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THEORY
AGAINST THE GRAIN –
THERE’S MAGIC IN THE PAIR
By Devon Boyette
In this current Meta Warriors serve many bruisers as much as I do and you find yourself
purposes and can fill many roles to balance playing in the mid lane, don’t be afraid to pull one
out a team composition (or comp for short). Most out every on Like most MOBAs, SMITE has a pretty
traditionally bruisers are put into the Solo role staunch meta, a familiar routine of player placement
because of their survivability and sustain (healing and character selection that constitutes a basic
of some sort) that help them come out into the framework or blueprint plan for a standard game.
midgame ahead and with tons of farm. More recently In this meta, we have the three lanes covered by
we’ve seen bruisers in the jungle in order to give four players, with the fifth in the jungle, and the duo
a skilled solo player a chance to play a hard carry lane usually consists of a Hunter with a Guardian
while still maintaining a frontline a team needs to support, and puts a Mage mid. This works for various
keep the comp from being too heavy on backline reasons, but it doesn’t have to work that way.
gods. Both of these strategies are meant to open up It’s true that the game’s meta is generally
god pools for highly skilled and experienced players, followed because it’s an efficient way to play
giving a team more options and for me options with multiple upsides and a high rate of success,
are always good. So what if you want a different but it’s not the only way to play, and with more
option? What happens if you want to go against the and tweaks and off-meta picks, you can see
grain and decide to put a little beef in the middle? everything from Guardian junglers to Hunter
Believe it or not bruisers and Warriors in solos, and occasionally a Warrior mid--as we
the middle lane is not a brand new, crazy theory suggested last issue. In these instances, what’s
that was thought up recently. Though it was not a team to do but use a Mage support?
extremely common gods like Chaac and Hades But guys, why should I?
were sometimes put in mid to flesh out a solid
team comp. But I’m here to tell you that if you love The GameOn Magazine
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