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Poseidon Nuke

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4.3
by German Import updated March 25, 2019

Smite God: Poseidon

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Poseidon Build

Left to right

Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Book of Thoth Book of Thoth
Build Item Gem of Isolation Gem of Isolation
Build Item Soul Reaver Soul Reaver
Build Item Doom Orb Doom Orb
Build Item Obsidian Shard Obsidian Shard

Situational

Notes If u are facing people that build more magical defense then buy obsidian shard if not then life steal comes in handy

Notes

If u are facing people that build more magical defense then buy obsidian shard if not then life steal comes in handy

Build Item Bancroft's Talon Bancroft's Talon
Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus

Poseidon's Skill Order

Tidal Surge

1 X Y
Tidal Surge
1 7 11 15 16 18

Trident

2 A B
Trident
2 4 6 10 12

Whirlpool

3 B A
Whirlpool
3 8 13 17 19

Release The Kraken!

4 Y X
Release The Kraken!
5 9 14 20
Tidal Surge
1 7 11 15 16 18

Tidal Surge

1 X
Poseidon summons forth a wave that travels in a line, dealing damage and pushing back all enemies in its path.

Ability Type: Line
Damage: 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 / 260 (+70% of your Magical Power)
Tidal Meter: -15% Tide
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 10s
Trident
2 4 6 10 12

Trident

2 A
Poseidon activates his Trident, granting attack speed and movement speed and making his Basic Attacks fire 2 additional shots in a spread for 6s. The shots deal Magical damage plus 25% of Poseidon's Magical Power. All shots increase Poseidon's Tide on successful hit.

Ability Type: Buff
Base Damage Per Hit: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60
Attack Speed: 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20%
Movement Speed: 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20%
Lifetime: 6s
Cost: 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75
Cooldown: 15s
Whirlpool
3 8 13 17 19

Whirlpool

3 B
Poseidon summons a whirlpool at his ground target location that Cripples targets, preventing movement abilities, and creating a Vortex which drags targets toward the center dealing damage every .5s for 3s.

Ability Type: Ground Target
Damage: 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 (+20% of your Magical Power)
Tidal Meter: -15% Tide
Radius: 20
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11s
Release The Kraken!
5 9 14 20

Release The Kraken!

4 Y
Poseidon releases the Kraken, damaging and Slowing targets in its radius. Enemies in the center of the effect when it spawns take additional damage, are bounced into the air and Stunned.

Ability: Ground Target
Damage: 175 / 210 / 245 / 280 / 315 (+45% of your Magical Power)
Damage (Center): 175 / 210 / 245 / 280 / 315 (+55% of your Magical Power)
Slow: 30%
Stun (Center): 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2s
Tidal Meter: -20% Tide
Radius: 30
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

Chapter Title

This build is made for dealing high damage to enemies, the whirlpool will tend to do around 110 damage a tick to non tanks and around 60 to tanks so using it against tanks isn’t effective unless ur goal is to slow them. This comes in handy during team fights if u can whirlpool the enemies and summon the kraken then hit them with the tidal wave it is typically an overkill for the average god and for those tankier gods if u need to finish them off then using your second ability is the best way to do so. Another use of the whirlpool if u need to kill a tanks is to slow the then tidal wave and get close enough to hit them with the triple trident, the trident is they way to take down tanks in this build dealing 300+ damage if u land all three tridants if u go for the spear instead of lifesteal then make sure to hit the tanks with the whirlpool this will lower their defense toward u allowing for increases damage.

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German Import | March 25, 2019 10:55pm
I have made some adjustments to better fit what people are looking for
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Kriega1 (143) | March 26, 2019 4:17am
Obsidian Shard last item? Guess thats the best we're going to see from you.

What I had more in mind: Shoes of Focus, Book of Thoth, Spear of the Magus, Gem of Isolation, Soul Reaver, Shaman's Ring.

Now you will ask: why no Obsidian Shard? Well I consider it more situational than the Spear of the Magus you listed as situational. Spear of the Magus provides good penetration against squishies and tanks (early game typically, where they don't have much magical defense). It's also third place in the build because of how Whirlpool and Trident works.

Why no Doom Orb? Well, Doom Orb is expensive. 3200 gold is quite the price tag. In addition to that, the item's passive is reliant on either god deaths, or killing/assisting minion waves. Instead, I put Shaman's Ring in it's place, an item that is not only beneficial to Poseidon's kit, but is reasonably priced as well.
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German Import | March 26, 2019 6:08pm
I understand some other concerns but this build doesn’t fail me even against tanks I even laid out ways to deal with them and as for doom orb this is a damage build making it much more useful than shamans because doom orb has 157 magic power because of the book of thoth
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Gary169 (7) | March 16, 2019 4:42pm
Not a good build. Missing penetration.

Use this guide for a more proper way to build poseidon:
https://www.smitefire.com/smite/guide/release-the-kraken-a-poseidon-guide-season-6-19106
1
Gulfwulf (81) | March 16, 2019 4:28pm
Regardless what you say, this isn't a very good build because you're missing any significant pen.
1
Branmuffin17 (400) | March 16, 2019 2:42pm
But where's the pen???
1
Kriega1 (143) | March 15, 2019 2:29pm
"Very good damage build for mid lane" - No. It. Isn't.

There's no pen. There is none. 15 pen from the "situational" spear of desolation. Does not count.

Downvoting for now, and seeing as you need help learning the game here is this useful link:

https://www.smitefire.com/smite/blog/kriega1/online-text-link-for-online-linking
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