong AA steroid, his AA steroid is decent with his 2 but it's not to the level of Olorun/Chronos/Freya or even Sol.

But he can be played fine in duo like Merlin and some other mages or flexed in Jungle.

Also going mage adc items on him is functional to an extent but not the most optimal.

(From previous seasons: https://smiteprobuilds.com/Builds?p_filters_page=1&p_filters_search=&p_filters_god=1881&p_filters_pro=~&p_filters_opponent=~&p_filters_role=Carry&p_filters_league=~&p_filters_sort=~ )

(1) |

Seamen-thats nasty!

Still good guide tho. +1

(72) |

hahaha thx

(72) |

Comments below this are from Season 6 and above it from Season 7.

(15) |

It is a pretty nice build. However, a big downside is the lack of mana sunstainment pretty much throughout the whole game. You might want to swap out for and get

(72) |

Yeah, that was a flaw from the old build, but these builds to Season 7 are more optimized than S6

(5) |

So, I was looking over your guide and it made a lot of sense to try out the fast attack speed build to keep the tide built up for escapes but I had a horrible match. After how bad I did on my initial try in arena I tried the other build but did not do so well either.

Someone in my team suggested that I build gem of isolation earlier to get the slows going sooner and then I also got to thinking that to sort of mitigate his squishiness that I would build more health with power for him there. The last two games I have done pretty well with this setup just learning him. at the start of the match and then build full

I get a bit of lifesteal early and a good chunk of extra health and then for first relic I take and then because he can get bursted down so fast I've been doing better just to pop that and run if I can't get away with the 3, the 3 and the ult and/or having high tide. it is a small sample size but the two matches with this build were 3/0/12(win with 25 totat team kills) and 6/0/8(18 total team kills) both wins. Was tentative first match and low damage but more assertive but not overly aggressive and got second place damage with 43k second game. Even though I am using a different build you have my +1 because of all of your good information in the guide. If you have any input for me that would be great as well.

(72) |

Hellow Silent,

Thank you for your +1 :3
Just pointing this build wasn't made for arena, it is for "Mid Laners" which means it was thought exclusively for Conquest. You may use the build in other modes and it also may work but you will have to make some adjustments like the one you did with .

Thanks for the feedback.

(5) |

wrote:

yeah, i know, but you gave a lot of good general information for him that has helped me, so still deserving of the +1, despite not for my preferred game mode :)

(143) |

I'd swap soul gem for tahuti in your build, especially considering you got shaman's, since tahuti passive buffs shaman's passive.

An ideal Pos build is something like: , , , (or gem of iso against low moblity teams), , .

If u need obs shard swap tahuti for it, or if u need divine ruin then swap magus for divine and lategame get obs shard instead of tahuti, or go something like: CDR boots > magus > divine > shaman's > reaver > obs shard.

(5) |

Yeah was thinking the same thing with ruin and then obs for soul if needed. I went with soul at the end for even more health/the burst/lifesteal because I was thinking all that health with those benefits from soul and the borrowed health from ethereal would really help arena survivability. The 30% cooldown for the build is nice too although from what I have seen 20% would probably be fine. I don't need much convincing to try out Tahuti. I try to fit that in if possible in any magical based god I can that i play. I will probably do that at times after I get more work in with him. I didn't realize Shaman's synergized with Tahuti like that. Thanks for the input.

(4) |

Hi mys, uhh overall your guide seems informative and cool B)

(72) |

Thank you :3

(46) |

Hey Myst, is polynomicon good on Poseidon in a book of thoth build?

(72) |

Well I wouldn't use it. You usually cast your 3 then kraken, then 1 or 2 (or both), so I really don't if it would be that useful since his combos are usually applied very quickly without a basic attack between the casts. I wouldn't recommend it, there are better options though it can work in some cases if you look for (even more) burst.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Pros / Cons

Skills

Skill Order

Skills Combos

How to play

Builds and Itemization

Final Considerations

Item		Explanation
		Breastplate of Valor If needing physical protctions against the jungloer or adc this item can be pretty useful.
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		Spear of the Magus If you have a free slot consider picking this item. Has pen and allows your combos deals even more damage.
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		Divine Ruin If the enemies have too much lifesteal (like Anubis) and/or healing (like Aphrodite) build this to lower their healing. It's more efficient in the early game. You may build it instead of Spear of the Magus on any build.
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		Doom Orb It can replace your charon coin, offering the movespeed and slightly less pen but more power. If you think tanks won't be a problem/there is only 1 tank to peel and frontline, you may get this to hurt more squishes.
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		Obsidian Shard If you want to maximize you %pen, even though you lose some speed, this item can go into the charon's slot.
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		Soul Gem Needing some lifesteal? this item can help you. With good amount of cdr you can spam your skills and proc it often. Helps you survive and yet increase your burst power

Release the Kraken! - Poseidon guide for mid laners (Y10, 11.1, WIP)

Smite God: Poseidon

Build Summary

Start (Pendulum build)

Pendulum Build

Poseidon's Skill Order Notes When you reach level 8, wait until level 9 to upgrade both Release The Kraken! and Whirlpool.

Notes

When you reach level 8, wait until level 9 to upgrade both Release The Kraken! and Whirlpool.

Tidal Surge

Trident

Whirlpool

Release The Kraken!

Extended Build

start (gem build)

Alternative (Gem) Build

Situational Items

Relics

Introduction

Pros / Cons

Pros

Cons

Skills

Skill Order

Skills Combos

How to play

Early Game

Mid-Game

Late Game

Builds and Itemization

Now I will talk about how you should build Poseidon properly, what your build must have to be decent and viable.

What a Poseidon build must have?

What a Poseidon build may have?

What a Poseidon build mustn't have?

Situational Items

Item

Explanation

Final Considerations

So let's go now, let's release a lot of krakens!

Special Thanks:

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Release the Kraken! - Poseidon guide for mid laners (Y10, 11.1, WIP)

Smite God: Poseidon

Build Summary

Start (Pendulum build)

Pendulum Build

Notes

Poseidon's Skill Order Notes When you reach level 8, wait until level 9 to upgrade both Release The Kraken! and Whirlpool. x Notes When you reach level 8, wait until level 9 to upgrade both Release The Kraken! and Whirlpool. Close

Notes

Tidal Surge

Trident

Whirlpool

Release The Kraken!

Tidal Surge

Trident

Whirlpool

Release The Kraken!

Extended Build

start (gem build)

Alternative (Gem) Build

Notes

Situational Items

Notes

Relics

Notes

Introduction

Pros / Cons

Pros

Cons

Skills

Skill Order

Skills Combos

How to play

Early Game

Mid-Game

Late Game

Builds and Itemization

Now I will talk about how you should build Poseidon properly, what your build must have to be decent and viable.

What a Poseidon build must have?

What a Poseidon build may have?

What a Poseidon build mustn't have?

Situational Items

Item

Explanation

Final Considerations

So let's go now, let's release a lot of krakens!

Special Thanks:

Leave a Comment This author would like to receive feedbackand suggestions about their guide.

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Poseidon's Skill Order Notes When you reach level 8, wait until level 9 to upgrade both Release The Kraken! and Whirlpool.

Notes

When you reach level 8, wait until level 9 to upgrade both Release The Kraken! and Whirlpool.

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