Day 34 - Matchmaking gone wrong

I have been playing off and on running assault hitting different characters. I've slowly been getting that bad vibe from the game so I'm not sure how much longer I'll last. I did want to note a problem I had yesterday and another general problem that has been recurring.

As I had mentioned the assault crew isn't as bad as the others in general, but we do get the occasional troll. I for the most part ignore them, but this guy started before the match and didn't stop until I muted him. The volume of junk he was spouting was affecting his gameplay since he was stopping to verbally abuse someone every few seconds. I decided to report this guy for harassment and included a couple examples of what he was saying. In the very next match guess who was on my team. The exact same troll. I'm not saying reporting, muting, blocking should make it so you never group with someone again, but at least a couple hours would be nice. Give me a chance to forget about the guy first!

My next gripe is about the matchmaking system. It's possible that I'm the worst player ever by a huge margin, but I don't think that's the case. There should be plenty other bad players to send my way so I have to wonder about this day I had recently with a 7 - 8 lose streak, followed by a win and repeated several times. The games weren't all in the same day, but things had started to feel off so I consulted my history. Either I'm teetering on some fine line or there is a problem. Ideally until you hit the very top or the very bottom of the scale the match making should keep you in competitive games, many of these were not and only rarely did I get the dialog asking if this was a good match.

Day 28 - Assault, Arena, and a lot of time

I've been playing most days at least a few matches. I pretty much stick to arena and assault but mostly just assault. I've come across a handful of pricks, but mostly not and it's still going well. There is one sort of taboo part to assault, you can choose to re-roll a different random God, but if you were the only needed say tank or healer, re-rolling might piss the rest of your team off. It is always disappointing to actually get a good spread of Gods and see someone make it bad on purpose. I've ended up playing a lot of different heroes along the way recently getting to do Freya and Anubis. Anubis is not hugely new, but he is still pretty OP in my opinion. A nice AE slow damage to keep people at bay, then a stun to basically hold people in your ultimate to death. Freya I played mostly as a ranged relying heavily on her 2 and ult. You can use her 3 to take someone out of the fight for a moment or slow them down in a chase, while I enjoyed playing her she seemed pretty safe and solid not really standing out. I think anyone could play this character with fair results.

Day 4 - Assault, Nemesis, and Cupid

I played a couple characters that were pretty new to me while running Assault. I think I do enjoy the other game types more if it was purely about the type, but the community for assault is definitely the best and toxicity increases as you move away from it.

Nemesis is one of the many hot women of Smite. She doesn't have the top of her head visible, but the rest is all in order. She's an assassin with a few options, a short little burst sprint type thing that you can use twice in the direction of your choosing.  She's got this sort of sweeping frontal with a stun move that seems to be her ma in damage then. A brief immunity to damage and her ultimate super cripples a target opponent. I don't really like this type of character for assault, you can't really sneak up on people in a single lane with no jungle.

I did use her ultimate to debuff for my allies though which seemed to work well. I'd sort of stay close by and try to whack anyone with my sweeping attack for the stun if they came in close to my allies. It wasn't bad and I'm sure a lot more could be done with her.

I also played Cupid, who is well... cupid. I basically played this character by spamming their second ability which pops out a few little hearts to heal your allies. I'd drop my ultimate, slow and damage after a few seconds, anytime a few enemies grouped together and shoot anyone with my first ability which is a straight line shot of damage, with a delayed second damage effect a few seconds later. You get a bonus stuff if you've stacked 8 hits on enemies with your bow which isn't hard to do.

My strategy that seemed to work well, for me at least was heart spamming like crazy. If anyone came after me I'd try and hit them with my first ability then dart away with my third ability which is just a straight line get away strip with an attack speed buff. If they did follow me you can turn around and pepper them with a bunch of arrows. I think I did well since the enemy seemed to go crazy trying to kill me after a few minutes.  It was another fun day, but I have a lot of things to get done tomorrow so I'm not going to play much if at all.

Smite is still fun, but I sort of have that inkling of it's sort of scratching an itch, but still missing some spots we'll see how this pans out in a few more days.