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Going up against certain characters inSmite 2can require a little bit of a feeling-out process. Some characters can be played very differently, depending on who’s playing them and how they’ve built the character to function. This can go so far as characters playing very different roles, depending on things like God Aspects.
While other characters, like Zeus, you know exactly what to expect. On the bright side for Zeus, he is so outrageously effective at what he does that, even if an enemy is perfectly aware of what he’s going to do throughout the match, stopping him from doing it can take real effort and coordination.
This game is in Early Access state, and as such, the content in this guide might change in the future.
How To Play As Zeus In Smite 2
Zeus generally fulfills the Middleor the Carry rolein Smite 2, meaning he’s either going to be on his own for large portions of the match, in the middle lane, or he’ll have thehelp of a Support characterfor much of the match, in the left lane.
Either way,Zeus' job remains similar: dealing extraordinary amounts of damage. His focus for this damage might be slightly different, depending on the role.
Overcharge
Overchargeis Zeus' passive ability, and it contributes quite a bit to his overall damage output.Dealing damage with Zeus, including with his Basic Attack,applies Charges to enemies. An enemy can have a maximum of three Charges, andeach Charge increases Basic Attack damage against them by 20 percent.
This means, thatfor enemies who have three Charges, Zeus' Basic Attacks are going to deal 60 percent extra damage. Every enemy that isn’t a God also immediately gains three stacks, on being damaged by Zeus.
Chain Lightning
Zeus' Chain Lightning will arc through nearby enemies, dealing damage and slowing them. When fully leveled, this ability can arc between six enemies altogether, though the range in which they arc to different enemies is not wide.
How To Use Chain Lightning
Chain Lightning is agreat ability in pretty much all scenarios.
For the most part, it’sgoing to see maximum valuein the first scenario,against multiple enemies. At higher levels, this can erase entire groups of enemy minions, giving your own minions a free path down the lane.
Thunderclap
Thunderclap fires lightning in a radius around Zeus,dealing damage to enemies inside the radius andincreasing his attack and movement speed.
When To Use Thunderclap
Zeus has ranged Basic Attacks, but he’s perfectly capable of operating at close range, as well.This attack, much like Chain Lightning,is good in a multitude of scenarios.
This ability should be aregular in your rotation whenever you can spare the mana, regardless of whether you’re always going to be hitting nearby enemies,simply because of the attack speed increase.
Detonate Charge
Detonate Chargedoes exactly what it sounds like,detonating the Charges that are currently applied to all enemies, wherever they are. That detonation causes damage, andenemies that are at maximum Charge are stunned.
The damage of this ability is increased by the number of Charges on an enemy, as well. Attwo Charges, thedamage is increased by 1.7x, and atthree Charges,enemies take 2.4xthe damage.
When To Use Detonate Charge
Detonate Charge can wipe an entire screen full of enemies, provided you’ve been spreading out your Charges well.
Lightning Storm
Lightning Stormis, essentially, Zeus' ultimate ability,summoning a lightning storm that deals damage to enemies inside the storm. This will dealfive ticks of damage over the course of 4.5 seconds, and the damage is considerable.
As an ultimate ability, Lightning Storm does have a particularly long cooldown, lasting 70 seconds at its quickest.Ensure you’re getting some good value out of it when you use it, because it’s too good of an ultimate to waste.
When To Use Lightning Storm
Lightning Storm can be finickybecause it can be mostly avoided if an enemy simply gets out of the radius of the ability. Worst-case, an enemy still takes one or two ticks of damage before they can get away, chunking away a few hundred of their health.
