WMH's Morrigan Midlane (S0 OB2)

Welcome Gods and Goddesses. Morrigan has been one of my favorite picks since her release in Smite 1 (2017 whew time flies). She was the only god that I know of that in Smite 1 held "Very Hard" tag in her god description. She offers you so much a kit with which you are only rewarded based of how much you know the game. She is immensely fun for me so I thought I would share her playstyle so you can start learning more how she works and get past the first hurdles of her kit.

Initial Disclaimer and things to come:
- Updates with on item changes; dropped Necronomicon because while it gave us a lot of damage, it was letting enemy gods to deal almost true damage to us.
- I am not an avid build maker, if you have suggestions, do mention them so I can try to add them

Doomsayer

Deadly Aspects

Dark Omen

• This is your base clear ability. The omen lasts for 8s on enemy gods and this ability has 7s base cooldown. This means you can use it to trigger the omen damage with this same ability.
• Morrigan passive is also treated as an ability even if it was procced before, so you can hit an enemy god with the passive and then hit them with Dark Omen and it will proc itself when passive procs.
• This will reset your auto attack chain but the animation is very quick. So you can use it between two autos to give you an extra boost of damage.
• The projectile of this ability goes the same speed as an auto attack, and it has a decent range (around 30% longer than an auto)

Confusion: Non-aspect version

• The movement speed buff is removed if you aren't stealthed, which means if the enemy has abilities that have aoe damage or blind hit you will cause you to effectively used an ability for little effect.
• Using this ability in patches of grass will only reveal the clone. Directing the clone from outside to the grass will stealth it the same way.
• This ability can act as a quick makeshift ward, or to get buff timers direct it to corners where enemies might be.
• The clone has 1hp which means you can use it to take a tower shot in a pinch or tank a neith ult if you line it up correctly.
• When trying to run away and you have one person melee attacking you, you can send your clone forward and instantly walk back potentially towards safety, it's a nifty trick which can save you once you get the hang of it

Confusion: Aspect version

• This gives a quick way to reposition if enemies are targeting you. Direct the clone in a direction and run in the other one. If they follow you switch to the clone, if they don't just run away.
• This gives a unique get out of jail card every 15 for 5s. Even in team fights you can position your clone back and teleport to it if enemies are swarming you. Because the buff duration is 5seconds, you can aegis and still have time to teleport out if enemies are on top of you.
• While you aren't stealthy anymore this aspect also gives you the chance to catch enemies offguard. If an enemy has a jump you can use it in the direction where they might try to run away from and follow up the damage there.
• You can charge your 1 and use it directly after teleport. This makes a good burst damage that enemy might not expect. You need to charge your 1 after you throw out your clone however.

Changeling

• This is the ability which causes Morrigan to be hard to play, because you need knowledge of the game enough to make the correct call. Sometimes your team needs extra cc, sometimes you need more burst to get an objective, sometimes you need a tanky way to get away. Judgement's call goes here but it gets easier with time. I will put a list of suggestions and easy interactions in the end.
• Use quickcast/instant cast; hold 4 and hover over a god and right click to cancel. Then when you need to change into you just need to press 4, instead of trying to click on the right god in a pinch.
• This will effectively make you a new entity in the battlefield, which means it will cleanse current targeted abilities and crowd control abilities (Ares' Ult, Nu wa ult, Neith Ult).
• If the ult has a timer (Fenrir Ult, Nu wa ult, athena ult) the 10s timer will be extended until the ultimate finishes and transform you back instantly. This is a strength which can help in a pinch.

• Nu Wa - for kill confirming, free proc of Dark Omen or for vision of where enemy gods are
• Medusa - good burst damage and big aoe ult
• Thor - get out or in of a fight if you have some distance
• Any Carry when trying to get an objective, or Ra/Poseidon when you need a secure for the objective
• Any support/solo if you're in a pinch and need to get away or your team needs peel.

Quick Combos

1. Easy: (2-2) Long range damage, very safe
2. Medium: (2-close range-1-2) Shorter range, so requires you to be closer to the enemy and potentially take some damage.
3. Harder: (2-AA-Close range-1-AA-2-AA) This gives the highest damage potential while having Polynomicon. This is the same as the medium combo but requires you a bit more time so the risk increases with the reward

Relic

Aegis of Acceleration

Purification Beads

Conduit Gem

Soul Gem

Polynomicon

Rod of Tahuti

Obsidian Shard

Necronomicon

Divine Ruin

Circe's Hexstone

Pros

• Very rewarding and can change a teamfight if you get the perfect combo. You can effectively use enemies' gods against them or choose to fix one of your team's weaknesses
• Good burst damage with 1-AA-2-AA-AA Passive
• Good poke damage with Dark Omen
• Even though you are squishy, you can always switch to solo/support and be tanky for a given amount of time.

• You don't have a jump/dash. While you have a movement speed buff there's a certain gods whose mobility feels like you can't get away from them
• Poke and burst at the right moment is not a playstyle for every person
• Can feel overwhelming with the amount of choices every game, it's a hard god to master. Press <Tab> a lot to see what enemies are building and their power spikes.
• You only have 2 damage abilities. After level 9 the poke damage will only be increased by items and same goes for your non-ultimate damage after level 14. This doesn't mean you won't feel power spikes of items, just that you won't have easy reliable increases from levels.

Aspect. It is OP pretty much as it stands. Getting an almost instant premeditated leap is a great thing for both jungle and mid (and support). It lets you be safer against certain bursts (sobek pluck, thana ult, fenrir combo) while not having many downsides. You can still use the clone to reveal sorroundings and bushes. When playing jungle, you still gain the movement speed and it's enough on ganking correctly. On mid you can use it to bridge the gap or poke and go back to a safe distance.
The non aspect version also becomes useless against targets that have AOE (Zeus, Ra, Thana, Anubis, Nu Wa to an extent, Loki 2-3) and because you lose Movement Speed and get revealed you pretty much spent mana for nothing. There is a world where you get to perfectly proc Spear Of Desolation + Chronos Pendant and be able to go invisible again but it's changes your playstyle to hyper defensive and calculated for not much more results. You can guarantee the combo here much easier but you lose on too much.

As mentioned initially, Morrigan requires you to have immense game knowledge to work the best she can. She is squishy, relatively immobile and requires a poke and burst at the right time playstyle. However her strengths and ability to steal enemy strengths temporarily can shift the tides of a match easily. This potential for outplaying are what makes her so much fun and rewarding to play in my opinion. She is difficult to learn but going up in the learning slope is rewarding every time.
Start and play around with her, and hopefully this guide helps.

Version 1: 01/21/25: Added gameplay videos for abilities, added item breakdown and reasoning
Version 0: 01/21/25: Base Version