I doubt people would know this so I’ll throw it in the comments as a quickie fact :D the dirtybubble makes changes and has been name changed for a while. Who is he know? Mirage ! Yup the pro player was the dirty bubble
He's not really meta anymore in Season 5. In Season 4 him and Osiris were extremely strong because of their lane pressure, which translated into extreme camp control and snowballing. I don't know about other divisions, but he rarely gets banned in Plat+, so we can actually play him in ranked now \o/
I live all of those metas, they were the pain, but they were not the reason I took my long year+ hiatus from SMITE. No the thing that got me out, was Fata-hunter meta. Every single hunter got Fatalis, and then depending on match up, either crit or Quin. As Support main, with supports that have almost no escapes, and even if they had, how was I supposed to get away from hard hitting adc who could just attack and follow me while doing it. It was the pain! I got back in to smite patch after fatalis was reworked so that hunters can't build it, I had no idea of that and when I saw it, the tears of joy I cried were beautiful. I'm just sad that they took away my Golden Bow, now I can't build my AOE asshole builds anymore.
Sensei Jusu-Sama Fatalis removed showed who the actual decent players were compared to who the scrubs were just abusing it. It's hilarious to see people play in spring 4 and silver in summer 4 or fall 4.
C_Force I noticed that I actually got better as adc when fatalis was removed. Since I knew that I had to make every shot count I unconsciously started playing with more precision and control.
XD it's so ironic 😂 people start complaining about the defense, they nerf it and damage become popular. Then damage gets annoying and they nerf it and again back to defense 😂
Javier Navarro It's because HiRez doesn't do small changes. They do these massive changes to items and abilities so that they become completely op or completely good. They need to work more on smaller changes.
how the FUCK is the late season 3 invasion meta not here? Where support, jungle, solo, and sometimes even mid would all run into the enemies jungle and just stare at the enemies for 2 minutes until someone decided to either leave or get a buff. This almost majority of the time decided the victor of the game.
Buff invade meta from late S3 and the early pressure meta from the beginning of S4. You'd have 4-man squads lv1 ganking the mid lane with Curse or Horrific Emblem, depending on the season, and it was _horrid._
Worst meta to me was all of season 4. Where everyone had to start in a lane, no efficient camp starts at all, and the whole game can be decided by somebody dying on the very first wave. At the start of the season it was whether the jungler or mid died off of their first wave, and later on it shifted to if the solo or jungler died on the first wave. Season 4 was also super ass because everyone other than the ADC consistently rotated to solo to gank and plunder the speed and blue buffs. Late season 3 invade meta was up there too. Basically I hate any meta that alters solo from being a resource management, pressure jockeying sort of role that occasionally gets disrupted by ganks.
Awilix during redpot meta before featherstep was nerfed good times, also at least we got the funniest clip in SPL history with golden bow meta when oceans killed cyclonespin from like 70% at lvl 3 once that happened G-bow quickly got nerfed
baka solo came back in season 3 I believe when they buffed his eat minion and everybody thought he was broken as shit (DMbrandon even going to say that it's disgusting that hirez allows this god to exist because of how good he is) and then 2 weeks later he was back to b-tier without any nerfs.
You must be playing casuals cause i dont see anubis to much in ranked. Hes so easy to deal with if you supp can dive the back line with jungle and you all have anti heals
I still think they could've actually balanced golden bow instead of removing it. Just pike remove the passive from the tier 2 and maybe increase the price
I assume they just wanted to be done with it. It was really volatile and hard to balance. For years it was built on pretty much 1 god and they buff it slightly and it breaks the game. Probably thought they were better off just ditching it.
The AoE was only ever helpful on Mercury; they didn't want to go through the trouble of class-gating an item just so one god could use it, so they removed it entirely.
Well they removed it right before izanami was released With her having already aoe autos and adding more aoe to her autos would have been insane and not just that but other melee gods could have made use of it too like erlang making it hard to balance But basically it would make it very hard to balance because it’s either too good on some gods or not worth picking up but with the buffs it was always worth
Fat Assassin/mages are still a huge problem than needs to be dealt with, but of course people who worship those playstyles will defend them since they don't want to have their easy mode taken away...
I know back in the PS4 beta we got our own few months of like the Tank/Dirty Bubble meta mixing into what me and my buddies just call the 5 tank meta. It was a miserable time of my life😂
Jacob Womack It's not. The bellows release was way worse. Not to mention dirty bubble. Season 4 was not that bad. It's really just thorns. If thorns weren't a thing then season 4 wouldn't have been nearly as that heavy
I was honestly pretty okay with bellona’s release. Being a mage main in season 4 sucked complete ass though. I never really felt the dirty bubble meta, so
Jacob Womack I don't see how being a mage in 4 was bad. At all. If you could elaborate I might under. I don't play all the much mid so you probably know better than me.
So like in the season 4 tank meta, gaurdians and warriors had to only pick up one or two defence items then build damage. If you can any sort of sustain or a cc kit, you were hardly ever killed. Obsidian didn’t do jack shit lol. If you wanted to deal any damage you had to build mostly pen or be 4+ levels ahead. If you’re an assassin or hunter, they’d just build nemian and win.
i played in the tanky warrior meta and that shit was the worst. I played chang'e solo and i cannot tell you how many tyrs i would play again and it was so easy for either one of us to get a huge lead on the other. There were games where the enemy solo was 3 or 4 levels and 2 items ahead of everyone else by the 10 minute mark or where it was me who was that far ahead. it was low-key kind of fun but also really surrender heavy
I don't know if this counts as dirty bubble or not. But the Bulwark of Hope/Hide of the Urchin with fucking season 2's mail of renewal. Which was breastplate with 350 health, 45 protections, 20 cooldown and 15% healing of mana and health over 5 seconds after assist or kill of enemy or objectives including gold or fire
Golden bow and hastened fatalis was a bit of a season 3 problem when mercury mains used to just rape, well atleast it happened cery quickly and then died, was a horrible few weeks haha
The season 4 meta where solo lane was jungle and solo so it was basically the new duo lane and the mid and support were both in mid and the hunter got solo farm all game and just got insanely fed it just wasn’t a fun meta
Shittiest meta was when the jungler would just sit on solo or mid lane for a large portion of the game and just hold hands with his partner. No kills could be gotten unless there was a really unfair matchup or the enemy severely misplayed. Also roaming support meta, where the support would choose to ditch his adc whenever he pleased and let him get farmed by the enemy duo, as the other support wasn't a complete idiot. I'm rotating, my support would say, as he was leeching xp off of mid lane, staring at the enemy.
I miss the season 2 Gold generator Talaria meta. Playing Bellona with them just rotating through lanes smacking people with scourge for like 15-20?g was the >literal< best.
this was not at all what i thought of when i think of meta's but I guess my most hated meta was the whole trans meta where hunters would build trans just because devo gloves got nerfed. I may have taken part of that meta but I wasn't really conferrable getting another life steal item besides devos back then.
Worst meta for me was the S3 world meta. Randoms didn’t know how the fuck to invade properly. I had jugglers full traveler shoes but instead of invading they went to buffs. It made conquest unplayable simply because nobody knew how to do it properly
I got into smite early S2 and didn’t really notice the metas mainly because I was retarded but if I think back now I can remember an Artemis that kept getting triple kills because she didn’t die.. damn I miss those times for some reason. Probably because of the joust map.
Hunters ruin everything. Golden bow was fine before they buffed it then hunters abused the shit out of it. A little part of me died that day, Mercury will never be the same. Rip.
Has everybody forgotten the, I don't know if it was season 3 or 4,the shifter shields and pure damage adc meta? I remember cern, shifter shield, runeforged, frostbound, sais, and I don't know what more, I've been reported for that kind of builds, you didn't have adc items and you did 300 per auto, it was awful. Also, the adc that got ahead could snowball and fuck the other adc, whoever bought shifters first won the lane, huge damage and huge protections. It only lasted for like 1 or 2 more updates but it was cancer
Dirty bubble sucked but not in joust. In joust it made punishing tower sitting a viable option. Y'know, an option that wouldn't risk a full team whipe for a possibility of MAYBE getting SOME damage on the enemy tower. *cough* bdk *cough*
Meta... I think when tanks needed be mid w/ mage Solo w/ assin, carry solo. Was so stupid. this last couple weeks. Why? The pro's who used it lost most of the match.
Rituals without a doubt my least favorite meta. I didn’t like Golden Bow meta as a hunter player. It felt stupid lol. So I just played Skadi with trans until it was taken out. Tank metas were honestly after that for me.
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I think the meta where the servers worked was the best one
That meta doesn't exist.
SquatFountain Well done INAP
Michael Werner anus
Are you also from the future? Because that’s season 17
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remember the very brief reinforced boots meta
Fun time to be a Solo. Boots then Valor and you literally didn't die.
Inters3ct Gaming true, i remember i played chang'e solo once during that meta and i never went back to base/died the entire game
the Twitter icons were the funniest part of that one
half the pro players and HiRez team had Reinforced Boots icons lmao
Reinforced Boots with cabra
I come from the future, this is currently happening
I doubt people would know this so I’ll throw it in the comments as a quickie fact :D the dirtybubble makes changes and has been name changed for a while. Who is he know? Mirage ! Yup the pro player was the dirty bubble
Tank meta was always bad but Cu Chulainn took it to a new level
Not as bad as release Bell. But yeah Cu Chu even now is pretty ridiculous.
He's not really meta anymore in Season 5. In Season 4 him and Osiris were extremely strong because of their lane pressure, which translated into extreme camp control and snowballing.
I don't know about other divisions, but he rarely gets banned in Plat+, so we can actually play him in ranked now \o/
Release Guan Yu anyone?
I live all of those metas, they were the pain, but they were not the reason I took my long year+ hiatus from SMITE. No the thing that got me out, was Fata-hunter meta. Every single hunter got Fatalis, and then depending on match up, either crit or Quin. As Support main, with supports that have almost no escapes, and even if they had, how was I supposed to get away from hard hitting adc who could just attack and follow me while doing it. It was the pain!
I got back in to smite patch after fatalis was reworked so that hunters can't build it, I had no idea of that and when I saw it, the tears of joy I cried were beautiful.
I'm just sad that they took away my Golden Bow, now I can't build my AOE asshole builds anymore.
Man, I remember those. If I saw fatalis and qin at the same build I had to take a deep breath to not quit the game.
(I'm also main guardian)
Sensei Jusu-Sama Fatalis removed showed who the actual decent players were compared to who the scrubs were just abusing it. It's hilarious to see people play in spring 4 and silver in summer 4 or fall 4.
C_Force I noticed that I actually got better as adc when fatalis was removed. Since I knew that I had to make every shot count I unconsciously started playing with more precision and control.
JROCK50054 Oh yeah. I definitely agree. The item made people lazy. And the people who couldn't adapt to not having it are the ones who complain
XD it's so ironic 😂 people start complaining about the defense, they nerf it and damage become popular. Then damage gets annoying and they nerf it and again back to defense 😂
Javier Navarro It's because HiRez doesn't do small changes. They do these massive changes to items and abilities so that they become completely op or completely good. They need to work more on smaller changes.
Seriously, I don't want another dirty bubble meta but could def not be utter shit or pure immortality.
how the FUCK is the late season 3 invasion meta not here? Where support, jungle, solo, and sometimes even mid would all run into the enemies jungle and just stare at the enemies for 2 minutes until someone decided to either leave or get a buff. This almost majority of the time decided the victor of the game.
Still wish I could have made a golden bow build with Izanami just for the laughs.
Too bad.
Transcendence with Odysseus Bow is pretty fun with our favorite yandere ghost
Hastened fatalis meta? That was broken
WildWestie just a shitty golden bow meta
I didn't want 3 Hunter metas on my list. Fatalis meta would've probably been #6
Inters3ct Gaming haha yeah true
And what about Frostalis meta? That shit still gives me nightmares
Yeah Fatalis would probably be #6 on the list. It was annoying, but not as bad as these.
I stopped playing at the release of The Morrigan
I just came back and have no fucking clue what meta is anymore lmaoo
Buff invade meta from late S3 and the early pressure meta from the beginning of S4.
You'd have 4-man squads lv1 ganking the mid lane with Curse or Horrific Emblem, depending on the season, and it was _horrid._
Worst meta to me was all of season 4. Where everyone had to start in a lane, no efficient camp starts at all, and the whole game can be decided by somebody dying on the very first wave. At the start of the season it was whether the jungler or mid died off of their first wave, and later on it shifted to if the solo or jungler died on the first wave. Season 4 was also super ass because everyone other than the ADC consistently rotated to solo to gank and plunder the speed and blue buffs.
Late season 3 invade meta was up there too. Basically I hate any meta that alters solo from being a resource management, pressure jockeying sort of role that occasionally gets disrupted by ganks.
At least deathbringer didn't last long enough to be the evil crit meta of S5...
A moment of silence for Golden Bow and Hasten Fatalis you will forever be in our hearts RIP
I also hated it when Jing Wei was the best hunter in the game. She was unstoppable with that insane passive.
True, not a 'meta' but definitely annoying.
Awilix during redpot meta before featherstep was nerfed good times, also at least we got the funniest clip in SPL history with golden bow meta when oceans killed cyclonespin from like 70% at lvl 3 once that happened G-bow quickly got nerfed
Ha! You guys don’t know worst meta unless you experienced bakasura solo back in early season 2 days
Mystøgan !!! Lol
baka solo came back in season 3 I believe when they buffed his eat minion and everybody thought he was broken as shit (DMbrandon even going to say that it's disgusting that hirez allows this god to exist because of how good he is) and then 2 weeks later he was back to b-tier without any nerfs.
Still think baka was the worst when he could eat gods
I agree, prince Jellal
Adam Abdelfattah I see... you come from the guild too lol
The power potion meta was the reason I quit conquest for good. Just remembering gave me chills.
What about the SPL specific triple guardian meta thanks to Elevate?
That wasn’t even meta literally only elevate played that way
I feel season 5 is the start of the penetration meta
Angel Reyes more like crit, and mage lifesteal meta
You always needed to build pen xD but now only flat pen scales vs strutures? Also high mobility gods comin back in the meta
Michael Brady actually all i see is low mobility anubis fucking everyone
Das Sir yeah In all my games Anubis is just farming people
You must be playing casuals cause i dont see anubis to much in ranked. Hes so easy to deal with if you supp can dive the back line with jungle and you all have anti heals
*Every match dc is the best meta*
I still think they could've actually balanced golden bow instead of removing it. Just pike remove the passive from the tier 2 and maybe increase the price
turtlenuggetz or make it a mele item only like hastened fatalis
I assume they just wanted to be done with it. It was really volatile and hard to balance. For years it was built on pretty much 1 god and they buff it slightly and it breaks the game. Probably thought they were better off just ditching it.
The AoE was only ever helpful on Mercury; they didn't want to go through the trouble of class-gating an item just so one god could use it, so they removed it entirely.
Well they removed it right before izanami was released
With her having already aoe autos and adding more aoe to her autos would have been insane and not just that but other melee gods could have made use of it too like erlang making it hard to balance
But basically it would make it very hard to balance because it’s either too good on some gods or not worth picking up but with the buffs it was always worth
It’s back as a sword
Fat Assassin/mages are still a huge problem than needs to be dealt with, but of course people who worship those playstyles will defend them since they don't want to have their easy mode taken away...
I started playing during golden bow meta never knew what it did just always build it on hunters
What about the fatalis meta? Or the tank/thorns meta that happened more recently in season 4
I know back in the PS4 beta we got our own few months of like the Tank/Dirty Bubble meta mixing into what me and my buddies just call the 5 tank meta.
It was a miserable time of my life😂
Season 4 tank meta has been the most cancerous. This is coming from a beta tester
Jacob Womack It's not. The bellows release was way worse. Not to mention dirty bubble. Season 4 was not that bad. It's really just thorns. If thorns weren't a thing then season 4 wouldn't have been nearly as that heavy
I was honestly pretty okay with bellona’s release. Being a mage main in season 4 sucked complete ass though. I never really felt the dirty bubble meta, so
Jacob Womack I don't see how being a mage in 4 was bad. At all. If you could elaborate I might under. I don't play all the much mid so you probably know better than me.
So like in the season 4 tank meta, gaurdians and warriors had to only pick up one or two defence items then build damage. If you can any sort of sustain or a cc kit, you were hardly ever killed. Obsidian didn’t do jack shit lol. If you wanted to deal any damage you had to build mostly pen or be 4+ levels ahead. If you’re an assassin or hunter, they’d just build nemian and win.
season 4 had the power potion plus soul stone meta where mages like raijin or scylla literally one shot waves at level 1-2.
Season 5 meta with trans death bringer and rage on any physical God that like 3 shots in autos
The meta meta.
Everyone was just doing the most effective tactic available and winning every game
About 2 years ago was golden bow crit meta playd Apollo back then and loved it i could kill teams with just my auto attack
I like how season 3 and season 5 are like the golden ages for metas. All the rest just kinda come and go
I started right before the GoldenBow Remove patch.
Top 5 Worst Metas in Smite History:
1. Tank Meta
2. Tank Meta
3. Tank Meta
4. Warrior Meta
5. Tank Meta
I think the worst meta is the Merlin Meta
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She wasn't as broken as Guan Yu when he was first released.
GalloViking but that was also beta stage this is talking about season 3/3 years later
Do people forget how broken rama was?
I miss Golden bow on my Hercules and Mercury. R.I.P
i played in the tanky warrior meta and that shit was the worst. I played chang'e solo and i cannot tell you how many tyrs i would play again and it was so easy for either one of us to get a huge lead on the other. There were games where the enemy solo was 3 or 4 levels and 2 items ahead of everyone else by the 10 minute mark or where it was me who was that far ahead. it was low-key kind of fun but also really surrender heavy
You cant forget flickering ritual and everybody tp'ing to a ward and backdooring as a team while the enemy team was no where close to their titan
When is the Loki main meta over?
Damage meta sucks, everybody one or two shots everybody and teamfights last 10 seconds. Warriors and guard arent even needed anymore.
Tbh worst ever was warrior jungle meta. Ruined playin conquest for me. And I loved golden bow cuz I used to Mercury main
My least favorite metas were warrior jungles and triple tanks and two hunters.
Oh yeah and bracer meta.
Season 4 tank meta was so annoying. Cu Chullain would never die and if he got close he’d just use bracer to get all his health back
Wait till this past dude sees what happens in the present
golden bow on jing wei was the best
I came at the beginning of season 4, but tank meta and dirty bubble meta sound awesome.
I don't know if this counts as dirty bubble or not. But the Bulwark of Hope/Hide of the Urchin with fucking season 2's mail of renewal. Which was breastplate with 350 health, 45 protections, 20 cooldown and 15% healing of mana and health over 5 seconds after assist or kill of enemy or objectives including gold or fire
The meta where someone baby rages and leaves the game 5 minutes in
Golden bow and hastened fatalis was a bit of a season 3 problem when mercury mains used to just rape, well atleast it happened cery quickly and then died, was a horrible few weeks haha
Sunder meta
Oh man, I miss dirty bubble meta. Dirty bubble ao quang was so much fun
Idk what it was called but the meta were timid became the new duo lane since the support would just be in mid the entire game
They should bring golden bow back
The season 4 meta where solo lane was jungle and solo so it was basically the new duo lane and the mid and support were both in mid and the hunter got solo farm all game and just got insanely fed it just wasn’t a fun meta
Shittiest meta was when the jungler would just sit on solo or mid lane for a large portion of the game and just hold hands with his partner. No kills could be gotten unless there was a really unfair matchup or the enemy severely misplayed. Also roaming support meta, where the support would choose to ditch his adc whenever he pleased and let him get farmed by the enemy duo, as the other support wasn't a complete idiot. I'm rotating, my support would say, as he was leeching xp off of mid lane, staring at the enemy.
I miss the season 2 Gold generator Talaria meta. Playing Bellona with them just rotating through lanes smacking people with scourge for like 15-20?g was the >literal< best.
Remember in season 3 when heals were OP?😂
I miss when Sun Wukong had the knockup on his 2 and you could build Sovereignty and Breastplate of Valor and never die.
How about freya and how she blows anyone away with her 1 and her 2 toggled on to ranged after her most recent rework! Its absolutely absurd
Anyone remember when Cu chulainn came out and arena matches were mostly all warriors and tanks
Poor 2018... Bellona isn't the worst of your fears, you'll have to wait for Merlin and King Arthur
Seeing this in season 6 support invade meta is number 1
Win Demon and Poison star from early season 4
Infinite Ruisu it wasnt that bad... tank n thorns meta/sunder meta in s4 was far worse
Michael Brady I loved old sunder
KA0S I missed when you could finish somebody off with a sunder lmai
Mike Rader ikr
thefunnyman589 bracer was annoying but anti heal always countered it
Power pot was mad fun on ullr duel
Throw back to the tank boots meta
this was not at all what i thought of when i think of meta's but I guess my most hated meta was the whole trans meta where hunters would build trans just because devo gloves got nerfed. I may have taken part of that meta but I wasn't really conferrable getting another life steal item besides devos back then.
Skadi talaria boots meta was fun :') so much gold
NOLANRYANHOSKINS yeah that was great
Bellona in early season 2?
She was released in patch 2.1, yes.
Forgot the hog meta where whatever solo/jungle had the strongest level 1 and got hog/curse won the game
Ritual meta was the worst meta so far. You had lategame tanks sell their items to buy rituals just because they were better than the items.
the "t" ain't silent bruv
Invade meta during season 3 was the worst for me, hated it more than any of the metas you listed. Games were over in the first couple minutes
I don't remember any of the early season (1/2) metas as I just spammed Loki all the time and just demolished everyone.
I personally hated to mage ADC meta where only sol and chornos were played duo
I still miss season 2.
Worst meta for me was the S3 world meta. Randoms didn’t know how the fuck to invade properly. I had jugglers full traveler shoes but instead of invading they went to buffs. It made conquest unplayable simply because nobody knew how to do it properly
Season 4 ruined smite for me xD I loved smite till season 3
I got into smite early S2 and didn’t really notice the metas mainly because I was retarded but if I think back now I can remember an Artemis that kept getting triple kills because she didn’t die.. damn I miss those times for some reason. Probably because of the joust map.
Thorn/Bracer Tank Meta was the best meta
change my mind
I loved the tank meta. You will be missed tank meta.
Dirty bubble on a Thanatos ahh pure evil
Hunters ruin everything. Golden bow was fine before they buffed it then hunters abused the shit out of it. A little part of me died that day, Mercury will never be the same. Rip.
Has everybody forgotten the, I don't know if it was season 3 or 4,the shifter shields and pure damage adc meta? I remember cern, shifter shield, runeforged, frostbound, sais, and I don't know what more, I've been reported for that kind of builds, you didn't have adc items and you did 300 per auto, it was awful. Also, the adc that got ahead could snowball and fuck the other adc, whoever bought shifters first won the lane, huge damage and huge protections. It only lasted for like 1 or 2 more updates but it was cancer
Kali meta. Best meta
What about Season 4s Sunder/Bracer Meta......those were fun (Sarcasm).....
ALX Xtreme sunder was fun. Bracer was not
Dirty bubble sucked but not in joust. In joust it made punishing tower sitting a viable option. Y'know, an option that wouldn't risk a full team whipe for a possibility of MAYBE getting SOME damage on the enemy tower. *cough* bdk *cough*
And we're headed into a Healing\Mage meta... Woohoo. . .
Heartseeker Neith Mid Every Fucking Game meta was what made me stop playing the game for a very, very long time.
Meta... I think when tanks needed be mid w/ mage
Solo w/ assin, carry solo. Was so stupid.
this last couple weeks. Why? The pro's who used it lost most of the match.
Rituals without a doubt my least favorite meta. I didn’t like Golden Bow meta as a hunter player. It felt stupid lol. So I just played Skadi with trans until it was taken out. Tank metas were honestly after that for me.
This could just be me. But I loved the sunder meta.
Season 1 Warrior Solo meta.
As a solo player, that was the most boring shit ever
"meh uh" there is a t in there too
sunder meta should have been on here imo
hated the double hunter meta
lvl 1 full boots was one of the worst imo
Season 1 triple HoG meta zzzzz
U know what they sad
Of it isn't Meta, it doesn't matter
I'm death
I just don't like crit as a meta at all. It's just not fun. This is coming from someone who plays a lot of mercury
Tank metas suck because nothing happens in a game for 40+ minutes.