SMITEFire Community Guide to Ymir (Support)

Frostbite

• Reduces an enemy's damage when affected by Glacial Strike, Frost Breath or Shards of Ice. Note that Shards of Ice will only affect the enemy once it's time runs out or is canceled early.
  
  
• Increases Ymir’s basic attack damage for a short time. This passive plays a big part in Ymir’s offensive potential. Weave basic attacks in-between damaging abilities for a significant increase in damage.
  
  
• In builds that incorporate more offensive items, Polynomicon works well in combination with Frostbite for a nice burst of damage.
  
  
• You can be more aggressive early game because your basic attacks deal double damage. Take advantage of that as much as possible to force your enemies to retreat!
  
  
• This passive is currently bugged and the damage reduction can also stack (additively) up to 3 times. Using Frost Breath will reset the amount of stacks. You could do it by using 3 > 4 > 2 or 3 > 4 > 2 > 2 (with Staff of Myrddin).

Ice Wall

• General: This ability blocks an enemy’s general ground movement, along with ranged basic attacks of all types. Abilities that can penetrate through walls can still penetrate this wall; keep that in mind, as you can cast the ability to block incoming damage, and then use any of your other abilities to deal damage to enemies on the other side.
  
  
• Offensive Function (Chase): Use the wall to block enemy retreat pathways. Follow up with a quick Frost Breath and basics to prevent your target from escaping.
  
  
• Offensive Function (Siege): If you’re attacking an objective, use the wall to delay the enemy’s defense of the structure.
  
  
• Teamfight Function (Separation): In a teamfight, you can isolate enemies for better team focus and less potential incoming damage by placing the wall between enemies.
  
  
• Defensive Function (Retreat): If you and/or teammates are retreating, place the wall in a strategic location to slow the enemy’s pursuit. It can be more effective if you place it in front of them as they may be slow to react, and it will take longer for them to get around the wall.
  
  
• Defensive Function (Retreat Pro-Tip): If enemies are chasing you down (e.g. melee Gods with Hastened Katana), you can place the wall at your feet (facing the direction of your retreat); Looking down before placing helps prevent the wall from blocking you. As long as you have completed boots and are not slowed, you will run through the wall as it forms and cut the enemies off.
  
  
• Caution: Improper placement of the wall can have the opposite effect of what you planned. Remember that the wall can be canceled at any time, which is especially helpful if you've inadvertently blocked yourself or a teammate from retreating.

Blocking enemy retreat with Ice Wall and body block

Protecting Phoenix from basic attacks

Creating separation when retreating

Separating 2 enemies to only fight one

Glacial Strike

• This is your main minion clear ability, as well as your best poke/damage option against enemy Gods. It has high base damage and a low cooldown, with a somewhat short range but wide hitbox. It is easiest to hit after you’ve frozen enemies with Frost Breath.
  
  
• Due to the added damage of Frostbite, your best damage potential comes when using Frost Breath, hitting with a basic attack, then using Glacial Strike followed by more basic attacks for maximum efficiency.

Frost Breath

• This ability hits in a cone with a fairly short range. Due to the cone shape, your best confirmation of the hit will be closer to the max range. Don’t use this when an enemy is extremely close, unless they’re already under crowd control or immobile, as it can be easy to miss.
  
  
• Gank / Surprise: A popular combination is to use this with Blink Rune to surprise enemies. You can do this when ganking lanes, and to close the gap on retreating enemies just out of your range.
  
  
• Since the cooldown is quite long, do not use this to clear minions, unless you won’t need the ability’s CC any time soon.
  
  
• Be careful of spamming this ability. Always consider the best time to use it, whether it be for offense (setting up kills) or defense (peeling for teammates).

Shards of Ice

• This ability is amazing at zoning because of its large size, great damage potential and hefty slow. If there are enemies nearby a choke point chasing your allies, you can cast this to force them into a decision; risk high damage or find another way around. This gives your teammates more time to retreat.
  
  
• Shards of Ice auto-fires whenever you die. You can continue to channel it if you don’t think you’ll be able to retreat after you fire it.
  
  
• This is a channeled ability that gains in damage potential the longer it is cast. It can be canceled early to apply lower damage. Be sure to trigger the damage before the enemy leaves the area, as a reduction in damage potential is better than no damage at all.

Early Game

Main facts to keep in mind:

• Early Kill Potential: Ymir has great early kill potential, due to his strong CC and base damage. This potential is further enhanced if Blink Rune is chosen as the first relic. Use your threat of CC and damage to control the early lane.
  
  
• Force enemies back or zone them if the matchup is favorable, so you can deny them farm and potentially steal their Void buff. If the matchup isn’t favorable, you can retreat near your tower. With your CC, you can help set up a gank for your Jungler.
  
  
• Mana Hungry: Be careful of using abilities too often; it can be easy to burn through your mana stores, especially with the low cooldown of Glacial Strike. Make sure you always have enough mana in case you need to set up a kill or retreat.
  
  
• If you stand just to the side of the melee minions, Glacial Strike’s wide hit-box can connect with the entire wave, speeding your wave-clear potential to pressure the enemy team.

• This is your most important stage for team support with gank potential. Rotate through the jungle to lanes where you can assist, picking up camps when possible for farm. Surprise and isolate enemies to give your teammates lane advantage to take down structures and push the enemy back.
  
  
• When fighting in the jungle, your Ice Wall is often able to block an entire path; use that to your advantage to trap enemies for easy kills.

• Your main role in the later stages of a match should be for fight initiation, CC, and zoning in teamfights. Always stick with teammates, but remember you’re the team’s frontline: you’re not supposed to be on the backline.
  
  
• If there’s havok among your backline and your team needs you to help them, then go right ahead, but, in any other case, you should always try to stun, slow and block out the enemies overextending into the frontline (normally short range mages like Eset, The Morrigan, Zhong Kui, etc), with the intention to create a engage possibility for your team.

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