Season 5 Ullr guide - "Im not broken, I swear" - Builds up to date with patch 5.3 - Rewievs and/or comments welcome!

Hey, I am Agneus and this is my first Smitefire guide about my favourite god Ullr. I play Smite since Season two and after a while I decided to instead of copying information from another guide to make my own. As you probbably already noticed, I am not an english native speaker, so execuse my imperfect language and please do not judge me too hard. This guide will cover builds, abilities, combos, pros/cons, general tips and tricks and much more. I will try my best to keep the guide up to date as long as possible.

Ullr is very unique god in terms of mechanics and overall gameplay experience. He is known to be one of the highest skill cap gods (high skill floor and high skill ceiling) and requires big amount of time and patience to master and use on high level of play. He is one of the four stance changing gods in the game others being Hel, Tyr and Artio and similarly to Hel his ultimate is a stance change while he has access to three unique abilities in each stance. In the last months of Season 5 Ullr recieved various buffs that made him arguably one of the best hunters in Smite. With patch 5.3 scalings on both Ullrs primary damaging abilities ( Bladed Arrow and Hail of Arrows) has been decreased, which will hurt both his poking and lane clearing potential, but he still remains one of the strongest concquest hunters as well as top tier god in both Duel and Joust.

So that is to the introduction of myself and Ullr and without further adue, lets jump into the guide itself.

10.5 2017 - First version of the guide published!

12.5 2017 - After a great struggle with BBcoding I finally finished the Starter builds section. Feel free to comment on anything

16.6 2017- Hey guys, after more than month I am finally back to writing this guide. I started playing duel so I added duel build and new info into items section.
Hope you like it and as always feel free to comment on anything!

17.6 2017 - Added Executioner and Titans Bane commentary into items section

8.1 2018 - I am finally back. Builds are now up to date with patch 4.25 ( Cerberus release). Commentary will be updated with Season five release.

1.2 2018 - All three builds as well as Starter and Core items commentary sections should be up to date with patch 5.1, as always feel free to comment if you have any suggestions/questions. Work on the guide is still in progress.

2.2 - Other options section was added into Items chapter.

14.2 - Builds and commentary up to datewith patch 5.2 Legend of the Foxes.

In most situations in concquest you should start with Mage's Blessing (one of Season 5 Starter items) and Morningstar (tier one Transcendence). This will bolster your already high early game ability damage and potentionally gives you advantage over auto attack based hunters starting with Hunter's Blessing and Spiked Gauntlet like Rama.

In Joust and Duel starting with Mage's Blessing is advised as this will give you cheap and fast damage early on. Along with this item Boots are the call, as cheap movement speed will do more work for you in teamfight/engage heavy gamemodes and you can start stacking in the second item slot without worrying about your lane pressure and overall preformance. In duel specifically Hunter's Blessing is viable and generally you will want to build it in situations where auto attack based build is going be more effective than ability based one. With Asi nerf in patch 5.2 ability based builds got hit as they relied solely on Asi for any lifesteal at all and decreased pen did not realy helped the situation. Still ability based builds are viable in duel but heavily depend on the matchup. Decision which build to go for often decides games so do not take it lightly. Generally speaking you want to build auto attack based build against other hunters and against gods who will have an advantage over you in early game and who you can beat in late game.

Other starter options are rather unconvential or even unviable at this time into the new season and therfore are not mentioned here.

Mana/health regeneration consumables and their amounts from all recommended starter item sets in this guide are recommended out of my own experience and therfore fits my own playstyle. If you think you can conserve your mana and health quite well taking who you are fighting into consideration purchase less consumables. On the other hand if you expect to do badly either because your facing a counter matchup (not many gods right now) or because you expect a lot of ganks and pressure, purchase more consumables. Saving gold is always important and can give you solid advantage but it is absolutely not worth if you are losing lane/jungle pressure or dying as a result.

Wards in form of Chalice of the Oracle are mandatory in current gank/rotation heavy meta. Buy Chalice of the Oracle as soon as possible, ideally after your first back. Than you will have basic or solid vision (depends if your support is also warding or not) on your side of the map which may and in fact probbably will save your life or your team a Gold Fury. Even late game Chalice of the Oracle is relevant so do not sell it if not in desperete need of Sentry Ward.

In Joust and Duel goes what I sad about mana/health regeneration consumables. They are important early game and lose importance as game goes on. Wards are generally situational in those two modes, but if you are playing from behind or just feel like the opposing hunter might easily burst down the Bull demon king, warding his lair might come into play.





There is no Ullr build without Transcendence especialy now in early Season 5. It gives you bunch of mana to cast your abilities and power to boost your offense overall while providing handy amount of cooldown reduction in evolved(fully stacked)form which sets it aside from Devourer's Gauntlet. Lifesteal and lower physical power are not the call nowadays in Season 5 where damage and mobility matters the most.

Warrior Tabi is a must go in almost every Ullr build. It gives you necesarry early power and therefore boxing potential while also providing damage boost to your abilities scalings which stacks with bonus ability damage provided by Mage's Blessing. In current meta and how Ullr fits in it, there is never a valid reason to build Ninja Tabi. Completely auto attack based build is outclassed by other hunters like Hachiman or Rama and building this item into ability based build just does not make any sense.

The Crusher with its new passive is great item to build on any ability based hunter and Ullr is not an execption. Sporting decent stats including attack speed and flat penetration and passive that esentially boosts your ability damage output this item is great and in my opinion best item to build into third item slot on Ullr. At this point you might already have lead/lane pressure over/against the opposing carry and this item easily secures or even deepens this lead. Even if you are playing from behind, few lucky combos might put you back into play and that extra damage (which increases as you are getting into late game and finishing your build) might be your win condition.


Lifesteal is not as important on Ullr due to fact he has quite high lifsteal in his kit ( Wield Axes) and most of his damage comes from his abilities therfore he does not box other carries as often as other hunters. In most cases Asi alone should do the trick also providing you with flat penetration and attack speed. I personally think that Asi is one of the best hunter items considering its verstality. If you are playing arena, Bloodforge maybe viable due to high power it provides, but you are still missing good amount of pen and attack speed while passive is not worth it. With patch 5.2 Asi got unfortunately nerfed with decreased penetration which in the future may make it less viable, but for now it remains one of the primary hunter choices.


For most The Executioner has been a classic hunter item troughout seasons and Season 5 is not an execption. Decent power, good attack speed and protection shredding passive are perks that any auto attack based hunter build enjoys having. It works very well with crit too as after few autos it partially replaces penetration that crit builds often lack. In combination with Deathbringer this item shines the brightest.

In past seasons, penetration has always played lead role in builds for Ullr, yet this has changed with Season 5 item changes. Old Season 4 heavy pen/attack speed builds became unviable for the most part and they were replaced with flat penetration from versatile items like The Crusher or Asi which also provide other important benefits and with critical strike chance or more sepcifically with one now extremely powerful item that is a must on any hunter and honestly even on most assassin builds. If you are familiar with Season 5 like i am, you certainly know that i am talking about Deathbringer. Thirty five percent critical strike chance alone is so good that the physical power and this items passive seems like Ajaxs presence on 2018 HRX in comparison. Just by building Deathbringer you are adding high boxing potential and auto attack damage output into build that is generally based around ability damage. Yes you have heard correctly, with Deathbringer alone any hunter build is gaining enough crit that it does not have to buy any other critical strike chance items. Build Deathbringer while Hirez has not yet nerfed it and enjoy rekting scrubs like in the Cernunnos release days.




Items I just covered form basic and in my opinion most effective concquest build and with slight changes they work in Joust as well. Duel was always more about counter building than anything so the build might change based off who you are fighting.
It would be wrong to say that building anything else than I just reccomended will put you into disadvantage, but most items I will cover here are situational and they will most likely work in less situations than the standard build will. I also haven't tested some of these items on Ullr so in few cases Im am judging from my overall experience with those items on other hunters or from past seasons.

Atalanta's Bow was unviable item in the last season due to its lack of important stats like penetration or lifesteal and average pas]sive. It enters Season5 with buff that might have made it somewhat worth building in certain situations. Like Odysseus' Bow, [color=#ff8000 Atalanta's Bow[/color] provides a good chunk of attack speed while also having some added physical power. Passive used to privide up to 28 percent movement speed buff that lasted three seconds and could be refreshed by hitting more auto attacks. The item was outclassed by almost any other item that provided more useful stats that in the end resulted in higher boxing potential (which was Atalanta's Bow purpose as it was meant to replace removed Fatalis). In Season 5 stacking movement speed buff duration was extended from three to seven seconds. If you realize how important is movement speed on the new map this movement speed that now lasts much longer might be very useful for rotations (if built early) or for significant mobility increase in late game teamfights where carry is a primary target. In patch 5.2 Atalanta's Bow was further buffed with increased attack speed and decreased cost. This along with the Asi nerf might get this item into play even tho most pros and/or streamers doubt it.

Qin's Sais and Titan's Bane have been both significantly nerfed and they do not seem to be viable out of maybe tank heavy comps or defense/health heavy duel matches. Their supposed counterbuilding potential is overshadowed by crit items like Deathbringer which in combination with flat pen provide same or even bigger benefits.

As mentioned above Deathbringer alone in its current state (as of 5.1 patch notes) provides all crit you need in your build. Wind Demon is mostly option for auto attack based hunters this season. This item might find some usage on Ullr in situations where you are so much ahead that you do not need to further boost your ability damage (you already oneshot squishies with 1,3 combo) or when you are playing against box heavy comp (double hunter comp). But keep in mind that Ullr builds were shifted back to old ability based combinations and as of now those will always be more effective than auto attack based ones.

Brawler's Beat Stick has always been a classic physical heal counter option and this has not changed with the new season, but if you consider how heavily is healing still countered by other items/certain gods Brawler's Beat Stick with its overall poor stats will hardly ever hit your screen. Let guardians and warriors build Pestilence and focus on getting items like The Crusher and Deathbringer online as fast as possible. This of course does not go for duel where Brawler's Beat Stick is still mandatory in numerous situations.

Last but not least Jotunn's Wrath. Out of all situational items Jotunn's Wrath is the most viable one. By replacing Deathbringer and building rest of the items in different order you trade critical strike chance for flat penetration, mana and most importantly cooldown reduction which in combination with evolved Transcendence finishes fully ability focused build. Such build almost eliminates the late game preformance decrease which Ullr experiences as long as you are hitting your abilities.