Smite 2 How To: Support

Hi, welcome to my series of Smite 2 How To. This article is going to be talking about the thought process of support. What items and stats to look for, how to position and why, and what your general objective is in the role. Let's get into it.

The goal of a support is to facilitate your damage dealers with initiating CC, peeling CC, or enhancing buffs from items and abilities. You are the beefy character of your backline and a good support typically has at least 2 CC abilities. Often times you want to drop big CC on a target to set up for your team and then dropping back to make sure your adc and mid are getting peeled out and protected from the dive. Depending on your god you will either be more capable staying in the backline with your damage characters or stepping forward to start fights.

The biggest thing to recognize is that you are not a damage dealer. Use your buttons to help set up or peel, and occasionally poke. It isn't worth 60 damage on the enemy if you use your main CC and your backliner dies because of it. You also dont really clear camps by yourself so find someone to farm with. Get a couple strong items online that give you good hp and prots and make sure you're not falling behind.

Start with your carry and focus on clearing wave and disrupting their clear without being too far out of position or taking too much poke. You want to be wary of early ganks and keeping track of enemy levels and cooldowns. Pick moments to have winning trades and use your Health and potions as a resource to generate pressure if you can.

After your carry can take care of themselves you will want to rotate out to middle lane and try to generate pressure so that you, your mid, and sometimes your jungle can pick up neutral or enemy jungle farm, and potentially kill or push enemies out of lane then look for objectives.

Your job in the late game is to tank abilities for your damage dealers and be annoying with your CC. Try to prevent your carry and mid from taking much damage and use your buttons to peel them out when heavy dive comes.